Question and Answers 6 -22.pdf

Questions and Answers 6/21

1.) Can the government please confirm if offers must include clauses FAR 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions, 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders -- Commercial Items (May 2022), 52.216-18 Ordering Aug 2020, 52.216-19 Order Limitations, 52.216-22 Indefinite Quantity Oct 1995, 52.216-32 Task-Order and Delivery Ombudsman, and 52.209-07 Information Regarding Responsibility Matters Oct- 18 as part of the proposal response? Are there any additional clauses or provisions that should be added or excluded?

a. Offers don’t need to have clauses included. The solicitation has those information included already and at award clauses will be included as well 2.) 1.) Are we to provide labor rates at the IDIQ level which will then be negotiated at the TTO level or do we need to price each TTO (Data Analytics Applications, Application and Network Architecture Development) separately?

a. Yes

3.) 2.) Do you require only a fully loaded rate through fee or are the details on how the fully loaded rate was developed, required (e.g. a breakdown of Direct labor, Fringe, Overhead, G&A & fee)? If details are required, do we need to provide detailed backup for the how the each element was proposed (ie how was the the direct labor estimated)?

a. Fully Loaded is fine

4.) Can we provide justification that the rates were based on existing contracts we have?

a. Yes

5.) 4.) Can you provide NTE for the travel and ODC to price? If not, should we just estimate a number of trips per each location or do we just describe how the travel costs will be accounted for and loaded with indirect costs?

a. There is no NTE for Travel. Travel cost will be evaluated at the Task Order Level to determine whether it’s fair and reasonable.

6.) Is the total value of $4,838,534 per year, so $4,838,534 x 3 = $14,515,602 estimated value for the total IDIQ; or is it $4,838,534/3 = $1,612,845 estimated value for each year of the 3 year PoP?

a. Total Value is ~ $4.8M

7.) Is the total value of the IDIQ estimated for each awardee or is the $4,838,534 value provided expected to be shared amongst all of the awardees?

a. ~$4.8M to be shared amongst all awardees

8.) Since we are to provide our own labor categories, do we also need to provide labor category descriptions?

a. If possible yes.

9.) If so, would these descriptions be included in the 15 page limit?

a. 15 pages is the limit

10.) The Solicitation states that our proposal response needs to be in accordance with: FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors – Commercial Items (Nov 2021). However, there is a newer version of this clause dated Mar 2023. Please advise which version of the clause should be used?

a. Please use most recent version of ALL clauses

11.) The Solicitation states that our proposal response needs to be in accordance with: FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors – Commercial Items (Nov 2021). However, there is a newer version of this clause dated Mar 2023. Please advise which version of the clause should be used?

a. All dates are TBD at this time

12.) Is escalation permitted in the labor rates for years 2 and 3?

a. Yes

13.) The Government stated that they are estimating 6 FTEs per year for this effort. Since no labor categories or descriptions are provided, can the Government provide a list of required qualifications/skills/years of experience for the FTEs they estimated?

a. The 6 FTEs was an estimate for scoping purposes. The contractors should provide their capability in their responses, to include any qualifications they deem important.

14.) It states that “The Government recommends that you include a pricing for Year 1, 2 and 3

Excel spreadsheet in the format below”. It also stated in the Q&A that the Excel document is to be included with the 15 page submission. So is a separate Excel spreadsheet expected or can the Excel file be embedded in the proposal document? Does the pricing need to be provided in an Excel file or can a table be used in the format provided in the solicitation?

a. Yes. As long as it’s accessible.

15.) Can the proposal submittal be provided as a single PDF document or do we need to provide separate Word/Excel files that total 15 pages?

a. Single Document

16.) What contract type is anticipated to be awarded for the Task Orders? Time & Material? Firm Fixed Price? Both?

a. FFP

17.) What are the different domain and data types this effort will work with?

a. The domains are land, air, space, maritime, and cybersapce. The data types include, but are not limited to test data recorded on-board the systems under test, 'truth data' about the environment of the test, and recordings of communications between test participants. Specific file extensions include (but limited to): On-bord test data, IRIG 106 Chapter 10 Files (.ch10) Ground Station bus recordings ( .pcap, .edx, .bmdx) Processed data such as Hierarchical Data Format 5 (hdf5), jsons (.json), databases (.db), and text files (.csv)