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🟡 Federal Field guide mentions "your state's simplified procurement threshold" #314

Open mrengy opened 2 years ago

mrengy commented 2 years ago

On https://derisking-guide.18f.gov/federal-field-guide/basic-principles/#modular-contracting -

Another benefit is that small contracts may come in under your state’s simplified procurement threshold, meaning that agencies can write a request for proposals, publish it, and award a contract, all within 90 days or so.

This is in the Federal Field Guide. Is this mention of state thresholds out of place?

mgwalker commented 2 years ago

@randyhart Here's the current text:

Another benefit is that small contracts may come in under your state’s simplified procurement threshold, meaning that agencies can write a request for proposals, publish it, and award a contract, all within 90 days or so.

Should it be changed to:

Another benefit is that contracts may come in under the federal simplified acquisition threshold, meaning that agencies can write a request for proposals, publish it, and award a contract, all within 90 days or so.

I don't know if we should include the amount of the SAT or not. (Isn't it $250k now?)