Source Selection Step by Step

CHAPTER 43THE ADVISORY MULTISTEP SELECTION PROCESS

Over the years, agencies have used a number of source selection processes that allow or encourage the winnowing down of potential competing contractors before the government requests and receives full-blown proposals. One of these processes is the Brooks Act selection process for architect-engineer services, which will be discussed in Chapter 44. Another was a four-step selection process once used by the Department of Defense for major systems acquisitions. Contractors would be eliminated from the process during earlier steps before spending the large sum of money needed to prepare a complete cost ...