The RFP required an offeror to furnish with its offer a bid guarantee to assure that the offeror would execute further contract documents and bonds as required. Cobra notes that two GSA regions have made use of solicitations of this type without requiring bonds. 28.103-1(a) which admonishes against use of bonding requirements for nonconstruction contracts, and that the bonding requirements here increase the contracting costs on small businesses and constitute an unfair restriction on competition. Cobra argues that the bond requirements are in direct conflict with the intent of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Sec. Caleb Boggs Federal Building and Courthouse in Wilmington, Delaware.Ĭobra argues that these bond requirements are not necessary since GSA can protect itself from poor performance and contractor default through the technical evaluation of the offeror's capabilities called for under the RFP and through proper post-award contract management. GS-03P-9, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for facility management, operations and maintenance, elevator maintenance, and custodial services at the J. protests the bonding requirement in request for proposals (RFP) No. Protest against a bonding requirement in a solicitation is denied where, even assuming the requirement would result in a restriction of competition, the agency's need to assure the uninterrupted performance of the solicited services constitutes a reasonable basis for imposing the requirement. collecting ideas and to-dos for “a team” like the one that manages your household (e.g.Matter of: Cobra Technologies, Inc. sharing information to a group private-blog-style like weekly updates or a release tracker tackling a project like a real estate closing or a new hire’s onboarding or go/no-go decision brainstorming across a big group and over a longer time for inspiration
tracking links and stories on a shared team pad
Ultra light and fast - mission scope not unlike the scope of a meeting or a call or a session of face-to-face “let’s get in a room and work it out”.īut better because you can do it any time, wherever you are, more slowly and thoughtfully. One simple pad for one small group for one small mission - when it’s done, click check and you move on. They are saying all that as they grumble each day, and we have been watching our early users start to solve that problem with knotepads.Ī knotepad lets you pull everything together and keep people on the same page - files, links, chat/convo, tasks, dates, etc. Well, they are saying they hate face time, and hate meetings, and hate long email chains, and hate having a conference call when a link with an organized “read ahead” pack of files and notes would do. Yet people are busily adopting all kinds of “new project management” solutions like Trello and Asana, and they are busy adopting “new conversation” solutions like Slack and Google Hangouts, and they aren’t out there saying “ Hey My Topic-Based Notes and Conversations Platform is Broken!!!”
We know for sure that a dynamic, always-up-to-date, flexible and backwards-compatible way of pulling together conversations and files and tasks and especially people is part of how the world will work in the future.Īnd we also knew deeply that email and meetings and check-ins and project plans are dumber than dumb and painful and overloaded. We know for sure that the way we communicate now isn’t working and the future is knocking. We have been tinkering with the “how to get going” and “what is it for” idea a while. We opened up to some users and the users opened up Knotable. The alpha phase with Knotable has been awesome.
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