Design-Build Concepts
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What are Betterments over the Solicitation?
A meeting where the Design-Builder gathers necessary information to complete the design?
What is the Initial Design Conference?
The individual responsible for establishing the Source Selection Evaluation Board
Who is the Source Selection Authority?
The only individual with authority to enter into, administer, or terminate contracts and make related determinations and findings.
Who is a Contracting Officer?
This information is gathered by the requestor to use as a basis for developing the requirements documents and to help identify potential sources.
What is Market Research?
Responsible for quality, technical accuracy of design and responsible for E&O
Who is the Design-Build Contractor?
Used to enhance competition and only available to qualifying but unsuccessful Phase 2 Offerors?
What are Stipends?
The Evaluation Board Report, Consensus Rating Sheets, Comparative Analysis, and Source Selection Decision Document.
What is Source Selection Documentation?
A meeting to review the contract clauses, administrative requirements, and procedural matters in order to establishes the ground rules for administering the contract.
What is the Pre-proposal Conference?
The document prepared for the purposes of reviewing and making recommendations for all acquisitions (including orders placed against Federal Supply Schedule contracts) over the micro-purchase threshold (see FAR 19.502-2(a)), except those under the simplified acquisition threshold that are totally set aside for small business concerns in accordance with FAR 19.502-2.
What is the DD Form 2579?
Aspects of the design criteria or other solicitation requirements wherein the Government expressed the design solution or other requirements in terms of specific materials, approaches, systems and/or processes to be used.
What is Prescriptive Criteria?
This type of threshold is set at $2,000,000.00
What is Certified Cost or Pricing data?
Acquisition of Utility Services
What is FAR Part 41?
This document records and establishes the Government’s initial negotiation position. It assists in the contracting officer’s determination of fair and reasonable price based on the results of the contracting officer’s analysis of the offeror’s proposal, information including field pricing assistance, audit reports and technical analysis, fact-finding results, independent Government cost estimates and price histories.
What is the Pre-negotiation Objective?
This document is prepared for production or services when the total cost of all contracts for the acquisition program is estimated at $50 million or more for all years or $25 million or more for any fiscal year.
What is the Acquisition Plan?
This is type of procedure is where a federal agency needing supplies or services obtains them from another federal agency.
What is an Interagency Acquisition?
A written demand or written assertion by one of the contracting parties seeking, as a matter of right, the payment of money in a sum certain, the adjustment or interpretation of contract terms, or other relief arising under or relating to the contract.
What is a Claim?
Small Business Programs
What is FAR Part 19?
This is issued by the Small Business Administration (SBA) stating that the holder is responsible for the purpose of receiving and performing a specific Government contract.
What is a Certificate of Competency (COC)
An act that established a program that authorizes the Small Business Administration (SBA) to enter into all types of contracts with other agencies and award subcontracts for performing those contracts to firms eligible for program participation.
What is Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act?
Allows the Contractor flexibility for the design to comply with the contract
What are performance based specifications?
As a matter of policy, a function that is so intimately related to the public interest as to mandate performance by Government employees.
What is an Inherently Governmental Function?
Publicizing Contract Actions
What is FAR Part 5?
This individual has approval authority for Justifications and Approvals at >$750K to ≤$15M.
Who is the Command Advocate for Competition/Alternate Advocate for Competition?
This means an issuance or use of a policy, procedure, solicitation provision, contract clause method, or practice of conducting acquisition actions of any kind at any stage of the acquisition process that is inconsistent with the FAR.
What is a Deviation?