Competition in Contracting Act of 1983: Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, on S. 338, to Revise the Procedures for Soliciting and Evaluating Bids and Proposals for Government Contracts and Awarding Such Contracts, and for Other Purposes, June 7, 9, 1983U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983 - 355 pages |
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additional administrative Advance Procurement Planning amendment Armed Services basis believe bidder bill billion certification Chairman changes CIBINIC Committee competitive procurement competitive proposals CONGRESS THE LIBRARY contract actions contract awards contracting officer contractor cost or pricing curement DCAA defective pricing Defense Logistics Agency Department of Defense discussions Distributors Association DOD's dollar establish evaluation exception executive agency Federal Procurement Policy fiscal fixed-price follow-on formal advertising GILLEECE GILROY Government Government's legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ment needs noncompetitive contracts noncompetitive procurements obtain competition offerors Office of Federal OFPP percent price competition pricing data production property or services recommend regulations request requirements responsible result savings sealed bids Secretary of Defense Senator COHEN Senator LEVIN Senator QUAYLE small business small purchases sole source procurement sole-source contracts solicitation specific STARRETT statute statutory subcontract submit subsection technical threshold tion tive U.S.C. section unsolicited proposals
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Page 59 - ... for technical or special property that he determines to require a substantial initial investment or an extended period of preparation for manufacture, and for which he determines that formal advertising would be likely to result in additional cost to the Government by reason of duplication of investment or would result in duplication of necessary preparation which would unduly delay the procurement of the property...
Page 279 - Memorandum for Secretaries of the Military Departments. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Under Secretaries of Defense Director, Defense Research and Engineering. Assistant Secretaries of Defense...
Page 57 - ... (16) he determines that (A) it is in the interest of national defense to have a plant, mine, or other facility, or a producer, manufacturer, or other supplier, available for furnishing property or services in case of a national emergency; or (B) the interest of industrial mobilization in case of such an emergency, or the interest of national defense in maintaining active engineering, research, and development, would otherwise be subserved ; or (17) negotiation of the purchase or contract is otherwise...
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Page 345 - ... where it can be clearly demonstrated from the existence of adequate competition or accurate prior cost experience with the product, that acceptance of an initial proposal without discussion would result in fair and reasonable prices and where the request for proposals notifies all offerers of the possibility that award may be made without discussion.
Page 149 - Transactions shall not be reported as "price competition" solely on the basis of the number of solicitations made. Contracting officers shall consider the content of the responses to solicitations, the procurement history of the items procured, and other relevant information, and shall exercise sound judgment in the reporting of transactions as "price competition.
Page 343 - ... for equipment that he determines to be technical equipment whose standardization and the interchangeability of whose parts are necessary in the public interest and whose procurement by negotiation is necessary to assure that standardization and interchangeability...
Page 60 - An Act relating to the rate of wages for laborers and mechanics employed on public buildings of the United States and the District of Columbia by contractors and subcontractors, and for other purposes...
Page 343 - ... reached in open competition, and for which (A) he has notified each responsible bidder of intention to negotiate and given him reasonable opportunity to negotiate; (B) the negotiated price is lower than the lowest rejected bid of any responsible bidder, as determined by the head of the agency; and (C) the negotiated price is the lowest negotiated price offered by any responsible supplier...
Page 60 - For expenses necessary for performing the duties imposed by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, and the Act to provide conditions for the purchase of supplies and the making of contracts by the United States...