A Schedule contractor may be awarded a BPA that extends beyond the current term of its Schedule contract or a BPA that contains options that extend beyond the current Schedule contract term if there areoption periods left on the Schedule contract that, if exercised, cover the BPA's period of performance, including any option s. Any order issued including its order options against an existing BPA before the BPA expires will have its own Period of Performance including order options.
At the discretion of the buyer, BPAs may be set aside for the following types of small businesses:. The procedures in 8. Alternatively, ordering activities may consider socioeconomic status when identifying contractors for consideration or competition for award of an order or BPA.
At a minimum, ordering activities should consider, if available, at least one small business, veteran-owned small business, service disabled veteran-owned small business, HUBZone small business, women-owned small business, or small disadvantaged business Schedule contractor FAR 8. If a BPA is set aside for other types of small businesses, file documentation must include market research conducted along with Schedules considered for award.
If multiple-award BPAs are established without the use of set-asides, orders under those BPAs may be set-aside as long as proper notice was given at the time of the BPA awards that the ordering activity may, at its discretion, conduct set-aides. When placing set-aside orders against BPAs, ordering activities should adhere to the following guidance:. Under the terms of GSA Schedule contracts, contractors have the ability to submit requests to add supplies or services that are within scope to their existing contracts.
Thus, buyers may contact Schedule contractors to ask that open-market items that are within scope be added to their GSA Schedule contracts.
In accordance with FAR 8. Please try again later. The use of BPAs does not exempt an agency from the responsibility for keeping obligations and expenditures within available funds and executed in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation FAR 8. The purpose of a BPA is to reduce administrative costs in accomplishing small purchases by eliminating the need to write a separate contract each time. It is simply a quoted price for a good or service; a mere invitation to enter into a formal agreement.
With a BOA, the parties are agreeing that there are items of interest to the buyer and the seller agrees in good faith but not binding faith to provide them in accordance with the terms and conditions of the contract, and at prices to be determined at the point of sale. However, they are still under no obligation to provide those items until the method of pricing can be established. This is quite a nice arrangement for cloud computing services, especially over the long run as innovations in computing and other advancements reduce the cost of the service.
As the Army moves forward with its plans to corral cloud service providers under its BOA, it will be able to hammer out basic terms of the agreement without having to nail down the exact price of a volatile and difficult to predict item. Kudos to the Army for taking advantage of a vehicle most closely associated with manufacturing or weapons systems and extending its utility to digital services.
Does anyone out there see other applications for BOAs? If so, please share them with us in the comments section. About public procurement information, data and technology, workforce, strategy and leadership. Intensive research and community engagement on areas like metrics, workforce competency, and procurement technology. We are enabling open government markets by providing deep market intelligence. A basic ordering agreement shall not state or imply any agreement by the Government to place future contracts or orders with the contractor or be used in any manner to restrict competition.
Basic ordering agreements may need to be revised before the annual review due to mandatory statutory requirements. A basic ordering agreement shall be changed only by modifying the agreement itself and not by individual orders issued under it. Modifying a basic ordering agreement shall not retroactively affect orders previously issued under it.
A contracting officer representing any Government activity listed in a basic ordering agreement may issue orders for required supplies or services covered by that agreement.
The contracting officer shall proceed with pricing as soon as practical.
0コメント