B09_SA_Att_F-Questions_and_Answer_Form_Final_0001.pdf

Question # Offeror Question Answer

For purposes of the Corporate Experience subfactor, may the Government consider relevant corporate experience of a proposed teaming partner or subcontractor that will perform a material portion of the requirement, or will Corporate Experience be evaluated solely based on the prime Offeror?

For the Corporate Experience subfactor, the Government may consider the relevant corporate experience of a proposed teaming partner or subcontractor that will perform a material portion of the requirement. It is up to the offeror to explain how the subcontractor's Corporate Experience is applicable to their role in the fulfilling the requirements.

2 Under Section M, are the three Technical subfactors—Technical Approach, Corporate Experience, and Management Plan—of equal importance, or are they listed in descending order of importance?

Under Section M, the three Technical subfactors of Technical Approach, Corporate Experience, and Management Plan are all of equal importance. They are not listed in descending order of importance as each subfactor carries the same weight in the Government’s evaluation.

For invoicing purposes, may the Contractor invoice monthly for completed and accepted comparables delivered during that billing period, or must an entire regional survey or deliverable set be completed and accepted before invoicing?

The offeror may propose a deliverable/payment approach. Invoices will be tied to accepted survey region deliverable.

For Attachment E data elements not marked “Reqd,” and for fields with stated default values, must the Contractor independently verify and populate each applicable field when information is available, or are the stated defaults acceptable when information cannot be verified from reliable sources?

Attachment E does not reference any elements that are marked required. Please refer to Section C and Attachment E.

Please confirm the intended regional applicability of the optional increment CLINs in Attachment G, as certain optional-increment descriptions appear to reference regions associated with different performance periods.

The optional‑increment CLINs in Attachment G are designed to support additional survey work if needed. As described in the solicitation, DOI surveys different regions in different years based on the recurring regional survey cycle. Therefore, the optional‑increment CLINs allow the Government to order optional survey increments associated with the region(s) applicable to that given performance year, should additional data collection be required.

Each region is surveyed in its designated year, and the optional CLINs simply provide the Government the flexibility to obtain optional survey increments for those regions if circumstances warrant it.

Please confirm the controlling proposal due date. SF 1449 Block 8 shows October 17, 2026 at 1:00 PM, while the continuation text on page 2 states that responses must be received by 1:00 PM ET on October 16, 2026.

The due date is October 17, 2026 at 1:00 PM.