Amendment 3 QAs.pdf

As of March 8, 2022

Amendment 3 Final RFP Questions (Solicitation 80LARC22R0016)

Q1. There seems to be conflicting guidance on “significant subcontractors,” and the question relates to whether or not an entity performing less than 25% of the work needs to submit an independent detailed cost proposal.

In Form 2c, we have this:

Form 2 shall be submitted by each significant subcontractor [as defined in Section L.15 of the RFP] in its own proposal and shall be submitted directly to NASA no later than the date and time specified in the instructions for receipt of offers for this solicitation. Subcontractors not meeting the thresholds at Section L.15 are not required to provide this Form nor any supporting cost detail (i.e. no cost forms are required); the prime Offeror only needs to provide the fully-burdened rate(s) for these subcontractor(s) and rationale for reasonableness of the fully-burdened rate(s).

Nothing in L.15 defines “significant” or not - and the only place we find the definition of “significant," in L.18, specifically says that we cannot use the 25% definition anywhere but in determining “significant” with regard to past performance:

Significant Subcontractors – For the purposes of this solicitation and for proposal preparation purposes, the term “significant subcontractor” only applies to the Past Performance Factor. For the Cost/Price Factor, all subcontract cost/pricing information shall be submitted in accordance with the solicitation instructions. Under the Past Performance Factor, a “significant subcontractor” is defined as subcontractor proposed to perform 25% or more of any one of the technical performance areas listed in L.17(b).

So, bottom line: if I have a subcontractor that L.18 would not call “significant,” due to < 25% work share, do they need to send in their own proposal or can I just follow the Form 2c instructions and only use fully-burdened rates for them in our own proposal?

Response:

If a proposed subcontractor is less than 25% follow the Cost Form2c instructions and only use fully burdened rates in the submitted proposal. The Cost form instructions on Forms 2a, 2b, 2c, 3a,3b, 3c, 4a, 4b, 4c and Form 5 and 6 are hereby changed to clarify the applicable RFP reference from L.15 to L.18.

Cost forms are not being revised and re-posted as the typo with respect to the reference is the only change being made. For cost and pricing purposes the definition for significant subcontractors shall be consistent with the definition for significant subcontractors for past performance in Section L.18.Section L.19 of the RFP will be amended to reflect ”including Profit”.