QA Letter 20230426 FINAL.pdf

DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE

374th Airlift wing

26 April 2023

MEMORANDUM FOR ALL PROSPECTIVE QUOTERS

SUBJECT: Question and Answer (Q&A) for Request for Quotation (RFQ) No. FA520922Q0015, Tree

Removal and Trimming at Yokota Air Base and Geographically Separated Units (GSUs), Japan

1. We received questions from prospective quoters for the referenced RFQ, and hereby provide the responses as follows:

No. Question Answer from the government

*4

In addition to submitting the Pricing Exhibit using Attachment

2 for part 2, do we need to fill in block 19-24 of page 1 of the

Standard Form 1449 for each CLIN for part 1, as explained at page 30, part 2 (b)? Or Is it better not to be filled in and only submit the Pricing Exhibit? According to the page 3, "prices inserted directly will not be evaluated “and on page 31, "no price data of any kind are included in any other Part”.

As we explained at the preproposal conference, the quoter is not required to insert the prices in SF1449.

See note on page 3 in the middle, which states

“Prices inserted directly in the SF1449 WILL NOT

BE EVALUATED.

*5

In this solicitation do we still foreign persons and need to prepare IRS form W-14 for full exemption, partial or no exemption? According to the definition, "foreign person" seems to include the offeror like us for the solicitation because we are not a United States person. However, the tax on CFP seems to be effective only within the United States and in this case, it seems that "it is not a foreign person" will be chosen in the representation at (d) 2 and submission of the IRS form with the offer is not necessary.

Please fill in -11 as:

It [X]is a foreign person and I am claiming on the

IRS Form W-14 [X] a full exemption ---

Awardee will only complete a W-14 if requested from DFAS.

* Question numbers are continued from previous letter dated 11 April 2023

2. If you have any questions regarding this matter, please contact Mrs. LaShae E. Snider or the undersigned at 042-552-3014.

TOMOKO SHIODA

Contracting Officer

CC: 374 CES/CEOES