Section L - Instructions to Offerors_A0005.pdf

USCG Offshore Patrol Cutter—Stage 2 70Z02321RAPC00000 / A00005

Part IV – Representations and Instructions

Section L – Instructions, Conditions, and Notices to Offerors

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

L.1 SOLICITATION PROVISIONS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

L.2 HOMELAND SECURITY ACQUISITION REGULATION (HSAR)

PROVISIONS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

L.3 AVAILABILITY OF SPECIFICATIONS LISTED IN THE GSA INDEX OF

FEDERAL SPECIFICATIONS, STANDARDS AND COMMERCIAL ITEM

DESCRIPTIONS

L.4 PROVISIONS INCORPORATED IN FULL TEXT

L.5 OMBUDSMAN PROGRAM FOR AGENCY PROTEST

L.6 NOTICE OF PREAWARD SURVEY

L.7 RFP QUESTIONS AND AMENDMENTS

L.8 PROPOSAL DUE DATE

L.9 PERIOD FOR ACCEPTANCE OF OFFERS

L.10 NOTIFICATION OF USE OF GOVERNMENT SUPPORT CONTRACTORS

L.11 GENERAL PROPOSAL INSTRUCTIONS

L.12 TECHNICAL VOLUME INSTRUCTIONS

L.13 PAST PERFORMANCE VOLUME INSTRUCTIONS

L.14 PRICE VOLUME INSTRUCTIONS

L.15 ADMINISTRATIVE VOLUME INSTRUCTIONS

L.16 LIST OF SECTION L ATTACHMENTS

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L.1 FAR 52.252-1 SOLICITATION PROVISIONS INCORPORATED BY

REFERENCE (FEB 1998)

This solicitation incorporates one or more solicitation provisions by reference, with the same force and effect as if they were given in full text. Upon request, the Contracting Officer will make their full text available. The Offeror is cautioned that the listed provisions may include blocks that must be completed by the Offeror and submitted with its quotation or offer. In lieu of submitting the full text of those provisions, the Offeror may identify the provision by paragraph identifier and provide the appropriate information with its quotation or offer. Also, the full text of a solicitation provision may be accessed electronically at this/these address(es):

https://www.acquisition.gov/far/part-52

(End of provision)

NOTICE: The following solicitation provisions are hereby incorporated by reference:

NUMBER TITLE DATE

52.204-6 UNIQUE ENTITY IDENTIFIER OCT 2016

52.204-7 SYSTEM FOR AWARD MANAGEMENT OCT 2018

52.207-1 NOTICE OF STANDARD COMPETITION MAY 2006

52.211-6 BRAND NAME OR EQUAL AUG 1999

52.211-7 ALTERNATIVES TO GOVERNMENT-UNIQUE STANDARDS NOV 1999

52.214-34 SUBMISSION OF OFFERS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE APR 1991

52.214-35 SUBMISSION OF OFFERS IN U.S. CURRENCY APR 1991

52.215-1 INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFERORS-COMPETITIVE ACQUISITION JAN 2017

52.215-2 AUDIT AND RECORDS—NEGOTIATION JUN 2020

52.215-16 FACILITIES CAPITAL COST OF MONEY JUN 2003

52.215-23 LIMITATIONS ON PASS-THRU CHARGES JUN 2020

52.219-9 SMALL BUSINESS SUBCONTRACTING PLAN JUN 2020

52.222-24 PREAWARD ON-SITE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY COMPLIANCE

EVALUATION

FEB 1999

52.232-38 SUBMISSION OF ELECTRONIC FUNDS TRANSFER INFORMATION WITH

OFFER

JUL 2013

52.250-2 SAFETY ACT COVERAGE NOT APPLICABLE FEB 2009

https://www.acquisition.gov/far/part-52

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L.2 HOMELAND SECURITY ACQUISITION REGULATION (HSAR)

NUMBER TITLE DATE

3052.219-71 DHS MENTOR-PROTÉGÉ PROGRAM JUN 2006

3052.219-72 EVALUATION OF PRIME CONTRACTOR

PARTICIPATION IN THE DHS MENTOR

PROTÉGÉ’ PROGRAM JUN 2006

L.3 AVAILABILITY OF SPECIFICATIONS LISTED IN THE GSA INDEX OF

FEDERAL SPECIFICATIONS, STANDARDS AND COMMERCIAL ITEM

DESCRIPTIONS, FPMR PART 101-29 (FAR 52.211-1) (AUG 1998)

(a) The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Index of Federal Specifications, Standards and Commercial Item Descriptions, FPMR Part 101-29, and copies of specifications, standards, and commercial item descriptions cited in this RFP may be obtained for a fee by submitting a request to-- GSA Federal Supply Service

Specifications Section, Suite 8100

470 East L'Enfant Plaza, SW

Washington, DC 20407

Telephone (202) 619-8925; Facsimile (202) 619-8978

(b) If the General Services Administration, Department of Agriculture, or Department of

Veterans Affairs issued this RFP, a single copy of specifications, standards, and commercial item descriptions cited in this RFP may be obtained free of charge by submitting a request to the addressee in paragraph (a) of this provision. Additional copies will be issued for a fee.

L.4 PROVISIONS INCORPORATED IN FULL TEXT

FAR 52.211-2—AVAILABILITY OF SPECIFICATIONS, STANDARDS, AND DATA

ITEM DESCRIPTIONS LISTED IN THE ACQUISITION STREAMLINING AND

STANDARDIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (ASSIST) (APR 2014)

(a) Most unclassified Defense specifications and standards may be downloaded from the following

ASSIST websites:

(1) ASSIST (https://assist.dla.mil/online/start/);

(2) Quick Search (http://quicksearch.dla.mil/);

(3) ASSISTdocs.com (http://assistdocs.com).

