Section L DRAFT UH-1 (series) PDM_H-60 (series) Repair DRAFT.docx

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L-1 INSTRUCTION TO OFFERORS

INFORMATION TO OFFERORS AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR PROPOSAL PREPARATION

L-1.1 General Instructions

(a) This section of the Information to Offerors provides general guidance for preparing proposals, as well as specific instructions on the format and content of the proposal. The Offeror's proposal must include all data and information requested by the RFP and must be submitted in accordance with these instructions. The offer shall be compliant with the requirements as stated in the Statement of Work (SOW). Non-conformance with the instructions provided in this Section L may result in a rejection of the offeror’s proposal or an unfavorable proposal evaluation.

(b) The proposal shall be clear, concise, and shall include sufficient detail for effective evaluation and for substantiating the validity of stated claims. The technical proposal shall be limited to 35 single sided pages in 12 pitch font, single line spaced. Offerors shall assume that the Government has no prior knowledge of their facilities and experience and will base its evaluation on the information presented in the Offeror's proposal. Elaborate brochures or documentation, bindings, detailed artwork, advertisements, or other embellishments are not desired and unnecessary.

(c) Offerors shall provide the past performance questionnaires as Attachment 2 to appropriate points of contact with a request to return completed questionnaires to the Contracting Officer at the Dept of State within 10 days of solicitation closing date.

(d) The proposal acceptance period is specified in Section A of the solicitation. The Offeror shall make a clear statement in Section A of the proposal documentation volume that the proposal is valid through this date.

(e) In accordance with FAR subpart 4.8 (Government Contract Files), the Government will retain one copy of all unsuccessful proposals. Unless the Offeror requests otherwise, the Government will destroy extra copies of such unsuccessful proposals.

L-1.2 Proposal Content Requirements

(a) FACTOR 1: Offerors shall provide documentation of Repair Station Facility Certifications that clearly state the Offeror is “Certified” for overhaul, repair, and modification of Bell/UH-1 (series) rotary wing aircraft and H-60 (series) rotary wing aircraft.

(b) FACTOR 2: Offerors shall provide a narrative and applicable documentation of Repair Station Facility experience with corporate experience in the performance of PDMs, overhauls, modifications, depot level repairs of Bell/UH-1 (series) and H-60 (series) or equivalent commercial rotary wing aircraft depot level repair capabilities.

(c) FACTOR 3: Offerors shall provide a narrative describing recent actual experience demonstrating the offeror can manage and maintain an inventory of all United States Government (USG) provided Government Furnished Property (GFP) in accordance with SOW requirements.

(d) FACTOR 4: ). Offeror shall submit a proposal with realistic labor estimates with applicable pricing including proposed a Schedule to complete this work. Provided are sample documentation lists of discrepancies (sample task orders) as ATTACHMENTs X to this RFP.

Note: Offeror shall utilize the rates and labor categories found in their proposed Labor Categories and Rate Table in response to this sample task order.

(e) FACTOR 5: Offerors shall provide a narrative and applicable documentation to demonstrate experience and expertise to comply with all International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITARs), customs clearances, and any import/export requirements.

(f) FACTOR 6: Offeror’s shall provide a narrative that addresses the SOW requirement to provide on-site technical assistance and support at both CONUS and OCONUS locations on an as needed basis engines in accordance with the requirements in this SOW.

L-2.0 Past Performance

1) The Offerors shall identify the following information based on programs similar in scope and complexity for the past three (3) years, for which the offeror served as the prime contractor. The offeror is required to submit the following information as follows:

· Customer's name, email address(s) and telephone numbers of customer's Contracting officer and technical personnel or Contracting Officer Representative (COR);

· Contract number and type (if applicable);

· Date of the contract, place(s) of performance, and delivery dates or period of performance;

· Contract size (number of personnel employed by contract year per labor category) and dollar value;

· Brief description of the work, including responsibilities;

· A comparison to the work required under this solicitation;

· Brief discussion of any technical problems and their resolutions;

· Brief discussion of all terminations (partial or complete) and the type (convenience or default) as well as any deficiency notices, show cause notices or cure notices (provide explanatory details); Offeror is required to identify is this information is applicable or not. If so, details shall be provided.

· Identify and provide specific information if an offeror has received any Letters of Concern and/or Deficiency notices.

2) Offerors shall include in Volume II of their Proposal, copies of three (3) different CPARS reports for programs similar in scope and complexity over the past three (3) years, for which the offeror served as the prime contractor.

3) Offerors with no past performance shall type “NO PAST PEFORMANCE” in Bold Letters in Volume II, Past Performance on a blank page in this volume.

L-3.0 Price Proposal

This volume shall consist of all information, required to support prices. There are no page limitations to this volume. Certified cost and pricing data is not currently required; however, the Government reserves the right to request such data prior to award.

1. The total evaluated price is the cumulative total of the base year plus all option years for the total estimated projection of Bell/UH-1 (series) PDM aircraft and H-60 (series) Repair aircraft as noted in the SOW and the sum of the two sample task order total prices. The “total evaluated price” will not include the six (6) month option year extension clause. The Government will use the price analysis technique stipulated in FAR 15.404 to support the selection of the lowest priced, technically acceptable offeror and to ensure the overall price is fair and reasonable.

2. Offerors shall fill in the proposed UH-1PDM_H-60 Repair Labor Categories & Rates Table (Attachment x). These proposed rates shall be used in the pricing of both sample task orders and will be utilized for the performance of any task orders issued under the resulting IDIQ contract.

3. The offeror shall submit a detailed price narrative supporting each price/cost proposed and the narrative must provide a thorough explanation and rationale for all proposed prices.

4. Failure to explicitly state cost/price assumptions in Volume III, Cost/Price proposal may result in removal from the competition.