Questions-Answers - 75D30123R72715.pdf

Questions and Answers - 75D30123R72715

Q.1. Can you provide examples of the specific public health priorities and emergencies that the mobility data will be used to address?

A.1. Examples include: estimating evacuation rates during a natural disaster or environmental health emergency, estimating the proportion of device users in a census tract that walks or bikes for leisure or commuting, estimating migration patterns such intra-county or intra-country movement to or from areas with specific diseases.

Q.2. What are the expected timelines for delivery, setup, and response in case of emergencies?

A.2. Government should be able to query standard data immediately.

Q.3. Are there any specific requirements for coverage in additional countries/regions, or will North

America suffice?

A.3. North America is required. Other countries as available are desired.

Q.4. What specific security protocols and certifications must be adhered to for the cloud-based platform? –

A.4. See also B.2.5 IT Security and Privacy Considerations

Q.5. How are the 80 hours of professional services expected to be distributed over the year, and what is the process for requesting and delivering these services? Are the 10 days of professional services / year only meant to be in support of ad-hoc and custom work? Is it possible to include additional services time for implementation and for project and contract management?

A.5. Professional services will be for ad-hoc and custom metrics creation. Project or contract management are not anticipated for such low hours.

Q.6. Is there a preference between Azure, Amazon Web Services, or other platforms for data accessibility?

A.6. No preference

Q.7. We would like to know if an offeror can submit a response to this solicitation if they do not fall under the specific NAICS code, 541511? Our company has other similar NAICS codes (i.e. 541512, 541519, 334111, 423690).

A.7. Yes. NAICS are focused on business size standard.

Q.8. Would the government consider providing an extension to the response due date?

A.8. Yes. Extended to August 21th at 5:00pm ET.

Q.9. Questions regarding page limits for technical volume, font, margins, rules, figures and chart.

A.9. Yes. See revised E.3.3.

Q.10. Are there any specific requirements on the quantity or density of data provided?

A.10. The more representative the better.

Q.11. Regarding “Geographic Extent,” please confirm the specific countries meant by North America and priorities (i.e. U.S., Canada, Mexico?)

A.11. US, Canada, and Mexico. Other countries as available are desired.

Q.12. Regarding “Custom/Standard Metrics,” will CDC provide a table of specific sites or is the vendor responsible for identifying “Aggregated movement metrics around areas with environmental health hazards (e.g., superfund sites, PFAS sites)”?

A.12. CDC will provide locations of points of interest.

Q.13. Regarding Custom/Standard Metrics,” can you provide any more insight into this fairly broad requirement: “Aggregated indices and database that may be useful for public health research and practice”?

A.13. This is meant to capture related or similar data within this category that may not be precisely definable in this solicitation.

Q.14. What is the expected time to contract award?

A.14. As soon as possible, no later than 9/30/2023.

Q.15. Is there an incumbent or is this a new requirement?

A.15. There is no incumbent. Prior recent contracts include 75D30121P10791 – Vendor: Safegraph —

75D30121P10793 – Vendor: Ceubiq.

Q.16. Under general information (page 1), the NAICS 541511, and on page 30, E.3.2 52.212-1

Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items, the NACICS code is listed as 541512. Which NAICS code is correct for this solicitation?

A.16. 541511. See Solicitation Amend 1, E.3.2 Q.17. A.1.5 Place of Performance, page 1, is this work remote, or does the work have to be performed in close proximity to CDC?

A.17. Remote, per A.1.5. It does not have to be close in proximity to the CDC Headquarters.

Q.18. A.2.2 Evaluation Key factors include staff and Management Plan (page 2), and on page 8, B.2.3.3

Task 3: Professional Services states that the services are provided by a team of 1 Contractor professional. Are there any other key personnel required not listed to perform the deliverables in the requirement or are all of these deliverables to be provided by the 1 (one) Contractor within the 10 days (80 Hours)? (table 1, page 9; I. page 20)

A.18. No.

Q.19. Under E.4.1 52.212-2 (page 33) Evaluation – Commercial Items, will the government pull the

CPARS, or can they be submitted with the response?

A.19. Government will pull CPARS. It may also be submitted.

Q.20. If the acquisition strategy is not a small business set aside, will a small business participation component be added to the prime contractor requirements?

A.20. No. The contracting officer has determined that there are not subcontracting opportunities requiring a subcontracting plan.

Q.21. Are we expected to provide or complete/fill data gaps?

A.21. Which gaps? Any pre-award gaps in data availability to an offeror must be identified in the proposal.

Q.22. Will there be any additional data requests/expectations, such as social media data?

A.22. No. Social media is not intended to be used at all. This is merely about location and mobility.

Q.23. In “Key Data Features”, explain: “Daily unique device counts at each level of data availability (e.g., country, county, census block group)” A.23. Data are expected to be aggregated to the finest level of precision while maintaining anonymity.

Q.24. B.2.3.2 Task 2. Please explain: How deep of analysis/discovery is expected?

• “Data discovery to identify any new insights”, “Custom geoset and points of interest”, “Hosted instances plus one node cluster”, Hosted website, portal

A.24. Generally we would want the best information we can get while upholding the strongest privacy standards. These are generally more about insights within existing data so the data quality may influence the limits of analysis and discovery.