The groups take issue with the Pentagon’s choice to source the Encore III contract through the "lowest price, technically acceptable" selection process. Two industry groups who together represent a ...

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) proposed to amend the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) on December 4, 2018, to limit the use of lowest price technically acceptable (LPTA) ...

As I’ve covered here before, low-priced, technically acceptable procurements (LPTA) shine a light on a contractor’s ability to provide the required services at the lowest possible cost to the ...

When awarding a contract competitively, The Department of Defense (DOD) may use the lowest price technically acceptable (LPTA) process, under which the lowest price is the determining factor when ...

In our latest WT Insider Report, Washington Technology readers sent a very clear message -- they hate LPTA. Read more to learn why. Our latest Washington Technology Insider Report was released this ...

Lawmakers are once again looking at ways to peel back the use of lowest price technically acceptable, or LPTA, contracting decisions to enable federal agencies to spend a little more for better ...

It’s an acronym well-known across the government contracting space - LPTA, short for “Lowest Price Technically Acceptable,” as an evaluation method for cost/price proposals. In our work with ...

Gathering best practices? Here’s a worst practice: using the Defense Department’s Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) procurement approach to evaluate RFPs for systems integration, IT strategy, ...

Lowest price technically acceptable (LPTA) procurement might not give government the best solutions, and it definitely causes consternation for industry, but it is here to stay at least for a while. A ...

The lowest price technically acceptable (LPTA) acquisition strategy, which focuses on price over value, has become the dominant approach that agencies are applying to federal contracting. The ...

Selling information technology to the U.S. government is never easy, and it’s even harder when a vendor cannot highlight the qualitative differences it believes separates its competencies from other ...

Federal agencies will be keeping a sharp eye on how much they spend on information technology over the next several years, as budgets will remain tight. In order to deal effectively with tighter ...