GAO_Offeror Questions_responses-5-15-20.pdf

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1.1 Addenda to 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial

3 Please confirm that the submission of the vendor response needs to be via email to the contacts listed in the RFP (or some other method)

The submission of vendor proposals do need to be submitted to the Primary Point of Contract as stated in the Contact Information Section of the Solicitation. The RFP will be updated to confirm this.

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1.1 Addenda to 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial

3 Should all the electronic (technical, past performance, price) sections/documents singed according to 52.212-1?

No the sections/documents do not need to be physically signed. The E-mail time stamp will suffice for electronic proposals submitted.

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1.1 Addenda to 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial

3 Should the offeror submit any other documents or forms (in addition to the 3 sections) as part of the submission on 05/19?

Example shoud the Form SF1449 be submitted on 05/19?

No. Offerors do not need to submit any other documents or forms as part of submission on 05/19/20.

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3.2 Section 2 Past Performance

Proposal

Please advise on if there is a page count limit on the Past Performance Section

The past performance page count limit is limited to three pages total.

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1.1 Addenda to 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Section 3.0 Proposal Organization

3 & 6 Section 1.1 and on the first paragraph of Section 3 requests submission of the 3 sections (of a document/file), while at the end of Section 3 it clearly asks for 3 separate files. Please confirm that each section (Technical, Past Performance & Pricing) need to be submited in a separate file (total 3 files)

Please have the Technical, Past Performance & Pricing broken out into three different files when submitting your proposal. Instructions shall be updated. The RFP will be updated to reflect this.

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7.0 Attachments/Statement of Work

- All Features

11, 14 The SOW (and schedule) s describes features for the data platform but does not makes a reference to services. Since the vendor will need to provide this is a service, is it assumed that, migration of data, deploying the solution and maintaining of the solution, will be part of the service? If yes does DoC have a preferred way to enter this in the pricing? or just include it in the fees for the SaaS?

We are seeking a suscription to an existing data service available through the internet not development of a new product or service.

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7.0 Attachments/Statement of Work

- All Features

11 Does DOC have Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements on the platform services availability and if they need to be 24/7 or 8/5?.

We are seeking a suscription to an existing data service available through the internet not development of a new product or service.

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7.0 Attachments/Statement of Work

- All Features

11 Has DOC defined the “Recovery Time Objectives” and “Recover Point Objectives” for the data platform availability and restoration for the business requirements?

We are seeking a suscription to an existing data service available through the internet not development of a new product or service.

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7.0 Attachments/Statement of Work

- Extensive Dashboard & Direct Power Bi

11, 12 Since DOC is already levereging PowerBI for the Visualization layer (Reports and Dashboards),is it acceptable to leverage existing PowerBI licenses? how many current Power BI licenses are owned or is there an existing Enterprise Licensing Agreement (ELA) that can be used for this engagement to save the Department of Commerce GAO tax payer money?

We are seeking a suscription to an existing data service available through the internet not development of a new product or service.

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7.0 Attachments/Statement of Work

- All Features

11 Is it expected that all GOA data will be ingested on the new Data Platform such as reports, testimonies, Protests, appropriations, key issues etc.? Please elaborate on the type

We are seeking a suscription to an existing data service available through the internet not development of a new product or service.

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7.0 Attachments/Statement of Work

- All Features

11 If known, what is the current size of the data to be ingested from GOA? Does GAO have an Rest API?

We are seeking a suscription to an existing data service available through the internet not development of a new product or service.

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7.0 Attachments/Statement of Work

- All Features

11 What is the currrent number of users that the Data Platform will serve?

We are seeking a suscription to an existing data service available through the internet not development of a new product or service.

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7.0 Attachments/Statement of Work

- Daily Reconcilition

12 Please elaborate on the requirement for "always current" data. Is it acceptable that the new GAO Data Platform have data up to 24 hours old least a day or data should be pulled in from GAO.gov site mutliple times per day? What is the sychronization expected?

Once per day is sufficient.

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7.0 Attachments/Statement of Work

- All Features

11 The Scope section says that the platform will leverage public data from GAO - what public data is expected to be included as part of the initial rollout.

We are seeking a suscription to an existing data service available through the internet not development of a new product or service.

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7.0 Attachments/Statement of Work

- All Features

11 It states that "The basic data that is mined from gao.gov is enriched to include key supplemental data points extracted from the associated report

PDF

files. These include the GAO job codes which are very helpful to agency staff working internally over the multi-year process of implementing recommendations" - can examples of the associated report pdf's be provided.

We are seeking a suscription to an existing data service available through the internet not development of a new product or service.

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7.0 Attachments/Statement of Work

- All Features

13 Can the standard compliance events and schedule be shared? We are seeking a suscription to an existing data service available through the internet not development of a new product or service.

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7.0 Attachments/Statement of Work

- Compliance Calendar

13 Will you require emails and calendar invites to be automatically sent based on data triggers (or otherwise)?

We are seeking a suscription to an existing data service available through the internet not development of a new product or service.

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7.0 Attachments/Statement of Work

- All Features

13 What data synchronization and also ETL tools is DoC currently using?

We are seeking a suscription to an existing data service available through the internet not development of a new product or service.

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