Liz, unless I am missing something in your example, the submission of
collaborative proposals with a resulting award to either party would
provide an acceptable basis for sole/single sourcing to the other.  In
fact, quite often during our procurement reviews, I HAD ACCEPTED this as a
reasonable and acceptable basis for sole sourcing.  The issues we often
had trouble with is that there was no documentation for the basis of the
aware to a collaborating subawardee.

Norm Meeks

On Tue, 8 Aug 1995, Elizabeth A. Mazzella wrote:

> We had considered the same conundrum, but utlimately decided that if the
> joint proposal is truly a joint effort in terms of preparation/ideas etc.
> then the competitve strength of the proposal that gets it funded is no
> doubt partially based on the strength of the collaborator --the subcontract
> then becomes an administrative vehicle to get funds to a collaborator, not
> a "procurement" of services.  That is basically our sole source.  Additionally
> how could one possibly entice commercial or non commercial collaborators
> to develop joint proposals while at the same time telling them, if the
> proposal wins, we will shop around to see if we can find someone better,
> cheaper, faster, etc.No one would work with you.
>
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