QA_08-28-2023.pdf

Notice ID : 69056723R000001

Western Pavement Preservation MATOC

# General Technical Question Answer Date

1 X Have you always had the Classification: Partial

Small Business Set‐Aside?

Not generally at the task order level. It’s called a set‐aside at the task order level if you have a project only small businesses can bid, but when you reserve IDIQ contracts under a MATOC for small businesses it’s called a reserve or partial set‐ aside. Different words for different applications.

We have revised the sam.gov classification for this advertisement.

7/24/2023

8/21/2023

2 X

Will a bid bond be required even though there is not a bid schedule in the WRPP? If so, how much does the bid bond need to be for?

You will have to submit a bid bond for the seed project, Pinnacles, but not for the

IDIQ RFP itself.

7/31/2023

3 X

For the Technical Evaluation, Construction

Elements, Item (7) “Protection or preservation of cultural resources such as: historic features or sites; or archeological sites;”. Respondents to this RFP are Pavement Contractors who typically do not deal with protection or preservation of these sorts. Will the

Government consider removing this requirement?

The Government will consider this. If the

Government decides to revise the solicitation, the solicitation will be revised under a future amendment.

7/31/2023

4 X

Specification states that Large Businesses must submit a Master Subcontracting Plan with this

RFP, but there are no bid items associated with this RFP, so there is not a way to determine what would be subcontracted. Will the

Government consider removing this requirement?

A master subcontracting plan is essentially an individual subcontracting plan that has no small business goals. This will be amended and addressed in a future amendment.

7/31/2023

5 X

For the Subcontracting Goals table on

Attachment 1 – Master Subcontracting Plan, do we need to submit this table with filled out percentages and dollar values?

No. The percentages and dollar values in the Subcontracting Goals Table are to be filled out at the Task Order level. They do not apply to the Master Subcontracting

Plan submittal at the IDIQ level, which is what is required for this solicitation submittal.

8/15/2023

6 X

Can you please direct us to where we would obtain he Western Region Pavement

Preservation MATOC Project Documents bidding on August 29th at 2:00 pm?

See Western Region Pavement

Preservation MATOC on sam.gov at:

https://sam.gov/opp/38d6e6c66d9e4ad49 aa7e17e8b70a801/view.

8/15/2023

Check General or Technical

7 X

On Page M‐2 of the solicitation, please consider reducing the $2,000,000.00 requirement in

Technically Unacceptable Item (1), to

$1,000,000.00 for small businesses.

The Government does not intend to reduce this $2,000,000.00 requirement in the solicitation documents. Please submit offers according to the solicitation documents.

8/15/2023

8 X

Would the government consider removing the requirement for completing Construction

Element “micro seal” in the past 5 years? There are plenty of qualified subcontractors that could perform this item and this requirement would limit ours and many others ability to bid the work.

The Government does not intent to remove this requirement. Please submit offers according to the solicitation documents.

8/18/2023

9 X

With the vast area that this MATOC covers there are many areas that are outside our normal market area including states that we are not licensed in. The requirement to bid a seed project far outside of our normal market area seems unfair and will severely limit the amount of contractors interested in this

MATOC, especially considering it is in one of the most difficult states in the country to do business in. Would the government consider having multiple more localized seed projects or possibly an alternate requirement to bidding the current seed project?

The Government does not intend to change the evaluation criteria. Please submit offers according to the solicitation documents.

8/18/2023

10 X

Why is it necessary to bid more that 50% of the projects in this MATOC considering the vast area it covers?

This requirement will be removed by a future amendment.

8/18/2023

11 X

We have not been able to register for this opportunity. Something has changed and we can’t register. Please reply asap. We appreciate your assistance in a timely manner in order to take care of this step of the process.

If you need assistance with sam.gov, you can reach the Federal service help desk at

866‐606‐8220, which the General Service

Administration operates.

8/18/2023

12 X

I would like to confirm if we must submit two separate proposals for the MATOC and the seed project itself. The seed project has a different SF1442 with a different solicitation number, so I assume we will need to submit two separate proposals?

To be considered for an IDIQ, you must submit a proposal for the Western

Pavement Preservation MATOC Project

(Notice ID: 69056723R000001); AND a proposal for the seed project CA NP PINN

PMS(1), Pavement Preservation Pinnacles

(Notice ID: 69056723R000009).

8/22/2023

13 X Is there a place to find subcontracting opportunities?

go to https://www.sba.gov/federal‐ contracting/contracting‐guide/prime‐ subcontracting#:~:text=Prime%20contracto rs%20wanting%20to%20publish,posted%2

0subcontracting%20opportunities%20at%2

0SUBNet and follow the requirements for

Prime contractors wanting to publish opportunities in SUBNet;

AND/OR use the Dynamic Small Business

Search tool at the following website:

https://dsbs.sba.gov/search/dsp_dsbs.cfm

?CFID=152932&CFTOKEN=46a3fc81545736 a4‐386A2249‐94D7‐B140‐

692C7759EFC21972.

8/24/2023

14 X

I would like to confirm if you have an upload link you could provide to upload our proposal documents to. Our hard copy is a bound proposal with tabs, and I would like to send a compiled proposal with our electronic submission, but the file exceeds 5MB.

Otherwise, we will just separate the files as noted in the solicitation.

Submit proposals according to the solicitation requirements.

8/28/2023