Chair, thank you very much for this question in particular.
Again, as a consultant I have no visibility to a company bid. I'm one of many that would go into an RFP, if you will.
If I could suggest, the resource bid is the resource hired. At a minimum, the resource that has bid on that RFP would be offered the first right of refusal. I can give you so many examples in which my CV was used to win business and I didn't find out until weeks later that they had either substituted an employee, a colleague or another consultant, or changed the terms and conditions. I would absolutely ask for what I call “resource bid is resource hired”. That way at least the federal government would get the resource that it is looking for, and the resource and quality it's looking for, as well as what it's paid for.