OAR 137-049-0645: Requests for Qualifications

As provided by ORS 279C.405(1), Contracting Agencies may utilize a Request for Qualifications (“RFQ”) to obtain information useful in the preparation or distribution of a Request for Proposals (“RFP”). When using an RFQ as the first step in a two-step solicitation process, in which distribution of the RFPs will be limited to the firms identified as most qualified through their submitted statements of qualification, Contracting Agencies shall first advertise and provide notice of the RFQ in the same manner in which RFPs are advertised, specifically stating that RFPs will be distributed only to the firms selected in the RFQ process. In such cases the Contracting Agencies shall also provide within the RFQ a protest provision substantially in the form of OAR 137-049-0450(5) regarding protests of the Competitive Range. Thereafter, contracting agencies may distribute RFPs to the selected firms without further advertisement of the solicitation.