70FB7024R00000002 Pricing Questions and Answers Amendment 03.xlsx
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- Individual Identity Verification and Authentication Support Services Federal contract opportunity
- Solicitation number
- 70FB70-24-R-00000002
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- Federal Emergency Management Agency
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This is a pricing questions and answers document related to solicitation 70FB7024R00000002 for Individual Identity Verification and Authentication Support Services (IV&A) for FEMA. The document contains 25 questions and answers focused on pricing clarifications for various Contract Line Item Numbers (CLINs) across disaster-funded and non-disaster-funded requirements.
Key clarifications include: property ownership records should be included in CLIN 0001; bank account validation will focus on uniform routing number verification; dark web monitoring (CLIN 0015) aims to identify methods for exploiting FEMA programs; all transaction costs will be Firm Fixed Price with no other contract models; technical assistance and dark web monitoring can be priced as annual fees rather than per transaction; and there is only one CLIN for non-disaster funding which will be primarily funded through disasters. The document also clarifies that the subcontracting goal of 43% is of the subcontract total, not the overall contract total, and confirms that FEMA will provide transaction estimates prior to issuing task orders.
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| Attachment D Small Business Subcontracting Plan Amendment 03.pdf | ||
| 70FB7024R00000002 Pricing Questions and Answers Amendment 02.xlsx | XLSX spreadsheet | |
| Attachment A - PWS _IVA_26NOV24_ Amendment 01.pdf | ||
| 70FB7024R00000002 Amendment 01.pdf | ||
| Attachment C- Price Schedule Amendment 01.xlsx | XLSX spreadsheet | |
| Attachment E Past Performance Questionnaire Amendment 01.docx | DOCX document | |
| 70FB7024R00000002 - Questions and Answers 11-26-2024 Amendment 01.xlsx | XLSX spreadsheet | |
| Attachment B QASP.pdf | ||
| 2.2.1 Attachment F-DHS Form 700-23.pdf | ||
| Attachment D Small Business Subcontracting Plan.pdf | ||
| 2.2.1 Attachment C- Price Schedule.xlsx | XLSX spreadsheet | |
| Attachment A- PWS _IVA_.pdf | ||
| 70FB7024R00000002.pdf | ||
| 2.2.1 Attachment E Past Performance Questionnaire (2).docx | DOCX document |
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| Solicitation: Individual Identity Verification and Authentication Support Services (IV&A) | ||||||
| Solicitation Number: 70FB7024R00000002 | ||||||
| Pricing Questions | ||||||
| # | Solicitation or Attachments RFP Section | Paragraph No. | Page No.(s) | Question Category (Contract or Technical) | Question | Answers |
| 1 | Attachment C - Disaster Funded (DR) Tab | CLIN 0001 | Rows 9-13 | Contract - Pricing | Sections 1.1 and 1.2 of the PWS indicate a need for property ownership records. Can we assume property ownership records should be included as a component of the CLIN 0001 requirement (disaster or non-disaster funded) or is there another CLIN where this information is expected? | Yes property ownership records should be included as a component of the CLIN 0001 requirement. |
| 2 | Attachment C - Disaster Funded (DR) Tab | CLIN 0006 | Rows 43-48 | Contract - Pricing | Section 2.6 of the PWS (Attachment A page 7) suggests that the bank account validation information will be supplied by Accuity. Can you be specific on what is required for pricing? Is this simply a list of validated routing numbers to Banks so FEMA can use this to validate input? Or, is FEMA anticipated a more comprehensive service to validate ownership of the account and routing number to the person applying for benefits? The monthly nature of this suggests it is only for purposes of valid routing number checks. | We are looking for a return of the uniform data associated to a routing number (uniform bank names)… as the data we have is a freeform field. |
| 3 | Attachment C - Disaster Funded (DR) Tab | CLIN 0008 | Rows 57-62 | Contract - Pricing | Section 2.8 in the PWS (Attachment A page 8) discusses the Business Document Validation tool. Can you describe exactly what is required here for the purposes of pricing? Is this checking the existence of a Business (e.g. KYB on a valid business); or is this taking information off a receipt supplied by a survivor, and checking the business receipt data against a third-party service to validate the existence of those businesses? | The government is open to solutions from industry. |
| 4 | Attachment C - Disaster Funded (DR) Tab | CLIN 0009 | Rows 64-69 | Contract - Pricing | CLIN 0009 requires batch capabilities (see Section 2.9 of the PWS, Attachment A page 8 bullet 3). Please provide the number of entities that will be searched via batch under this CLIN. | This is not a typical occurrence & not one that we currently do. This would be variable upon need & we are open to solutions from industry. |
