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For questions related to Decentralized Ordering,
please contact: (210) 395-8061.
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COMPETITION NOTICE: For approved decentralized orders, a fair notice/fair opportunity multiple-source (head-to-head) multiple-proposal competition at the task order level shall be conducted for all task orders exceeding $150,000 IAW DFARS 216.505-70 procedures and the relevant ordering clause in the applicable IDIQ basic contract. This policy applies to all 772 ESS [AFCEE] IDIQ contractual programs except the architect-engineer (AE) services 4PAE08 IDIQ program. AE services will be procured IAW the procedures outlined in FAR Subpart 36.6. SAF/AQC "Fair Opportunity" policy memorandum dated 8 Oct 2008 clarified Air Force implementation of Section 843 of the FY08 National Defense Authorization Act and specifically included construction under the competition requirements found in DFARS 216.505-70.
Requirements exceeding $150,000 shall be awarded on a competitive basis and "all" contract holders within a suite of contracts (or set-aside contractors within a suite when FAR 19 applies) "shall receive fair notice" of the intent to make the purchase unless an exception is approved. This affords all contractors responding to the notice a fair opportunity to submit an offer and have that offer fairly considered.
Exceptions to the fair opportunity procedures should be rare and shall be based on one of the exceptions described in DFARS 216.505-70(b). Exceptions shall be coordinated and approved in accordance with DFARS 216.505-70(b)
NOTICE TO DECENTRALIZED CUSTOMERS: Decentralized ordering (DCO), intended to be used by exception, has grown into a high demand service over the last two years, requiring significant investment of our limited resources. This has caused us to reorganize our decentralized ordering process to be in balance with our available internal resources and with the AFCEE business plan post-AF civil engineering transformation.
As a result beginning 20 Feb 07, AFCEE will process requests for decentralized ordering only for AF customers. Each of these customers will be expected to comply fully with the FAR (as supplemented), as well as with their own MAJCOM regulations and review thresholds.
The following limitations exist for our AF customers:
- DCO requests will not be processed until the customer has taken care of any existing non-compliance issues with the DCO program
- SABER like projects will not be processed
- Information technology (IT) projects will not be processed
- Options will not be processed
- Projects under $150K will not be processed
- Certified funds documents must be available at the time a DCO request is submitted (cut-off date for receipt of a complete DCO request is 15 August)
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