Source Selection Step by Step

CHAPTER 38DEBRIEFINGS

Many of the rules of source selection are there to protect the interests of the seller and go far beyond protections that would normally be found in private-sector buyer-seller relationships. One of these special perks is the furnishing of a detailed debriefing by the buyer when a seller requests it in a timely manner. Debriefings may be given to a competing contractor before a source selection is made or after a source selection is made, but a competing contractor is not entitled to both.

As is immediately obvious when reading the coverage of debriefings in FAR Subpart 15.5, much more information is given to a competing contractor ...