Source Selection Step by Step

CHAPTER 21USING ORAL PRESENTATIONS

In the previous chapter, we briefly addressed the use of oral presentations. However, the potential value and the complexity of this component of source selection requires more in-depth coverage.

Oral presentations, sometimes called oral proposals, began to be used in earnest in the late 1980s and early 1990s during a period of great change and experimentation in the source selection process. This experimentation was intended to both improve the effectiveness of source selections and streamline the source selection process. Most of those streamlining efforts were aimed at reducing the expense associated with source ...