(b) Documents not available from ASSIST may be ordered from the Department of Defense Single

Stock Point (DoDSSP) by:

(1) Using the ASSIST Shopping Wizard (https://assist.dla.mil/wizard/index.cfm);

https://assist.dla.mil/online/start/ http://quicksearch.dla.mil/ http://assistdocs.com/ https://assist.dla.mil/wizard/index.cfm

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(2) Phoning the DoDSSP Customer Service Desk (215) 697-2179, Mon-Fri, 0730 to 1600

EST; or

(3) Ordering from DoDSSP, Building 4, Section D, 700 Robbins Avenue, Philadelphia, PA

19111-5094, Telephone (215) 697-2667/2179, Facsimile (215) 697-1462.

(End of provision)

FAR 52.216-1—TYPE OF CONTRACT (APR 1984)

The Government contemplates award of a Firm-Fixed Price Incentive (Fee) Target contract resulting from this solicitation.

(End of provision)

FAR 52.233-2—SERVICE OF PROTEST (SEPT 2006)

(a) Protests, as defined in Section 33.101 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation, that are filed directly with an agency, and copies of any protests that are filed with the Government

Accountability Office (GAO), shall be served on the Contracting Officer (addressed as follows) by obtaining written and dated acknowledgment of receipt from the Contracting Officer, Ms.

Nakenia Spruill at Nakenia.S.Spruill@uscg.mil.

(b) The copy of any protest shall be received in the office designated within one day of filing a protest with the GAO.

(End of Provision)

L.5 OMBUDSMAN PROGRAM FOR AGENCY PROTESTS

Attachment J-16, Notice for Filing Agency Protests, details the procedures for informal discussions and filing formal agency protests via the Ombudsman Program for Agency Protests.

Interested parties are encouraged to seek resolution of their concerns within the USCG as an

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) forum, rather than filing a protest with the Government

Accountability Office or some external forum.

Protest shall be received in the office designated within one day of filing a protest with the GAO.

mailto:Nakenia.S.Spruill@uscg.mil

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L.6 NOTICE OF PREAWARD SURVEY

(a) Offerors are advised that the USCG may conduct a preaward survey to determine the responsibility of prospective Contractors. In addition to financial statements and credit rating checks to determine the financial health of any Offeror, areas of interest on this survey may include, but are not limited to the following:

(1) Quality assurance and control plans

(2) Personnel recruitment and training plans

(3) Workload factors for manpower utilization

(4) Management plan for handling peak workloads

(b) Offerors are advised that accomplishment of this survey may be a part of the source selection process and is not to be construed as an indication that an Offeror will receive or is in the best position to receive the resultant award.

L.7 RFP QUESTIONS AND AMENDMENTS

(a) The Offeror may submit written questions requesting clarification of RFP requirements.

The Offeror shall submit questions related to this RFP electronically as follows:

Questions should be submitted utilizing Attachment L-1, Question Form, posted on http://beta.sam.gov/ to both of the following email addresses:

Nakenia.S.Spruill@uscg.mil and Kayode.A.Adewole@uscg.mil.

(b) For all questions that contain proprietary information per FAR 15.201(f), complete the question form on http://beta.sam.gov/, save it with a different file name, and email directly to the Contracting Officer at Nakenia.S.Spruill@uscg.mil and

Kayode.A.Adewole@uscg.mil. The subject line of the email shall be “PROPRIETARY

Bidder’s Question.”

(1) For all proprietary questions, the Contracting Officer will try to reshape the questions received to allow a response to all Offerors without incorporating information that reveals potential Offerors’ confidential business strategy and is protected under FAR 3.104 and Subpart 24.2. If, during its review of the submitted proprietary Offeror’s Question, the Government determines, at its sole discretion, that the question does not contain proprietary information, the Offeror will be notified of the Government’s determination and the answer to the question will be distributed to all Offerors. Offerors are requested to submit questions in a format which supports answering as asked, so that edits to questions are not necessary to ensure complete answers can be provided without manipulation.

(2) For those questions that cannot be reshaped, the Contracting Officer will respond directly to the vendor.

http://beta.sam.gov/ mailto:Nakenia.S.Spruill@uscg.mil mailto:Kayode.A.Adewole@uscg.mil http://beta.sam.gov/ mailto:Nakenia.S.Spruill@uscg.mil mailto:Kayode.A.Adewole@uscg.mil

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(c) The cutoff date for questions is 11:00AM on 26 February 2021. The USCG will respond as quickly as possible to questions submitted prior to the cutoff date, and at a minimum, will provide a response to on-time questions before proposals are due. The USCG cannot guarantee that questions received after the cutoff date will be answered before the proposals are due. The USCG reserves the right to not respond to all questions after the established cutoff date.

(d) Amendments will be released on https://beta.sam.gov/ website on an as-needed basis.

(e) There is only one RFP for this requirement. Offerors are encouraged to seek clarification of any potential ambiguities in the RFP or the proposal preparation and evaluation process prior to submitting proposals.

L.8 PROPOSAL DUE DATE

(a) The Offeror shall provide the required number of copies of the proposal as set forth below.

The proposal must be received by the Contracting Officer identified in the Section G clause entitled “Address of Correspondence,” prior to 2:00 PM Eastern Time on 11 June 2021.

An Offeror that fails to meet the proposal due date will be considered “late” in accordance with FAR clause “Instructions to Offerors – Competitive Acquisition” (FAR 52.215-1).

