Amendment 0002 GSA FY25 CPP to 47QMCB24R0002.pdf

AMENDMENT OF SOLICITATION/MODIFICATION OF CONTRACT 1. CONTRACT ID CODE PAGE OF PAGES

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2. AMENDMENT/MODIFICATION NO.

AMENDMENT #0002

3. EFFECTIVE DATE

SEE BLOCK 16C

4. REQUISITION/PURCHASE REQ. NO.

5. PROJECT NO. (IF APPLICABLE)

6. Issued By Code QMACB 7. ADMINISTERED BY (If other than Item 6) Code

General Services Administration

Travel Acquisition Support Branch

1800 F Street, NW

3rd Floor, HUB 3400

Washington, DC 20405

8. Name and Address of Contractor (No., street, county, State and ZIP Code (x) 9A. AMENDMENT OF SOLICITATION NO.

47QMCB24R0002

X 9B. DATED (SEE ITEM 11)

2/14/2024

10A. MODIFICATION OF CONTRACT/ORDER NO.

10B. DATED (SEE ITEM 13)

CODE FACILITY CODE

11. THIS ITEM ONLY APPLIES TO AMENDMENTS OF SOLICITATIONS

X The above numbered solicitation is amended as set forth in item 14. The hour and date specified for receipt of Offers is extended X is not extended.

Offer's must acknowledge receipt of this amendment prior to the hour and date specified in the solicitation or as amended, by one of the following methods:

(a) By completing Items 8 and 15 and returning 1 copies of the amendment; (b) By acknowledging receipt of this amendment on each copy of the offer submitted; or (c)

By separate letter or telegram which includes a reference to the solicitation and amendment numbers. FAILURE OF YOUR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO BE RECEIVED AT THE PLACE DESIGNATED FOR THE RECEIPT OF OFFERS PRIOR TO THE HOUR AND DATE SPECIFIED MAY RESULT IN REJECTION OF YOUR OFFER. If by virtue of this amendment you desire to change an offer already submitted, such change may be made by telegram or letter, provided each telegram or letter makes reference to the solicitation and this amendment, and is received prior to the opening hour and date specified.

12. ACCOUNTING AND APPROPRIATION DATA (If required)

13. THIS ITEM APPLIES ONLY TO MODIFICATIONS OF CONTRACTS/ORDERS,

IT MODIFIES THE CONTRACT/ORDER NO. AS DESCRIBED IN ITEM 14.

[ ] A. THIS CHANGE ORDER IS ISSUED PURSUANT TO: (Specify authority) THE CHANGES SET FORTH IN ITEM 14 ARE MADE IN THE CONTRACT ORDER NO.

IN ITEM 10A.

[ ] B. THE ABOVE NUMBERED CONTRACT/ORDER IS MODIFIED TO REFLECT THE ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES (such as changes in paying office, appropriation date, etc.) SET FORTH IN ITEM 14, PURSUANT TO THE AUTHORITY OF :

[ ] C. THIS SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT IS ENTERED INTO PURSUANT TO AUTHORITY OF :

[ ] D. OTHER (Specify type of modification and authority)

E. IMPORTANT: Contractor is not, is required to sign this document and return __ copies to the issuing office.

14. DESCRIPTION OF AMENDMENT/MODIFICATION (Organized by UCF section headings, including solicitation/contract subject matter where feasible.)

FY25 City Pair Program, Worldwide

Amendment 0002 to Solicitation 47QMCB24R0002 is hereby issued to provide the Government’s revised response to vendor DRAFT RFP question #4.

Except as provided herein, all terms and conditions of the document referenced in item 9A or 10A, as heretofore changed, remains unchanged and in full force and effect.

15A. NAME AND TITLE OF SIGNER (Type or print) 16A. NAME AND TITLE OF CONTRACTING OFFICER (Type or print)

James Santini

CONTRACTING OFFICER

15B. CONTRACTOR/OFFEROR 15C. DATE SIGNED 16B. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 16C. DATE SIGNED

________________________________________ BY ______________________________________________

(Signature of person authorized to sign) (Signature of Contracting Officer)

PREVIOUS EDITION UNUSABLE 30-105 STANDARD FORM 30 (REV. 11/2016)

Prescribed by GSA, FAR (48 CFR) 53.243

General Services Administration City Pair Program

FY25 Requirement for Scheduled Air Passenger Transportation Services

Solicitation No. 47QMCB24R0002

Attachment 7

No. Solicitation Refer-ence

Vendor Question Government Response

Section Page #

Can we get some details on what criteria takes a market to BAFO?

