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COMET RFP No. 80KSC022R0004 RESPONSES TO RFP QUESTIONS 1

No. RFP Area Section Paragraph Page Question Disposition

1 Section L L.17 (f) 117 Submission instructions encourage the transmission of files 24 hours in advance of the Monday, April 18, 8.a.m. deadline for submissions. Will the Government have help desk or IT personnel available over the weekend to assist with any problems that might arise with the transfer system?

No.

2 Attachment

L-03

Instructions

Tab (Row 36 in excel)

N/A N/A The “Instructions” tab in Attachment L-

03 (row 36 in Excel) indicates that escalation is applicable to exempt employees only and changes in wages for nonexempt, covered labor and non-exempt, non-represented employees will be accommodated via the renegotiated CBAs and wage determination updates, respectively. However, the RFP does not include FAR 52.222-43 Fair Labor

Standards Act and Service Contract

Labor Standards-Price Adjustment

(Multiple Year and Option Contracts), which is the clause by which these adjustments would normally be permitted. Can the Government either remove the restriction on including escalation for nonexempt employees or add the applicable FAR clause to the

RFP?

Refer to Amendment 0002 for instructions to correct this error.

COMET RFP No. 80KSC022R0004 RESPONSES TO RFP QUESTIONS 2

3 Attachment

L-03

Instructions

Tab

Cell B36 N/A The “Instructions” tab in Attachment L-

03 (row 36 in Excel) indicates that escalation is applicable to exempt employees only and changes in wages for nonexempt, covered labor and non-exempt, non-represented employees will be accommodated via the renegotiated CBAs and wage determination updates, respectively. However, RFP Sections

B.6 (c) (1) and B.6 (c) (2) indicate that

Attachments J-13 and J-15 shall not be subject to future adjustments. Can the

Government either remove the restriction on including escalation for nonexempt employees or remove the restriction on future adjustments for these Attachments?

See response to question 2.

4 Amendment

Responses to

Questions

Question

N/A Response from Government that solicitation has been amended to revise Attachment J-09, and the new collective bargaining agreement has been uploaded to the Bidders Library, however only the previous CBA is uploaded. Is this an oversight and will the Government provide the location of the newly added and amended CBA?

The requested document is available within the Bidders Library. Refer to https://procurement.ksc.nasa.gov/comet.

From the left menu, use the path, Bidders Library/Informational

Materials, to access the file, “TOSC

Collective Bargaining Extension

Agreement”.

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Questions

Question 9 N/A Response from Government is that in the "Prime Crosswalk & Prop Hrs" tab, the pull down menu selection in

Column E includes N/A #1 thru N/A

#10 for use should a Gov't equivalent not be provided in Attachment L-07.

What if Offerors have more than 10 labor categories to add to Attachment

L-03?

Offeror may only map up to ten labor classifications to the Equivalent

Government Labor Classification of

“N/A” (i.e., “N/A #1”, “N/A #2” …

“N/A #10”).

6 Attachment

L-03

Labor

Classification worksheet

N/A N/A How are Offerors to propose all three

Straight Time, Overtime and Double time factors to the same labor category?

Would we just insert rows?

Data entered into the L-03 "Labor

Classification" tab, column F, “Overtime Premium,” is informational and is not utilized in any formulas in the

L-03 BCPT. Offerors may identify multiple factors for a labor classification under column F (e.g., 1.5 and 2.0)

7 Attachment

L-03

Government

Provided

ODCs

N/A N/A Can the Government confirm the ODC numbers provided in Attachment L-03 include applicable burdens? If not, how are offerors to add those applicable burdens?

The Government provided ODC non-proposed values do not include burdens.

Offerors are to propose and apply their burden(s) in accordance with their estimating and accounting practices in the Government provided Attachment

L-03 BCPT.

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Questions

Question 9 N/A The L-03 Labor Classifications tab does not have enough extra N/A labor categories or rows to allow for multiple shifts. Per the CBA, Lead, Shift 2 and

Shift 3 require premiums added to their

Direct labor rates. There are 12 represented CBA Labor Categories, which would equate to 4 Direct Labor rates for each position and 48 total labor rates for those positions. This could be true for the Non-Exempt/SCA positions as well. How does the Government want Offeror to address the extra rows needed to capture these additional labor rates?

See response to question 5. Offerors may not add additional rows to

Attachment L-02, Labor Classification tab. Offerors may develop off sheet calculation(s) of composite rates for

Straight Time, Overtime, and Double

Time, as applicable, based on the offeror's disclosure statement and or estimating/accounting systems policies and procedures. Refer to provision

L.23.2 paragraph (b). For any composite rate(s) developed, the

Government requires supporting data and narrative in the cost volume to fully explain and provide insight for the

Government's review and evaluation of realism and fairness and reasonableness of cost/price.

9 Attachment

L-02

Attachment

L-05

Cover worksheet

Title Page worksheet

N/A N/A Can the Government confirm that the title on the title page/cover page of

Attachment L-2 and L-5, which lists

‘Draft’ is an oversight and should be removed before final submission of these files?

Refer to Amendment 0002 for instructions to correct this error.

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10 N/A N/A N/A N/A RFP Clause I.4 establishes Government ordering and Contractor providing expectations for services priced under

$1,000 and over $10,000, not absolute minimums and maximums. Under the

Information heading (Cell A13) within the “Instructions” tab in

06_FFP_Work_Units_Template.xlsx, it states “Offerors are advised to refer to

COMET RFP Clause I.4 FAR 52.216-

19 ORDER LIMITATIONS (OCT

1995), (a)(2) and (b)(2) which establishes the Minimum and Maximum order values for CLIN #3.”

Question: Are Contractor prices for

CLIN #3 required to between $1,000 and $25,000 within L-

06_FFP_Work_Units_Template.xlsx?

No.