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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know, I'd love to hear from someone on DCUM with actual experience in procurement and government contracts, because I genuinely don't know if what Lang et al did was shady.

It certainly feels like interviewing with a vendor who you are also assessing for a large contract is ethically marginal, but I also know the private sector works in ways that don't always make sense to me.

I'm sure there's a government contracts attorney in DCUM land. Tell us what to think about this. [/quote]

I have experience in govt proposals and procurement. This could be deemed as bribery. You can't be in the selection committee if one of the vendors bidding is a future employee or potential future employee. If Discovery wins,.then it's possible to assume that one of the evaluators was biased or was influenced by their future employer.[/quote]

So, in your opinion, did MCPS do the right thing by retooling the RFP? That's one piece that is interesting to me. While I don't have a lot of experience with government contracts, I do have experience responding to RFPs from the nonprofit side and have never seen one reissued. I've seen potential vendors/implementers taken out of the pool, but never seen the whole RFP rewritten. [/quote]

I've seen RFPs thrown out because one of the bidders has protested due to something they felt was unfair. My guess is Discovery was already downselected and someone protested that they have an unfair advantage. Or it could be that mcps decided to stop it before someone protests.[/quote]

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