(b) It is the Offeror’s responsibility to ensure that proposals are delivered by the due date and time required in the RFP.

(c) No changes or additions to a volume will be permitted after this date, except as provided under clarifications of proposals or discussions.

All proposal volumes shall be submitted according to the schedule in the table below.

Each proposal volume shall be submitted both as a paper/hard copy and in electronic format on Compact Disc-Read Only Memory (CD-ROM) or Digital Video Disk Read

Only Memory (DVD-ROM) in the quantities shown. Identify one complete paper/hard-copy set of each proposal as "ORIGINAL" on the outside binder(s) and on the interior title page(s). In the case of discrepancy between various copies, the proposal marked

"ORIGINAL" shall take precedence.

Proposal Volume Number of Copies

TECHNICAL

1 Master Original (paper)

10 Electronic (CD-ROM or DVD-ROM)

PAST PERFORMANCE

1 Master Original (paper)

10 Electronic (CD-ROM or DVD-ROM)

PRICE

1 Master Original (paper)

10 Electronic (CD-ROM or DVD-ROM) https://beta.sam.gov/

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Proposal Volume Number of Copies

ADMINISTRATIVE

1 Master Original (paper)

10 Electronic (CD-ROM or DVD-ROM)

(d) Proposals will be received at the following address:

COMMANDANT (CG-9125)

ATTN: 70Z02321RAPC00000—OPC Stage 2

U.S. COAST GUARD HEADQUARTERS

2703 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. AVE SE

WASHINGTON DC 20593-7800

(e) The U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters is a controlled access building requiring security pre-screening for all visitors. Offerors intending to hand carry their proposal must make access arrangements by contacting the Contracting Officer at least one week prior to the date required for access for U.S. citizens and 60 days for foreign nationals. Expect delays clearing building security and plan accordingly. Offerors intending to mail their proposal to the address provided in L.8(d) shall notify the Contracting Officer via e-mail with the respective tracking information. It is the Offeror’s responsibility to ensure that proposals are delivered by the due date and time required in the solicitation.

L.9 PERIOD FOR ACCEPTANCE OF OFFERS

Offer shall remain valid for at least 12 months after submission date. The Offeror shall state the date through which the Offer remains valid and available for award in the Administrative

Document Volume of its proposal.

L.10 NOTIFICATION OF USE OF GOVERNMENT SUPPORT CONTRACTORS

(a) Government support Contractors may advise the Source Selection Organization (SSO).

When appropriate, advisors may have access to Offerors’ proposals, and may be utilized to objectively review a proposal in a particular functional area and provide comments and recommendations to the source selection organization. They may not establish final assessments of risk, nor rate or rank Offerors’ proposals. Advisors are subject to criminal and civil penalties under the Procurement Integrity Act for unauthorized release of contractor bid or proposal information and will be required to sign Non-Disclosure

Agreements (NDAs).

(b) Offerors shall enter into NDAs with all Contractor organizations supporting this source selection, and provide copies of any such agreement(s) to the Contracting Officer with its proposal submission. Offerors shall include NDAs in the Administrative Documentation

Volume of their proposals in accordance with RFP Section L.14.

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GOVERNMENT SUPPORT CONTRACTORS

POINTS OF CONTACT:

American Systems Corporation

Point of Contact: David Barnes, Sr. Contracts Administrator

Phone: 703-968-5196

Email: David.Barnes@AmericanSystems.com

Address: 14151 Park Meadow Drive, Suite 500, Chantilly, VA 20151

Gibbs & Cox Maritime Solutions

Point of Contact: Hockley Walsh, G&C Contracts Administrator

Phone: 703-839-8974

Email: Stevenson.Walsh@gibbscox.com

Address: 2711 Richmond HWY, Suite 1000, Arlington, VA 22202

The Kenific Group

Point of Contact: Kim Bernard, Chief Operating Officer

Phone: 703-244-4410

Email: Kim.Bernard@kenificgroup.com

Address: 3975 Fair Ridge Dr, Suite 250N, Fairfax, VA 22033

Thor Solutions, LLC

Point of Contact: Stephen Leavy, Facility Security Officer

Phone: 540-846-6016

Email: sleavy@thorsolutions.us

Address: 2900 S Quincy Street, Suite 100, Arlington, VA 22206

Technomics

Point of Contact: Robert Nehring, Certified Cost Estimator

Phone: 571-366-1441

Email: rnehring@technomics.net

Address: 1225 Clark Street South, Suite 1500, Arlington, VA 22202

ITA International, LLC

Point of Contact: Mike Carlson, Chief Contracts Officer

Phone: 757-246-6781

Email: mcarlson@ita-intl.com

Address: 700 Tech Center Parkway, Suite 202, Newport News, VA 23606 mailto:David.Barnes@AmericanSystems.com mailto:Stevenson.Walsh@gibbscox.com mailto:Kim.Bernard@kenificgroup.com mailto:sleavy@thorsolutions.us mailto:rnehring@technomics.net mailto:mcarlson@ita-intl.com

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(c) Should the Offeror(s) have any objections to these companies participating in the proposal evaluation process, the Offeror(s) shall provide written notification to the

Contracting Officer explaining which entity the Offeror objects to and the reasons for objecting no later than 14 calendar days after the RFP release date found in Block 5 of the SF33. Submission of a proposal in response to this RFP constitutes approval to release the Offeror’s proposal to Contractor support/advisory personnel for the purposes stated herein.

L.11 GENERAL PROPOSAL INSTRUCTIONS

(a) Prior to submission of proposals, Offerors are expected to reach a complete understanding of the requirements of this RFP by careful study of the RFP and by application of qualified knowledge and experience.

