52.214-25 Step Two of Two-Step Sealed Bidding.
Prescription and Applicability
FAR Prescription, 14.201-6(t)
(t) Insert the provision at 52.214-25, Step Two of Two-Step Sealed Bidding, in invitations for bids issued under step two of two-step sealed bidding.
DFARS Supplementary Guidance, 214.201-6
(2) Use the provisions at 252.215-7007, Notice of Intent to Resolicit, and 252.215-7008, Only One Offer, as prescribed at 215.371-6 and 215.408(3), respectively.
Current Text
52.214-25 Step Two of Two-Step Sealed Bidding.
As prescribed in 14.201-6(t), insert the following provision:
Step Two of Two-Step Sealed Bidding (APR 1985)
(a) This invitation for bids is issued to initiate step two of two-step sealed bidding under subpart 14.5 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
(b) The only bids that the Contracting Officer may consider for award of a contract are those received from bidders that have submitted acceptable technical proposals in step one of this acquisition under __ [ the Contracting Officer shall insert the identification of the step-one request for technical proposals ].
(c) Any bidder that has submitted multiple technical proposals in step one of this acquisition may submit a separate bid on each technical proposal that was determined to be acceptable to the Government.
(End of provision)
[48 FR 42478, Sept. 19, 1983, as amended at 50 FR 1747, Jan. 11, 1985; 50 FR 52429, Dec. 23, 1985]
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