USCG Pre-Solicitation Industry Day_BLMSS TRANSCRIPT FEB 20 2024.pdf

U.S. Coast Guard Pre-Solicitation Industry Day_ Business Logistics and Management Support Services (BL_MSS)- 20240220_125018-Meeting Recording

February 20, 2024, 5:50PM 44m 26s paul schiele joined the meeting

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 0:19 Hello.

Hello everyone, this is Kenyatta Corley, contracting officer.

Stephanie Elgaydi 0:26 Hello.

Good morning.

I'm sorry. Afternoon.

Joe H. 0:31 That's good.

Emily Grossman | Calano & Associates, LLC | WOSB, SDVOSB, EDWOSB 0:33 Good afternoon.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 0:50 So we'll get started promptly at 1:00 PM Eastern Time.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 1:39 And so I'll, I'll keep making this announcement again.

My name is Kenyatta.

Poorly.

I am the contracting officer.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 1:45 Of this requirement.

I want to make sure that everyone on the line with actually invited.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 1:55 If you weren't, please send me an email immediately.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 3:15 And I'm going to put some information in the chat.

Scott Washburn 3:16 And the.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 3:18 It's something that you've already seen before, but I wanna make sure that it's there for you.

I'll go over it again when we start the meeting.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 6:10 Hi everyone.

Again, this is Kenyatta Corley and as I said before.

Michael Bean 6:12 Yeah, my sister wanna poorly.

And you have before.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 6:16 Leave me your phone.

And also I put some information in the chat window.

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Matt Williams 8:05 Know that you're waiting.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 8:28 So we'll begin in 2 minutes.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 8:33 And be sure that your phone is on mute.

Tanya Johnson 8:34 Please.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 8:38 And if you have a question, please use the raise your hand feature or you can use the chat.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 8:53 And I uploaded the Q&A questions.

We're gonna go over in the chat if I need to re upload those again for all of those who are coming after, I will do so.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 9:05 And I think the other thing is I put information in a chat, just we're gonna go over the ground rules.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 9:10 Just some housekeeping.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 9:28 Again, if you did not receive an invite, please send me an email immediately in you're in the meeting.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 10:15

OK.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 10:17 So we'll begin.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 10:20 So thank you everyone for participating in the US Coast Guards business and

Logistics and management support Services Industry Day, and Kenyatta, Corley, the contracting officer for the requirements.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 10:33 And as those folks continue to come in, they'll have until 1:10 to get in.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 10:39 So just some housekeeping before we get started with our presenter today and make sure that you're muted because we'll get an A loud echo if you're not muted.

If you need if you have a question or comments regarding anything in the meeting, please use the raise your hand feature.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 10:58

Also, do not share.

As I said, this meeting link should have not been shared with anyone and if it if you someone shared the link and you did not register police in an email to me as soon as possible because you will have to leave the meeting, we will also post the transcript of this industry day to we'll post it and issue it five within 5 business days of the end of this meeting.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 11:22 So it will also have.

We'll do the Q&A after we have our presentation.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 11:27 Now, with that said, I will turn it over for our presentation on an overview of our high level requirement.

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Schlaht, Darby A CIV USCG C5I SERVICE CENTER (USA) 11:37 Hi, can you hear me? OK? Great.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 11:39 Yes.

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Schlaht, Darby A CIV USCG C5I SERVICE CENTER (USA) 11:41 Alright.

Hi everyone.

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Schlaht, Darby A CIV USCG C5I SERVICE CENTER (USA) 11:42 So good afternoon.

Thanks for your interest in the service centers business and logistics management support services, BPA.

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Schlaht, Darby A CIV USCG C5I SERVICE CENTER (USA) 11:50 My name is Darby Schlott.

You get me today instead of Captain Goff.

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Schlaht, Darby A CIV USCG C5I SERVICE CENTER (USA) 11:55 So I'm the branch chief for the C5I Acquisition Support Branch.

