Government Response to Questions Amendment 0003.pdf

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"The IPA will be required to fully update itself with all MCC procedures, training programs, policies, and guidance notes, so be ready to provide hands-on support to the CT"

Q. Will any of the hours the IPA spends fully updating itself with MCC procedures, policies, and guidelines be billable to the task order or contract that results from the RFP?

The successful offeror is expected to be capable to perform on the date of award. C.2.8 requires "the IPA's

Procurement Experts to come to MCC HQ (virtually during COVID lockdowns) to be trained by MCC staff." The hours for this specific training requirement will be billable to the contract resulting from this

RFP.

"Personal services contractors (PSCs) and contract employees including those working for subcontractors shall be subject to and abide by all MCC safety and security policy and procedures while on

MCC premises, and satisfy applicable requirements for fitness to perform work for or on behalf of MCC, personnel security, and obtaining an MCC Photo Identification (ID) Badge."

These requirements may be difficult if not impossible for non-U.S. non U.S.

permanent resident citizens to satisfy.

Q. Will the contractor’s proposed personnel, key and non-key, required to perform the scope of work, be considered subcontractor personnel and therefor be required to meet the applicable requirements for fitness to perform work for or on behalf of

MCC, personnel security, and obtaining an MCC Photo Identification (ID) Badge to meet security requirements require access to MCC Headquarters, MCCNet, Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU), Foreign Government Information (FGI) or any other designated sensitive information?

Q. Do the proposed personnel, key and non-key need to be U.S. citizens, permanent residents, or have been residing, working and/or attending an educational institution in the U.S. for at least three, years?

Q. Does the residency, work, and education experience need to be current, meaning the proposed individuals must be presently residents of the U.S. and have maintained residency for at least the past three years?

Subcontract means any contract, as defined in FAR subpart 2.1, entered into by a subcontractor to furnish supplies or services for performance of the prime contract or a subcontract. It includes, but is not limited to, purchase orders, and changes and modifications to purchase orders.

If personnel are not employees of the offeror and are employed by a different firm under a subcontract, then the employee is a subcontractor.

Personnel must be eligible for a MCC badge.

The contractor's personnel preforming the scope of this contract will not require any of the accesses detailed in the Section H clause MCC

52.204-70, paragraph B.1. Therefore, the contractor's personnel performing the scope of this contract are not required to be U.S.

citizens or permanent residents, or have been residing, working and/or attending an educational institution in the U.S. for at least three years.

"The following are requirements for a PSC or contractor employee who works under this contract and requires access to any of the following:

MCC Headquarters, MCCNet, Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU), Foreign

Government Information (FGI) or any other designated sensitive information"

Q. Will the proposed personnel, key and non-key, require access to MCC

Headquarters, MCCNet, Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU), Foreign Government

Information (FGI) or any other designated sensitive information to perform the services of this contract?

See 16 immediately above.No.

"Contractor employees and PSCs not directly compensated by MCC without a national security eligibility or interim eligibility at least at the level required for the position, duties, or work activities specified as requiring such eligibility, including that for access to classified national security information and occupy a sensitive position (as defined in 5

CFR 732), by this contract are prohibited from rendering services under this contract."

Q. Do the key and non-key personnel required by this contract required security clearance?

Q. Will the proposed personnel, key and non-key, require access to MCC

Headquarters, MCCNet, Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU), Foreign Government

Information (FGI) or any other designated sensitive information to perform the services of this contract?

See 16 immediately above.No.

"Provide brief resumes for Offeror identified key personnel only.

Letters of Commitment are required for all proposed subcontractor staff. (Resumes and letters of commitment are limited to a total of three (3) pages)"

Q. Does the MCC require the Contractor to submit a Letter of Commitment for the person proposed to fill the key personnel program manager position?

A Letter of Commitment is required for any proposed key personnel who is not an emplyee of the Offeror. Key personnel includes the

Program Manager and the Procurement Experts.

"Provide brief resumes for Offeror identified key personnel only.

Letters of Commitment are required for all proposed subcontractor staff. (Resumes and letters of commitment are limited to a total of three (3) pages)"

Q. Will the MCC accept if the Contractor includes brief resumes for non-key personnel in Technical Annex F Resumes and Letters of Commitment?

Yes

Page Solitation Language Reference Question Government Response

This section shall be formatted as presented in the SOW for ease of correlation. Each response to a paragraph will use similar paragraph numbering systems as the specification, and shall be self-sustaining without reference to any other response or literature for support;

1. The Offeror must demonstrate it has the necessary capability and commitment to perform this contract. The Offeror must provide information concerning the corporation's origin, operational philosophy, facilities, resources (fiscal and physical), services and experience. The Offeror must specifically describe the impact on its capabilities in terms of resources, experience, expertise and organization structure in the event the Offeror is awarded this contract.

The Government will evaluate the Offeror's the experience and background to demonstrate that the Offeror has the capability in terms of facilities, and personnel required to accomplish the proposed work.

Q. Can the MCC confirm that to be responsive to L.10.2.2. the Contractor is expected to lay out the TECHNICAL AND MANAGEMENT APPROACH as follows:

1. General description, key features, and benefits of the proposed solution.

2. The SOW as analyzed by the Offeror.

3. Anticipated major difficulties and problem areas, and recommended approaches for their resolution

4. Description of management and status reporting approaches.

Or, is the Contractor free to organize the narrative of this factor in a way that we believe logically responds to Section C of the RFP provided we follow the MCC's approach to paragraph numbering in the RFP?

We are concerned that in order to be responsive to the RFP and specifically to articulate our company’s fiscal resources could risk information about our company’s finances, notably our ability to secure fiscal resources through lines of credit and other types of working capital facilities we have in place, being described in the technical volume.

Q. To avoid financial information, which the MCC expects to be excluded from the

Technical volume and which per section M, Section M - Evaluation Factors for

Award, M.4.3 SUBFACTOR 3: CORPORATE CAPABILITY AND EXPERIENCE will not be evaluated, we respectfully request the Government to consider removing the references to fiscal resources from Section L - Instructions, Conditions and Notices to Offerors L.10.2.3. CRITERION 3: CORPORATE CAPABILITY AND EXPERIENCE of the

RFP?

Pricing information for the current requirement is not to be included in the technical volume. Information concerning the Offeror's fiscal resources and description of the impact of performing this contract on those resources is not cost or pricing information.