Research Incumbent Contracts
Learn to identify incumbent contracts for current and upcoming opportunities
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Learn to identify incumbent contracts for current and upcoming opportunities
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When tracking or investigating a current Opportunity for a possible bid, it is often useful to find and research existing or past contract awards that may be either direct precursor contracts, or at least relevant past performance. These past awards can be referred to as "incumbent contracts" or “recompetes”.
From this research you can learn:
Information about your competition by research the Awarded Vendor
Past Performance qualifications to inform your own bid
First, identify the Opportunity you wish to research. This can be an Opportunity you have found using the .
Either way, this is an Opportunity for which you want to see if any relevant past awards exist that will help inform your bid.
Examine the Opportunity or Pursuit and take note of qualities that will help you in the next step (searching for relevant incumbent contracts), such as:
Location
Federal Agency offering the Opportunity
NAICS or PSC Codes
Keywords in the Opportunity’s title or description
In this step, you’ll search for relevant past awards using the information from the active Opportunity in Step 1.
Once you locate relevant past awards, you can analyze them for useful information.
On the , use the Keyword Search and Filters to locate relevant past awards. In some cases, you may find the exact same contract, and in others you may find contracts that are similar to your current Opportunity in one or more respects.
Awards you locate may be part of a Contract IDV or Contract Vehicle, and the records for those “parent” contracts may also contain useful information to research. In these cases, it’s helpful to understand .