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Price Fair and Reasonableness on Commercial Items

by Shelley Hall | Jul 20, 2015 | Bids & Proposals, Sales & Marketing, Skyway CO Insight

This post is for anyone in federal contracting who may deal with the purchase or sale of commercial items and services. Logic dictates that the pricing of commercial items/services would be much simpler than for non-commercial items. However, due to dwindling budgets,...

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has Unique Small Business Rules and Processes

by Shelley Hall | Jul 13, 2015 | Bids & Proposals, Skyway CO Insight

The FAA operates under special statutory authority and is exempt from the Small Business Act, which gives the SBA authority to arbitrate size protests and issue size determinations. As a result, by law, the FAA is exempt from normal small business contracting rules...

Tools to contract with the Government and maintain a healthy cash flow – Second in the Series

by Skyway Contracting Officer | Jul 6, 2015 | Bids & Proposals, Contract Administration, Skyway CO Insight

Are you trying to figure out how to have a government contract while still maintaining some semblance of cash flow? Here are a couple methods where you can work with your Contracting Officer to put them into place to assist with the cash flow. Of course these all...

What’s changed? Did you ask? Did you look?

by Kevin Jans | Jun 29, 2015 | Bids & Proposals, Skyway CO Insight

There are so many rules, so much ‘history’, so many interpretations, and, oh yeah, so much opportunity. It’s essentially impossible to always know what to do. In fact, I tend to question people who claim to be experts in this market all by themselves for the very...

Protest on the prohibition of using consultants denied by GAO

by Shelley Hall | Jun 1, 2015 | Bids & Proposals, Sales & Marketing, Skyway CO Insight

Advanced Communication Cabling, Inc. (ACCI), who is a small business, protested the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. VA118-15-R-0558, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs for information technology (IT) services. You can read the full protest and...

Government Contract Clauses are like Warning Labels

by Kevin Jans | May 18, 2015 | Bids & Proposals, Skyway CO Insight

A fact we all accept: federal contracts have a LOT of clauses. Get this – they have so many that the clauses get their own section in most contracts (Section I, if you’re curious). Many of the clauses are ‘standard’ ones that appear in many contracts. However,...

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