At the C5I service center.

And so I'm going to give you a really quick brief overview of the service center, the part and the parts of the organization that are going to be supported by these requirements.

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Schlaht, Darby A CIV USCG C5I SERVICE CENTER (USA) 12:13 So for those who aren't aware, C5 IC stands for command control, communications, computers, cyber and Intelligence service center.

We are responsible for the execution of the Coast Guard C5I capabilities, so we're structured using a shared services model.

We have several product lines that focus on the actual implementation and execution of specific C5I projects and services, and then we have shared service divisions that provide support to all of them.

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Schlaht, Darby A CIV USCG C5I SERVICE CENTER (USA) 12:50 So this BPA is scoped to provide support primarily directly, primarily to two of the shared service division.

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Schlaht, Darby A CIV USCG C5I SERVICE CENTER (USA) 12:57 So that's the business operations division or the BOD and the Asset Logistics Division, Ald.

So the business Operations Division provides business support services guidance to the whole.

If I buy service center and in particular this requirement supports the services that are provided by the following BOD branches.

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Schlaht, Darby A CIV USCG C5I SERVICE CENTER (USA) 13:20 So we have the acquisition integration branch.

AIB supports and coordinates C5I in Coast Guard major assets, so things like cutters, both legacy and new cutters, there's the C5I Acquisition Support Branch, my branch, we do vendor engagement and facilitate the acquisition lifecycle, working with both the program staff and the contracting officers.

We've got the performance and process management branch.

They focus on managing and measuring performance and metrics and processes across the service center.

Umm, so we also have the project management branch who provides the guidance standards and process for all projects within the service center.

And then lastly, the service management branch, who is responsible for developing, managing and executing the C5I Service Center Strategic business plan.

Umm, so that takes care of God.

And then additionally, the requirement also supports the Asset Logistics division.

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Schlaht, Darby A CIV USCG C5I SERVICE CENTER (USA) 14:29 They do the planning and execution of the service center budget.

However, their requirements under excuse me, however, their requirements under this BPA are focused on their asset services and their asset functions.

So asset management and logistics compliance are the piece of their services under this requirement.

So as a whole, we're looking for this BPA to really further the shared services model that we use.

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Schlaht, Darby A CIV USCG C5I SERVICE CENTER (USA) 15:03 Although the BPA will provide support directly to BOD and a LCD intern, as those shared service division support, the rest of the organization, that support will flow through to the product lines as well.

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Schlaht, Darby A CIV USCG C5I SERVICE CENTER (USA) 15:19 Historically, historically the service center has really seen those business operations as background support.

But what we've noticed within the last several years is that COVID really changed the way an extent to which technology was used.

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Schlaht, Darby A CIV USCG C5I SERVICE CENTER (USA) 15:35 And then with more technologies coming out and more modernization efforts, we're getting significantly more demand for C5I capabilities across the whole Coast Guard Leadership, Service Center leadership really believes that with the increasing ever increasing number of projects that we've got that we're undertaking, we really can't be successful without explicitly factoring business services into the way we do business.

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Schlaht, Darby A CIV USCG C5I SERVICE CENTER (USA) 16:03 So that's kind of the quick overview in general, all of our all of these requirements really directly support the execution of all of the services offered by those several branches that I listed out.

Umm, so that's my my super quick overview.

Thanks for your interests and I'll turn it back over to Kenyatta, especially for any questions.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 16:30 Thank you, Darby.

I see one hand up and I just want to address there's someone calling in.

Can you identify yourself please?

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John 16:45 Hundreds of people on this call, Bob.

Pamela Harman/ EOSi 16:46 Three and five now.

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Pamela Harman/ EOSi 16:47 Yeah, order.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 16:48 I'm sorry.

Call.

Can you give me the number that called in that's calling in?

Jackson, Randall C CIV (USA) 16:54 There's three numbers.