If it is determined to be in the best interest of the Gov-ernment to enter discussions, then an offeror may re-vise any of their original submissions. This includes markets that have been specifically highlighted in the negotiations letter, as well as those markets that weren’t mentioned in the negotiations letter. The Gov-ernment utilizes commercial benchmarks in targeting markets for negotiations or in determining if an offer is fair and reasonable.

Can we get some transparency of the fare threshold that would outweigh a schedule scoring advantage in Group 1 markets?

In the RFP, the Government does not state a fare threshold for Group 1 markets. However, per Section

M.2: “Pricing must be deemed fair and reasonable by the Contracting Officer.” Please review Section M.5, which outlines the Group 1 Price/Technical Tradeoff criteria. This section includes the hierarchical chart evaluators will utilize when determining the value of the service offered measured against the price.

We would prefer to avoid temporary re-awards because it creates tedious work to file our DGs, remove them and add _CAs, and then again remove the _CAs and refile DGs. We would much rather the market remain unawarded if it’s a temporary re-award of only a few months/seasons.

The Contracting Officer reserves the right to reevalu-ate and temporarily re-award a line item that was tem-porarily deleted from the original contract carrier’s contract per the reasons outlined in Section F.4.1(c) as it is in the best interest of the Government to en-sure operational continuity in the awarded markets

B.2 11

The following examples were provided for the Minimum Service Standard defi-nition:

“If 2 nonstop flights are solicited, minimum service requires 2 nonstop flights daily.”

“If 2 connecting flights are solicited, minimum service requires 2 connecting flights daily unless nonstop flight(s) are offered. If nonstop flight(s) are offered when connect service is solicited, the nonstop service must be daily.”

Can you please clarify the use of ‘daily.’ For example, Group 1 & 2 International

Non- Extended Connection markets require (1) flight in each direction on any three (not daily) or more days per week.

These examples were removed from the FY24 CPP as a response to the same question provided above.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Section

B.2, Minimum Service Definition will be updated to re-flect the RFP Language Change quoted below:

“Minimum Service Standard - The Minimum Service

Standard identifies the minimum level of service re-quired in Groups 1, 2, and 3. As an example, service standards may include but are not limited to:

▪ Nonstop or connecting service

▪ No more than one connect point (if applicable). Up to two (2) connect points (or one (1) connect and one (1) direct flight) are allowed to extended connection line items listed in Attachment 4 and Attachment 5.

o Applicable connect time limitations.

o Circuity limitations o Timeband limitations”

B.3

Please advise if the column header “FY23 Yearly” is a typo and should read

“FY24 Yearly”?

The FY25 Draft RFP, posted on SAM.gov on

1/11/2024, B.3, page 14, states “FY25 Yearly” as the column header. Please make sure you are looking at the FY25 Draft RFP. Here’s the link to the FY25 Draft

RFP:

https://sam.gov/opp/2c8008d221ab405caab42a81ac4

90c0d/view

B.3 15

Line item (Market) Requirements. The following City Pairs were not included in the Draft RFP, and we ask that you consider including them in the Final RFP:

City Pair FY24 Line Item Number

AMARNO 2728

AUSROC 3461

BLIKOA 15347

DALTUS 6777

FLLLGB 8553

FLLISP 8545

HDNORD 9500

HDNSAN 9501

HOUSBA 900

LBBRNO 10967

LBBSJC 10975

LGBMEM 11112

LIHSJC 11140

MDWPWM 11628

ROCRSW 13471

Thank you for bringing this list of markets to our atten-tion. We will determine if there is a customer agency bona fide need for these markets and will update the

Final RFP Attachments 4, 5 and/or 6 to reflect any market changes.

B.3

Line item (Market) Requirements. The following line items are listed in Group 2 and 3 but nonstop flights exist. Please review and consider moving to Group 1.

City Pair Line Item Number

ABQMCO 4131

ALBDEN 4500

AUSECP 5154

BNABUF 5946

BNAOKC 6025

BNAOMA 6026

Thank you for bringing this list of markets to our atten-tion. We will review market group placement and up-date the Final RFP Attachments 4, 5 and/or 6 to re-flect any market changes.

