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Table 1
| Questions | ||||
| Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) Integration and Evaluation Capability (NIEC) – SIR No. 692M15-20-R-00001 | ||||
| # | SIR Section | Page | Question | Answer |
| 1 | FAACO Posting | N/A | Will the government consider this as a total small business set aside? | No, this action will not be a set-aside for small business. |
| 2 | SF33 | 2-3 | Please clarify if offerors are to enter dollar values within Column F "Amount". The assumption is that the continuation sheets should be left blank since task order pricing is not required with this submission. | Correct, vendors are not to provide pricing information in column F of the SF33 Continuation Sheets. In accordance with the SIR, no pricing information shall be included in any volume other than the cost volume. For submisison of pricing information, refer to Section L of the SIR. |
| 3 | B.2 and B.3 | 6 | It appears that the hours in the table need to be updated for CLIN 00001 through CLIN 00004 to 18,800 to be consistent with Attachment B-1 Pricing Schedule. In addition, will the Government also include CLINs for ODCs and Travel in B.3 table? Will the hours in the table be updated to be consistent with the Pricing Schedule. Will the Government also include CLIN's for ODCs and Travel in B.3 table? | The total labor hours depicted in Section B.2 and SIR Attachment B-1 are correct (Total Estimated LOE of 18,800 hours/year; Total 94,000 hours). The table in Section B.3 was incorrect and has been updated to reflect this change. |
| 4 | B.2 and B.3 | 6 | Section B.2 states, in part, that the ceiling amount will be based on 94,000 hours. Section B.3 includes a Table that displays Hours by CLIN that total 90,800. Please clarify if the Section B.3 Table should be revised to list 18,800 hours for CLINS 00001 - 00004 so that total equals 94,000 hours. | Please see response to question number 4 above. In addition, the table in Section B.3 is inclusive of the cost of ODCs and will be completed at time of award. |
| 5 | Section H; Clause 3.8.2-17 | 20 | Please confirm that the Government desires the Key Personnel as currently listed in 3.8.2-17 (d). Specifically, was it the Government’s intent to list the IT Support Technician - Senior instead of the network technology professional ‘IT Specialist – Senior’? | The Key Personnel labor categories listed in Clause 3.8.2-17 have been updated to reflect the following key personnel; Technical Task Lead and IT Specialist - Senior. |
| 6 | Section H; Clause 3.8.2-17 | 20 | Is the Key Personnel supposed to be the Information Technology Specialist (SR)? | Please see response to question number 5. |
| 7 | Section L 3.6.1-17 and FAACO Posting | Please confirm NAICS Code for this requirement is 541330, Engineering Services, with an applicable size standard of 15 million | The NAICS code for this procurement is 541330, "Engineering Services." The applicable size standard is $16.5M. Section L, AMS Clause 3.6.1.7 has been updated to reflect this information. | |
| 8 | Section L.4.1 | 56 | Please confirm that offerors may submit multiple emails if required to stay under the 10 MB limit per email. | Offerors may submit multiple emails to stay underneath the maximum megabytes per email requirement. However, this does not eliminate complaince with proposal volume limitations established at SIR Section L.4.1. |
| 10 | Section L.5.2 | 60 | Will the Government consider excluding the commitment letter from the 2-page resume count or allowing a 3-page resume including the commitment letter? Can the resume exclude the commitment letter or add an additional page for the resume? | The commitment letter required by Section L.5.2(c), if applicable, does not count toward the maximum two (2) page count of a key personnel resume. SIR Section L.5.2 has been updated to reflect this clarification. |
| 11 | Section L.5.2 | 60 | Are commitment/resume letters and letters of intent excluded from the 2 page limit for resumes? | Please see response to question number 10. |
| 12 | Section L.5.2 | L.5.2 | Does the certification letter count towards the 2-page limit of key resumes? | Please see response to question number 10. |
| 13 | Attachment B-1 | N/A | Can the Government please increase the width of column F in all worksheets to accommodate the extended amounts? | Attachment B-1 has been updated to reflect this change. |
| 14 | SOW Appendix A | N/A | "…and must be experienced in control of NIEC software and documentation review." Would the FAA consider removing verbiage which requires software and documentation experience specific to NIEC? | NIEC has been removed - it is now "…and must be experienced in control of software and documentation review" |
| 15 | SOW Appendix A | N/A | Would the FAA provide an estimate of hours required for the Program Manager position? | As stated in SOW Appendix A, the Program Manager role will be an overhead position that is not directly chargeable to this contract. Therefore, the Government does not have an estimate of the hours for this role as it is a business decision on how to handle this position. |
| 16 | SOW Appendix A | N/A | All Senior level Labor Categories require 10 years of experience except for the Senior Information Technology Specialist (key), which requires fifteen years of experience. Conversely, all Intermediate level positions are consistent at requiring five years of experience. This greater gap between the Intermediate and senior level for the Information Technology Specialist labor category may present pricing challenges. |
| Would the FAA reduce the years of experience for the Senior Information Technology Specialist to ten years to be consistent with the other labor categories? | No, the labor category minimum qualifications for the Senior Infomration Technology Specialist remain unchanged. | ||||
| 17 | N/A | N/A | As a result of the release of this SIR, interested vendors have been approaching current contractor staff during working hours on a Government site, to ascertain interest in employment with their firm for efforts detailed wihtin this SIR. | No recruitment or disruption during Government work time should take place by vendors. All vendors and their employees must conduct themselves in a professional and ethical manner while providing Government support on their current contracts. | |
| 16 | SOW Appendix A | N/A | All Senior level Labor Categories require 10 years of experience except for the Senior Information Technology Specialist (key), which requires fifteen years of experience. Conversely, all Intermediate level positions are consistent at requiring five years of experience. This greater gap between the Intermediate and senior level for the Information Technology Specialist labor category may present pricing challenges. |
| Would the FAA reduce the years of experience for the Senior Information Technology Specialist to ten years to be consistent with the other labor categories? | No, the labor category minimum qualifications for the Senior Infomration Technology Specialist remain unchanged. | ||||
| 17 | N/A | N/A | As a result of the release of this SIR, interested vendors have been approaching current contractor staff during working hours on a Government site, to ascertain interest in employment with their firm for efforts detailed wihtin this SIR. | No recruitment or disruption during Government work time should take place by vendors. All vendors and their employees must conduct themselves in a professional and ethical manner while providing Government support on their current contracts. | |
| 18 | SOW Appendix A | N/A | Would the FAA amend the SOW Appendix A to change the Information Technology Specialist Labor category requirement to "prefer" the CCNA certification instead of "requires"?OR Will the FAA allow the Key person to obtain the CCNA certification after award? | No, the Information Technology Specialist certification requirements remain unchanged. |
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