(b) Information provided to the USCG in advance of the issuance of this RFP will not be used in the evaluation, unless explicitly included in an Offeror’s written submission.

(c) These instructions prescribe the format of proposals and describe the approach to be used in the development and presentation of proposal information. Proposals must be prepared in accordance with these instructions, providing all required information in the format specified. Failure of a proposal to comply with these instructions may be grounds for exclusion of the proposal from further consideration.

(d) Proposals shall be clear and concise and include sufficient detail for effective evaluation.

The Offeror should not simply rephrase or restate the Government’s requirements, but rather shall provide convincing rationale to address how the contractor intends to meet those requirements.

(e) Deficiencies, whether informational or technical (e.g., failure of a proposal to comply with solicitation requirements, failure to provide a technical approach or information regarding another area to be evaluated, failure to address the requirements of the

Statement of Work or Specification, and failure to submit required data) may be cause for elimination from the competitive range or rejection of an offer.

(f) Price data pertaining to OPC Stage 2 shall only be included in the Price proposal volume.

(g) This program is unclassified. No classified data shall be submitted as part of an Offeror's proposal.

(h) If exceptions to the requirements in the OPC Stage 2 solicitation are proposed, the

Offeror shall provide a full explanation of all exceptions proposed. Exceptions shall be referenced to the section and paragraph number of the solicitation. Full supporting rationale shall be provided for each. If exceptions are proposed, the Offeror shall so state in the cover letter of the applicable proposal volume. Exceptions shall be located at the beginning of the appropriate proposal volume. If no exceptions are proposed, the Offeror shall so state in the cover letter. Offerors are cautioned that exceptions to the requirements may result in the rejection of the offer.

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(i) Proposals shall fully address the Offeror’s capabilities, resources and applicable experience relevant to performing Detail Design and Production (DD&P). The Offeror’s proposal in response to this RFP shall consist of Technical, Past Performance, Price and

Administrative Volumes.

(j) The written proposal submitted in response to this solicitation shall consist of four (4) separate volumes:

VOLUME REFERENCE PAGE LIMITS

I. Technical L.12 160*

II. Past Performance L.13 None

III. Price L.14 None

IV. Administrative L.15 None

*Including appendices, but excluding Detail Design Appendix, Qualification, Certification and Resume Appendix, Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and Executive Summary. The page limits for the Technical Volume excludes all

J-attachments

(k) All volumes shall include the following Front Matter (as applicable): Cover Page, Title

Page, Table of Contents, List of Illustrations, List of Tables, and Glossary of

Abbreviations.

(l) The following format requirements apply:

(1) Each volume shall be labeled with the title of the volume, the Offeror's company name and include a table of contents. The written portions of each proposal shall be no less than 1-inch margins; type no smaller than 12 point font; single-spaced with double spacing between paragraphs. For tabular data, the font size shall be no smaller than 8 point. Other than foldouts for drawings, charts, and schedules, all information should be printable on 8.5 inch by 11 inch paper, in portrait orientation.

(2) Pages shall be individually and sequentially numbered (e.g. 8 of 150).

(3) Electronic proposal submissions and supporting information shall be submitted on

CD or DVD media in a format that can be accessed using a standard PC-compatible CD/DVD drive. The Government will not accept submissions on any other electronic media, such as flash memory cards or USB flash drives. Prior to submittal, the Offeror shall ensure that all CD/DVD media do not contain computer viruses or other malware.

(4) Foldouts for drawings, charts and schedules no larger than 17 inch by 22 inch.

(ANSI C) are permitted and shall count as one page but must be no larger than 8.5 by 11 inches when folded, this limitation does not apply to Detail Design

Appendix drawings which must be submitted in their designated drawing size and scale. Foldouts shall be kept to a minimum and are limited to proposal graphics

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Font size for charts, schedules, and diagrams shall be no smaller than 10 point.

(5) Each drawing shall bear the name of the Offeror, the drawing title and a unique drawing number in the lower right-hand corner.

(6) All data shall be presented using Imperial (US) units. Where Vendor Furnished

Information (VFI) is in metric (SI) only, it may be included in the proposal without conversion to Imperial (US) units.

(m) The following format requirements apply to electronic copies of the Offeror's proposal:

(1) Price Proposal data shall be in Microsoft Excel, compatible with version 2016.

All other content shall be Microsoft Word, compatible with version 2016, or

Portable Document Format (PDF), compatible with Adobe Acrobat DC. Any pricing spreadsheets shall be unlocked and in an editable format, with formulas available.

(2) The Detail Design Elements drawings provided as attachments, foldouts, or appendices within the Technical Volume shall be compatible with AutoCAD®

Version 2017 and PDF compatible with Adobe Acrobat DC, unless otherwise specified.

(3) The Detail Design Elements electronic reports and data related to the Detail

Design Elements shall be provided in both its native software format e.g., AutoCAD® Version 2017, and as a PDF compatible with Adobe Acrobat DC.

(4) The electronic media copy of each proposal volume shall be formatted with appropriate folders/directories corresponding to each divider tab. Each piece of electronic media shall be labeled on the disc and on the jewel case or protective cover to include: Offeror's Name; the solicitation number, and, as applicable, the volume, set number, disk number and number of disks in set (e.g., Price Volume

- Set One - Disk 1 of 2). Note: the USCG Headquarters Standard Workstation

Image does not have the AutoExec capability enabled, therefore, if the electronic media takes advantage of this feature, include on the label the path of the file to initially open.

