Glossary
On the surface, doing business with the government may seem like doing business with any other large organizations; however, there do exist significant differences in the bids and awards process, including the terminology specific to this particular way of conducting business.
To maximize your success and simplify the business of government, GovernmentBids.com has compiled a glossary of key terms that is sure to be helpful along the way.
A-B-C
- Acquisition Network (AcqNet)
- Acquisition
- Acquisition Plan (AP)
- Administrative Change
- Advance
- Affiliates
- Agency
- Anti-Deficiency Act
- Assistance
- Awards
- Best and Final Offer
- Bid Database
- Bid Notice
- Bidding notification
- Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA)
- Brand Name Description
- Budgeting
- Business Information Centers (BICs)
- Call for Tenders
- Central Contract Registration (CCR)
- Certificate of Competency
- Certified 8(a) Firm
- Change Order
- Commerce Business Daily (CBD)
- Commercial Item
- Commercial Market Representation
- Commitment
- Competition
- Competition Advocate
- Construction Metrication Ombudsman
- Contact
- Contract Action
- Contract Administration
- Contract Award
- Contract Quality Requirements
- Contract Requirements
- Contracting
- Contracting Activity
- Contracting Office
- Contracting Officer
- Contracting Officer's Representative (COR)
- Contractor
- Contractor Team Arrangement
- Cooperative Agreement
- Cost Analyses
- Cost or Pricing Data
- Cost Reimbursement Contracts
- Cradle-to-Grave
- Current Year
D-E-F
- Defective Pricing
- Defense Acquisition Regulatory Council (DARC)
- Defense Contractor
- Deliverable
- Dependability
- Direct Cost
- Direct Labor
- Direct Materials
- DOD
- Disbursements
- Effective Competition
- Electronic Commerce (EC)
- Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
- Electronic Posting System (EPS)
- Emerging Small Business
- Entity
- Equity
- Escalation
- Evaluation Criteria
- Expenditure
- Facilities Contract
- Fair and Reasonable Price
- Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)
- FedBizOpps
- Federal Information Processing (FIP)
- Federal Solicitation
- Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) Program
- FIP Resources
- Firmware
- Fixed-Price Contract
- Fraud
- Full and Open Competition
- Full and Open Competition After Exclusion of Sources
G-H-I
- Government Property
- Government-wide Commercial Purchase Card
- Grant
- Grants Officer
- Improper Influence
- Independent Verifications and Validation Contract (IVV or IV and V)
- Industry
- Information Technology
- Interested Party
- Intermediary Organization
J-K-L
M-N-O
- Market Survey
- Mentor
- Micro-Purchase
- Municipal Contracts
- Negotiation
- North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
- Notices
- Notification list
- Offer
- Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU)
- One-Stop Capital Shops
- Option
- Organizational Conflict of Interest
P-Q-R
- Package
- Parties Excluded from Procurement Programs
- Partnering
- Pre-Award Survey
- Prebids
- Price Analysis
- Prime Contract
- Prime Contractor
- Private Bids
- Procurement
- Procurement Activity
- Procurement Automated Source System (PASS)
- Procurement Center Representative (PCR)
- Procurement List
- Procurement Official
- Protégé
- Protest
- Public Tenders
- Purchase Order
- Purchase Request (PR)
- Qualified Film Producers List (QFPL)
- Qualified Producers List (QPL)
- Qualified Video Producers List (QVPL)
- Ratification
- Request for Proposal (RFP)
- Request for Information (RFI)
- RFP
- Request for Quote (RFQ)
S-T-U
- SCORE
- Senior Procurement Executive
- Settlement Agreement
- Small Business
- Small Business Development Centers (SBDC)
- Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Contract
- Small Business Size
- Small Disadvantaged Business Concern
- Small Purchase
- Sole Source Procurement
- Solicitation
- Source Selection Plan
- Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code
- Standards
- State Tenders
- Subcontract
- Subcontracting Plan
- Subscriber
- Supplier
- Task Order
- Technical Direction
- Tender
- Unauthorized Commitment
- Unsettled Contract Change
- Unsolicited Proposal
V-W-X
Y-Z
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