| 5 | Attachment C - Disaster Funded (DR) Tab | CLIN 0010 | Rows 71-76 | Contract - Pricing | The rules and indicators outlined in Section 2.10 of the PWS for CLIN 0010 (Attachment A page 8) rely on data elements. If the data elements required to create the rule are not included in other CLINs, should the data cost be included in CLIN 0010? Is the data that is required to create these rules already available to FEMA through other means? | PWS Section 2.10 covers this in specific detail. |
| 6 | Attachment C - Disaster Funded (DR) Tab | CLIN 0010 | Rows 71-76 | Contract - Pricing | For the Technical Assistance described in 2.10; this would appear to be a CLIN to cover the use of a flexible rules engine with configurable scoring to support FEMA. Should be assume it covers this platform/workflow engine and now the various discrete data sources mentioned under 2.10 which would appear to be (in-part) duplicates of other data requested in the PWS. | Yes. |
| 7 | Attachment C - Disaster Funded (DR) Tab | CLIN 0014 | Rows 99-104 | Contract - Pricing | Regarding pricing for the call-center tooling, does FEMA anticipate a tooling/platform that can be utilized by FEMA agents that would be integrated into the fraud/platform to help prevent fraud on inbound telephone calls?. Can you describe what is anticipated by this CLIN? | The government is open to solutions from industry. |
| 8 | Attachment C - Disaster Funded (DR) Tab | CLIN 0015 | Rows 106-111 | Contract - Pricing | Is this CLIN intended to reflect that the contractor should have a tool that focuses on FEMA credentials being detected in the dark web? Can you clarify what information is anticipated to be monitored, and is it anticipated that the Login.Gov credentials are the key credentials that you wish us to monitor for on the DarkWeb? | The expectation here is to monitor dark web activity to identify where methods or tactics are being shared to exploit FEMA's programs. (ex: we've previously been alerted to individuals sharing exact answers and methods to use full stolen identities and illicitly created bank accounts to thwart FEMA controls.) |
| 9 | Attachment C - Disaster Funded (DR) Tab | CLIN 0016 | Rows 113-118 | Contract - Pricing | Can the Government separate the volumes and pricing for this CLIN for identity documents vs non-standard documents? The answers to questions stated that this CLIN includes both, but the optimal solution and cost can be different dependent on the document type. | The government is open to solutions from industry. |
| 10 | Attachment C - Disaster Funded (DR) Tab | CLIN 0016 | Rows 113-118 | Contract - Pricing | For the identity documents included in this CLIN, can the Government confirm if this a real time collection of documents directly from the individual and if a biometric (facial recognition) verification is required? | The government is open to solutions from industry. |
| 11 | Attachment C - Disaster Funded (DR) Tab | CLINS 0018-0020 | Rows 127-146 | Contract - Pricing | Can the Government confirm that the transactional price for these batch CLINs are a per record price, where each batch would be priced based on the number of records included in each batch? | The costs requested are per transaction. |
| 12 | Solicitation - SF 1449 | Block 8 | Page 1 | Contract - Offer Due Date for Pricing | Answers to these questions will influence the pricing volume. In order to provide time to react to and respond to this solicitation accurately given answers to questions, would the Government consider an extension of the due date by one week to 12/18/2024? | No |
| 13 | Solicitation - Factor 4: Price | Paragraph 7 | 92 | Contract - Pricing | This section outlines the evaluation criteria for the business/price proposal and notes that all CLINSs across the base plus option years shall be totaled and the Grant Total shall be used for price co+B15:F17mparison. Will the Government also look at the prices by CLIN broken down by what's currently being used and what is optional/unfunded, as well as by DR vs OS funding? | The government will analyze the individual CLIN costs as well as the total cost proposed. |
| 14 | Pricing | Table 2 and 3 | Table 2 and 3 | Contract - Pricing | CLIN 001 is considered under both Disaster (DR) and Non-Disaster (DO) Funded cost considerations. Would the Government please define the circumstances agains when we would apply CLIN 001 costs? (e.g. does CLIN 0001 stop for DO when they start for DR?) | There should be no difference in cost for non-disaster versus disaster. |
| 15 | Attachment C-Price Schedule Amendment 01 | n/a | n/a | Contract - Pricing | In addition to submitting the Attachment C-Price Schedule, should offerors include any pricing assumptions or narrative in a separate Business Proposal PDF volume? | Any narrative should be included within the page limits. |
