As is the rule of bid protesting, the requirement is for the contracting agency, in this case the USAF, to temporarily suspend the contract.

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Traditional federal system integrators are clearly on notice that pre-competed BPAs will soon displace the traditional RFP as the federal agency contracting vehicle of choice.

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The Health Protection Agency says the risk of contracting any illness is generally low, but people are advised to avoid coming into direct contact with floodwater.

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Rather than the usual contracting model that takes several years, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (known as "DARPA") asked a small company in Arizona, Local Motors, to fulfill the challenge in a little over four months.

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But by early 2003 the agency hadn't yet handed out research contracts for the program, thanks to the painstaking federal contracting process.

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These types of contracting vehicles are characterized by task orders with short vendor response times and minimal administrative cost to the end user agency.

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Senior administration officials said the decision speaks to her accomplishments at the agency, such as reducing lender paperwork for SBA-backed loans, enforcing stricter oversight of government contracting and rolling out several laws that facilitated more lending to small businesses.

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