Contracting Home Page

The Contracting (CON) Division develops and issues solicitations for DSCA, field offices, and overseas programs. Our office performs cradle to grave contracting functions and is responsible for a full range of planning, directing, and administering highly complex and politically sensitive acquisitions for supplies and services. In addition, CON formulates technical documents, administrative policies, and procedures to accomplish the contracting mission and oversees the Government Purchase Card (GPC) program for the agency and field offices.

The Contracting Roadmap tab provides an overview of the five procurement phases: Determine the Need, Solicitation, Evaluation, Award, and Administration. Click any of the five phases to be given the option of viewing the Contracting Process Guide or the Contracting Process Flowchart for the selected phase. The Guide provides a procurement roadmap, related regulations, policies, templates, and forms for each of the phases, and the Contracting Process Flowchart provides a quick outline of required steps within a procurement phase. A summary of key User Types may be viewed by clicking on the various user categories below.

Announcements

Announcement #1:
Award Type Must submit completed package NLT date below, to award by 30 September Procurement Action Lead Time (PALT) timeline in days
Exercise of Options 60 days prior to option expiration
Negotiated Full and Open Competition
$650,000 and above 3 April 2012 180
$150,000 - $649,999 14 May 2012 140
$149,999 and below 1 August 2012 60
Negotiated Sole Source
$650,000 and above 2 July 2012 90
$150,000 - $649,999 1 August 2012 60
$149,999 and below 16 August 2012 45
Simplified Acquisitions
$150,000 - $650,000 1 August 2012 60
$25,001 - $149,999 16 August 2012 45
$3,000 - $25,000 31 August 2012 30
Non-DoD (e.g., GSA)
$650,000 and above 12 July 2012 80
$150,000 - $649,999 1 August 2012 60
Below $150,000 16 August 2012 45
All contract change modifications 16 August 2012 45
All GPC purchases under $3,000 20 September 2012 N/A
Posted: 09/16/2011

User Types