Questions_and_Answers_09-03-2019.pdf

Questions and Answers (The Government’s Reponses are in Red)

Received 8/26/2019

1. Is the SF330 exclusive of the 40-page limit?

The 40 page limit includes everything other than the durable cover sheet.

2. Will there be any small business goals or requirements?

Yes. If a large business is selected for this contract, it must comply with FAR 52.219-9 regarding the requirement for a subcontracting plan. A subcontracting plan is not required with this submittal but will be requested prior to award with the selected firm if applicable.

3. Will there be any Local (City or State) business goals or requirements?

No.

4. Do you have any sense of the timing for the interview?

We estimate the interview to take place in Early December 2019.

Received 8/26/2019

1. We understand that a subcontracting plan is not a requirement of the initial submittal, but that it will be required in the next submittal. That said, we are trying to understand what the goals might eventually be.

Language in the FAR (noted below) indicates the goals for the project would come from you. Is it safe to assume the goals will NOT be expressed from you for this submittal, but WILL be in the next submittal?

That is incorrect. It is the responsibility of the Contractor to submit a small business subcontracting plan that complies with all the requirements of 19.704 (a). That includes generating their own subcontracting goals.

The goals should be set at a level that the parties reasonably expect can result from the offeror expending good faith efforts to use small business where practicable. It will be the government’s responsibility to review those goals and make sure that the offeror has not submitted unreasonably low goals to minimize exposure to liquidated damages and to avoid the administrative burden of substantiating good faith efforts. In addition, the government must determine in their review that the offeror identified steps that, if taken would be considred a good faith effort (see FAR 19.705-4)

1. Can you please confirm if the not to exceed 40 page limit applies to the entire SF330 Part I & II? Or does this

40 page limit apply only to Section H of the SF330 Part I? Does the page count exclude the cover sheet, tabs, past performance evaluations (PPQs and CPARS), SF330 Part IIs?

The 40 page limit includes everything other than the durable cover sheet.

1. For the three representative relevant past projects by the AE team; is there a requirement or expectation for when these past projects were completed?

The synopsis has been amended to make clear that the timeframe when the work was performed is a key component of “relevance”. An otherwise relevent project, that was performed more than 7 years ago, measured from the SF330 due date, will not be rated as highly as an otherwise relevent project, that was completed within the past 7 years.