Attachment 9 Q and A.pdf

1. Attachment 4. Pricing Schedule. Item #1. Occ Health & Independent Exams

Is USDA able to provide a breakdown of the anticipated quantity of Occ Health exams vs the number of Independent Medical Exams?

I don’t believe we can do so accurately. This will be a direct function of supervisory workplace evaluations, via risk assessments, and Job Hazard Analysis.

To what extent if any will specialty exams be billed through insurance?

None of these exams, if work related, should be performed by the employee’s insurance.

2. Attachment 4. Pricing Schedule. Item #2. PNR Quality Specialist

Please define “PNR”

Provider Network Relations Quality Specialist.

3. Attachment 4. Pricing Schedule. Item #3. Operations Assistant Manager

Please clarify if this line item is for an hourly rate for the key personnel position PWS J. Key Personnel: ii. Program Management Assistant – Operations Supervisor

It should be an hourly billable rate.

4. Attachment 4. Pricing Schedule. Item #5. Reviewing Medical O icer

Please clarify if this line item is for an hourly rate for the key personnel position PWS J. Key Personnel: iv. Physician – Medical Case Review

It should be an hourly billable rate.

5. Attachment 4. Pricing Schedule. Item #6. Travel

Please:

- Provide su icient information to support development of estimated costs for the travel requirements

- Provide a “plug” number for all o erors, or

- Define this as an Other Direct Cost that does not currently need to be completed by o erors that is included in the price evaluation

There should be no travel costs for the medical providers. We will be sending employees to a designated clinic. When BARC re-establishes an on-sight facility for the clinic, contactor employees who work at this clinic should be assigned there as their place of duty. Not as a temporary duty. They should not be on any kind of travel status.

6. PWS. 2. Background, "and medical sta reporting onsite on the Beltsville Maryland

Campus no less than 16 hours per work week."

Please clarify whether this activity is in scope If so, please define the required personnel and what Pricing Schedule Item # is to be used to provide pricing

This will not be special pricing. This is to be the duty station of the contractor medical sta during our desired operational week of 16hrs. per week.

7. PWS. Task 4: Independent Medical Reviews and Task 5: Medical Case Reviews

For the case review process, can the reviewing contractor medical o icer provide the specialty referral or do referrals have to be approved by USDA?

If special referrals need to be made, they must be work related. BARC ARS employee management will need to approve such referrals.

8. Is this a new requirement or a recompete? If this is a recompete, could you please provide the incumbent details, including pricing?

New Requirement.

9. Could you please consider extending the due date by a week?

Extension granted on Amend 0002, new due date is 18 September 2024 at 12:00 PM

EST.

10. What do you value most in a collaboration with vendors?

Timely reporting of services rendered and associated costs.

11. Could you please clarify what needs to be provided in the proposal response? Are we required to prepare our response in line with the evaluation criteria?

Use the Price Schedule to provide proposal.

12. Are we required to submit resumes for the key personnel with our proposal?

No, not required.

13. How many past performance references are we required to submit with our proposal? Are commercial references acceptable?

There is no set limit, and yes you can provide commercial references.