RFI_Questions_4.pdf

Subject: Questions for Draft PWS, Sources Sought for Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape

(SERE) and Evasion and Conduct After Capture (ECAC) Instruction and Support, Solicitation

Number: FA3002-14-R-0012

1. P12, para 6.7 Please clarify:

a. If a contractor may be required to operate a government motor vehicle.

b. If so, please indicate what types of vehicles

c. Whether or not a special class C license would be required for any of the vehicles

d. If any hazardous materials are to be transported

e. How many personnel at both FAFB and LAFB would be required to operate government vehicles and by type of special class C license and or certified to carry hazardous cargo.

ANS: Lackland: Some contractors will be required to operate a GOV, however, not all of them. It will be at the discretion of the contractor/site manager as to who and how many.

The only GOVs they’ll operate here is a 6-PAX pick-up and/or 15-PAX van…no special training/license required, and no HAZMAT.

Same for Fairchild except for ATVs and Tuckers. (See vehicle training requirements previously posted)

2. Appendix A and B.

a. P. 17-20, Appendix A, the SERE workload matrix suggests there are 37 people at

Fairchild, would this be a correct assumption?

b. P 20, Appendix A, the ECAC matrix indicates a need for 22 instructors at Lackland, would this be a correct assumption?

c. P. 23-25, Appendix B, the matrices are not readily clear, but appear to suggest 24 instructors at Fairchild and 12 at Lackland (the lines with asterisks), would this be a correct assumption?

d. Could you please clarify how many personnel (FTEs) are required at Fairchild and at

Lackland?

ANS: Lackland: The paragraph that indicates a minimum requirement for 22 instructors for

ECAC needs to be changed to reflect a minimum of 25 instructors.

The 12 indicated in the workload matrix tables is the number of months per year, not the number of instructors.

3. P 18, 19 and 20, Appendix A, please clarify if the “Sq Comm Stf” means squad communications staff, if they are indeed contractor personnel, what they do and how many personnel comprise it?

ANS: Sq Comm Stf” – Squadron Command Staff - Refer to 2.4 of PWS

4. P 20-22, Appendix A, the ECAC matrix has several abbreviations. Could you please spell out or define what they mean.

ANS: Lackland: RT = Resistance Training

HD = Hostage Detention

TD = Take Down

ARL = Academic Role-play Laboratory

RTL = Resistance Training Laboratory

EL = Evasion Laboratory

ROE = Rules of Engagement

5. P 3, para 2.2.1. When it refers to Appendix B and says the contractor must provide for 50% of the student production requirements for Resistance Training and 10% for Field Training, can you translate that into the required number of instructors, or does it mean something else that the contractor is required to compute? The government answered the question as follows: “Ans: See Appendix A, Workload Estimate and compare to student through-put listed in Appendix B, Number of Students Workload Matrix.”. Unfortunately, we don’t understand what “student production requirements” means. Could you please clarify and include an example.

ANS: It is up to the contractor as to how many instructors they need to meet the training requirements. The hours and numbers of classes may also vary as they are dependent on increases or decrease to student production requirements. This may come from surges or decreases in student through-put based on government needs.

6. Appendix A and B.

a. Could you please clarify how many personnel (FTEs) are required at Fairchild and at

Lackland?

b. We understand the work load estimate requires 22 contract personnel on Days 3 & 4, per pg. 20, Appendix A. Can you provide a break out of how many ECAC instructors are required for each class/phase per day, to include Days 1 & 2?

c. The CLINs break out personnel as RT instructors, RT Academic Instructors and

ECAC instructors.

Questions:

1) How many personnel make up the RT Instructors and how many make up RT Academic Instructors?

2) Which category of instructors work at the remote site?

3) Can you provide a workload breakout for the remote site by day?

4) Can you provide a workload break out for the Fairchild site after the students return from the remote site by day?

ANS: Lackland: At ECAC, RT instructors conduct academics, ARLs, and the RTL. We have six classrooms, but it’s up to the contractor as to how many instructors they need to meet the training requirements on days 1 & 2. Day 3 & 4 are the only days that a specific minimum number of instructors are required to conduct operations (based on PFT). this minimum number should be changed from 22 to 25 for days 3 & 4.

7. Does the contractor pay for urinalysis and flu testing?

ANS: Yes. It is not Flu testing. It is the Flu immunization.

8. What does VGSA mean?

ANS: Visitor Group Security Agreement

9. How many TM, Site Managers and Alternate Site Managers are there for the ECAC and the

Fairchild V-80-A Course?

ANS: It is up to the contractor as to how many TM, Site Managers and Alternate Site Managers they need to meet the training requirements.

10. What does UGT mean?

Question: Where is UGT in the PWS? My guess is it is Upgrade Training.

11. How many personnel must be qualified in Combatives and are SERE Specialist course graduates automatically Combatives qualified?

ANS: None

12. Industry Briefing slide read the contractor is a Flight Lead. If the contractor is a Flight Lead, may he direct the military personnel on the flight on what to do?

ANS: The brief stated Flight Contract Lead and Contract Lead, but not Flight Lead. The Flight

Chief (military) has overall responsibility for flight operations.

13. The 22 nd

Training Squadron presentation states Week 1 field training is 40 hours and Week 2

Field Operations is 80 hours. Question: Is it up to the contractor to schedule personnel so they do not exceed 40 hours during a week? The PM brief at Industry Day stated 80 hours per instructor for field weeks. Question: This seems to contradict the requirement to stay within 40 hours per person per week for non-exempt personnel. Could you clarify?

ANS: During Field week, the contractor is expected to bid for 80 hrs per instructor, no overtime.

14. One of the Industry Day Briefing charts stated that field training is on a 4 week rotation.

Who does this pertain to? Does this mean a flight does 4 weeks of field training and then swaps out with other flights to do different training? Does the contractor have any flexibility in scheduling personnel for this 4 week field training rotation or for non-field training

Who does this pertain to?

ANS: This pertains to field training instructors.

Does this mean a flight does 4 weeks of field training and then swaps out with other flights to do different training?

ANS: Each flight is on a four week rotation (not necessarily in this order). Week one is pickup

(on base student instruction), week two is field, week three is support (squadron and flight additional duty/pro requirements), and week four is training week.

Does the contractor have any flexibility in scheduling personnel for this 4 week field training rotation or for non-field training?

ANS: If the question is can they move contractors around, then the answer is yes as long as they are fulfilling the contract and providing the service provided.