2024-1600-0249 --1624-020 RFP - Amendment #8.pdf

STATE OF ALASKA

Department of Health Division of Finance and Management Services

State of Alaska National Electronic Disease Surveillance System Base System (NBS) Interface, Application, and Development Support

RFP 2024-1600-0249/1624-020

Amendment No. Eight

December 13, 2024

This amendment is being issued to extend the deadline for receipt of proposals, correct an administrative error/omission, and clarify previous amendment verbiage.

Important Note to Offerors: You must sign and return only this page of the amendment document with your proposal. Failure to do so may result in the rejection of your proposal. Only the RFP terms and conditions referenced in this amendment are being changed. All other terms and conditions of the RFP remain the same.

Anneliese Zlitni, Procurement Officer

COMPANY SUBMITTING PROPOSAL

Email: anneliese.zlitni@alaska.gov

AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE

DATE

CHANGE TO RFP:

Change: The following section is updated:

SEC. 1.11 RFP SCHEDULE

The RFP schedule set out herein represents the State’s best estimate of the schedule that will be followed. If a component of this schedule, such as the deadline for receipt of proposals, is delayed, the rest of the schedule may be shifted accordingly. All times are Alaska Standard Time.

ACTIVITY TIME DATE

RFP Released Thursday, October 17, 2024 Question Deadline 12:00 p.m. AKST Friday, December 20, 2024 Proposal Due Date 2:00 p.m. AKST Monday, December 30, 2024 Proposal Evaluations Complete Monday, January 13, 2025 Notice of Intent to Award Thursday, January 16, 2025 Contract Issued Monday, January 27, 2025

CHANGE TO RFP ATTACHMENT

Change: The following attachment is revised:

ATTACHMENT 1 – 2024-1600-0249/SUBMITTAL FORMS A-G, SUBMITTAL FORM F – MANDATORY

REQUIREMENTS: To correct an administrative error/omission, note that the Explanation section at the bottom of this submission form contains five lines for explanations. As there are eight Mandatory Requirements, and therefore eight Explanations are required, this bottom section has been expanded to include eight lines.

Note that the copy of Submittal Form F with the administrative error/omission has been replaced with an updated version. The updated version referenced here (A1- 2024-1600-0249-1624-020 Submittal Forms A-G Revised for Amendment 8.docx) must be the version utilized in submitted proposals.

CLARIFICATION OF PREVIOUS RFP AMENDMENT VERBIAGE

Clarification:

REFERENCE AMENDMENT 5, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2 AND 5

Clarification: Offerors must include proposed costs for all deliverables. Depending on the availability of the CDC cloud pilot, the hosting component of the proposal (Deliverable 5 – Hosting Infrastructure and Platform Management) may not be needed/awarded.

Reference RFP Section 1.12 – Alternate Proposals, “Offerors may only submit one proposal for evaluation. In accordance with 2 AAC 12.830 alternate proposals (proposals that offer something different than what is asked for) will be rejected.

End of Amendment