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This 4-page paper discusses the federal assistance request (FAR) process and determines if a sealed-bid or contract vehicle process is more effective. Bibliography list 2 sources.
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asked to oversee the acquisition of a proprietary database program for an office in the agency. Its been asked which contracting vehicle would be more appropriate, sealed bidding or negotiated
contracting. But to do this, we first need to have an understanding of the requirements of the Federal Acquisition Regulation, or FAR.
The FAR provides a great deal of material that government agencies need to adhere to when it comes to acquiring goods and services (FAR, 2009). Codified in Title 48
of the United States Code of Federal Regulations and overseen by the General Services Administration, the FAR has a three-phase process (FAR, 2009). This is need recognition and acquisition planning;
forming the contract and then administering it - in other words, asking for bids, striking the deal, then signing the contract (FAR, 2009). The GSA rules are strict - any
deviation from them when it comes to requesting an outside contractor for anything is grounds for not having a request for acquisition fulfilled. The goal is also to standardize acquisition
procedures throughout the vast conglomerations of government agencies and organizations. With the understanding in mind as to how most agencies undergo the
acquisitions process, lets determine which contracting vehicle will be more appropriate for this system. Sealed-bid pricing, very simply, involves price quotes
(and other information) solicited by government organizations and other entities in an effort to obtain objective and untainted bids (Sealed-Bid Pricing, 2009). In the sealed bid process, potential and interested
vendors are invited to submit a price quote and other information for a project and must meet that request for bid by a particular deadline (Sealed-Bid Pricing, 2009). Sealed-bid pricing
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