(5) Electronic links to on-line data via the World Wide Web are not acceptable as the data is subject to alteration after the date of submittal. Such electronic material must be copied and pasted into a document that can be saved as a complete file in and of itself.

(n) The Government reserves the right to incorporate into the resulting contract, in whole or in part, any information submitted in the Offeror’s written proposal.

(o) Offers may not be submitted for quantities less than those specified.

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(p) For the purposes of this solicitation, a major subcontractor is defined as any subcontractor proposed to perform design or construction-related scope (i.e., efforts in support of design or construction of the ships rather than solely supplying a completed CFE component such as an engine) valued at $25 million or more per ship. A major subcontractor does not include equipment or material subcontractors unless the subcontractor is also proposed to perform design or construction-related scope with a value that meets the defined threshold.

L.12 TECHNICAL VOLUME INSTRUCTIONS—VOLUME I

NOTICE: PRICE PROPOSAL NARRATIVE AND PROPOSED PRICES ARE NOT

ALLOWED IN THE TECHNICAL VOLUME.

The Technical Volume of the proposal will present the Offeror’s understanding of the scope of the acquisition and overall approach to performing the work required. It also includes design elements to demonstrate the Offeror’s planned approach with respect to specified preliminary design attributes. This volume must outline the specific effort the Offeror intends to perform in sufficient detail to clearly demonstrate the Offeror’s approach to meeting all the requirements of this RFP. The Technical Volume shall be organized in the following format, with attachments incorporated in the relevant sections:

Technical Volume Outline

The Technical Volume of the proposal shall be in narrative format with tables and figures as needed, and will include the sections described below:

(1) Cover Letter, Title Page, Table of Contents, Glossary

(2) Executive Summary

(3) Factor 1 – PRODUCTION APPROACH

(4) Factor 2 – DESIGN APPROACH

(5) Factor 3 – SCHEDULE

(6) Factor 4 – PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

(7) The following Section J attachments:

a. Attachment J-21a Design Placemat Attachment J-21 Design

Placemat.

b. Attachment J-25b Schedule Milestones

(8) Integrated Master Schedule required in section L.12.3

(9) Detail Design Appendix: This is part of the Technical Volume, as a separate binder.

See L.12 for additional details. The Detail Design Appendix shall be provided in electronic format only, with the exception of the drawings. All drawings must be provided as a paper/hard copy and in electronic format on CD-ROM or DVD-ROM.

Paper drawings must be plotted at the drawing size and scale identified in the drawing’s title block.

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(10) Qualifications, Certification, and Resume Appendix: Qualifications, Certifications, and Resume required in section L may be included in this section but must be properly referenced in the appropriate section.

Executive Summary

The Offeror shall include an Executive Summary of no more than five (5) pages that provides an overview of the technical proposal being submitted, and addresses each non-price factor. This summary will be used to provide the evaluator with a basic understanding of the Offeror’s technical proposal prior to evaluating each technical factor. The Executive Summary shall also include the Attachment J-21 Design Placemat.

L.12.1 FACTOR 1 – PRODUCTION APPROACH

The Offeror shall provide a narrative which describes the technical characteristics of its proposal and how it meets or exceeds (as applicable) the requirements of this RFP. The narrative shall address the following specific elements:

(1) Production Approach

(2) Facilities

(3) Learning Curve

Production Approach

(a) Production Overview – The Offeror shall present an overview of its production approach for the OPC.

(b) Production Method – The Offeror shall describe the work sequencing, designated workstations, and material flow from receipt at the Offeror’s facility through installation of the OPC.

(c) Build Approach – The Offeror shall describe its strategy to build the OPC. The Offeror’s build strategy shall describe the size and number of major blocks, extent of pre-installation of equipment in blocks prior to assembly, production activities occurring in covered facilities, production activities to be completed by major sub-contractors, and production activities planned to occur after ship assembly. For production activities to be completed by a major sub-contractor or teaming arrangement, the Offeror shall describe how the component will be transported to the ship erection site and what considerations the Offeror is making for these transportation options.

(d) Producibility – The Offeror shall describe how its production approach supports simultaneous multi-ship OPC production to deliver 2 OPCs per year. The Offeror shall describe labor resources (prime and subcontractor labor hours) it plans to utilize for OPC production. The narrative and resources must align with the information provided in the price volume. The narrative shall identify the production labor resources at the 2-digit

SWBS level and be consistent with the information provided in attachment L-2, L-3, and

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L-4 of the price volume. The narrative shall address variation in the production labor resources from year to year.

(e) Production Engineering – The Offeror shall describe its production engineering approach to transition the OPC design to production products. The Offeror shall describe the strategy to control weight throughout production. The Offeror shall describe its method and rationale to establish and manage the production margins.

(f) Quality Assurance – The Offeror shall provide a narrative that describes its quality assurance plan for OPC production. The Offeror shall describe its quality assurance structure, to include an organization chart depicting how the quality assurance organization interacts with all Detail Design and production activities. The Offeror’s description shall include an overview of the resources, process, and checkpoints used during production and testing of OPCs to ensure first time quality during production and root-cause traceability. The Offeror shall describe how it will identify, document, and correct defects. The Offeror shall discuss quality assurance processes for addressing the actions and authority of its quality assurance organization to finding and resolving the quality assurance problems. The narrative shall also include the Offeror’s current quality assurance certifications.

(g) Verification and Validation –The Offeror shall describe its approach to OPC in-plant testing, integration testing, shipboard testing, builder’s trials, and acceptance trials including the responsibilities and interface of the test and trial organization with production, design, procurement, quality assurance functions, and Government onsite surveillance personnel. The Offeror shall provide a description of its planned procedures for preparing, validating, and submitting test memoranda and trial reports. The Offeror shall include a description of how third party organizations (e.g. ABS, NAVSEA, NAVWAR, and COMOPTEVFOR) will participate.

