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Why some companies embrace LPTA contracts
This article was originally published April 8, 2013 in WashingtonTechnology.com.
By Bob Lohfeld
Some companies are actively seeking lowest price, technically acceptable (LPTA) professional services bids—but they’re not the companies you’d think. You’d expect companies with deep experience in their fields that have honed their operating costs to the minimum and are operating at maximum efficiency to seek out LPTA bids where they could compete on price—but it is just the opposite.
Inexperienced, marginally credible firms are finding LPTA procurements provide a unique opportunity to…
5 questions to derail an LPTA procurement
This article was originally published December 19, 2012 in WashingtonTechnology.com.
By Bob Lohfeld
Recently, while teaching a capture management class, a capture manager asked me what he could do when the contracting officer for a pending IT services bid said he wanted to use lowest price technically acceptable (LPTA) evaluation criteria versus the traditional best-value tradeoff approach.
The capture manager and the government program manager wanted to avoid a price shootout, but the contracting shop wouldn’t agree.
When confronted with this situation, here are five questions…
3 tips to maximize past performance
This article was originally published February 1, 2012 in WashingtonTechnology.com.
By Bob Lohfeld
Almost every proposal you write has a requirement for information on past performance. The government uses this information to evaluate how well your company has performed on similar programs and expects your past performance to be a predictor of how well you will perform on the program you’re currently bidding.
Because past performance can be an important discriminator in the evaluation and selection process, there are some things you should know…
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