Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The groups take issue with the Pentagon’s choice to source the Encore III contract through the "lowest price, technically acceptable" ...

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) proposed to amend the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) on December 4, 2018, to limit the use of lowest price technically acceptable (LPTA) ...

When awarding a contract competitively, The Department of Defense (DOD) may use the lowest price technically acceptable (LPTA) process, under which the lowest price is the determining factor when ...

In our latest WT Insider Report, Washington Technology readers sent a very clear message -- they hate LPTA. Read more to learn why. Our latest Washington Technology Insider Report was released this ...

Lawmakers are once again looking at ways to peel back the use of lowest price technically acceptable, or LPTA, contracting decisions to enable federal agencies to spend a little more for better ...

The annual Department of Defense (DoD) authorization bill has long been used to impose government-wide procurement reforms that extend beyond the DoD. The recently enacted National Defense ...

It’s an acronym well-known across the government contracting space - LPTA, short for “Lowest Price Technically Acceptable,” as an evaluation method for cost/price proposals. In our work with ...

Gathering best practices? Here’s a worst practice: using the Defense Department’s Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) procurement approach to evaluate RFPs for systems integration, IT strategy, ...

Engility Corp. (NYSE: EGL) described to investors Thursday three third quarter contract wins and the loss of another as examples of its shift toward pursuits of larger “best-value” programs versus ...

Is the federal government moving away from lowest price, technically acceptable procurements? Contractors that are in the people business can only hope so. When I say “people” business, I mean ...

When my wife and I purchased our first vacuum cleaner, we selected a cheap model. It met all the specs of what we needed, did a minimally acceptable job and lasted little more than a year before it ...

Gathering best practices? Here’s a worst practice: using the Defense Department’s Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) procurement approach to evaluate RFPs for systems integration, IT strategy, ...