Episode 4: Ordering Procedures for Services Task Orders
Episode 4 Program Notes (5/22/2008, 32 pages)
Episode 4 Summary: What happens after you receive the quotes in response to your (Episode 3) RFQ? Brad and Dave review the steps to keep in mind during your best value evaluation of task order quotes. We explore the different types of task orders (including Time & Material/ Labor Hour task types), some of which may include "Other Direct Costs" of different types. Part of this episode compares and contrasts streamlined Schedule ordering procedures under FAR SubPart 8.4 with the more complex FAR Part 15 procedures inappropriate for Schedule orders. We also discuss Schedule pricing issues (including how those prices are escalated), mixing Schedule items with open-market items on the same task order, and managing protest risk. An extract from the GSA Task Order Checklist is included with the Program Notes. DC
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Episode 4 Summary: What happens after you receive the quotes in response to your (Episode 3) RFQ? Brad and Dave review the steps to keep in mind during your best value evaluation of task order quotes. We explore the different types of task orders (including Time & Material/ Labor Hour task types), some of which may include "Other Direct Costs" of different types. Part of this episode compares and contrasts streamlined Schedule ordering procedures under FAR SubPart 8.4 with the more complex FAR Part 15 procedures inappropriate for Schedule orders. We also discuss Schedule pricing issues (including how those prices are escalated), mixing Schedule items with open-market items on the same task order, and managing protest risk. An extract from the GSA Task Order Checklist is included with the Program Notes. DC
OK...Where have you guys been all my contracting life (which is a LOT of years). I stumbled across your site whilst searching, once again, for answers to questions we have about the use of Schedules. Wasn't expecting to find a goldmine but, nonetheless, there it was. Thank you for taking the time to put this together. Not long ago I reviewed a book regarding Source Selection and I'm going to tell you the same thing I told that gentlemen. I, like many of my colleagues, have sat through countless hours of classes on Government Contracting, and, for the most part, they were all the same. We were always told what the book/regulation/law/code/site, etc, said, but we were seldom told what it meant. Thank you. Now...if you could just come to my shop for a little training...(heck, I'm just down the road in Tacoma!). Looking forward to more from you in the future.
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Thanks Robbin -
Yes we work in Auburn WA, not far from you. After you listen to all the podcast episodes (currently 1 through 4 with more on the way - - so stay tuned), let me know if you or any of your Army co-workers have any questions on using GSA Schedules for professional services. I drive past Tacoma on my way in from Bremerton, so maybe we can work something out. Or maybe a conference call and some e-mails will do the job.
Thanks again,
Dave Clemens
You can e-mail me via: MSCpodcast@gsa.gov.
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