| 16 | Attachment C-Price Schedule Amendment 01 | Tab 3 | Tab 3 | Contract - Pricing | In Attachment C-Price Schedule, both CLINs 0010 (Technical Assistance) and 0015 (Dark Web Monitoring) are listed as transactional costs. However, Technical Assistance and Dark Web Monitoring solutions are typically priced as an annual fee, rather than on a transactional basis. Please clarify how offerors can present pricing for these CLINs if not pricing as transactional items. | If an offeror prefers to propose an annual cost instead of a per transaction cost this will be acceptable. |
| 17 | Attachment C-Price Schedule Amendment 01 | Tab 2 and 3 | Tab 2 and 3 | Contract - Pricing | To assist offerors as they price the applicable CLINs, can the Government confirm that an offeror data center hosted solution not in a commercial cloud is permitted? | Due to potential security risks the government would need more information as to what this looks like. |
| 18 | Attachment C - Pricing Spreadsheet - Amendment 01 | n/a | n/a | Contract - Pricing | Given that the majority (>75%) of CLINs concern public data sources offered by only a handful of data providers (Lexis, Reuters, Experian, etc.) that are all large businesses and none of which operate as small businesses requirement, would FEMA consider removing the 41% annual contract value small business set-aside, or alternatively provide detail on its expectations of how a Contractor could meet both the RFP’s technical and small business requirements? | The subcontracting goals aren't set by FEMA therefore the goals cannot be changed. The 43% is the overall total of the subcontract not the overall total of the contract. The original attachment D was incorrect and new attachment D amendment 03 has been published to correct the percentages. |
| 19 | Attachment C - Pricing Spreadsheet - Amendment 01 | n/a | n/a | Contract - Pricing | The tab for Disaster Funded activities contains 21 CLINs whereas the Non-Disaster tab only has one CLIN for Authentication & Verification, with an estimated number of transactions significantly less than Disaster activities. Can the government confirm that there is only one CLIN on the Non-Disaster tab and provide additional information as to why there is only one CLIN for this tab? | There is only one CLIN on the non-disaster tab. This is because this CLIN will be partially funded by a small amount of program funding. This CLIN, along will all the other CLINs, will be primarily funded by disasters. |
| 20 | Attachment C - Pricing Spreadsheet - Amendment 01 | n/a | n/a | Contract - Pricing | Can FEMA provide context into why some CLINs have an estimated transaction range (low-medium-high) of 100,000-300,000 transactions, while others have a range of 1,000,000-3,000,000? Will those data sets with the lower transaction volume only be leveraged for a specific type of application? | The transaction ranges for each CLIN are accurate & reflect estimated activity. |
| 21 | Attachment C - Pricing Spreadsheet - Amendment 01 | n/a | n/a | Contract - Pricing | Can FEMA confirm that for CLIN 006 (Accuity Tool), it is not seeking a per transaction fixed fee cost, but instead an overall monthly licensing fixed fee? If so, how many users or user licenses does FEMA anticipate will be needed? | Yes a monthly license fee is anticipated. One license should be sufficient. |
| 22 | Attachment C - Pricing Spreadsheet - Amendment 01 | n/a | n/a | Contract - Pricing | The pricing spreadsheet requires vendors to price a cost per transaction with separate calculations for a low, medium, and high number of transactions for each CLIN. Given these will be FFP task orders, will FEMA provide an estimate of transactions and CLINs used prior to issuing each task order? | Yes. |
| 23 | Attachment C - Pricing Spreadsheet - Amendment 01 | n/a | n/a | Contract - Pricing | In Disaster Funded tab, in cell D157, the Base Period Disaster Funded Estimated Totals for the Mid-range includes cell D9, which is the cost per transaction for CLIN 0001 in the total sum formula. Could the government please remove the addition of cell D9 in the total sum formula in cell D157? | D9 is not included in the calculation for D157. |
| 24 | Attachment C - Pricing Spreadsheet - Amendment 01 | n/a | n/a | Contract - Pricing | Can FEMA clarify whether it expects investigative support agents and, if so, whether that cost should be embedded within CLIN 009 (Investigation Tool Licenses) or CLIN 010 (Technical Assistance)? | Yes, supplemental investigative support in an ad-hoc manner. |
| 25 | Attachment C - Pricing Spreadsheet - Amendment 01 | n/a | n/a | Contract - Pricing | Our understanding is that the number of screening required in a given month or year can fluctuate significantly depending on the number and size of disasters in a given year. As a result, for FFP purposes, it may be difficult to determine the number of transactions at the outset of a task order. Can FEMA clarify whether it intends to leverage hybrid cost models, including T&M, FFP-LOE, and FFP? | No. Each transaction cost will be FFP. No other contract model will be necessary. |
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