Acqusition Strategy
Acquisition Strategy that allows conversion from one contract type to another in the future.
What is Enhanced Contract Type Conversion?
Provides a response to the solicitation language with regard to surge pricing.
Who is the offeror?
When historical performance becomes known, a different contracting type could reduce this.
What is risk?
You don't have to wait until this to convert contract type.
What is the next competition?
Where vendors gain knowledge about the governments intent to convert the contract type.
What is in the Solicitation?
Parties that can collaborate to develop an Enhanced Contract Type Conversion Acquisition Strategy.
Who are the Contracting Office, Program Office and the Contractor?
This can be added as a CLIN to allow for future surge support that is currently unknown or undefined.
What is an option CLIN?
Can help overcome these types of constraints during continuing resolution.
What are fiscal or budgetary constraints?
Allows for flexibility under these types of contracts with both cost and fixed CLINs.
What are hybrid type contracts?
Can be exercised via a bilateral modification after new final price negotiated.
What is an option?
Where to include tailored language for your unique requirement.
What is the Solicitation?
Type of modification to allow the conversion between contract types that is specified in the Solicitation.
What is a bilateral modification or mutual agreement of both parties?
Allows the procurement team to test this within scope during the current award.
What is a new contract type?
As work becomes determined, the government can finalize this within scope and within the awarded price estimation.
What is final price?
Allows Labor Hour CLINS to be converted to Firm Fixed Price CLINs through mutual agreement when this is pre-negotiated at time of award.
What are labor categories and rates?
Use of an Enhanced Contract Type allows the maximum amount of this for future conversions.
What is flexibility?
FAR 52.217-7 Option for Increased Quantity-Separately Priced Line Item.
What is the FAR clause to add this option?
Can adjudicate differing opinions on contract type during the acquisition strategy.
What is an Enhanced Contract Type Conversion option?
Information that becomes more well known as award proceeds and can effect contract type or conversion opportunities.
What is historical data?
The government is not required to make this change after award.
What is contract type conversion?
Enhanced Contract Type allows you to test a FFP within this during the award period.
What is within scope?
What is the FAR clause to allow the modification between contract type within CLINs?
Contract type cannot be fully supported if the requirement is not well defined at the time of award.
What is Firm Fixed Price
Changing contract type during the contract performance can save the government this.
What is cost?
States that if a policy, procedure of strategy is in the governments best interest, and not prohibited by the FAR or law, the CO should not assume it is prohibited.
What is FAR 1.102-4(e)?