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Questions

1. Is this a cost plus fixed fee, time and material, or fixed cost contract. Fixed price

2. Would the program support specialist be provided with an office space, please specify any required office expenses, if any. Yes office space and materials will be provided.

3. This 6 month assignment requires payment of fringe benefit for the candidates, please confirm that this would be covered in the contract. Fringe benefits are included is the Service Contract

Act (SCA) wage determinations. You are to include SCA wages in determining price proposal.

4. Shall we submit a technical proposal and a cost proposal or only CVs and cost proposal.

Please submit a technical and cost proposal.

5. Given that our candidates have various level of experience, thus different daily rates, shall we submit a separate document with CV and cost for each one of them. Yes submit a price proposal for each candidate if different.

6. What other documents (articles of organization…) the contractor is required to submit for this bid. Introduction of the company a sheet about how candidate meets technical from Attachment

#2, resume, then price proposal. You could do this all in one document or do 3 separate for each of the 3 candidates. However you like.

7. Are the candidates required to be US Citizens or Permanent residents. Yes US Citizens.

8.Is there any anticipation of this position being extended past the 6 months? Possibility but not anticipated. (but not guarantee)

9. Is there any opportunity for growth? Possibility (but not guarantee)

10. Should the technical proposal and cost proposal be separate? Doesn’t have to be. Either is fine.

11. Can we email our responses to you or must they be hand-carried? Email is preferred.

12. Should the cost response reflect a flat rate for 6 months? Please show hourly rate and full

6 months price.

13. Attachment #2 states that a candidate must have a Masters of Science degree with training in the environmental, ecological, or agricultural sciences. Would a candidate with an alternative Masters degree, i.e. MBA, with an emphasis in environmental sciences be acceptable?

“The important skill set needed is the ability to read and understand enterprise crop budgets. If the

MBA candidate can read and interpret them, we are OK with it. However, in their application they should indicate this ability CLEARLY.”

14. Second question, what is the planned start date for the contract? As soon as we can get awarded this might be around mid-August.

15. Could you confirm whether or not this is a new requirement? Yes this is a new requirement.

16. How many FTEs are required? We only want one FTE work is to be performed over a 26 week period, full time (40 hours) for a total of 1040 hours.