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 ...

As I’ve covered here before, low-priced, technically acceptable procurements (LPTA) shine a light on a contractor’s ability to provide the required services at the lowest possible cost to the ...

Government contractors have criticized lowest-priced technically acceptable (“LPTA”) procurements since LPTA was first introduced as a source selection method. In an LPTA procurement, all offerors ...

Lowest price technically acceptable (LPTA) procurement might not give government the best solutions, and it definitely causes consternation for industry, but it is here to stay at least for a while. A ...

The comments following our new WT Insider Report on LPTA contracting support the conclusion that it is a nearly universally-hated procurement practice. We’re getting several reader comments on our ...

BSA/The Software Alliance supports a move in Congress to limit use of "lowest price technically acceptable" standards in federal IT contracting. Software Development A trade group backed by Microsoft, ...

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 ...

The Government Accountability Office has denied Verizon’s protest of the use of lowest price, technically acceptable (LPTA) source selection for telecommunications services under the $50 billion ...

Summary: Rebecca M. Cowen-Hirsch, Inmarsat's SVP, Government Strategy and Policy, U.S. Government, on why the LPTA acquisition approach is not the right fit for SATCOM In this era of restrained ...

Defense Systems reports that the Air Force has requested white papers for the development of a command and control capability that could orchestrate Moving Target Defense across the entire enterprise.

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 ...