We have 20239089292107050040 and 7036551096.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 17:13 So so can you identify, I just want to make sure we capture you.

Or if not, we're just going to eject you from the meeting.

So I need you to identify yourself.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 17:32 I think one is is UM.

Captain golf, right?

Yeah.

Yep.

Thank you.

Goff, Benjamin F Jr CAPT USCG C5I SERVICE CENTER (USA) 17:43 No, I'm.

I'm not calling in.

I'm here on teams.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 17:45 Oh.

OK.

Thank you.

Thank you, Captain Gull.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 17:55 And I do see a question.

There is a question, so let me start with that one, one second.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 18:07 And I'm also cool.

I think there's a question in the chat box.

Make sure you get that as well.

Let's see first question and raised.

You can't see it.

Sorry.

OK, here we go.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 18:24 Umm Ian Perkins.

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Ian Perkins 18:31 Alright, thank you.

Kenyatta was there any and I.

I just got the attached for the Q&A, but is there any thoughts on total small business set asides for the requirement?

Have you guys decided on that yet in terms of how much of this, if any, is gonna be, you know, turned over for set aside for small business?

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 18:51 So both the draft RFQ and the revised timeline does say that this is this will be a 100% total set aside under GSA federal supply schedule Special item number 541611.

So yes, it is a total set aside for small businesses.

Ian Perkins 19:07 My I'm sorry, I I think I I meant to just speak directly to any socioeconomic designate.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 19:13 No, it it's a small business.

Ian Perkins 19:14 OK, got it.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 19:14 Set aside.

No, it's a small business side.

Ian Perkins 19:15 Got it, got it.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 19:16 Yes, thank you.

Ian Perkins 19:17 All right.

Yes, ma'am.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 19:18 And I think the next question I cannot pronounce the name.

So please umm, just go ahead.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 19:32 I believe this is it.

So run Stata name.

Sovon Mookerjee 19:36 Ohh yeah.

Yeah, right.

OK, alright.

So I was actually trying to see because when, uh, Darby was speaking and I was thinking whether I need to, you know, capture what she's saying or is there a slide so that I could, you know, look at that while she is explaining the background.

So I asked whether you have a slide deck or a PowerPoint slides to share with.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 20:04 So, Darby, are you going to share your slides or the transcript is going OK?

So we'll have, we'll post this. OK.

Schlaht, Darby A CIV USCG C5I SERVICE CENTER (USA) 20:08 Transcript maybe fine.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 20:10 So we'll post the transcript of the industry day within 5 business days after this meeting.

Sovon Mookerjee 20:19 Perfect. OK.

Schlaht, Darby A CIV USCG C5I SERVICE CENTER (USA) 20:19 In Yatta, king out, if I may, the the, I mean, really what I ran through in terms of what the branches do, all all of those things are part of our requirements, the support for all of those functions are are part of the requirements.

Sovon Mookerjee 20:20 Thank you.

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Schlaht, Darby A CIV USCG C5I SERVICE CENTER (USA) 20:35 So while you can't see the organizational structure through that, the actual service is provided are are pretty clearly represented in there.

Sovon Mookerjee 20:44 Perfect.

Thank you.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 20:46 Thank you, Darby.

And I also if you didn't get it, I just emailed the Q&A questions.

So please let me umm, let me or Cole or Karina know that you didn't receive it and we'll send it to you.

You can email us or however you want it, so we'll start the Q&A portion.

If you don't have any additional questions and we are monitoring the chat box as well.

OK, so I'm going to share my screen with the Q&A.

And one of the questions, I'm sorry, we have one of the questions.

Will there be a sponsorship for SCL at the secret level?

No, we would not sponsor, we won't sponsor.

Yes, it's still accurate the.

Though let me start with what we're gonna do with the question of Q&A period.

I'm gonna first go over the questions we received in advance and if there's anything discussing the evaluation process or procedures, we will answer them today.

