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American Embassy Kabul GSO Procurement Great Massoud Road –Kabul, Afghanistan

Date: 05-June-2018 Questions and Answers (Q&A)

With reference to the subject solicitation, the Government has received below questions during the solicitation posting period from various offerors. The answers to all these questions are provided below and are posted publicly for information of all bidders interested to bid on this requirement. The offerors should familiarize themselves with the information provided and submit their offer accordingly.

Question 1: What type of insurance do we have to provide for this contract?

Especially for personal injury and property loss or damage (liability)?

Answer: Please reference point number 11. INSURANCE, Section 1 the Schedule of the solicitation.

Question 2: What is bonding requirement?

Answer: Please reference point number 12. Bonding of Employees, Section 1 the Schedule of the solicitation.

Question 3: Can you please explain the word “container”? Is it a wooden container the contractor has to furnish for the crating of the materials or it’s the regular shipment container?

Answer: There are various references to containers throughout the solicitation, please reference the “CONTAINER SPECIFICATION” Attachment 2, Packing Specifications of the solicitation.

Question 4: Roughly can you please tell us how many employees are required under this contract or how many packing crew are needed per team?

Answer: The Contractor shall determine the amount of employees needed to efficiently and safely perform the duties as directed under the potential contract.

Question 5: What if an offeror does not have relevant past performance; can they still bid on this contract and submit their offer?

Answer: Yes

Question 6: Do we need to also submit a technical proposal as well or just the cost proposal?

Answer: Yes please see Section 3 Solicitation Provisions of the solicitation.

Question 7: Please refer to the evaluation sub factors noted in Section 4 of the solicitation

Answer: The contractor/offeror needs to provide adequate information so as the U.S. Government can determine that the offeror has the capacity and capability to perform the work.

Question 8: Do we need to submit a work plan, list of our equipment, and quality control plan along with our proposal?

Answer: Yes, please reference (6) Section 3 solicitation provisions, the offeror’s strategic plan for packing, crating and shipping services.

Question 9: Do we need to submit a recruitment plan along with our proposal or no? We do not intend in hiring a third country national

Answer: Only Submit a recruitment plan if you will require the recruitment of non-professional third country nationals as per RECRUITMENT OF THIRD COUNTRY NATIONALS FOR PERFORMANCE ON DEPARTMENT OF STATE CONTRACTS, Section 3 Solicitation Provisions.

Question 10: Do we have to separately price for DBA insurance or we have to include the DBA insurance price in our total cost?

Answer: Please include a separate price for the DBA insurance, the DBA insurance will not be a determining factor in awarding the contract to the potential vendor and is not evaluated as part of the pricing schedule.

Question 11: Is the contractor required to provide a warehouse for the storage of the US government equipment's and materials? If yes, how many square feet does the warehouse have to be?

Answer: Yes please reference (8) Section 3 solicitation provisions.

Description of warehouse including safety features where shipments may be stored.

The offeror should be able to provide sufficient warehouse storage space to fulfil the needs for warehouse storage under the proposed contract.

Question 12: How many vehicles are needed under this contract?

Answer: This is the decision of the offeror, the Contractor shall provide all vehicles necessary for the performance of this contract.

Question 13: Would you please provide insight regarding the scale and magnitude of the job, frequencies of packing and nature of cargos (large, small)?

Answer: Annual shipping estimates are listed in Section 1 the pricing schedule however these are estimated shipping volumes only, the U.S. Government guarantees a minimum order of USD 10,000.00 per year.

Question 14: Do the material/products under this contract include hazardous items.

Answer: No, Please see Point number 5. PROHIBITED ITEMS, Attachment 2, Packing Specifications.

Question 15: Would the shipping occur only inside Afghanistan or it may also include shipping internationally?

Answer: The majority of shipping will be to international destinations.

Question 16: Will the Embassy of the United States in Kabul provide facility for Packing and Crating, or the contractors have to provide facility for the services?

Answer: No, the Offeror provide the facility for packing and crating.

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