H3_Q_A_0004.pdf

Document/Section Page Solicitation

Language

Question Response

E/Project

Proposal Our understanding is that Document E/Project Proposal would be the cost for the RSIL lab only. Please confirm.

Correct, the government is assessing your cost proposal for implementing in the RSIL as part of the price evaluation factors.

F/Labor

Category

Worksheet

Is this 10-year cost intended to be for all four laboratories? Or should four copies of Attachment F be completed for each of the four laboratories?

The 10-year cost of labor categories is for the IDIQ contract and represents all work to be done for the initial implementation of the 4 laboratories and any additional laboratories to be onboarded within the 10-year timeframe of the IDIQ contract.

G/Licensing

Worksheet Is USGS considering that there would be additional implementation fees for adding laboratories in the future? Should a row be added to the worksheet to account for implementation of additional laboratories?

The government is unclear what you mean by an implementation fee. The government anticipates additional labs for onboarding (Page 9, Table 1-2). The government anticipates additional task orders may be awarded for work related to onboarding additional labs pending available funding. Offerors are strongly encouraged to list any fees and descriptions in the licensing sheet.

G/Licensing

Worksheet Please add more detail around what is meant by Single

User License. Is USGS referring to field users?

Please confirm that you are wanting concurrent user pricing and not “named-user” pricing.

The government is trying to understand the offerors licensing model structure. If it is named-user, then the government needs to know if viewing sample information requires a license as this affects approximately 1500 field users. The government would prefer unlimited users based upon a good value for the price. The government does have approximately 100 lab users, but not all need to be in LIMS at the same time, so a concurrent user license model is reasonable depending upon the price. The government wants the offeror to propose the best value model based upon total number of users and expected concurrent usage.

G/Licensing

Worksheet Should vendors use 50 as the number of concurrent user licenses for all 10 years or does USGS anticipate the number of users to change?

The 50 number is the current concurrent usage for

NWQL which includes both lab and field users. Adding additional labs in future years may require looking at any issues surrounding ability to login to LIMS because of licensing restrictions.

RFP

140G0223R00

Pg 9 What are the monthly test volumes in the individual 4

Labs?

See below. Varies by month

Reston

Groundwater

Dating

Laboratory

What instruments are in the RGDL lab? The Groundwater Dating Lab (GwDL) equipment is listed below:

• 2x Shimadzu GC-8 GC-ECD with

Peaksimple

• 1x Shimadzu GC-2010 GC-ECD with

Peaksimple

• 2x Agilent 7890B GC TCD/FID System with OpenChrome CDS

Menlo Park

Tritium

Laboratory

What instruments are in the Menloe Park Tritium Lab? The Menlo Park Tritium Lab equipment is listed below:

• 1x Perkin Elmer Tricarbon Liquid

Scintillation Counter

• 2x Perkin Elmer Quantulus GCT Liquid

Scintillation Counter

A/Requiremen ts/ 5.17

Infrastructure, Implementatio n and Support

Requirements

25 Is it acceptable for vendors to insert a row underneath each question to provide the requested additional information?

Yes, that is acceptable or reference in another responding attachment.

Sol_140G0223

R0001/Factor

F Project

Management

Plan

Is one project plan for RSIL required for Factor F? Or is

USGS requiring two project plans, one for RSIL and another for the remaining three labs?

The one project plan evaluated in Factor F is for the implementation in the 4 labs identified in the SOW. As part of the project management plan, the Offeror’s overall system architecture will be evaluated on efficiency, scalability, and compatibility with existing systems in the USGS WMA which includes Reston

Stable Isotope Lab, Menlo Park Tritium Lab, Groundwater Dating, and the National Water Quality

Lab.

NWQL Monthly Samples (2022 representing “normal”)

Samples received in 2022:

In-House Contract Total

Jan 1703 726 2429

Feb 1961 119 2080

March 2409 863 3272

April 2736 521 3257

May 3217 398 3615

June 3689 544 4233

July 3380 686 4066

August 4269 807 5076

Sept 3627 1157 4784

Oct 2803 125 2928

Nov 2319 707 3026

Dec 2212 1076 3288

Total: 34325 7729 42054

RSIL, GwDL, MPTL Monthly samples

Month GwDL RSIL MPTL

Jan 13 260 26

Feb 36 513 40

Mar 22 428 57

Apr 27 460 70

May 162 301 102

Jun 17 519 48

Jul 54 848 79

Aug 151 577 141

Sep 121 625 21

Oct 10 551 46

Nov 25 381 20

Dec 51 680 62

DO NOT USE BELOW THIS LINE

NWQL

GwDL Monthly Samples

RSIL Monthly samples