Everything else, please submit in writing and you have until February 27th to submit those all your RFQ package should have all of that information on when to submit it.

OK.

Alright, so here we go.

OK.

So please let me know once you see my screen and if it's big enough, because sometimes it's a little small even for my eyes and I have on these huge glasses.

Winalski, Ronald E CIV USCG C5I SERVICE CENTER (USA) 22:38 You're good, Kenyatta.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 22:40

So first question, I mean we have several questions to get through.

So please, if you can just let us get through the questions and then we can answer any questions regarding evaluation process and procedures after we're done or if you have any follow ups to the questions I'm discussing and answering today, please do so using the raised hand and colon corridor will let me know.

So this is regarding Page 3, Section 3 page #2.

Will the government create a numerically weighted matrix to clarify the trade off evaluation process?

The government will use procedures that stated in far apart 8.4053 blanket purchase agreements for establishing the multiple award BPA.

So that's the process that we'll use when it comes to evaluating and also rating your quotes.

Question #2 will the government please define what highest technically rated means or provide what criteria is included in this rating process?

So highest technically rated is selection is a selection process that can be utilized in accordance with far subpart 15101.

It's on the best value continuum, so at one end you have trade off and on the other end you have LPTA and in between there are several selection factors that selection criteria that you can use on that best value continuum.

And this is one of those that's on that continuum as well.

So please, please look at the far and look at that best value continuum and you can read all the Geo cases on that as well.

Question #3 in the event quotes are evaluated as technically equal, then price will become a major consideration.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 24:31 Will the government please clarify technically equal?

Currently, the language suggests that price is not a major consideration unless close or evaluated as technically equal, and there is no mention of factor B, so I don't know about the second part of that, but should vendors within overall factor rating for factors A&B that are equal and then the government will consider whether the vendors total evaluated price is the best value for the government in accordance with the with far subpart 8.405 Dash 3.

So what that means is that if all things are equal, meaning that whatever the ratings, let's just go with outstanding, you get outstanding on factor a, you get outstanding on factor B, ANOTHER vendor gets outstanding on factor a outstanding on factor V then price will be considered.

So prices always, although it is not part of the non price factors, it is always considered.

Prices always considered.

Are there any questions so far?

Then OK, how will the government determine a reasonable, accurate, and complete price, or lack thereof?

Again, far subpart 8.04045 Dash 3 provides for that.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 25:58 Question #5 this is regarding page 4, section three of the evaluation process F.

If offers are who are advised not to proceed, elect to continue to Step 2.

Are they allowed to?

Resentment improve.

Prior experience documentation and receive a new evaluation of that factor, no?

Question #6 this is regarding evaluation process G, will the government please clarify the waiting, the waiting of step one and two as well as factors AB and C using a numerical weighting matrix?

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 26:41 Currently, 3G contradicts the statement from two factors A&B.

When combined or more important than factor C, which seems to indicate that factor C is more important only outweighed by factors A&B, the combined the response should vendors with an overall factor rating for factors A&B that are equal, then the government will consider whether the vendors total evaluated price is the best value for the government.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 27:10 Again, we're in far subpart 8.405 Dash 3.

Question #7 and this is for UMK on the evaluation process.

The term first tier subcontractors is sitting in.

The third bullet will the government please define first tier contractors and that is your subcontractor performing major or critical work?

Question #8 and this is for evaluation process.

OK, since this is at the BPA level and no task orders for specific tasking is known, any mitigation plan offered will be speculative.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 27:52 Suggest removal of offers shall include their mitigation plan and include this requirement at the task order level when there is specific scope of work to evaluate response.

No, we will not consider that.

Question #9 has it been determined how many BP BP Awards will be made?

The government intends to make multiple BP awards under this solicitation, a manageable number of awards will be made to ensure adequate competition at the order level.

Question 10 will the prime be able to include prior experience from teammates?

Can the prior experience be just a combination of all of the teens primes plus Subs without the set workout for the prime and the Subs government response?