BNAONT 6027

BNASMF 6056

BOIBUR 6133

BURMCI 6795

BURMSY 6799

BURSAT 6809

BURSTL 6811

CUNHOU 8170

DALPDX 8314

DENECP 8440

DENPNS 8499

ECPIND 8986

ELPMCO 9122

HOUSJU 10871

MCIPNS 12436

MCOTUL 12506

MDWSFO 12572

MYRPIT 13321

PNSSTL 14060

BURMDW 15651

DALHRL 16005

ELPMDW 16203

EUGSMF 16231

MDWRNO 16932

ALBTPA 4558

BUFPHX 6706

CLELAS 7535

CLEPHX 930

CMHSRQ None

DALJAX 8311

DALSDF 8318

DENORF 1512

DENRSW 1529

IAHPHX 2293

INDSRQ None

LASMEM 11818

LASRDU 2473

MEMPHX 2755

MKERSW 12901

PHXRDU 3138

PITSRQ None

B.4 Section

The following sentence is written in B.4 Section 5: “The awarded bucket/class must be revised as needed to ensure that the original proportional relationship of the awarded bucket/class to the other buckets/classes within the contract car-rier’s commercial fare classification code structure is maintained.”

Can you please clarify “the original proportional relationship of the award bucket/class to the other buckets/classes”? Is this in relation to the 60% require-ment verbiage that was removed from B.4 Section 5?

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. B.4 Sec-tion 5 will be updated to reflect RFP language change, “The awarded bucket/class should be revised as needed to ensure that the original proportional rela-tionship of the awarded bucket/class to the other buckets/classes within the contract carrier’s commer-cial fare classification code structure is maintained.”

City/

Airport

Codes

Please confirm fares should be submitted and filed using the City Code versus the Airport Codes in the 7 markets identified during the Pre-Solicitation Confer-ence and listed below:

Continue to file fares according to your origin/destina-tion airport code.

M.5 a 106 During the November 8th Industry Meeting modifying the composite fare was discussed. Has this been put on hold or does this language need to be updated?

The Program Management Office was socializing the idea as part of market research and the decision was made to not move forward with the change for FY25.

Market research is still ongoing.

M.5 a/b 105-

On the November 8th Joint Industry & Government Partnership meeting, an an-ticipated change for FY25 was to improve the composite fare calculation to re-flect the actual usage of the contract fares. Govt-wide _CA utilization was quoted at 53% (Domestic – 54% and International – 42%). Can you please provide why

The Program Management Office was socializing the idea as part of market research and the decision was made to not move forward with the change for FY25.

Market research is still ongoing.

this change was not seen in the FY25 Draft RFP as all formulas remained con-sistent YoY in this section (Group 1 Evaluation).

M.6 109

On the November 8th Joint Industry & Government Partnership meeting, an an-ticipated change for FY25 was to improve the composite fare calculation to re-flect the actual usage of the contract fares. Govt-wide _CA utilization was quoted at 53% (Domestic – 54% and International – 42%). Can you please provide why this change was not seen in the FY25 Draft RFP as all formulas remained con-sistent YoY in this section (Group 2 and Group 3 Evaluation).

The Program Management Office was socializing the idea as part of market research and the decision was made to not move forward with the change for FY25.

Market research is still ongoing.

Attachment

Item #

599, 1352, 1385, Line items 599, 1352, 1385 & 3058 require a minimum of 6 flights. Prior years did not require >5 minimum flights. Furthermore, only a few line items required

>3 flights. Is this correct?

tion. We will review the minimum number of flights and will update the Final RFP Attachments 4 to reflect any changes.

Attachment

Item #

Can you please confirm the minimum # of flights for line item 1279? Attachment

4 currently requires 4 flights to be eligible.

Thank you for bringing this market to our attention.

We will review the minimum number of flights and will update the Final RFP Attachments 4 to reflect any changes.

Attachment

Item #

Can you please confirm the minimum # of flights for line item 1393? Attachment

4 currently requires 5 flights to be eligible.

Thank you for bringing this market to our attention.

We will review the minimum number of flights and will update the Final RFP Attachments 4 to reflect any changes.

Attachment

Item #

Can you please confirm the minimum # of flights for line item 2096? Attachment

4 currently requires 2 flights to be eligible.

We will review the minimum number of flights and will update the Final RFP Attachments 4 to reflect any changes.

Attachment

Item #

Can you please confirm the minimum # of flights for line item 3249? Attachment

4 currently requires 2 nonstop flights to be eligible while FY24 requires 2 connect flights to be eligible, which means no carrier will meet minimum requirements in

Dec 2024.

We will review the minimum service requirement and will update the Final RFP Attachments 4 to reflect any changes.

Attachment

N/A

The following city pairs are not included in the draft RFP. Might you consider including them in the final RFP?

NDOD ORIG DEST

ADQMSP ADQ MSP

ANCYTO ANC YTO

DENEAT DEN EAT

EATFAI EAT FAI

FAIPUW FAI PUW

JNUYTO JNU OME

JNUYTO JNU YTO

tion. We will determine if there is a bona fide need for these markets and will update the Final RFP Attach-ments 4, 5 and/or 6 to reflect any market changes.