price contract and the other RFP is for reimbursable contarct affect the time

required for bidders to complete their bid proposals? Does the fact that you are
requesting incentive fees from the engineering contractor increase the time
required to prepare the bid proposals for this work? Explain your answers.

15-1d Will you provide the bidders with a date by which the Badger Power
Company will award these contracts? How many weeks will this be after the
dates that bid proposals are received for each of these contracts?
15-1e Will you have pre-bid meetings for each of the contracts? Explain your
rationale for having or not havingpre-bid meetings for these contract.
15-1f Will you have pre-award survey meetings with any or all of the bidders
after they have received these RFPs? Identifiy the RFPs for which there will
be pre-award surveys.
15-1g Will you define for the bidders for the these RFPs the basis that will be
used to evaluate bid proposals? If yes,what basis will be used?
15-1h Will you include ethical standartds that will apply to relations between
Badger Power Company personnel and supplier or contractor personnel in the
RFP. If yes,what wile these standards be?
15-1i Why should you ask the bidders for these to RFPs to respond
concerning their intention to bid or not bid the work defined in the RFPs?
15-1j What types of information will be included in Description of Woek
section of the RFP for the engineering contract?
15-1k What types of information will be requested in the Proposal section of
the RFP for the turbine-generator contract?
15-1l What types of information will be included in the Special Conditions
section of the RFP for turbine- generator contract?
15-im What types of information will be included in the General Conditions
section of the RFP for the-engineering contract?

Case study 15-2

Greenwell Engineering Company
The Greenwell Engineering Company provided design services for the large office
buildings and manucfacturing plants. Clients of Greenwell have complained on
recent project that Greenwell does not have an effective scheduling and case
control program for their projects. The executive management Greenwell reacts to
these complaints by deciding to hire a management consultant to develop a
scphisticated scheduling and cost control program that will impress is clients. Suices
they have heard that consultant s of this type are expensive,they request that a
fixed price contract be used for the work. Christ Logan is the Project Manager for
Greenwell in charge of preparing the RFP and managing the contract for the
management consultant.
Christ Logan completes the technocal and management requirements for the
RFP and gives, them to Mark Smithson,the procurement representative responsible
for obtaining bid propsosals for the work. The requirements for the schedule and
sost control program are vague since Cgrist Logan lacks experience in these areas.
Threre are no schedule requirements in the information prepared by Chris Logan
since he does not know how long an effort of this type should take. Mark Smithson
reviews the information that he receives from Chris Logan and concludes that it is
not sufficient to support a fixed price contract with a management consultant.
Mark schedules a meeting with Christ to resolve what should be included in
the RFP to support a fixed price contracting approach. Answer the following
questions as if you are Christ Logan or Mark Smithson.
Questions :

15-2a Is a fixed price contracting approach feasible for this type of

work?
15-2b How can you abtain an adequate definition of the work that
will be performed by the management consultant prior to signing a
fixed price contract?
15-2c How can you abtain an adequate schedule of the work that will
be performed by management consultant price to signing a fixed
price contract?
15-2d Will you conduct pre-award surveys with the bidders for the
RFP? What are the benefits of the approach?
15-2e Will you have a pre-bid meeting for the RFP?
15-2f How will the payment schedule for this work be established?