Artificial Questions on Federal Solicitations

You probably know that federal solicitations require a question and answer period.  This is the time when industry can submit questions to the government about the opportunity and RFP.  Answers to all questions are published for all interested parties to see, usually in the form of an RFP amendment.

What you may not know is that government officials will often insert their own dummy questions into the list so that they can then answer them and add information to the RFP that they may have left out the first time around.  Because questions are anonymous when the answers are posted, industry never knows the difference.

This peek behind the curtain came to us by way of a small business official at a large federal agency.  And while we have suspected the government of all sorts of behind-the-scenes tricks in solicitations, this one never occurred to us.

If you have a Q&A you think was created by the government, send it along and we will publish it here.