RFI Question and Answer Document 02-28-2025.pdf

Question Answer Would the Government be open to engaging our firm direct under 8(a) or WOSB?

The Government is using this RFI to help shape any Small Business strategy.

Is this a new requirement? This is a new requirement.

If renewal, what is the current contract number? N/A When will the RFP be released? The Government will release any forecast information as appropriate and when we have that information.

Will CISA allow SB to prime any part of this IDIQ, particularly in SA5 or PA1?

This is covered in the RFI and is part of what we are looking to find out as part of this market research.

Can subcontractors leverage past performance in federal civilian cybersecurity for evaluation?

Use of subcontractor corporate experience is covered in the revised RFI. Any evaluation criteria is premature.

Ref V.b: Can font in tables be smaller than 12pt TNR This is covered in the RFI revision.

V.e (page 9) Shall the total number of pages for response to Corporate Capabilities and Approaches be 3 pages in accordance with page limits set for each prompt on page 9?

Yes, this was in error and should be 3 pages, also covered on the RFI revision.

V.f (page 5-6): Given the number of Government RFI questions, can the responses be 3 pages? Reason:

Questions alone take 1.5 pages.

This is covered in the RFI revision.

V.d Table 2: In response to the Government's Question "Amount of Tools/ODCs procured for life of task order, would the Government like an answer in the form of a dollar amount of total procurements or actual number for tools and ODC items procured?

This is supposed to be a dollar amount, but total procurements can be provided as well to show logistical footprint.

Do vendors have to respond to each requirement area? No, there are a number of different requirement areas, respond to those where you have interest and put N/A where it would not make sense to respond.

We are seeking clarification on the RFI CISA IDIQ_47QFRA25K0003_02-13-2025 document/RFI.

On page 5 of this document, under RFI Response Content, bullet g makes reference to the Training RFI.

The Training RFI is currently Attachment 2 for the RFI CISA IDIQ_47QFRA25K0003_02-13-2025. Should the Training RFI be a separate RFI to be responded to or included in the response for RFI CISA IDIQ_47QFRA25K0003_02-13-2025 as a section in the RFI CISA IDIQ_47QFRA25K0003_02-13- 2025 response?

Yes, it is distinct but should be included in the overall response.

Request for Information, Section V. Questionnaires, Item f states, “Government RFI question responses shall be no longer than 2 pages.” Please confirm that responses to each question are limited to 2 pages (20 pages total). If this requirement limits responses to 2 pages total, recommend increasing the page limitation to 5 pages total to allow for thorough explanations of any recommendations regarding the Government’s planned approach.

This is covered in the RFI revision.

Can the government provide an estimated number of personnel that will be using the training platform?

The Government cannot provide that specificity at this time.

For the training RFI response, are there any detailed page limit requirements between Corporate Experience

vs. the response to questions?

This is covered in the revised RFI.

The RFI response content included providing responses to the ten RFI questions. Can you please confirm if the page limit for answers to each question is two pages for a total of twenty pages for all questions?

This is covered in the revised RFI.

The Solicitation requires a corporate experience table outlining the contract vehicle to include attributes such as value of award, etc. be included. The table takes up half of the page, leaving only a half page to describe demonstrated corporate experience aligned to the five service areas and one product area. Will the Government allow a full-page corporate experience response outside the general table provided to allow for a more robust description of the program cited?

This is covered in the revised RFI.

Question 1 requests feedback on the attached statement of work (SOW). How would the Government like to receive feedback? Do they want direct edits to the SOW or a comment matrix?

I think more general feedback at this point, might be something more focused in future industry engagement

The RFI specifically calls out previously published RFI’s that have been included into this work, such as the Deployment Services and Strategic Cybersecurity Acquisition and Buying Services (SCABS) RFIs. Can the Government clarify if the requirements in this RFI also reflect the RFI for Advanced Engineering Services (AES) (solicitation # 47QFRA24K0002) that was released in January 2024?

Advanced Engineering Services is not currently contemplated as part of this vehicle.

If a company does not respond to the CISA IDIQ RFI, will they be disqualified from being able to submit when the actual solicitation is release?

No, companies will not be disqualified if they do not respond to the RFI, I would encourage any interested vendors to respond, especially Small Business, as it could help shape the acquisition strategy.

Given that there are ten questions, we request that the Government increase the page limit by at least two pages so Offerors can provide useful responses.

This is covered in the revised RFI.

Please confirm that the Training RFI should be submitted in the same file as the IDIQ RFI.

Yes, it is distinct but should be included in the overall response.

Does the Government expect Offerors to provide corporate experience specifically for the Training RFI?

If so, how many are required and how many pages are allowed for each?

If only interested in the Training requirement use up to all 3 corporate experience for that, if interested in multiple areas use the limit of 3 corporate experience to best support the response.

How many pages are allowed for the answers to all the Training questions?

Section V, bullet g provides for 3 pages for training question responses.

Is it the Government's intent to release this to RFP phase this summer?

The Government will release any forecast information as appropriate and when we have that information.

Could you please clarify the page limit for the response? Item V.g. says that “Responses to the Training RFI shall be no longer than 3 pages” but items V. c, d, e, and f indicate that a total of 9 pages for the response is acceptable.

The revised RFI updates some page counts, it also clarifies total maximum page count.

For Contractor Teaming Agreements (CTA) and past performance can we submit past performance from each team member?

Yes, but will still be limited to a total of 3 for the response.