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 28:43 Yes and yes.

Submissions may be structured as prime or primes contractor subcontractor arrangement.

Question 11.

Can a subcontractor or subcontractor JV use the primes GSA schedule or is each subcontractor requires to have the appropriate GSA schedule?

The government will only accept the federal supply schedule, special item number 541611 contract of the prime.

Question 12.

The government intends to conduct the quote review and awardee selection in two steps.

That one advisory suggests adding the following language.

The advisory down select does not constitute the establishment of a competitive range, as described in far 15.306 C and it will not obligate U.S.

Coast Guard to conduct discussions or to solicit or entertain semental revisions.

This solicitation is being conducted in accordance with far parts 8.405 Dash three and eight point 405-5415 does not apply.

Please ensure your insight, your sighting and reviewing the correct far clause.

Question 13.

Award eligibility suggests adding language to address at the offer is a small business, as evidenced by the certification statement on the cover letter and a Sam look up by the government.

So no, we will not add the language because the RFQ provides for this and the RFQ letter in addition GSA made the determination at the time of award of the GSA contract per far 8.4.

Another question 14 about award eligibility request clarification on how the government is going to perform the following or where the government determined the OC's avoided neutralized and are mitigated.

So the contracting officer reviews the mitigation plan with the assistance of the Office of General Counsel and Consultants and advisors to make the determination.

And also if you look in the evaluation plan and also the RFQ, you will see the clauses cited where that is well that provides for that.

Also, question 15 discusses award eligibility request.

The following language we added this VPN request is set aside for small business concerns, which I addressed already.

Responses received from concerns that are not small business concerns will be rejected.

Only GSA mass contract holders that are currently identified as small business concerns under specific names and also a special item number may submit a response to the BPA.

Further, should you be selected as the offerer, you must certify so the response to this is no, because we already provided for this and again GSA made the determination at the time of award.

And I just want to pause.

Do we have any questions in the chat regarding this or any hands raised?

Because I can't see them.

Jackson, Randall C CIV (USA) 31:55 In Canada, we have some other questions, but they're not specifically in reference to the evaluation criteria.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 32:02

OK.

And I see Ian.

Ohh I can't see it.

Ian just raised his hand.

Is that the only hand raised so far?

OK.

Go ahead, Ian.

Ian Perkins 32:14 No, I just wanted to say, yeah, I have some questions in the chat.

That's all I I don't.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 32:17

OK.

Ian Perkins 32:18 I don't have to say about.

Yeah, you can.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 32:20

Ian Perkins 32:20 You can forward.

OK thanks.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 32:22 Thank you.

Alright, question 16 again, umm, regarding award eligibility, small business requesting language we added regarding small business certification, the same thing the RFQ provides for this and in the RFQ letter.

Umm and question 17 regards the mentor protege joint venture offers.

Please confirm that experience where the JV member companies approved agreement work together be similarly evaluated as experience submitted by a prime subcut.

Offer no, because we already said that it's either prime or prime slash subcontractor relationship.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 33:09 With the government confirm that the final RFQ would include government provided labor categories for the mock task order that define years of experience and experience, certifications requirements to enable consistent price evaluation between quoted labor categories from each of the offers to GSA federal supply schedule 541611 contract.

No, because this is a performance based acquisition in accordance with far 36 point 637.6.

Therefore the vendor show quote categories from its GSA federal supply schedule 541611 contract and using the price sheet and the mock call order, the mock call order will be provided with the final RFQ.

Question 19 draft attachment 3.

Instructions and evaluations and procedures.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 34:01 Just Section 3 states offer a quotation.

Submission may be structured as prime or prime contractor subcontractor arrangement.

Can the government clarify proposals using a GSA math contractor teaming agreement where each member has a multiple award schedule and the CTA does not create a separate legal entity will be allowed?

Again, no submissions may be structured as prime or prime contractor subcontractor arrangement.

