TL_Comments_Incorporated_QASP_(SOL_Attachment_3__Tab_4).docx
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- Solicitation number
- 68HERC19R0011
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This document includes a presolicitation notice and quality assurance surveillance plan for a federal contract opportunity. The Environmental Protection Agency seeks testing, engineering, and economic analytical services to support emissions characterization, technology assessment, and test procedure and equipment development activities. Services will be provided through an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract with a ceiling of $25 million over five years. Task orders will be fixed price or time and material. The presolicitation notice identifies a late May anticipated release date for the solicitation, with a response due approximately 30 days thereafter. The quality assurance surveillance plan outlines critical performance standards and monitoring methods for management and communications, cost control, and quality of technical analyses.
TL Comments Incorporated QASP (SOL Attachment 3 Tab 4)
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RFP 68HERC19R0011
ATTACHMENT 3
QUALITY ASSURANCE SURVEILLANCE PLAN
“TESTING AND ANALYTICAL SERVICES FOR REGULATION OF MOTOR VEHICLES, ENGINES, FUELS, AND FUEL ADDITIVES”
The purpose of this QASP is to identify critical performance standards and describe a plan for how EPA will survey, observe, test, sample, evaluate and document the contractor’s performance in meeting the standards.
| Performance Requirement |
| Measurable Performance Standards |
| Surveillance Method |
| Non-Compliance Disincentives |
Management and Communications:
The contractor shall maintain contact with the EPA Contracting Officer (CO), Contract Level COR (CL-COR), and Task Order Contracting Officer Representative (TOCOR) throughout the performance of the contract and shall immediately bring potential problems to the attention of the EPA CL-COR and appropriate TOCOR. In cases where issues have a direct impact on project schedules, cost, time, or quality, the contractor shall provide options for EPA's consideration on resolving the issues or mitigating their impacts.
| Any issue adversely impacting project schedules, cost, time, or quality shall be brought to the attention of the EPA CL-COR and appropriate TOCOR within 5 workdays of occurrence. |
| 100% of active task orders (TO) will be reviewed by the EPA TOCOR (via the monthly progress report) to identify unreported issues. The EPA TOCOR will report any issues to the EPA CL-COR who will bring the issue(s) to the Contractor’s attention through the CO. |
| Two or more incidents per contract period where the contractor does not meet the measurable performance standard will be considered unsatisfactory performance and will be reported as such in the CPARS Performance Evaluation System under the category of Business Relations. |
Cost Management and Control:
The contractor shall monitor, track, and accurately report level of effort, labor cost, other direct cost, and fee expenditures to EPA through progress reports and approved special reporting requirements. The contractor shall assign an appropriate level of skilled personnel to all tasks, practice and encourage time management, and ensure accurate and appropriate cost control.
| The contractor shall manage costs to the level of the approved ceiling on each individual TO. The contractor shall notify the TOCOR, CL-COR, and CO when 85% of the approved funding ceiling for any particular TO is reached. If a contractor fails to manage and control cost, any resultant overrun cannot exceed the total contract obligation for that period. |
| 100% of the active TOs under the contract will be reviewed by the CL-COR and appropriate TOCOR monthly (via meetings, monthly progress reports & milestones established for each deliverable) to compare actual versus projected expenditures. |
| If the contractor does not meet the measurable performance standards per contract period it will be assigned a rating of Unsatisfactory in CPARS under the category of Cost Control. |
Quality of Technical Analysis:
The analyses conducted by the Contractor shall be factual and defensible and based on sound science. All data shall be collected from reputable sources and quality assurance measures shall be conducted in accordance with Agency requirements, the Contractor’s Quality Management and Quality Assurance Plans, and any additional requirements outlined in individual task orders. Any work requiring Contractor-provided options or recommendations shall include the rationale used in selecting the option/recommendation and all other options and considerations.
| All analyses conducted for the EPA by the contractor shall be factual, defensible, and based on sound science. Deliverables shall meet or exceed QA standards set forth for each project, and shall follow minimum protocols for data integrity. |
| The appropriate EPA TOCORs will review all analyses conducted by the contractor and will independently consider their merit. |
| If, after reviewing the contractor’s analysis, the EPA TOCOR determines that the content is not factual, defensible, and based on sound science, the contractor’s performance will be reported as unsatisfactory in the CPARS under the Quality of Services element. |
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