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Module 9: Perform After Award. Written explanation, fictional example, and sources.
Educational content. Follow the applicable solicitation and contract. Official sources are provided below.
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After this lesson you should be able to open the signed award, compare it with the solicitation and the bid you stored, and treat the awarded quantity, price, delivery date, and clauses as the baseline for performance. AsherGate does not issue an award and does not start performance for you.
Until an award exists, you hold a solicitation and, if you submitted one, an offer or quotation. FAR 2.101 describes a contract as a mutually binding legal relationship: the contractor must furnish the supplies or services, and the Government must pay. Contracting officers may bind the Government only to the extent of the authority delegated to them, as FAR 1.602-1 states. A SAM.gov award notice, an AsherGate analysis extract, or the bid sheet you priced is not a substitute for the signed award form.
Read the award package together: the signed Standard Form 1449, SF 26, or other award form named in the files; Section B or the commercial schedule; every modification issued with the award; and the clauses incorporated by reference. Copy the contract number, awarded CLIN quantities, unit prices, delivery or performance dates, inspection and acceptance terms, and the invoicing path from those pages. If Amendment 0001 cut quantity before award, the old bid quantity is not what you ship.
Store a copy of the signed award and its modifications in Company Documents or in the related draft so your team can find them. FAR 4.803 lists records a Government contracting office, administration office, or paying office normally keeps. That list is not an AsherGate contract-file template, and this product phase has no contract-administration module. Uploading the award PDF does not notify the agency and does not start delivery.
Using the Thistledown story below, the stored bid sheet still shows 30 ladders at $185 each. The signed SF 1449 awards CLIN 0001 as 24 each at $180.
Open the award form, copy 24 each and $180 into your own notes, and order 24. Do not treat the AsherGate extract or the old workbook as the contract. Do not submit an invoice yet.
Fictional example
Thistledown Dock Ladders LLC is a fictional marine-ladder shop in Bar Harbor, Maine. It stored fictional RFQ AG-AWD-26-0316 from a fictional Penobscot Facilities Desk for aluminum dock ladders, then submitted a quotation for 30 each at $185.
The signed SF 1449 arrives as contract AG-AWD-26-0316-C. CLIN 0001 is 24 each at $180, with delivery 45 days after the award date to the pier named in Section F. Amendment 0001 had already reduced quantity before award. A teammate almost purchases 30 ladders from the old bid workbook still sitting on the AsherGate draft.
They upload the signed SF 1449 and Amendment 0001 into Company Documents, keep 24 each and $180 from the award form, and cancel the extra purchase. They do not treat the analysis extract as the contract. They do not invoice. AsherGate does not start performance.
Each official source is listed with the teaching claim it supports. Product behavior is labeled separately. Review dates are when AsherGate last checked the page.
Acquisition.gov · Official source · Reviewed 2026-09-27
Supports: A contract is a mutually binding legal relationship obligating the seller to furnish supplies or services and the buyer to pay. A stored bid or analysis extract is not that contract.
Acquisition.gov · Official source · Reviewed 2026-09-27
Supports: Contracting officers may bind the Government only to the extent of the authority delegated to them. No contract is entered into unless the contracting officer ensures applicable requirements have been met.
Acquisition.gov · Official source · Reviewed 2026-09-27
Supports: Government contracting, administration, and paying offices keep listed records, including the signed contract or award and all modifications. That list describes Government files, not an AsherGate template.
Acquisition.gov · Official source · Reviewed 2026-09-27
Supports: Awarded supplies, quantities, prices, and delivery information live in the schedule sections of a uniform-contract-format award, which can differ from the solicitation you first stored.
AsherGate · AsherGate product · Reviewed 2026-09-27
Supports: You can store a copy of a signed award PDF in the company vault. Storing the file does not award work or start delivery.
AsherGate · AsherGate product · Reviewed 2026-09-27
Supports: Use of the platform does not submit a bid or create a contract with any government agency.