Jon Levy
President / CEO
- jon.levy@KAIAinc.com
- 310 428 1184
- KAIA Inc
- 3015 NE 98th Circle
- Vancouver, WA 98665
8(a) Sole-Source Acquisition
KAIA's 8(a) status allows for sole-source direct awards, of up to $5.5 million.
A sole-source 8(a) award cuts out the longest parts of a full competition. You still control the scope, price, funding, and contract terms.
A ready requirement can reach award in as little as two weeks. Scope, funding, approvals, SBA acceptance, and agency rules affect timing. The 8(a) path removes the full competition cycle and gives your team a faster route to award. (FAR 19.804-3) Keep this year's mission need from becoming next year's problem.
Move 1
Step 1. Discuss the project with KAIA to establish technical requirements, a time frame, and a general price estimate.
Step 2. Contact your Contracting Officer, Agency Small Business Specialist, or Joe Smetak, the SBA Business Opportunity Specialist supporting KAIA. KAIA helps you prepare the package: requirements description, estimated period of performance, and supporting information. Reference: FAR 19.804-2.
Nothing is binding. This is where you learn whether the work and the budget fit.
Move 2
Step 3. Your Contracting Officer sends an Offering Letter to SBA requesting permission to conduct sole source negotiations with KAIA. (FAR 19.804-2)
Step 4.SBA confirms KAIA's eligibility and authorizes the negotiations. (FAR 19.804-3)
Move 3
Step 5, option a or b.
a.Below $350,000, Simplified Acquisition procedures apply. Your CO sends an RFQ for a cost proposal only, with no technical proposal required. (FAR 2.101, simplified acquisition threshold)
b.From $350,000 up to the sole source ceiling of $5.5 million, your CO sends an RFP for technical and cost proposals. (FAR 19.805-1(a)(2)) You negotiate cost and terms directly with KAIA. (FAR 19.806)
Step 6. Your CO prepares the award document and sends it to KAIA for signature. (FAR 19.811)
Step 7. KAIA returns the executed contract. Your CO signs it and sends it to SBA.
Step 8. Performance begins.
Asking commits you to nothing.
President / CEO
Business Opportunity Specialist, SBA Portland District