Term
Award notice
The public announcement that an agency made an award, including who won and roughly how much.
Once an agency awards a contract, it typically posts a public award notice showing who won and the award amount, separate from the individual notification you get if you were an offeror. For a business that did not win, an award notice is mainly useful as research: it tells you who you lost to, which is a starting point for a debriefing request or for tracking when that contract is due to be recompeted. It is not a debriefing and does not explain why you lost.
In a sentence
"Award has been made to the offeror identified below in the amount shown." That tells you the outcome and the winner, but if you want to know why your proposal did not win, you still have to request a debriefing separately.
Also called
- award notification
- notice of award
- contract award announcement
Terms like this show up in every federal notice. We translate them in place, on every notice in your trade.