Facilities

The Offeror shall provide a narrative that describes its facilities to support the proposed OPC production approach.

(a) Facility Overview – The Offeror shall describe its existing and planned shipbuilding facilities. The Offeror shall describe if its facilities planned for OPC are dedicated for the

OPC program or shared with other ongoing projects. The Offeror shall describe its planned facilities for onsite Government personnel, including the Design Site and

Program Resident Office (PRO). The Offeror shall describe any facility qualifications or certifications, by whom, and when, expiration/renewal dates, and provide a copy of the qualification or certification. The Offeror shall provide documentation identifying and confirming that they either own or have access to certified launch and dry dock facilities prior to Production Readiness Review.

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(b) Facility Graphical Depiction - The Offeror shall provide a graphical depiction of the planned layout for OPC production, including test facilities, test ranges, fabrication facilities, workshops, craft/material storage facilities, offices, sea access ramps/points, and other waterfront facilities. The graphical depiction of the planned layout for OPC production shall indicate which facilities are covered. The Offeror shall provide a narrative and drawings showing that the existing and/or proposed facilities provide sufficient pier-side utilities through to delivery of the OPCs; sufficient crane/modular mover capacity; and OPCs launching capability.

(c) Capacity – The Offeror shall describe its facility capacities, current utilization rates (in percent of capacity), future utilization rates (in percent of capacity), and availability to support the requirements of this RFP with consideration of all other work planned to be performed concurrently at the Offeror’s facilities. The description shall include mitigation strategies for any potential capacity shortfalls identified. Capacity margin shall be described in terms of potential risk mitigation against unexpected catastrophes.

(d) Facility Modifications and Improvements – If modifications need to be made to facilities for improvement or to support/enhance OPC production, the Offeror shall describe its extent and purpose of the modifications. The Offeror shall describe the expected capability/capacity benefit. The Offeror shall describe how its plans align with the proposed schedule, described in L.12, to include the status (i.e. in process or planned), the applicable permits, and facility certifications.

(e) Limitations – The Offeror shall describe any facility and/or environmental limitations that would affect performance of the requirements of this RFP, such as weight handling constraints, utility constraints, predominant weather conditions, water depths (high/low tides) and any physical limitations between shipbuilding facilities and trial areas (e.g. all navigating restrictions including but not limited to channel depths, bridge heights, ice restriction, etc.), and a description of mitigation plans.

Learning Curve

The Offeror shall provide a narrative that describes its detailed analysis to support production-learning reductions to support the proposed OPC-B1 to OPC-B11 production approach.

(a) The Offeror shall describe its reference system; provide class actuals, justification for any outliers that are removed from the data set (along with the actual data point) and supporting regression/calculations, loss of learning associated with production breaks, loss of learning associated with implementing design changes, and impacts of facility/process improvements.

(b) The Offeror shall state its assumptions supporting the associated Learning Curve and other data used as a basis of estimate for the production-learning reductions.

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L.12.2 FACTOR 2 - DESIGN APPROACH

The Offeror shall provide a narrative which describes the technical characteristics of its proposal and how it meets or exceeds (as applicable) the requirements of this RFP. The narrative shall address the following specific elements:

(1) Design and Life Cycle Benefit

(2) Design Soundness and Maturity

(3) Technical Data Rights

Design and Life Cycle Benefit

The Offeror shall provide a narrative which describes the technical characteristics of its proposed

OPC design and how it meets or exceeds the requirements of this RFP. The narrative shall include the following:

(a) Design Overview - The Offeror shall present an overview of the proposed design and the engineering design elements. The narrative shall complement the Detail Design Elements listed below in Section L.12, Detail Design Appendix. The narrative shall highlight any changes that reduces weight.

(b) Design Elements - The Offeror shall describe their design elements, listed in Section

L.12, Detail Design Appendix. If the Offeror’s proposed design elements reuse any portions of any design artifacts provided in the J attachment, J-20, “Matrix of OPC Stage

1 Design Artifacts”, then the Offeror shall highlight any proposed changes to that artifact within its proposed design and discuss the rationale.

(c) Logistics and Life Cycle Benefit – The Offeror shall provide a narrative that describes how the proposed OPC design improves logistics and reduces life cycle cost to the

Government from delivery of each vessel and throughout the operations and sustainment period. The Offeror shall include a narrative for every design element that results in improvement on:

(1) Reducing Operations and Sustainment (O&S) Costs - The Offeror shall discuss how it will implement features into the proposed design which will yield logistical optimization throughout the lifecycle, reducing O&S costs in ways additional to those listed below.

(2) Reducing Maintenance Costs - The Offeror shall describe how it will integrate reliability and maintainability considerations early in the detailed design and during total ship systems integration, production, and testing. The Offeror shall

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(d) Mission Effectiveness - The Offeror shall provide a narrative demonstrating the capability of the proposed design meets or exceeds those OPC System Specifications that impact mission effectiveness in the following areas:

(1) Cutter Boat Operations - Discuss how the design meets or exceeds the requirements of the OPC System Specification to launch, recover and maintain cutter boats including mission operability for small boat operations.

(2) Aviation Operations - Discuss how the design meets or exceeds the requirements of the OPC System Specification to launch, recover, and maintain a helicopter and to accommodate an Unmanned Aircraft System including mission operability for aviation operations.

(3) Alien Migrant Interdiction Operations Handling – Describe how the design meets or exceeds the requirements of the OPC System Specification.

