{"id":27472,"date":"2022-02-17T19:15:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T00:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/?page_id=27472"},"modified":"2022-02-17T19:15:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T00:15:46","slug":"08-afedp-how","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/guidance\/adrguide-home\/08-afedp-how\/","title":{"rendered":"How does an AF Extended Debriefing work?"},"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;\">How does an AF Extended Debriefing work?<\/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>In an effort to dissuade unsuccessful offerors from filing protests (particularly where they file solely as a means to get government documents), the Air Force and the Federal Aviation Administration give an\u00a0unsuccessful offeror the opportunity to participate in an extended, or enhanced, debriefing in appropriate cases. As a general rule, standard debriefings provided pursuant to FAR 15.505 and FAR 15.506 often do not provide unsuccessful offerors with enough information to ascertain whether their proposal was properly evaluated by the government.\u00a0 While a standard debriefing may provide limited feedback on strengths, weaknesses, and deficiencies in a proposal, it does not generally provide a cohesive explanation for the rationale underlying the Government\u2019s evaluation conclusions and contract award decision.\u00a0 This leaves unsuccessful offerors very frustrated and may cause them to speculate as to why they were eliminated from a competitive range or did not otherwise receive a contract award.\u00a0 Often, these unsuccessful offerors will submit a protest simply as a fishing expedition\u2014to obtain Government documents that set forth the rationale for the award.<\/p>\n<p>Extended debriefings may be a solution to this problem under the right circumstances.\u00a0 Extended debriefings offer a transparent debriefing process whereby the Government provides an unsuccessful offeror\u2019s outside counsel with information that is otherwise protected to fully explain the Government\u2019s decision, either to eliminate an offeror from the competitive range or to award to another offeror. Most of the time, the information that is provided involves source-selection documents that address the unsuccessful offeror’s complaints.\u00a0 These are documents that the unsuccessful offeror’s outside counsel\u00a0would receive pursuant to a GAO protective order if the offeror submits a GAO protest.\u00a0\u00a0By putting the discovery cart before the horse–that is, by offering up specific source selection documents, or even the full agency record before a GAO bid protest can be filed–an\u00a0offeror\u2019s outside counsel is provided with enough information from which to ascertain that the evaluation process was fair and impartial and, consequently, can communicate to the unsuccessful offeror that the award decision is rationally based.\u00a0 Thus far, it has been the FAA’s and the Air Force\u2019s experience that extended debriefings frequently result in the offeror\u2019s counsel dissuading the offeror from filing a protest, or in some cases, actually withdrawing a previously-filed protest.<\/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\/27472"}],"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=27472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27472\/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=27472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}