Section 27-1513. PREQUALIFICATION PROCESS

 

1513.1  Before issuing an IFB, the contracting officer may prequalify bidders by

establishing a prequalification process to certify the financial and professional qualifications of prospective bidders.

 

1513.2   The contracting officer may use a prequalification process when he or she

determines that this process will be the most advantageous to the District. The contracting officer may limit participation in certain procurements to prospective contractors who have been prequalified under the process.

 

1513.3 The contracting officer shall conduct the prequalification process as follows:

 

(a) The contracting officer shall first advertise a Request for Qualifications pursuant to chapter 13 of this title, for prospective bidders to submit financial and professional responsibility information; and

 

(b) The contracting officer may only issue an IFB to those prospective bidders determined to be qualified after evaluation of the responses to the Request for Qualifications.  Only qualified prospective bidders may submit bids in response to the IFB. 

 

1513.4 The Request for Qualifications shall include, at a minimum:  

 

(a)   A detailed description of the contract requirements; and

 

(b)   Submission requirements that will be used to determine whether a prospective bidder is qualified.

 

1513.5 The contracting officer may conduct oral or written discussions with prospective bidders who submitted responses to the Request for Qualifications.

 

1513.6 The contracting officer may provide the information submitted by all prospective bidders in response to the request to an evaluation panel.  The panel may recommend to the contracting officer, based upon the panel’s analysis of the information according to the criteria set forth in the request, whether a prospective bidder is qualified.

 

1513.7 After determining the most qualified prospective bidders, the contracting officer shall issue an IFB only to the bidders who have been determined most qualified.

 

1513.8  The IFB shall not be advertised in newspapers or publicly posted.

 

1513.9The use of the prequalification process shall not nullify the requirement for a determination of contractor responsibility under chapter 22 of this title.

 

authority

The Chief Procurement Officer of the District of Columbia (CPO), pursuant to the authority set forth in sections 401, 402, 409, 414, 1102, and 1106 of the Procurement Practices Reform Act of 2010, effective April 8, 2011 (D.C. Law 18-371; D.C. Official Code §§ 2-354.01, 2-354.04, 2-354.14, 2-361.02 and 2-361.06 (2011 Repl.)) (Act).

source

Final Rulemaking published at 35 DCR 1426 (February 26, 1988); as amended by Notice of Emergency and Proposed Rulemaking published at 59 DCR 3714 (March 6, 2012)[EXPIRED]; as amended by Notice of Final Rulemaking published at 59 DCR 6290, 6294 (June 1, 2012).

EditorNote

Section 1513 is formerly entitled, "Excessively Long Mailing Lists." Notice of Final Rulemaking published at 59 DCR 6290 (June 1, 2012) replaced the section with a new section entitled, "Prequalification Process."