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Fair and Reasonable Pricing

by Skyway Contracting Officer | Oct 21, 2019 | Bids & Proposals, Skyway CO Insight

One of the requirements for a Contracting Officer to fulfill his duties is to determine that the price to be paid is fair and reasonable. Various parts of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) cite this requirement and departments and agencies have a variety of...

Factors in Price Analysis

by Skyway Contracting Officer | Oct 7, 2019 | Bids & Proposals, Skyway CO Insight

Prior to awarding a contract, the Contracting Officer must determine that the price is fair and reasonable. A large part of that effort involves price analysis, one or more analysis techniques, and considering multiple cost and price elements. The Federal...

Organic vs. Manufactured Past Performance

by Kevin Jans | Sep 30, 2019 | Bids & Proposals, Skyway CO Insight

On nearly every competitive (or even non-competitive acquisition strategy), there are three key evaluation areas: technical, price, and past performance. The importance of each of them is different for each acquisition…but the value of them is not. To me, past...

National Stock Numbers

by Steve Lucianetti | Sep 23, 2019 | Skyway CO Insight

A couple of Skyway members have had questions about what a National Stock Number (NSN) is and how to get one. The NSN is a stock number that is assigned to items that are going to be stocked in the DoD supply system. Beans to bullets are assigned NSNs for inventory...

Case Study: A Tale of Two CPARS

by Shelley Hall | Sep 16, 2019 | Contract Administration, Skyway CO Insight

I freely admit that most of the time while I was a CO, I really didn’t pay much attention to CPARS ratings. While doing operational contracting work, the dollar value rarely exceeded the threshold to require a performance rating. And if they did, the contractors...

Contracting Officer’s Authority and Discretion

by Skyway Contracting Officer | Sep 9, 2019 | Skyway CO Insight

The case I relate in this article is an illustration of the authority that is vested in a contracting officer and the discretion that the CO can exercise in the course of executing their duties, i.e., the obligation of US Treasury funds to procure essential goods and...

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