MTY_QA 19MX56-24-Q-0012 Daily News summary report services.docx

Daily News summary report- Services

(RFQ: 19MX5624Q0012)

Questions and Answers The following questions were asked by interested quoters either in person during the pre-proposal conference / site visit or submitted electronically at the e-mail address specified in the solicitation. The contracting officer has provided answers to these questions, making them available to all quoters by posting this document on the Monterrey Contract and Procurement Opportunities public website.

Quoters are reminded that nothing in this document, including responses to questions, should be considered, or construed as a change to the solicitation. Any changes to the solicitation, if found to be necessary, will be communicated by issuance of a written amendment.

Quotations are due at 15:00 local time on September 6th 2024.

Question 1 Q: What does “LPTA” means?

A: “LPTA” stands for Lowest price technically acceptable.

Please refer to FAR 15.101-2 for more details https://www.acquisition.gov/far/15.101-2

Question 2 Q: At the top of the monitoring summary, shall we place the most impactful news from the 5 states, is that correct?

A= The top of the summary must display the most important 3 - 4 news from the Northeastern Region (NER).

Question 3 Q: Will the quote be presented in currency US Dollars or Mexican pesos?

A: Contractors can present a proposal in foreign currencies, please refer to 52.225-17 EVALUATION OF FOREIGN CURRENCY OFFERS;

Example to be considered, if a Mexican vendor, wants to submit a proposal in USD currency, they must have a US dollar account from a Mexican bank.

Question 4 Q: What is the proposal Deadline?

A: Deadline to submit a proposal is September 6th 2024 15:00 hrs. Your quotation must be submitted electronically to MTYProcurement@state.gov . It is important to make sure the submission is made in specific size and format; in MS-Word 2007/2010 or MS-Excel 2007/2010 or Adobe Acrobat (pdf) file format. The file size must not exceed 30MB. If the file size should exceed the 30MB, the submission must be made in separate files and attached to separate emails with less than 30MB each.

Question 5 Q: The most relevant topics for each of the 5 states would have to listed in the daily summary?

A: the summary can present joint topics for the 5 states unless these are totally different topics, Please refer to RFQ Scope :

TOPICS

The selected topics to monitor are:

· Monterrey U.S. Consul General

· U.S. Government officials conducting activities in NER

· Immigration in the NER

· Bilateral Trade in NER

· Mexico NER Environmental issues in the relationship with the United States

· Security, drug trade, organized crime in NER

· Mexican military and police actions in NER

· U.S.- Mexico NER border

· U.S. Citizens in NER

· Bilateral educational programs between the U.S. and Mexico NER

· Human Rights in Mexico NER

· Protection of journalists in Mexico NER/press freedom/dangers to journalists.

· Relevant political, economic and social events in NER

· Coverage of visits to Mexico NER by high-level U.S. officials

· Gossip columns concerning Mexican politics or US-Mexican relations in NER

· “U.S. soft power-related issues” (culinary, sports, exchanges, arts) in NER

· Editorials and op-eds (columns) on above subjects featured by regional NER influencers and coverage/reaction to U.S. Consulate activities in the region

Question 6 Q: Would you like for us to add the links from the original new post?

A: Please refer to RFQ page 6 – Guidelines *The articles in the summary must include the internet link to the full-text of each referred news piece.

Question 7 Q: A monthly report can present the most impactful news; would you like to see this report resumed?

A: Please refer to RFQ page 6 , Tentative -- Vendor will provide a monthly report of related-topics reported in mainstream NER Mexican media

Question 8 Q: A Word document or PDF file of the news monitoring shall be included (the same as the one that goes to the body of the email?

A: Please refer to RFQ page 6 Format of summaries should include text for Smartphone and a Word or PDF document as attachment.

Question 9 Q: Can you confirm that this service shall be sent daily- 7 days a week?

A: Please refer to RFQ page 6 –

SCOPE

Service: Daily.

Question 10 Q: On page 8 under Pricing it has a line on location of janitorial services, I assume that's an error??

A: Yes that was included by error- please disregard from RFQ, it’s now updated.

Question 11 Q : Can international and/or U.S.-based companies submit proposals in USD? Bidders should clearly identify the currency used in their bid.

A: Yes.

Question 12 Q : Is this the first time this project is running?

A: No.

Question 13 Q : Can you share the expected word count or page length of the daily product??

A: There is no expected word count.

Question 14 Q : Is there an expected number of individuals to be performing the work in this contract?

A: Each company should revise their staff needs. Please refer to RFQ page 6, Guidelines for this solicitation.

Question 15 Q : How many individuals are currently performing the work?

A: Each company should revise their staff needs. Please refer to RFQ page 6, Guidelines for this solicitation.

Question 16 Q : Does the location of individuals performing the work matter? Can they be located outside of Mexico?

A: There are no Location restrictions, please note that the “Daily summary reports” to be technically acceptable a bid must meet all specification stated in the Scope section in the RFQ, please refer to RFQ page 6/7 Guidelines and topics.

Question 17 Q : What is the expected maximum contract value?

A: Each participant should calculate their bid based on their expected costs and a reasonable profit. Bidders should include the price for the base year and four option years. The consulate will select the lowest technically acceptable bid. (Please refer to RFQ page 31 Section 4- Evaluation factors).

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