{"id":27494,"date":"2022-02-17T19:23:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T00:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/?page_id=27494"},"modified":"2022-02-18T15:50:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T20:50:32","slug":"22-weakness","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/guidance\/adrguide-home\/22-weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"ADR Offers Don’t Show Weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:31px;margin-left:0px;\"><h2 class=\"title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;\">ADR Offers Don’t Show Weakness<\/h2><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><div class=\"title-sep-container\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#e0dede;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Sometimes a party is reluctant to suggest using ADR due to concerns that such an offer will signal lack of resolve or weakness. \u00a0This barrier is easily overcome.<\/p>\n<p>First, for all parties, a sincere offer of ADR demonstrates good faith under the contract or solicitation process. \u00a0Second, an offer of ADR that stresses <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/federalprocurementadr2d\/part-v---adr-particulars\/ch-28---information-exchange\/saving-costs-to-exchange-information\">avoidance of litigation costs <\/a>is reasonable for any party to make. \u00a0Good faith contracting and cost avoidance show <a href=\"https:\/\/adr.gov\/guidance\/adrguide-home\/ch02\/\">business sense<\/a>, not weakness.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, for contracting officers and other government employees, the barrier is wholly artificial. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Because others have already decided that the policy of the United States Government is to “use ADR procedures to the maximum extent practicable.” \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/adr.gov\/guidance\/adrguide-home\/04-far\/\">FAR 33.204<\/a>; <em>see also<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/adr.gov\/guidance\/adrguide-home\/04-ams\/\">49 USC 40110(d)<\/a>(1)(B) (applicable to FAA contracts under the AMS). \u00a0Offering ADR merely demonstrates that acquisition personnel understand the applicable policy. \u00a0It does not show weakness.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27194,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27494\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}