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Key Elements for Describing Agency Needs
Use MKT Research
Promote Full and Open Competition
Limit restrictive provisions and conditions
Look for commercial solutions
Focus on function, performance, physical characteristics
Important Considerations for Tailoring a Market Research Strategy
Performance standards
Changes in product/service characteristics
Product shelf-life or life cycle capabilities
Packaging & Delivery methods
Product variations
And any other pertinent information
Requirements Document
No FAR definition for “requirements document”
Part of the PR package
Identify the essential physical and functional characteristics required to satisfy needs.
Have: Measurable performance standards, Incentives/Discentives (monetary and non-monetary), QASP assessing performance against PWS performance standards
SOO
A Government-prepared document incorporated into the solicitation that states the overall performance objectives. The SOO is used in solicitations when the Government intends to provide the maximum flexibility for each offeror to propose an innovative approach
Offerors use SOO to develop PWS
SOW
Portion of a contract which establishes and defines all non-specification requirements for contractor’s efforts, either directly or with the use of specifically cited documents. Despite “statement of work” being referenced throughout the FAR and Agency Supplements, there is no formal FAR definition for an SOW.
MOST prescriptive
PWS
Identifies a statement of work for performance-based acquisitions
that describes the required results in clear, specific, and objective terms with measurable outcomes
Order of Preference
Documents mandated by law
Performance-oriented documents
Detailed design-oriented documents
Government standards, specifications, related publications
Which of the following “describing agency needs” topics are identified for DoD in the DFARS and DFARS PGI?
Identification and availability of specifications
Reviewing requirements documents
Review Descriptions and Initial Market Research
Critique the Requirements Documents
What web-based service tool is designed to ensure consistent inclusion of FAR and DFARS provisions and clauses in solicitations and contracts
Clause Logic Service
What agency maintains the Provision and Clause Matrix Tool?
DAU
What term is used to state a clause has a major variation?
Alternates
What do provisions provide to the interested offerors?
Terms and conditions required by law and regulation
How do you know where the prescription is located within the FAR?
A reference in the introductory text of the provision or clause.
What is a prescription for a provision or clause?
Conditions, requirements, and instructions.
