Term
Recompete
A contract coming back around for a fresh competition as its current term runs out.
Contracts end, and the work usually does not. When a contract's term winds down, the agency runs the competition again, and that rerun is the recompete. Because award records are public, you can see when contracts in your trade were awarded and roughly when they will come around again, which makes recompetes the most predictable opportunities in the entire system.
In a sentence
"This is a recompete of the facilities support contract awarded in 2021." The incumbent is warmed up; everyone else has been able to see this coming for months.
Also called
- recompetition
- follow-on
Terms like this show up in every federal notice. We translate them in place, on every notice in your trade.