Sections B-M P00001 Change Pages.pdf

Section H Page 23 of 23 with the current or predecessor contractors or their subcontractors. The Contracting Officer shall provide the list to the successor contractor, and the list shall be provided on request to employees or their representatives, consistent with the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. 552a, and other applicable law.

(d) If it is determined, pursuant to regulations issued by the Secretary of Labor (Secretary), that the contractor or its subcontractors are not in compliance with the requirements of this clause or any regulation or order of the Secretary, the Secretary may impose appropriate sanctions against the contractor or its subcontractors, as provided in Executive Order (No.) 14055, the regulations implementing that order, and relevant orders of the Secretary, or as otherwise provided by law.

(e) In every subcontract entered into in order to perform services under this contract, the contractor will include provisions that ensure that each subcontractor will honor the requirements of paragraphs (a) and (b) with respect to the employees of a predecessor subcontractor or subcontractors working under this contract, as well as of a predecessor contractor and its subcontractors. The subcontract shall also include provisions to ensure that the subcontractor will provide the contractor with the information about the employees of the subcontractor needed by the contractor to comply with paragraph (c) of this clause. The contractor shall take such action with respect to any such subcontract as may be directed by the Secretary as a means of enforcing such provisions, including the imposition of sanctions for noncompliance: provided, however, that if the contractor, as a result of such direction, becomes involved in litigation with a subcontractor, or is threatened with such involvement, the contractor may request that the United States enter into such litigation to protect the interests of the United States.

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80SSC024R0004P00001

RFP# 80SSC024R0004

Section L Page 22 of 55

(b) Electronic Proposal Instructions

1) All files shall be submitted in Microsoft Office Open XML file format, such as Microsoft Word, Excel, etc. Further, Attachments Cost/Pricing Template shall be submitted in Microsoft Excel, and not in a scanned Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF file. For Volume IV, Signed Model Contract the SF 33 and all SF 30s shall be submitted in Adobe PDF. Any other forms with signature required shall be submitted in Adobe PDF. L.II-7 Cost/Price. Electronic copies shall not contain hidden formulas, tables, be locked, be protected, or contain links to data not included in the electronic copy. Text, tables, and graphics shall allow for copy and paste into other applications.

2) Proposal due date is May 30, 2024 @ 1:00 PM local time.

3) Text information shall be 100% searchable. File compression shall not be used.

4) The Offeror shall not embed sound or video files into the proposal files and shall keep embedded graphics as simple as possible.

(c) Oral Presentations

1) Presentations will be held virtually using Microsoft Teams. The virtual meeting will be recorded and transcribed using the functions of Mircrosoft Teams.

2) Meeting will be scheduled for two (2) hours with 90 minutes allotted for Offeror’s presentations and 30 minutes allotted for Government clarification, if needed.

3) The Offeror shall have no more than 4 presenters/attendees.

4) Copies of presentations shall be received by June 17, 2024 @ 1:00pm CDT.

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L.II-3. ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTATION

The Offeror shall submit the following additional required documentation as part of its Model Contract Proposal – Volume IV submission (NOTE: This documentation will not be evaluated as part of the Mission Suitability Factor):

(a) Government Property Management Information: The Offeror shall submit the information required by NFS 1852.245-80, Government Property Management Information and DRD LS07-2.4, Government Property Management Plan. The Government will review this information to determine whether or not the Offeror’s proposed industry leading standards and practices and/or voluntary consensus

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(b) A page is defined as one side of a sheet, 8 ½ " x 11", with at least one-inch margins on all sides, using not smaller than 12-point type, Times New Roman. Charts, tables, figures, headers and footers and graphs using not smaller than 10-point type, Times New Roman is acceptable. Foldouts count as an equivalent number of 8 ½ " x 11" pages. The front of the foldout shall have a page number for each equivalent 8 ½" x 11" page and the backs shall be blank and not be numbered.

Foldouts shall be limited to organizational charts, process/work flow charts, or cost volume. The metric standard format most closely approximating the described standard 8 ½ " x 11" size may also be used. Other limitations/instructions identified as follows: Font shall be Times New Roman (excluding the Power Point oral presentation slides). Anything in excess of the page limits in TABLE L.II-4, Table 1, will not be considered. The evaluation team reserves the right to convert any non-approved font style/size into the correct font style/size, which may result in proposals exceeding the page limitations, and therefore pages being eliminated from a proposal, with no notice to the proposer.

(c) Identify any exclusions to the page limits that are excluded from the page counts specified in paragraph (a) of this provision (e.g. title pages, table of contents) as follows: Volume II – Past Performance, exceptions to page count include OSHA Form 300 and 300A & Past Performance Questionnaire. In addition, the Cost section of your proposal is not page limited. However, this section is to be strictly limited to cost and price information. Information that can be construed as belonging in one of the other sections of the proposal will be so construed and counted against that section's page limitation.

(d) If final revisions are requested, separate page limitations will be specified in the Government's request for that submission.

(e) Pages submitted in excess of the limitations specified in this provision will not be evaluated by the Government and will be returned to the offeror.

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Section L Page 28 of 55 provide its approach to maximize the readiness and productivity of the major manufacturing and support facilities.

c) Logistics Innovation and Continuous Improvement (PWS 2.2, 2.7):

The Offeror shall describe its approach to optimizing inventory management while providing timely delivery of materials to two separate sites (MAF and SSC) from the centralized logistics warehouse at MAF.

b) Engineering and Manufacturing Innovation and Continuous Improvement (PWS 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4): The Offeror shall describe its approach to maintaining the knowledge, skills, and capabilities required to perform project management, design, analysis, configuration management, sustaining engineering, and manufacturing at MAF and SSC.

iii. TECH 3 – Technical Performance Risks: The Offeror shall identify and describe what it anticipates are their top three (3) risks/challenges for executing specific proposed technical approaches defined in their technical proposal. In addition, the offeror shall assess their risk/challenges by describing the probability of the risk/challenge occurring, the impact and severity of the risk/challenge, the timeframe when the risk/challenge should be addressed, and how the Offeror will address/handle the risk/challenge.

2) SUBFACTOR 2 - Management Approach (MGMT): The Offeror’s response to the Management Approach Subfactors shall describe a thorough and comprehensive approach to managing the requirements specified in the PWS.

The Offeror’s response must provide sufficient detail to substantiate the proposed approach. In accordance with Clause L.I-21, the Offeror is encouraged to identify and provide rationale for proposed innovations and improvements that will enhance performance and reduce overall costs of acquired services without increasing risk of unsuccessful contract performance to the Government.

i. MGMT 1 – Management Plan: The Offeror shall identify the entity or combination of entities, which will be the Contractor, to include major subcontractors. The Offeror shall fully describe its overall Management Plan for performance of the contract. The description shall include:

a) The Offeror shall provide a description of the overall management, organizational, and supervisory structure, including teaming arrangements, and major subcontractors that will be employed to perform the COSMIC requirements. The Offeror shall describe its reporting structure and chain of command to function as a seamless single entity.