WWPP - Request for Clarifications-Questions-Answers.xlsx
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- Solicitation number
- 2031ZA26R00023
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This is a Questions and Answers document for RFQ 2031ZA26Q00023 addressing clarifications on proposal submission requirements, staffing plans, key personnel resumes, formatting standards, and pricing for the Wastewater Pretreatment Plant (WWPP) Operation and Maintenance Services contract with the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
The document clarifies critical submission requirements across multiple areas. For staffing, offerors must submit a separate Staffing Plan attachment (marked CUI) in addition to the Volume I staffing plan sub-factor, with resumes and certifications required only for designated key personnel: Program Manager, Plant Manager, Assistant Plant Manager, Maintenance Manager, Laboratory Technician, Maintenance Technician, Office Automation Assistant, Supervisor Operator, and Operator. One resume per key role is required, with multiple resumes submitted if multiple individuals staff a single role to avoid double shifts. Technical proposals may extend to 30 pages and may include tables, graphics, and charts no smaller than 8-point font at the offeror's discretion. For key personnel resumes, experience history may exceed the 15-year recency requirement if compounded and relevant. Pricing must be submitted using the Excel Attachment B Pricing Sheet with monthly unit prices by labor category; contractors invoice monthly rather than hourly. Past Performance information should identify the agency that owns the contract as the "owner." The government corrected a typo in the Program Manager role description and confirmed removal of SF1449 Section B from Amendment 1, with all pricing data submitted exclusively through the revised Excel workbook that includes separate worksheets for the base period and 6-month option to extend.
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| RFQ 2031ZA26Q00023 - WWPP - Request for Clarifications (Questions & Answers) | ||
| Questions | Government Responses | |
| 1. Attachment 28/Attachment 3 -Staffing Plan Page1 - The instructions in the attachment instruct offerors to mark the document as CUI once completed. Can the government please confirm proper handling and submission process for CUI documents for this proposal? | Please submit with Volumn I - Technical Proposal. There is no special submission process. | |
| 2. Attachment 28/Attachment 3 -Staffing Plan Page1 - Can the government please confirm that that Staffing Plan attachment is a separate proposal deliverable from the requirement for a staffing plan in Volume I, Sub-factor 1.2 Staffing Plan? | Yes, the staffing plan attachment is a separate proposal deliverable from the requirement for a staffing planin Volume I, Sub-factor 1.2 Staffing Plan. | |
| 3. Am 2 Solicitation – 8.0, Subfactor 1.2 Page 4 - Requirement: Resumes, certifications should be provided for and required designated key personnel. | ||
| Question: Can the government please confirm that resumes and certifications are a proposal submission requirement only for designated key personnel? | Yes, resumes and certifications are a proposal submission requirement only for key personnel. | |
| 4. Am 2 Solicitation – 8.0, Subfactor 1.2 Page 4 - Can the government confirm that only one candidate resume from LCATs with multiple LOE (i.e Supervisor/operator, operator, lab tech) is needed for submission of Key Personnel Requirements? | Please submit a resume for each key role. For roles that require more than one individual be staffed, ensure the number of resumes submitted meet the PWS Workforce and Personnel. We want to avoid PWS Double Shifts. | |
| 5. Am 2 Solicitation – 8.0, Subfactor 1.2 Page 4 - Can the government please provide a list of the number of required Key personnel resumes? | Key Personnel: Program Manager, Plant Manager, Assistant Plant Manager, Maintenance Manager, Laboratory Technician, Maintenance Technician, Office Automation Assistant, Supervisor Operator, and Operator. | |
| 6. Am 2 Solicitation – 7.0 Page 3 - Can the government please confirm that tables, graphics, and charts are permitted to be not less than 8-pt font size? | Letter size and spacing requirements for illustrations, tables, graphics, and charts can be at the discretion of the Offeror but cannot be smaller than 8-pt font, and must be easily readable. | |
| 7. PWS Section 4.10.1.1 Page 35 - May offerors still include additional experience for the key personnel resumes beyond 15 years for the purpose of showing total employment history, as long as relevancy is otherwise proven within the 15 year recency limit? | Yes, resume history may show greater than 15 years if the expereince is compounded and relavent, and not a sigular point. | |
| 8. PWS Section 4.10.1.1 Page 35 - The description for Program Manager states “the individual performing the plant manager role…” Can the government please confirm this is meant to say program manager, and the requirements that follow it are accurate for the program manager role? | Yes, typo has been fixed. The requirments under the titled Program Manger role are correct. | |
| 9. Am 2 Solicitation – 8.0, Volume 2 Page 6 - Can the government please confirm that for Past Performance information, “owner” refers to the prime contractor on the project? | "Owner" refers to the agency that owns the contract. | |
| 10. Am 2 Solicitation – 7.0, Volume 2 Page 3 - Will the government consider allowing 30 pages for the technical response to allow offerors to adequately respond to the new 1.3 requirements? | The govt agrees to the 30 pages. Please see updated section L. | |
| 11. Am 1 Solicitation Page 2 - Can the government please confirm if the removal of the Section B from SF1449 in Amendment 1 indicates that submission of the Section B pricing information is no longer a proposal requirement? | Only submit pricing on Attachment B - Pricing Sheet. | |
| 12. Am 1 Solicitation Page 2 - Can the government please confirm that all pricing data should be submitted using the excel pricing sheet file? | Yes, all pricing should be submitted using the excel spreadsheet. | |
| 13. Attachment B Pricing Workbook - The Attachment B pricing workbook asks the offeror to provide a unit price by month for each labor category, however, in the PWS 2.1.25.3 it asks for an hourly rate per labor category as purposed in the invoicing instructions. Can the government please confirm if they intend for the contractors to invoice monthly or hourly? | Contractors are to invoice monthly. | |
| 14. Attachment B Pricing Workbook - The revised Attachment B pricing sheet in Amendment 1 includes an additional worksheet for the 6-month option to extend, however the quantity still shows 12 months instead of 6 months. Will the government provide a new workbook to adjust the 6-month option to extend. | Please see updated Attachment B - Pricing attached. | |
| 15. Attachment B Pricing Workbook - The revised Attachment B in Amendment 1 includes an additional worksheet for the 6-month option to extend, however the base worksheet Grand Total cell F35 does not include the total for the 6-month option to extend. Will the government provide a new workbook to adjust the 6-month option to extend to be included in the Grand Total? | Please see updated Attachment B - Pricing attached. |
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