Sometimes procurement does come down to lowest price, but often contracting officers have to make tradeoffs. That’s where something called VATEP comes in. For more, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turns Joseph Petrillo, a procurement attorney with Petrillo and Powell and a consultant for his new blog, Patterns of Procurement.
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