This installment is a follow-up to Are Federal Bids Wired?
Purchases made through public bids represent a relatively small percentage of buys made in the federal market. More often, purchases are made through multiple award schedule contracts or modifications to existing federal contracts.
An opportunity may be put out for public bid if:
The agency knows a number of companies have been aggressively pre-selling the opportunity and the only option, from a political standpoint, is to conduct a public bid
The project is large and highly visible
The vendor the agency wants to work with doesn't have a GSA Schedule contract and there isn't a prime contractor available to use as a conduit
The contract that was originally bid publicly comes up for re-bid
The agency needs to pad its public bid numbers
The agency truly doesn't have a vendor pre-selected (yes, this happens on occasions)
Don't bid on a public procurement if you haven't done significant advance research. A bidder must have all of the background information in order to understand the nuances of the deal. There is always a back story and the vendor which eventually wins the contract will have uncovered all of the intelligence well in advance of the posting of the bid.
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