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This document is a solicitation for lean consulting services. The Department of Veterans Affairs VA Sierra Pacific Network is seeking quotes for lean consulting to be provided at the VA Palo Alto Health Care Systems. The performance period is a base year plus two option years. Quotes are due by April 6, 2020 and are required to be submitted by email to rico.johnson@va.gov. The work will include lean six sigma black belt training and certification, rapid process improvement workshops, design for lean six sigma events, and 3P events. Pricing is to be provided using the price schedule included with the solicitation. The incumbent contractor is Data2Design Technologies LLC and this is a recompete issued before the end of the original five-year contract period awarded in May 2018. The solicitation is set aside for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses.
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Contract Opportunity Amendment to a Previous Combined Solicitation
CLASSIFICATION CODE
SUBJECT
CONTRACTING OFFICE'S
ZIP-CODE
SOLICITATION NUMBER
BASE NOTICE TYPE
RESPONSE DATE (MM-DD-YYYY)
ARCHIVE
DAYS AFTER THE RESPONSE DATE
RECOVERY ACT FUNDS
SET-ASIDE
NAICS CODE
CONTRACTING OFFICE
ADDRESS
POINT OF CONTACT
(POC Information Automatically Filled from User Profile Unless Entered)
DESCRIPTION
See Attachment
AGENCY'S URL
URL DESCRIPTION
AGENCY CONTACT'S EMAIL
ADDRESS
EMAIL DESCRIPTION
ADDRESS
POSTAL CODE
COUNTRY
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
GENERAL INFORMATION
PLACE OF PERFORMANCE
* = Required Field Contract Opportunity Amendment to a Previous Combined Solicitation R799 Lean Consulting FY20
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
95652-2609 36C26120Q0369 04-06-2020 N
SDVOSBC
541611 Department of Veterans Affairs VA Sierra Pacific Network (VISN 21) VA Northern California HealthCare System 5342 Dudley Blvd, Bldg 209 McClellan CA 95652-2609
RICO JOHNSON
RICO.JOHNSON@VA.GOV
| Question |
| Related Section(s) of Solicitation |
| For Factor #2 Past Performance, would the Government accept narrative past performance summaries as placeholders within the technical volume for the past performance surveys? If so, what will be the due date for submission of the final completed survey thereafter? |
| Page 43, Section C |
ANSWER: You can submit resume style past performance that you fill in and we can call to verify information if need be.
| On page 17, the SOW states “Access to all materials including Lean educational presentation materials, forms, templates, Lean event specific materials, agendas, and any Lean training supplies will be provided to the contractor by QSV”. Could the Government provide a listing of the materials already available? |
| Page 17, Section VI |
ANSWER:
Lean Black Belt curriculum Lean Green Belt curriculum Lean Yellow Belt curriculum Lean White Belt curriculum DMS curriculum
| On page 18, the SOW states "Softcopy format: Softcopy materials shall be in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, or Microsoft Word format". Can the government clarify if other forms of softcopy formats are acceptable, such as Adobe PDF? |
| Page 18, Section B |
ANSWER:
It has to be a format that the government can modify if needed. It cannot be a locked, unmodifiable format. MS Office is the most consistent software the government has access to. Adobe Pro isn’t always available for the government to be able to modify documents.
| On page 5, the SOW shows a table requiring labor rates be provided as well as for travel expenses. However, on page 18, it states that the "Contractor is responsible for travel to VAPAHCS sites to provide consulting services as required by this contract". Can the Government clarify whether the Contractor will be allowed to bill for travel expenses to the Palo Alto facility? If not, what is the purpose of pricing the Travel Expenses CLIN? |
| Page 5, Section B |
Page 18, Section VIII
ANSWER :
Estimated travel costs should be included as part of the total bid.
| The SOW states that this procurement is for a base year plus four single year options. However, on page 27, Section C.3 52.217-9, it states "(c) The total duration of this contract, including the exercise of any options under this clause, shall not exceed three (3) years". Please clarify to be sure that we understand the requirement. |
| Page 13, Section IV |
Page 27, Section C.3 ANSWER : Base Plus 4 Option Years
| Is there an incumbent for this work? If so, who is currently performing this work? |
| ANSWER: Data2Design Technologies LLC |
| As far as we can tell, an award for this work was awarded in May 2018 for the same period of performance (up to 5 years), yet this re-compete solicitation is being released after only 2 years. Can you share the reason for why this work is being re-competed before the full 5 years in the original contract had been executed? |
| ANSWER: Government discretion |
| On page 17 of the solicitation, the last sentence of Section VII seems to indicate that there should be a table listing specific events and their associated deliverables; however, there appears to be no table included in the solicitation. Could the Government provide this table? |
| Page 17, Section VII |
ANSWER:
Specific events cannot be decided at this time. However, potential events are:
· Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Training and certification (as already stated in the SOW)
· RPIWs/kaizen events
· Design for Lean Six Sigma events
· 3P events
| For the pricing portion of this submission, where the solicitation states that “the vendor will also provide the calculations that were used in determining their price so that the government can review how the amount was derived,” is the Government asking us to show a breakdown of how we derived our hourly rates (i.e. inclusion of the overhead costs that were used to determine the fully loaded hourly rates)? Or is the Government simply asking us to show calculations for how we multiply the hourly unit rate to calculate the extended total for the entire year? |
| Page 43, Section (d) |
ANSWER: Disregard that and simply fill in the Price Schedule.
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