Chapter 23 - Two-Step Competitive Sealed Bidding

Appendix A - Two-Step and Combined Two-Step Competitive Sealed Bidding Process Quick Sheet

Two-step IFB process

Prepare an IFB requesting unpriced technical offers only.
Post IFB in eVA.
Post any amendments to IFB in eVA.
Receive unpriced technical offers.
Evaluate unpriced technical offers.
Identify acceptable unpriced technical offers.
Invite offerors who submitted acceptable unpriced technical offers to submit pricing offers.
Pricing bids are tabulated via eVA.
Contract is awarded to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder unless solicitation provides for set aside to a reasonably priced DSBSD-certified small business including small businesses owned by women, minorities and service-disabled veterans as well as micro businesses.

Combined two-step IFB process

IFB requires bidders to submit technical proposals and price bids in response to IFB.
Offerors are submitted in separate envelopes labeled “technical proposal” and “bid price.”
Technical proposals are evaluated, and acceptable technical proposals are identified.
“Bid price” envelopes for those technical proposals identified as acceptable are opened.
Award is made to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder unless set aside to a reasonably priced DSBSD-certified small business including small businesses owned by women, minorities and service-disabled veterans as well as micro businesses provision was included in the solicitation.