“You honestly really can’t just shop your way into home performance.” Good advice from Elena Chrimat, co-founder of Ideal Energy in Phoenix. Nevertheless, as attention to home HVAC performance ...

Agencies use price and non-price factors to evaluate proposals during the source selection process (also known as the procurement process) for federal contracts for the acquisition of products or ...

HAMILTON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--It is widely known that general contractors face persistent schedule, quality, safety and profitability challenges on their projects. A new study from Dodge ...

Suggested Citation: "Chapter 4 - Case Examples." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Third-Party Contracts for Fixed-Route Bus Operations and Maintenance: Performance ...

The existence of an excusable event begins the analysis—the contractor should demonstrate the effect of the event on its performance. The FAR Default clause (52.249-10) is clear in enumerating ...

Many contractors today use some type of construction management software to oversee the myriad of details inherent to projects both large and small — from billing and invoicing to inventory and ...

A new proposal would create one standard for how contracting officers review companies’ past performance on contracts as the reviews become more important to procurement decisions. Regulators want to ...

Contracting officers now will be required to document the past performance of companies that win awards off the General Services Administration's Multiple Award Schedule and for task or delivery ...

A government contractor’s past performance can spell the difference between proposal rejection and contract award, and agencies are given broad discretion in how they evaluate past performance. It is ...