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Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology B-19877 QBS DoIT Professional Fiber Engineering Question and Answer 2

1. Vendor Question: Do we need to submit a Form A/B for each of our subcontractors, or just for ourselves?

Agency Response: Please see the following section within the QBS for Subcontractors:

D.7.1. Subcontractors are allowed. A subcontractor is a person or entity that enters into a contractual agreement with a total value of $50,000 or more with a person or entity who has a contract subject to the Illinois Procurement Code pursuant to which the person or entity provides some or all of the goods, services, real property, remuneration, or other monetary forms of consideration that are the subject of the primary State contract, including subleases from a lessee of a State contract. If subcontractors are to be utilized, Offeror must identify subcontractors expected to receive $50,000 or more annually under the contract and disclose the expected amount of money each will receive in the Subcontractor Disclosure form found in Section 2, Part I.

If the Prime intends on entering into a contractual agreement with a total value of $50,000 or more with a Subcontractor, then the Subcontractors are required to complete either a Forms A or Forms B. Forms B can be utilized if the Subcontractor has an approved Illinois Procurement Gateway certification, if not use Forms A.

2. Vendor Question: From the language in the Bid it sounds like we can put together attachments that follow the form of the submittal, rather than just entering text in the box provided. That would be our preference – but we wanted to check and make sure that was the intent of the language.

Agency Response: Please see the following in Section D.6: Offerors must use the “Offeror Narrative” section to explain how they specifically meet the specification. The Offeror must provide proposed solution responses within the boxes provided for evaluation purposes.

3. Vendor Question: The Bid mentions submitting all files in both a pdf format and as a native Word/Excel file. When we are putting together the attachments, we will be assembling many disparate files into a single pdf document. We wanted to confirm that this is a requirement.

Agency Response: Please follow BidBuy submittal instructions. The AE is required to complete the following attachments found within BidBuy and submit in “PDF” format within BidBuy under the designated BidBuy Required Quote Attachments:

1) CIT2019877 QBS Professional Fiber Engineering Final – Addendum 1

2) Statement of Interest Form – SOI

3) Forms A or Forms B

4) B-19877 BEP-VSB Utilization Plans