Acquisition

1) | Application Lesson -- Lessons 5 through 7  1.  The Air Force is seeking detection devices for its security police vehicles. It learns that Detecto Corp., which appears to be the only supplier of devices of a type necessary to meet the Air Force requirement, has been selling these radar detection devices commercially for a number of years. On making the procurement, the Contracting Officer, to get the contractor to accept, agreed to change the standard Government contract by deleting several clauses, including the disputes clause. Can the Air Force use the procedures in FAR Part 12 to procure these devices? Explain why or why not.As I read the question above, the radar detection devices for which the U.S. Air Force has an operational mission does meet applicability of the requirements for FAR Part 12. FAR Part 12 is used for the acquisition of supplies or services which meets the definition of commercial items. Commercial items means goods and services actually sold to the general public in like quantities.Under the tailoring process, authorized by FAR, can the contracting officer tailor the contract by deleting the disputes clause from the contract? Explain why or why not.The contracting officer cannot tailor the Contract Terms and Conditions of Commercial Items paragraphs of the clause 52.21-4 because they are statutory requirements which must be depicted on the contract. Disputes along with assignments, payment (except as provided in Subpart 32.11), invoice, other compliances, compliance with laws unique with government contracts and unauthorized obligations, will not be tailored.2.  Army Request for Sealed Bids permitted bidders to revise their bids by fax prior to bid opening. Five minutes prior to bid opening, Wunderbar, Inc. submitted a fax transmission that stated We wish to change our bid in the following particulars. The rest of the message was not transmitted. The contracting officer called Wunderbar immediately and advised that the balance of the...