Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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pursue excellence in a better way.
The next slide. Used after you've had a
look at the RFPs, you can have the value engineering
team look at what the response is. And I think
that's very important. We talked earlier about the
two-step process, one qualifying a group of bidders,
phase two, having a smaller group of bidders on a
funded bidding exercise go for a best value type of
approach.
In this case, you tell them what the price
is, what the schedule is, what the design parameters
are, and what the program is. And you let them
provide you with a design, that's why it's funded,
that shows the best value response to your bid. The
Navy is using this process and so is the Army Corps
of Engineer and what they're doing I they're taking
a risk element out, the unknown. How will the costs
come in when we bid this thing? Well, fix the
costs. Tell them no more no less. There's no
reward for going less, just stay with the costs and
give me the most for my money. And that's been a
successful program for those two groups.
Every project isn't the same. Use of VE
team to analyze what is the best procurement method
for your project. For the SED program, great, it's
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