Chapter 23 - Two-Step Competitive Sealed Bidding

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Chapter highlights:

Purpose: This chapter discusses two-step competitive sealed bidding for procuring information technology (IT) goods and services.

Key points:

• Two-step competitive sealed bidding is a combination of competitive procedures designed to obtain the benefits of sealed bidding when adequate specifications are not available.
• There is no negotiation in the two-step competitive bid process.
• If an agency receives two or more sealed bids for products that meet the energy- and water- efficiency requirements outlined in 2.2-4328.1, that agency may only select among those bids.