Responses_1-23.pdf

Solicitation: 15-233-SOL-00573 Legal Resources Professional Services

Questions and Answers

1. Question: There are 2 similar BPA Call Orders 1 attached in the RFQ Sections and 1 BPA Call Order in the BPA Section. Which one is the offeror supposed to follow? Is this in error?

Response: Please refer to the package that was uploaded on 8/12/15 at 3:41pm for the appropriate documents.

2. Question: Is this a new requirement or existing requirement? If existing, please provide incumbent contract #, contract value, contract period of performance and seniority of incumbent contractor employees.

Response: The current contract number is GS-10F-0135R_ HHSP233201100240G and is held by STG International Inc. The period of performance is 12/04/2011 to 09/30/2015

3. Question: Are we required to submit resume for all the Labor Categories outlines in the BPA and in the Call Order?

Response: Resumes are only to be submitted at the call order level.

4. Question: Or is the resume submission to be done at Call Order Level once the BPA is awarded to awardees?

Response: Please see the response to question #3.

5. Question: Volume I - Technical for Call Order --- Section 10.2 states 5 page limitation, whereas BPA states 20 page limitation. Please clarify the following:

• Will Resume submission be counted towards this 5 page limitation on the Call Order?

• Will the QASP counted towards this 20 page for BPA and 5 page for Call Order limitation?

• Is there a page format (Font, margin, etc.)

Response: Resume submission is not counted toward the page limitation; however, the QASP will count toward the page limit.

6. Question: Volume II - Price/Business for Cal Order --- Section 11.2.2 provides an example which has Base BPA rate, Discount %, and HHS Rate. Since the BPA Rates have not been established, how can we offer any discount for each Call Order? Is this supposed to be at Call Order Level or at BPA Level?

Response: Discounts are to be offered at the call order level.

7. Question: The proposal submission date for the BOA is August 28. The submission deadline for task order 1 under the BPA is August 21. We assume the August 21 is incorrect and should be August 28 too. Please advise.

Response: The response due date is August 28, 2015 2:00pm eastern.

8. Question: In the technical proposal (Volume I) are resumes required for all positions?

Response: Resumes are only required at the call order level.

9. Question: What is the approximate start date for task order 1?

Response: October 1, 2015.

10. Question: Do all awardees have to bid on all task orders?

Response: No, however awardees must provide a response if they do not plan on submitting a quote.

11. Question: Since per page 25 of the BPA it is stated that the frequency of ordering will be at least one order per year, does this mean that Task 1 will be the only order for the base period?

Response: No.

12. Question: Please advise the names of all incumbents currently performing this statement of work.

Response: Please see the response to question #2.

13. Question: It is unclear whether the government requires that the QASP be incorporated into the BPA response or the Call Order response – or both. Can you please ID, which of those choices are correct.

Response: The QASP is to be incorporated into the BPA response and the Call Order response.

14. Question: Section 2.4.2 of the RFQ requires Paralegal Assistants to be “certified by the National Association of Legal Assistants.” Would the government consider a work experience (e.g. x years of employment as a Paralegal Assistant in a law firm, corporate law office or law office of a government agency) as the equivalent of such certification?

Response: Yes

15. Question: Section 10.3 of the RFQ provides in pertinent part that “Past performance information shall be provided for predecessor companies, key personnel who have relevant experience or subcontractors that will perform major or critical aspects of the requirement….” Both the RFQ and the Call Order have the following provision: “The following individuals shall be considered key: To Be Addressed at the BPA Call Level,” but neither lists the Key Personnel. Does this mean that no past performance information (other than that in the required resumes) need to be supplied for any personnel?

Response: No, each of the labor categories for the call order is Key Personnel.

16. Question: Does the RFQ require all items identified in 10.2. (such as resumes, a Quality Assurance Plan, etc) to be submitted for every Call Order or only when the Call Order specifically requests items addressing but not limited to those elements identified in 10.H.?

Response: Resumes and a QASP will need to be submitted for each call order.

17. Question: Please elaborate regarding Analyst (Analyst/Paralegal) and Jr. Business Analyst labor categories in Call Order #1. Neither are identified or described in the RFQ or Call Order #1.

Response: These are the same labor categories as described in section 2.4.2 of the RFQ.

18. Question: In Call Order #1, the table in Section 1.4 identifies Secretary III twice as a Labor Category without a Legal Secretary identifier. Is that category a Legal Secretary as well? If not, there is no labor category in the RFQ or the Call Order for “Secretary III”. Please clarify which Labor Category applies.

19. Question: Does the Call order have to be priced using Service Contract Act rates and benefits? Those rates are higher than the industry standard.

20. Question: Can the Offeror submit a proposal in Times New Roman 10pt font? If not, can you please outline the Font and table/graphics requirements?

Response: Please submit in Times New Roman 12pt font.

21. Question: Is a QASP required for the BPA proposal? Section 2.5 of the BPA RFP states “The QASP will be developed by the quoter at the call order level and a final agreed upon QASP will be incorporated into the order at time of award.” If a QASP is required at the BPA level, will the government consider making it an appendix to the BPA submission and not counting against the 20 page limitation?

Response: Yes.

22. Question: Can the government please confirm file size constraints for email submissions?

Response: An attachment cannot be larger than 10MB.

23. Question: We would like to request two week extension for the RFQ response.

Response: The RFQ dude date has been extended one week to September 4, 2015 2:00 PM Eastern.