Question 20 will pass performances be required by only the prime, or could the prime use subcontract pass performance?

The government is not requesting past performance.

Rather, prior experience the missions may be structured as prime or prime contractor subcontractor arrangement.

How many awardees does the government anticipate for the BPA?

Will the government provide anticipated level effort for the price?

Again, we a manageable amount of numbers of awardees and because this is performance space in accordance with far 37.6, the vendor must provide the anticipated level of effort for the price proposal for its GS from its GSA schedule 541611 contract using the pricing sheet and mock call order.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 35:18 The mock call order will be provided with the final request for quotes and that concludes our questions.

Our in advanced questions.

So let's get 2.

The questions in the chat box.

And are these questions?

Let's see.

Make sure.

We want to make sure these questions are questions in reference to the evaluation process.

If not then please submit your questions using the the industry based signup sheet.

The questionnaire sheet where we have a portion for your questions, submit that by February 27th.

And I go ahead.

Ian Perkins 36:03 Thank you.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 36:05 I'm sorry.

Ian Perkins 36:07 That's it.

Thank you.

I got you.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 36:10 So again, with the the question I see, does the answer to question 11 preclude use of GSA CTA teaming arrangements where CTA members each use their own.

Now you can bid.

Each CTA member can bid, but we're only using the prime or the prime and subcontractor, whereas we're using one contract.

And that's one that you should submit.

That's not dealing with evaluation process, we're talking about the total period of performance in reconciling one and #12.

So we will do that.

So number fill far 15 applies to when it comes to trade off.

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 36:52 That applies to all parts of the far, so I think that's what you're referencing when you're talking about #2 and #12.

The trade off process is in far 15 is not in any other part of the far.

Updates to this opportunity have been posted and emailed to qualify, GSA mass holders will the government post the RFQ to eBay or will it be posted to Sam, Gov and email to interested bidders as before.

So again, that's a question that you should submit by February 27.

There are a number of questions that were submitted that did not cover here.

Do you intend to provide answers to all submitted questions?

Yes, I only we only responded to questions that dealing with the evaluation process.

As I said in the invitation and the attachment to the invitation, so all the additional questions will be posted after we get the February 27th, I believe.

I think I said 10 days after 10 business days after.

Any additional questions regarding evaluation process or procedures?

Or anything Darby mentioned and go ahead, John.

Jon Smithers (TeleSolv Consulting) 38:05 Miss call you can.

Can you elaborate on the the timeline that the latest timeline you published had proposals coming in in mid June with an award in mid July, but then there's also in the language that this is gonna be a 2 step proposal.

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Jon Smithers (TeleSolv Consulting) 38:20 So is mid June step one and then when will we expect to get the advisory notice?

When would Step 2 be etcetera.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 38:33 OK, So what I'll do is I'll send that question to me in writing because I wanna make sure everyone gets a response to it.

So then would you please send that to me in writing by February 27 and I'll respond.

Jon Smithers (TeleSolv Consulting) 38:44 I certainly will.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 38:45

Another question, someones hands up, let's see.

Just go ahead because I only see one person, Steve.

Steve Delahunty 38:57 Yeah.

How you doing?

Umm on step one, the advisory for prior experience, there's like a 10 page limit there.

Does that mean that a bidder can submit as many projects as they can?

You know, logically explain in the 10 page limit or is there a maximum number of projects or minimum?

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 39:15 No, there's not a maximum number of projects.

Yes, the the limit is for 10 pages.

So if you submit one and it takes 10 pages or 20 and it takes 10 pages, it's the lemon is the page limit, not how many projects you can submit.

Steve Delahunty 39:27 Yeah.

Gotcha.

Thank you.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 39:31 But also can you send that question again in writing by February 27th?

Steve Delahunty 39:37 Yes, I can.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 39:39

Any additional questions?

