MACC REQUEST FOR INFORMATION 24 AUGUST.pdf

MACC: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI’S)

24 August 2020

SOLICITATION NUMBER: FA286020R0045

1. Question 60: Solicitation page 38, FAR

52.228-15, Performance & Payment Bonds—Construction, IDIQ contracts “the price payable for the specified minimum quantity”. Please lower Single Project Bonding Capacity from $15M, which is the stated maximum, to $500,000, the stated minimum, task order amount.

The Governments decision is to have single bonding capacity at $15M.

2. Question # 16 - Attachment 16 is only 3 pages. How shall offers submit the two additional allowed pages?

Referencing the following: In Section L, paragraph L.4.2. the government states that offers may submit 4 past performances of 5 pages each and in Amendment 2 Q&A, answer #16, the government requires contractors to type our PPI responses on Attachment 16.

The additional 2 pages can allow for additional information to supplement the PPQ information.

For example: If letter G does not provide adequate space to reference your experience use these additional pages for expand upon that and reference the pages.

3. Section L5.0 (c) states that section shall be returned in its entirety along with

PRICE PROPOSAL.

No Price Proposal needed. The updated Section L posted with the last amendment removed that language.

4. The answer to Question number 60 that states – “Bonding capacity letters need to show the company’s ability to obtain a $15,000,000.00 bond on a single task order” is too restrictive. The ability to obtain $5,000,000.00 bond on a single task order is more appropriate for most 8(a) firms in the region and will increase more competition for the MACC Solicitation. The $15,000,000.00 single task order requirement will severely limit the competition to larger 8(a) firms with unlimited bonding capacity. Please, re-consider this requirement to allow for more robust competition.

See Answer to #1

5. Per question #17. L.2.11 Organization/Number of Copies/Page Limits: Each page shall be counted except pages titled “Left Intentionally Blank” or cover sheets. How many pages do we have for the table of contents in Factor 1:

Technical? Your answer: is that yes it’s included in the page count. We were given page limits for the Volume I and Volume II separately. We were not given an overall page limit. From what page limit would the table of contents be counted from?

After further consideration, the table of contents page does NOT count against the page limits of Volume I or Volume II. Offerors are advised that information contained in the ToC should be refer the reader back to specific pages/sections and not contain additional evaluation content.

Note: Then number of pages listed for each subfactor is a “not to exceed” amount.

Offerors are to utilize the pages as they see fit without going over the allotted page counts for each section. If there are remaining pages the offerors may allocate those as they see fit, i.e. summaries or supplemental information.

6. Per question #41. We are given page counts for the three subfactor plans in the technical proposal, there is not an overall Tech Vol page count. How many pages are in that volume? Your answer:

Attachment 15, Section L, Table 1 – 45 pages on the technical volume. On page 7 of 18, Table 1 has the Technical Volume as 75 pages. Please confirm the total page count from Volume I.

See Answer to #5

7. In relation to the historical workload in L.3.2.1 addressing projects only to $750,000, which does not align with Section C of projects ranging in size from $500,000 to $15 million. This is important because Section L.3.2.2 makes reference to those historical numbers. Will you provide a historical workload of projects ranging from $500,000 to $15 million or otherwise clarify the historical volume provided and its relationship to this MACC?

*Note: this question was submitted as part of the original RFI questions, however

The Government will not be providing any historical contracts for reference. Offerors are encouraged to search beta.SAM, FPDSNG, and other public sites if they have interest in historic contracts.

omitted from the responses in the original posting.

8. Question 60: Task orders are anticipated to be between $500,000 and $15M (Solicitation Section C), the majority of which have historically been under $700,000 (L.3.2.1.). Relevant past performance project threshold is $100,000 (M.5.2.2). The requirement of 15M Single Task Order Bond Capacity will be exclusionary for firms who might otherwise qualify to perform under this contract, especially being a project set aside for 8(a) small businesses. Since bonds will be required for individual task orders, companies will only participate in those task orders within their own bonding capacity. Please consider lowering the Single Project Bonding Capacity to more accurately reflect the majority of task orders anticipated for this contract.

See Answer to #1