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This 5 page expository supplies solutions to four contracting scenarios with the federal government using a close reading of FAR and other legal and business sources. The scenarios include simplified acquisition, sealed bid, price negotiations and bid modification. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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will utilize a sealed bid method of finding a contractor for this scenario. The USD$ threshold is exceeded for a simplified acquisition method and the amount and terms are so
numerous that it benefit the DOD to employ the sealed bid process. FindRFP (2009) reports that the sealed bid process works best in a situation where the governments requirements are
clear, accurate and complete, as in this scenario. An Invitation For Bid (IFB, IFBs) will be issued under FAR 6.401(a), FAR 14.204
and FAR 14.205 to companies the government has worked with in the past (or currently). In addition to instructions, conditions, delivery and schedules, the IFB will include all of the
DOD specifications: worldwide public communications, media support services and professional services in the areas of communication integration and strategy, to include media relations, community outreach/relations, visual information systems and imagery
marketing, public affairs professional and community development, capabilities integration development, communications information environment management and training, and public information materials development and production. All bids must have the capability to
meet the DOD total labor hours of 755,200 with 23,500 staff hours in the base year with gradual increases throughout the option years. The bid must also meet DOD requirement
for domestic and integrated, worldwide, public affairs campaigns. Under FAR 9.103, bidders must have the corporate experience, past performance, and a socio-economic plan as conditions of contract award.
FindRFP (2009) states that the IFB specifies bid opening date and time, and upon evaluation of the bids, a contract is awarded. Under FAR 14.301(a),
all sealed bids are opened in public at the purchasing office and read aloud and recorded. While contracts are often awarded to the lowest bidder under FAR 14.408-2 and FAR
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