Award Section (Completed by the Government)

When filing out Standard Form 30 in order to satisfy an Invitation For Bid (IFB), the third section is filled out by the government.

After you fill in Block 18, you have completed your portion of Form 33. If you see the SF 33 coming back in the mail with the Award section filled in by the government, guess what? You won the contract! You are now a prime contractor!

Among the Business Tools are Standard Form 33 and Standard Form 26. They are in Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf), and you will need the free Acrobat Reader to view and print the file.

Block 19: Accepted as to Items Numbered: Government will identify which specific items have been awarded to you.

Block 20: Amount: This is the dollar amount of the contract. The cash!

Block 21: Accounting and Appropriation: The government will fill in the appropriate accounting and appropriation codes. (In general, you don't have to concern yourself with this information.)

Block 22: Authority for Using Other Than Full and Open Competition: This field is informational only.

Block 23: Submit Invoice to Address Shown in: The government will tell you where to look in the contract for the appropriate address.

Block 24: Administered By: This is the office that will administer the contract. Note that the office listed here may be different than the one putting out the bid.

Block 25: Payment Will Be Made By: This is the paying office, the office from which you will receive your money.

Block 26: Name of the Contracting Officer: The name of the Contracting Officer is typed here. You will see this person's name only if you win the contract.

Block 27: United States of America: This is the block where the Contracting Officer will sign that you have an active, actual, real government contract.

Block 28: Award Date: This is the date the government contracting officer signs the award.

Work Smart The award can be made on the SF 33; on another form, such as the SF 26; or by any other authorized official written notice. Be watching for it, check on who won, for how much, and what the details of the award were. Ask questions . . . that's how you find out what you did right or wrong. There are two ways to do this: Either call the buyer and ask for the information or get award notices from the BidNet site.