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This document includes a solicitation for financial and credit professional services and the related questions and answers file. The solicitation requests quotes by July 15, 2022 for non-personal professional services of a temporary financial analyst experienced in financial and credit programs for the Department of Transportation Maritime Administration for the period of July 18, 2022 to July 17, 2023. The solicitation is set aside for small businesses and offers a single award based on technical capability, experience, and past performance. The incumbent is SERJON, LLC under contract number 693JF719P000038. Offerors are instructed to submit no more than two resumes and a six page response by the due date to the contracting officer via email.

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693JF722Q000012

Financial and Credit Professional Services All changes are reflected in the Amended Solicitation July 7, 2022

1. Question: Will the Government please clarify if ‘no more than six pages’ is for the entire proposal or for resumes?

Answer: I will change it to 10 pages for the proposal only and that excludes resume.

2. Question: Are resumes excluded from the ‘no more than six pages’ page limit?

Answer: Yes

3. Question: What is the cost/pricing submission requirement?

Answer: Provide labor cost per hour.

4. Question: Should offerors provide price/cost proposal within the same file as the technical, experience, and past performance volume or put in a separate price/cost volume?

Answer: Provide as follows: Vol 1: Price; Vol 2: Experience and References Resume;

Vol 3: Technical. Past Performance will be determined by the results from the www.PARS.gov and references.

5. Question: The evaluation factors state, “Note: Questionnaires will be emailed to each reference.” Will the Government please clarify if questionnaires are required? If so, will the Government please provide the questionnaire and questionnaire completion/submission instructions?

Answer: Yes, questionnaires are required. Interested party shall supply the References contact info and that information will be verified by phone calls or emails to the references.

6. Question: Will the Government please provide the award basis such as Single Award, Best Value?

Answer 1a: The solicitation was amended on July 1, 2022, to add this information which is as follows:

The purpose for this amendment is for the following:

a. The basis for the award is pursuant to 13.106-2 Evaluation of quotations or offers subparagraph (b).

b. All other terms and conditions remain unchanged.

Answer 1b: The solicitation was Amended on July 7, 2022, to add this information:

http://www.pars.gov/

Addendum to FAR 52.212-2 Evaluation—Commercial Products and Commercial Services (Nov 2021)

EVALUATION FACTORS:

Non-Price

-Technical Capability/Experience

-Past Performance

Price

7. Question: The SOW page 3 states, “In addition to the information required by FAR 8.4, all task order quotation requests shall provide the following information at a minimum.”

We believe FAR 8.4 applies to GSA schedules, and this RFP was released on sam.gov as a small business set aside. Will the Government please confirm FAR 8.4 does not apply?

Answer: FAR 8.4 does not apply to this solicitation. This is a Small Business Set-aside and procedures from FAR 12 and 13.5 apply.

8. Question: Will the Government allow the cover page and table of contents to be outside of the page limit?

Answer: Yes.

9. Question: Should the Government require services beyond the 9 to 12 months from contract start date, will the Government consider adding/including Optional CLINs as part of the RFP for support beyond the base 9-12 month PoP?

Answer: The Government require services for a Period of Performance 07/18/2022 to 07/17/2023 in accordance with the attached Statement of Work (SOW). The contract will also include four (4) options for an additional 1-year period each, for a potential total contract period of performance of 5 years if all options are exercised.

10. Question: Government, please confirm/clarify that the place of Performance per the Statement of Work, page 2, Performance, that the work will be performed at Contractor’s office, and as needed, USDOT, Maritime Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE (headquarters)?

Answer: This would depend on the secure nature of information that is being handled by the Contractor; otherwise, the work can be done remotely.

11. Question: Is this contract to replace an expiring contract of the same scope?

Answer: Yes, the contract expired.

12. Question: If so, what is that contract number and who is the incumbent?

Answer: SERJON, LLC PO no. 693JF719P000038

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