(4) C5I and Combat System - Describe the functionality of the proposed C5I System and Combat System arrangement and how the design meets or exceeds the requirements of the OPC System Specification.

Design Soundness and Maturity

The Offeror shall provide a narrative that describes its engineering approach to ensure the OPC design is balanced, feasible, and executable. The Offeror shall discuss the overall strategies, methods, and resources used to develop the proposed design, complete the detail design, and ensure that the design complies with the OPC requirements. The Offeror shall describe the processes, including configuration management in integrating retained OPC baseline elements from the J attachment, J-20, “Matrix of OPC Stage 1 Design Artifacts,” with the proposed design; decisions; and tradeoffs associated with its proposed design. The narrative shall include:

(a) The plan to optimize and balance the OPC convergent design characteristics.

(b) A discussion of the Offeror’s design maturity appropriate with the Offeror’s proposed design and build margins and overall approach. The Offeror shall provide the recommended design and build margins, which may differ from the specification, appropriate to the level of maturity of the Offeror’s OPC design. Design maturity is defined as the level of detail the Offer proposes to enter into Detail Design.

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(c) Plan, including software, to transition the design through functional, 2D, and 3D design.

(d) Overall design as demonstrated in the Detail Design Appendix of Section L.12.

Significant design development decisions and issues to be addressed during detailed design.

(e) The resources (prime and subcontractor labor hours) the Offeror plans to utilize to complete the proposed design shall be identified at the 2-digit SWBS level. The narrative and resources must align with the information provided in the price volume attachments

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Detail Design Appendix

The Offeror shall provide the following Detail Design Elements as an appendix in a separate attachment to the Technical Volume. These Detail Design Elements will be used to help assess

Design Soundness and identify the Design Maturity. The information within the Detail Design

Appendix will not be evaluated separately, but shall support the Offeror’s proposed design. The appendix does not count against the Technical Volume page count. The Detail Design Elements are not required to be at the level of detail required in the corresponding Detail Design CDRLs described in Attachment J-5, “Contract Data Requirements List for Detail Design,” but shall contain sufficient information to describe the proposed design.

The Offeror shall create new Detail Design Elements, submit all, or submit portions of the unwarranted artifacts provided in Attachment J-20, “Matrix of OPC Stage 1 Design Artifacts” as the Offeror’s Detail Design Elements. If any OPC Stage 1 design artifacts are submitted as OPC

Stage 2 Detail Design Elements, the Offeror shall ensure the Stage 1 artifacts, or the modifications to those artifacts, are balanced, i.e., internally consistent, accurate and feasible; to an appropriate level of detail, ready to commence Detail Design; and capable of meeting OPC

Stage 2 requirements.

Any proposed Detail Design Element which is an unmodified artifact from the Attachment J-20, “Matrix of OPC Stage 1 Design Artifacts,” shall include a cover sheet to clearly identify it as a design element that is being retained in whole. Any submitted Detail Design Element that is a partial modification of a deliverable from the Attachment J-20, “Matrix of OPC Stage 1 Design

Artifacts,” shall be identified as such in a cover letter, and shall clearly identify the changes to the OPC Stage 1 design artifact, and shall not retain the markings of the OPC Stage 1 design artifact originator.

A nondisclosure agreement (NDA) will be required for access to additional Mk 110 Government

Furnished Information (GFI). This NDA does not give permission for the bidder or the USCG to contact the manufacture with request for information, technical questions, etc. The additional

GFI is not required to develop proposals, but will provide additional information. Once the

NDA is received by the manufacturer, the manufacturer will provide Mk 110 GFI not made available with the RFP. To gain access to this GFI, contact the manufacture directly at the contact information provided below:

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BAE Systems Inc.

Point of Contact: Lance J. Wesen, Manager – Contracts, Platforms and Services

Phone: 763-572-3320

Email: Lance.Wesen@baesystems.com

Address: 4800 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55421-1498

The Detail Design Appendix shall address the following:-

(1) Topside Analysis Approach products:

a) Topside Design Arrangement Drawings

b) Integrated Topside Design Analysis Report

c) Mast Structural Analysis, accommodating AN/SPS-77 radar

d) Topside Antenna Systems Arrangement Drawing

(2) Aircraft Stowage, Handling and Launching General Arrangement

(3) General Arrangement Drawings including inboard and outboard profile

(4) Boat Stowage and Handling General Arrangements and Detail Drawings

(5) C5I and Navigation Approach products:

a) C5I System Design Report – Include Bridge and Operations Center

(OPCEN) Layout

b) Navigation Systems Reports

c) C5I Integration Plan

d) C5I Network Architecture Report

e) Internal Communication (IC) Systems Report

f) Exterior Communications Systems Report

g) C5I Functional Block Diagram (excluding Weapons systems, Chemical, Biological, and Radiological (CBR) and Training)

(6) OPC Preliminary Weight Control Plan

(7) Preliminary Allocated Baseline Weight Estimate (PABWE) - Per Society of

Allied Weight Engineers, Recommended Practice No.12.

(8) Limiting Displacement/Draft Report

(9) Proposed Design and Build Margins

(10) Intact and damage stability for the Full Load Beginning of Service Life

Condition.

(11) Structural Analysis

a) Longitudinal strength at amidships.

b) A preliminary fatigue calculation at amidships.

mailto:Lance.Wesen@baesystems.com

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(12) Area & Volume where changes in the General Arrangements have been made.

