EPoS Communications Evaluation Factors Submission Instructions Attachment 3.pdf

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OFFER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Offers shall be submitted on or before July 20, 2020 at 09:00 a.m. EST.

SUBMISSION OF QUESTIONS

Should contractors have any questions with respect to this Request for Proposals (RFP), they should submit them, via email, to william.melendez@dla.mil. Any technical questions, requests for clarification or requests for data in connection with this RFP must be submitted in writing on or before July 15, 2020 12:00 p.m. EST and Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Contracting Service Office-Columbus (DCSO-Columbus) will provide a response within two days to allow adequate time to provide correct answers to the questions submitted and to prevent any delays in the closing date of the RFP. The Contractor is strongly urged to follow-up the submission of any questions with a phone call to the Contracting Officer to ensure that questions have been received.

EVALUATION FACTORS

The Government intends to award a task order based on the technical acceptability of the proposal, and a fair and reasonable determination of all proposed prices. The Government will evaluate the offered approach to ensure that it is well-defined and logical and that the methodologies and processes can successfully meet DLA objectives.

Performance will be in strict accordance with the Performance Work Statement (PWS) Attachment #3. The evaluation of technical acceptability will assess the contractor's capability in supporting all tasks within the PWS and the contractor’s understanding of the scope and complexity of the work.

Evaluation Factors

Factor 1: Technical Approach of the Solution

Subfactor A: Technical Approach of the Solution Subfactor B: Management Approach and Integration

Factor 2: Price

The total firm-fixed price used for evaluation will include pricing for one 12-month base period and four 12-month option periods. A price analysis will be conducted to determine if the total proposed price is fair and reasonable.

DESCRIPTION OF EVALUATION FACTORS

The Government will review and evaluate the Offeror’s approach to determine how well it:

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• Successfully fulfills the Government’s requirements

• Illustrates knowledge and understanding of EPoS Communication Requirements

Factor 1: Technical Approach

Subfactor A: Technical Approach for the Solution

The Government will review and evaluate the Offeror’s approach to determine how well it:

• Successfully fulfills the Government’s Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL) requirements

• Illustrates knowledge and understanding of enterprise communications processes, requirements and deliverables.

• Demonstrates an understanding of configuring and optimizing communications capabilities with fixed pedestals and mobile devices

• Ensures that enterprise communication capabilities meet DoD cybersecurity requirements.

• Isolates communications failures and restores communications efficiently across the

Enterprise.

Subfactor B: Management Approach and Integration

• The government will review the vendor’s ability to manage the performance of the service with incentives and disincentives for meeting connectivity, throughput and volume requirements of the service.

• The government will review the vendor’s approach to providing a unified operational view into worldwide deployment and performance of secure communication via all active Subscriber Identity Modules (SIM) in the network.

• The government will review how the vendor effectively manages the introduction, monitoring, replacement and removal of SIMs in the network.

INSTRUCTIONS TO CONTRACTORS:

In the Letter RFP, the Government requires that the proposal include: 1) a description of the method and approach proposed to accomplish the work; and 2) a price proposal that includes detailed price data and supporting rational and approach to accomplish the effort.

The following subfactors are to be addressed in the offer for the Non-Price Factor:

Technical Approach

Describe in detail your approach to develop the specified deliverables and perform each tasking in the Performance Work Statement (PWS). The contractor must provide evidence demonstrating a clear understanding of the scope and complexity of the requirements set forth in the PWS. The offered approach must be well-defined and logical and include the methodologies and processes that can successfully meet DLA objectives and mitigate risk. Technical Approach offers shall be no more than 3 single sided pages which does not include the cover page and table of contents.

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Table 1. Technical Acceptable / Unacceptable Ratings

Adjectival Rating

Description

Acceptable Acceptable Proposal clearly meets the minimum requirements of the solicitation.

Unacceptable Unacceptable Proposal does not clearly meet the minimum requirements of the solicitation.

Price

The contractor shall complete the Vendor Pricing Sheet (Attachment 5). Please submit with the quote. All pricing information shall be contained in vendor pricing sheet. Pricing shall not be included in any of the non-price sections.