S05 - Technical Questions and Answers.docx

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H130--Boiler Operator (VA-20-00056856) Federal contract opportunity
Solicitation number
36E77620Q0072
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Department of Veterans Affairs Headquarters

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This document contains technical questions and answers regarding Solicitation 36E77620Q0072 for boiler operator services at multiple Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers. The solicitation seeks quotes to operate high pressure boiler plants and associated equipment at facilities in Miami, Brooklyn, Beckley, Salem, Bronx, American Lake, Seattle, and White City on various rotating shifts including days, evenings, nights, weekdays and weekends. Qualifications include experience providing shift coverage and operating boilers, responding to low water conditions, performing maintenance and chemical testing. The questions and answers provide clarification on the requirements, definitions of contracting and administration activities, and confirmation that no information is missing from the instructions.

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Technical Questions and Answers Solicitation 36E77620Q0072 – Boiler Operator

1. Page 29 and 30 – there are two item “a”s and item “c.” is not listed. Can you please clarify the section sequence? We wanted to confirm we are not missing anything. Here is the current listing:

0. Contract Descriptions.

1. Performance

1. Subcontracts

1. New Corporate Entities A. no content is missing. Renumbered a b c d in attached updated instructions to offerors.

1. Page 30 – Item “ii” notes Contracting activity, and current address, Procuring Contracting Officer's name, e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers. Item “iv” notes Contract administration activity and the Administrative Contracting Officer's name, and current e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers. Item “viii notes description of the project and the services provided by the offeror. Questions:

0. For “ii,” is this the current address of the project or the Procuring officer?

A. this has been updated to state contracting activity name and current address. It is referring to the procurement office.

0. can you please clarify the difference between “contracting activity”, “contracting administration activity” and “description of the project and services”?

A. the contracting activity is the office that procured the contract (Example: PCAC is the contracting activity of this procurement), contract administration activity is the office that is handling the administration (this may be the same office, sometimes it changes), and description of the project and services is a description of the work your company performed on the project.

1. Page 30 – For section “ix,” would technical categories included in this project be considered the following “Areas of relevance include instances providing shift coverage, and/or operating high pressure boilers. Operations include but not limited to re-starting a boiler, responding to low water conditions, performing mud blow down, performing water quality and chemical tests, routine maintenance, etc.” If not, can you please clarify?

A. Yes those areas are relevant. In section ix you can list any technical categories included in your project, including categories that are relevant to this boiler plant project.

1. Page 32 – Item “6” is not listed. Can you please clarify if a “6” should be listed?

A. item six is not missing. It has been numbered corrected in the attached instructions to offerors.

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