(13) Electric System products:

a) Electrical One Line Diagram

b) Electric Plant Load Analysis (EPLA)

c) Electric Plant Design Report

(14) Auxiliary Systems products:

a) Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Diagrams

b) Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Heating and Cooling

Load Calculations

c) Fuel System Diagram

(15) Configuration Status Report

(16) Reliability, Maintainability, and Availability Assessment

Technical Data Rights

The Offeror shall describe how it will meet or exceed the Government's desired level of rights by completion of Attachment J-28a Technical Data Instructions and J-28b, Technical Data Tables, in accordance with the appropriate clauses in Section H. In addition to J-28a and J28-b, Offerors are required to identify any asserted rights in Section K in accordance with Section K.16 and

K.17 by completing Section J, Attachment 19 “Technical Data and Computer Software

Matrices.”All section J attachments are excluded from the page limits stated in section L.11.

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L.12.3 FACTOR 3 – SCHEDULE

The Offeror shall provide a narrative which describes the technical characteristics of its proposal and how it meets or exceeds (as applicable) the requirements of this RFP. The narrative shall address the following specific elements:

(a) Optimal Schedule Narrative – The Offeror shall propose the Offeror’s optimal schedule that supports the Offeror’s design and production approach. In the optimal schedule narrative, the Offeror shall describe the following:

(1) Detail Design Schedule – The Offeror shall describe the detailed events and activities to timely achieve Detail Design milestones. If the Offeror proposes an optimal schedule which extends the Detail Design schedule beyond the

Government-provided notional schedule, then the Offeror shall address risks to

OPC delivery and any potential benefits to the Offeror’s proposed optimal schedule. The Offeror shall address specific mitigation measures to bring OPC production in-line with the USCG notional OPC delivery dates outlined in

Attachment J-25a. In the narrative, the Offeror shall:

(i) Describe the assumptions and rationale which forms the optimal Detail

Design schedule as it relates to the technical reviews and milestones proposed in Attachment J-25b.

(ii) Describe the resource allocation to support design development to meet the entrance and exit criteria to achieve the optimal schedule.

(iii) Describe how the C5I development schedule and the MCS development schedule informs the overall Detail Design schedule to support the integrated design.

(iv) Describe how the production drawing development and submittal will support the requirement to submit production drawings 120 days prior to corresponding production activities.

(2) OPC-B1 through OPC-B11 Production Schedule – The Offeror shall describe the detailed events and activities to deliver OPC-B1 through OPC-B11 to include major event and activity dependencies. The Offeror shall describe schedule dependencies between consecutive units for an individual OPC production.

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(i) Single Ship Delivery Schedule – The Offeror shall describe schedule dependencies between consecutive hull productions while delivering one

OPC per year.

(ii) Dual Ship Delivery Schedule – The Offeror shall explain the processes that will be implemented and resources that will be administered to schedule the efforts required by this RFP to achieve and sustain delivery of two (2) OPCs per year. The Offeror shall describe schedule dependencies between hull productions when delivering two (2) OPCs per year. If the Offeror proposes an optimal schedule which achieves delivery of two OPCs per year ahead of the Government-provided notional schedule in Attachment J-25a, then the Offeror shall include a narrative of any contingencies or conditions required for achieving that accelerated schedule and mitigation strategies to limit the impact of producing additional ships ahead of operational testing. The current and anticipated

Federal Funding profile will not support procurement or staffing of more than two OPCs in any fiscal year, therefore schedules that propose delivering more than two (2) OPCs per year will not be considered for execution.

(b) Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) – The Offeror shall provide an IMS of not more than twenty (20) pages in .pdf format to support the schedule narrative, the IMS is excluded from the technical volume page limit. The Offeror’s IMS shall include all major DD&P efforts including engineering, logistics, material purchasing, production, and test. The

Offeror shall ensure that the schedule references and management approaches throughout the proposal are consistent with and supported by the IMS. The Offeror’s IMS shall display significant features of the Offeror’s scheduling approach, including:

(1) All technical events and milestones;

(2) Sufficient engineering planned to support each CDRL delivery;

(3) Major DD&P efforts including: engineering, logistics, Command, Control, Communication, Computer, Cyber, and Intelligence (C5I), Test & Integration

Facility (TIF), Land-based Test Facility (LBTF), Long Lead Time Materials

(LLTM) purchasing, and production;

(4) Facility readiness milestones and activities;

(5) Material, supply chain, sub-contract (LLTM/Contractor Furnished Equipment

(CFE) and Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) in yard need dates); and

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(6) Tasks that are labor resource loaded.

(7) The Offeror shall provide their proposed optimal schedule milestones, consistent with their IMS, in Attachment J-25b, Schedule Milestones.

L.12.4 FACTOR 4 – PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

The Offeror shall provide a narrative which describes the technical characteristics of its proposal and how it meets or exceeds the requirements of this RFP. The narrative shall address the following specific elements:

(1) Program Management Approach and Business Systems

(2) Technical and Organizational Management

(3) Workforce Planning and Teaming Strategy

(4) DHS Mentor-Protégé’ Utilization/Participation

Program Management Approach and Business Systems

The Offeror shall describe its program management approach for the entire period of performance by providing descriptive narratives to explain the processes and resources that will be implemented and administered to manage the efforts required by this RFP.

(1) Program Management Approach - The Offeror shall provide a narrative overview of its company approach to Program Management. The Offeror shall provide a description of any tailoring of its company Program Management approach to better meet the OPC Stage 2 design and production requirements.

(2) Risk and Issue Management – The Offeror shall provide a narrative on its risk management approach through OPC detail design and production. The Offeror shall describe how corrective actions for issues will be developed, submitted, and implemented.

(3) Business Systems - The Offeror shall provide a narrative overview of the processes and resources that will be used to control cost, schedule, and performance of…