Steve Delahunty 39:47 The It's a comment, not so much a question, but you've got this combination of the projects, the contract experience can't be older than three years and you gotta have 24 months of consecutive experience.

And so that's kind of boxing in terms of, you know, project maybe just ended at the end as long as it's got 24 months experienced before that.

But if you were to go back five years versus three years, that might give you a broader base, but that's up to you all you know, maybe you think five years is too old for experience, but maybe three years is too short.

Maybe there's a middle ground.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 40:18

Well, could you also put that comment in writing for us as well?

Steve Delahunty 40:21 Yep, we'll do.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 40:26 Any additional questions you think I thought I saw a hand up?

Our comments.

Nothing from anyone.

EM Key Solutions - Jerry Partney 40:42 Uh, good afternoon.

A quick question.

I know there's obviously been a lot of, you know, BPA's, IQ's lately.

Oasis Plus Polaris, who have gone through a lot of protests.

I was just kind of curious.

We don't plan on bidding as an SBA mentor protege or as a CTA, but a lot of those recent rulings from the Court of Federal Claims and the EGO do allow Mitchell protege past performance to be used if they have a schedule similar to CTA being allowed.

So I just wanted to kind of go back to the GSA contractor teaming arrangement, IF2 primes.

Have the GSA send mass 541611.

GSA does allow them to form what's called a contractor teaming arrangement to then bid on it.

I'm just trying to understand as of course if we bid on this, we wanna win an award and not have any protests, but just wanted to make sure that you all are aware of all the recent rulings in regards to some of the Iqs and BPAS because some of these have taken between one to three years to even get out the door, which is certainly frustrating for you.

And then also industry.

So thank you and I will send those in writing as well.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 41:47

OK.

Thank you.

Additional questions, comments.

Where if there are no additional questions or comments, and then you you all are gonna send your questions or comments in writing by February 27th, by that time and date on with that I issued with the draft solicitation in the meeting now.

Ohh, I'm sorry.

There we are, Sean.

Shawn Bennett - Insight 42:16 Yeah.

Thank you for taking my question here.

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Shawn Bennett - Insight 42:18 As far as the prior experience, what is the cutoff date gonna be as far as that?

That two and three are window is that could be at the solicitation release date and that'll be kind of the cut off for determining 3 and two years or will be assumption.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 42:34 Yeah.

And we'll have the the final date once we issue the final RFQ.

So the date will be there.

Shawn Bennett - Insight 42:44 Thank you.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 42:46 But if you don't mind if you submitting that question again, I want to make sure everybody gets it.

Shawn Bennett - Insight 42:53 No problem.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 42:55 Go ahead, Jackie.

Jackie Lancaster 42:59 Hi.

What time on the 27th are the questions due?

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 43:05 Umm, let me check it within one of the documents I submitted.

Jackson, Randall C CIV (USA) 43:11 Taking you out by your email noon.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 43:11 That's nice.

OK, Noon Eastern Time.

Jackie Lancaster 43:15 Thanks.

Thanks so much.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 43:22 Any additional questions?

OK, there are no additional questions unless Jackie, you still have your hand up from the last time.

Jackie Lancaster 43:37 No, I'm just eager.

I don't have my hand up anymore, sorry.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 43:40

OK.

Well, if we have no more questions or comments regarding evaluation process and procedures were for Darby and then we'll end the meeting and we'll post the the transcripts and I have to find a way to download it, just like I couldn't download the UM Q&A for you guys.

So if I can download the actual recording, I will download an issue it, but if not, we'll make sure that the transcripts are there for you within 5 business days.

So thank you all.

Marty 44:17 Thank you.

Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 44:18

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Corley, K T CIV USCG (USA) 44:20 I'm ending the meeting.

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Berntsen, Geoffrey P CTR (USA) 44:22 Thanks.

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Emily Grossman | Calano & Associates, LLC | WOSB, SDVOSB, EDWOSB 44:23 Thank you so much.

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