The Army issued a solicitation for emergency medical services at Tobyhanna Army Depot in Pennsylvania. The RFP (Request For Proposal) specified that proposals were due by 4:00 p.m. One of the bidders made four tries at submitting its proposal electronically; 2:43 p.m., 2:57 p.m., 3:01 p.m, and 3:06 p.m. The Government servers however logged receipt of those three tries at 6:00 p.m., 6:05 p.m., 6:06 p.m., and 6:09 p.m. Since they were received by the Government after 4:00 p.m., the bidder, Western Star, was eliminated from the bidding.

Source: PNWC’s Government Contracting Update: Proposal Gets Snagged in Email System – Received Late – Tossed

Last Friday, we brought you a provision of the Defense Acquisition Streamlining and Transparency Act that will require the Department of Defense to outsource at least 25 percent of the incurred costs audits to QPA (Qualified Private Auditors). This is going to put DCAA in a head-to-head competition with commercial auditors and it will be interesting to see how it all shakes out.

Source: PNWC’s Government Contracting Update: Defense Acquisition Streamlining and Transparency Act – Part 2

On May 18th, 2007, Chairman Thornberry of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) introduced The Defense Acquisition Streamlining and Transparency Act, a bill to (i) empower the Defense Department to use “e-commerce” to purchase commercial off-the-shelf items, (ii) reform the defense contract audit process and (iii) a number of other provisions. For purposes of this article, we want to focus on how the bill intends to reform the contract audit process. According to Thornberry,

Source: PNWC’s Government Contracting Update: Defense Acquisition Streamlining and Transparency Act – Commercializing Contract Audits