DRAFT BAA Questions and Answers.pdf

Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) FA8651-21-S-0001, Weapon Engagement Simulation Technology for Advanced Research (WESTAR) Questions and Answers

Item Question Item Answer

Q1

Ref: Paragraph I.4.e, Facility Clearance, requires that the offeror have a facility that is cleared to receive,create, process, analyze and store US Classified up to and including Top Secret. Would the government consider allowing contractors to use government facilities for receipt, creation, processing, analysis, and storage of classified material?

A1

Facility clearance is required to have access to classified material regardless of where the material is being processed.

Q2

Ref: BAA overview page 2; It is anticipated that awards under this BAA will generally be a CPFF or FFP type contract. Would the Government please clarify which WESTAR statement of objectives would be suitable for a FFP type contract? A2

Over the five year ordering period of the contract it is possible that new requirements would have more fidelity as tasks are completed. Lessons learned, potentially more mature systems, and use of historical information in order to provide more defined requirements. Research and Development does not lend itself to FFP type contracts, however, the government should keep FFP available to use if possible.

Q3 Would the Government please consider expanding the page count from 50 pages to a total of 120 pages to respond to the WESTAR Basic IDIQ SOO (limit of 50 pages) and TO 1 SOO (Limit to 50 pages; Task Order 0001 is limited to 80 pages)?

A3 BAA Ref: Page 9, paragraph iii. Technical/Management Proposal shall be limited to 100 pages (Basic IDIQ is limited to 40 pages; Task Order 1 is limited to 60 pages), and must be provided in Microsoft Word.

Q4

Would the Government please confirm that the SOW will not be considered part of the page count?

A4

The Statement of Work(s) are not considered part of the technical proposal page count.

Statements of Work provided will be put on contract. Contractors are cautioned that there will be no scrubbing of markings or information prior to going on contract.

Q5 Does the Government perceive there to be an Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) between the WESTAR BAA and the TMAS-2 Tenants Task Order, the TMAS-2 96th Test Wing Task Order, or the TMAS-2 AEDC Task order?

A5 BAA Ref: page 7, paragraph 3; Language has been clarified to ensure compliance with identification and if possible appropriate mitigation plan.

Q6 Does the Government perceive there to be an Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) between the WESTAR BAA and the SEEK EAGLE Modeling Analysis and Tools Support (SEMATS) contract?

A6 The Government cannot provide a response to this question with out the appropriate information needed provided for in the BAA, Ref: paragraph 3, page 7 and attachment 4.

Q7 Does the Government perceive there to be an Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) between the WESTAR BAA and the EPASS Armament Directorate Task Order?

Q7 The Government cannot provide a response to this question with out the appropriate information needed provided for in the BAA, Ref: paragraph 3, page 7 and attachment 4.

Q8 Approximately what percentage of the labor for this contact is to be performed on-site at the Government facilities and what percentage is expected to be performed off-site at Contractor facilities?

A8 The majority of work can and is encouraged to be completed on Eglin AFB in government facilities.

Q9 Which contracts will interface with the WESTAR contractor and require Associate Contractor Agreements (ACAs) to be in place during the performance period?

A9

BAA Ref: page 15, paragraph e; The contracting officer may require ACAs when contractors working on separate Government contracts must cooperate, share resources or otherwise jointly participate in working on contracts or projects. For each award, the contracting officer will identify associate contractors with whom agreements are required. The government is unable to determine specific contracts that will require ACAs at this time.

Q10

The Draft BAA evaluation criteria refers to Task Order 1 and the Basic contract. A Statement of Objectives was provided as Task Order with multiple CLINs. Which of these would need to be addressed in the technical proposal? Is there a separate IDIQ or Basic SOW that the contractors also must propose to? Is the file names of the Model Contract Attachment 1 intended to be the SOW for the IDIQ or Base contract?

A10

All of the CLINs for Task Order 1 should be addressed in the technical and cost proposals. The IDIQ Statement of Objectives will be provided as the Basic IDIQ Model Contract, Section J, Attachment 1, and should also be addressed in the technical proposal.