Are you on the level?

Gee yet another FAR Subpart that no one in Government seems to care about enforcing (YET)! Do you guys know the story of the Little Red Hen?

Technical Leveling is regulated by FAR 15.610(d).

FAR 15.610(d)

The contracting officer and other Government personnel involved shall not engage in technical leveling (i.e., helping an offeror to bring its proposal up to the level of other proposals through successive rounds of discussion, such as by pointing out weaknesses resulting from the offeror's lack of diligence, competence, or inventiveness in preparing the proposal).

This note on Technical Leveling was posted by The U.S. Department of Commerce on August 30, 1989.