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Award
Taxonomy Type
Technique
Technique Description
Identifying the best industry solution given the evaluation criteria while shortening the time to award.
Automation Description
Tools to support preparing contract award documentation, including business clearances.
Automated Negotiation Memo (NegMemo) Process
The objective of the NegMemo process is to document and record key elements of an acquisition award decision.
Contractor Responsibility
Contracting Officers are responsible for ensuring that contract awards are made only to responsible prospective contractors. To determine prospective contractors’ responsibility, Contracting Officers consider information in the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System (FAPIIS) and other past performance information submitted by the contractor or otherwise acquired by the agency.
Oral Debriefings
Contracting officers may hold misconceptions about the effectiveness and outcomes of in-person oral debriefings. When done properly, the oral debriefing to inform offerors of why an award decision was made can be an extremely effective tool.
Select Best-Suited, then Negotiate
Once the Government has completed its entire evaluation in accordance with the process established in the solicitation, and has conducted its tradeoff analysis, the Government selects the apparently successful offeror/quoter. The Government then can communicate solely with that offeror/quoter to negotiate any remaining terms ((technical and price) and finalize an award. Ideal for task/delivery orders under FAR subpart 8.4 and 16.505, but also for part 13 simplified acquisitions (incl. subpart 13.5 for commercial items up to $7 Million). Not recommended for use under FAR part 15.
On-the-spot Consensus
The evaluation team reads the proposal (or attends the oral presentation) and then, as a group, evaluates the proposal and immediately documents the evaluation decision in real time before starting the evaluation of the next proposal.
Brief Decision Documents
Nowhere does the FAR require that a tradeoff analysis or decision document be exhaustive or be a certain prescribed length or page count. Lets focus on the actual decision to be made instead of incorporating an exhaustive history of other documents again into the decision document or duplicating findings that may be merely be referenced by the selection official.
