Attach1_Addendum_to_52.212-1_BCLM_Projects_1May18.pdf

Attachment 1

Addendum to FAR Provision 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors (ITO) – Commercial Items

1.0 Contract. This contract is a full and open competitive procurement. This acquisition will result in a multiple award Firm Fixed Price (FFP) Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ)

Contracts which will have a one (1) base year plus four (4) one (1) year options for the ordering periods.

2.0 General Instructions.

2.1 ITO – Commercial Items.

2.1.1 The Offeror's proposal must include all data and information requested by this ITO and must be submitted in accordance with these instructions. The Offeror shall be compliant with the requirements as stated in this solicitation. Non-conformance with the instructions provided in this

ITO may result in an unfavorable proposal evaluation. The proposal shall be clear, concise, and shall include sufficient detail for effective evaluation and for substantiating the validity of stated claims.

The proposal should not simply rephrase or restate the Government's requirements but rather shall provide convincing rationale to address how the Offeror intends to meet these requirements. Offerors shall assume the Government has no prior knowledge of their facilities, capabilities, and experience and will base its evaluation on the information presented in the Offeror's proposal. Unnecessarily elaborate brochures or other presentations beyond those sufficient to present a complete effective response to the solicitation are not desired.

2.1.2 System for Award Management (SAM). Offerors will not be eligible to receive a contract award from a Department of Defense (DoD) activity unless they are registered in SAM. Offerors must be registered in the SAM Database prior to award of any contract. Firms must register on a one-time basis and annually confirm accuracy and completeness of registration information. On-line registration and instructions can be accessed at https://www.sam.gov/index.html.

2.1.3 DD Form 254 Contract Security Classification Specifications. The Offeror shall complete blocks 6a – c, (and if applicable, blocks 7a – c, and 8a – c or a continuation sheet) of the DD Form

254 (RFP Attachment 10). Completed the form and submit with Volume II, Technical. These pages are not included in the page count. The Due Date for the Technical Volume is 25 April 2018 by 2:00

PM Eastern Time.

2.1.4 The positions on this contract are at the SECRET level. Personnel performing work on this contract are required to have and maintain a valid SECRET clearance. Interim SECRET clearances are acceptable; however, all key personnel shall have a completed valid clearance upon award of the contract. Key personnel are identified in Appendix 1 of the PWS.

2.2 Facility Security Clearance (FCL). Due to the clearance requirements, all prospective

Offerors must possess a SECRET Facility Security Clearance (FCL). The FCL shall be approved/issued by the Defense Security Service (DSS) and FCL must be posted in the DSS

Industrial Security Facility Database (ISFD). A verifiable SECRET FCL must exist in the ISFD at time of proposal. Offeror’s FCL will be assessed as “responsive/non-responsive” at proposal submission. Offerors must have a FCL of Secret. Offerors without the required FCL will be https://www.sam.gov/index.html deemed “non-responsive.” Offerors shall have an approved facility clearance NLT 1 November

2018.

2.3. Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI). The Government has not identified an Organizational

Conflict of Interest. Offerors that have a real or perceived OCI shall submit an OCI mitigation plan for review by the Contracting Officer.

2.3.1 All Offerors shall submit an OCI plan as to how to avoid other OCIs in the future. The OCI plan shall be included in Technical Volume II. The OCI plan will be included in the contract award.

The OCI plan will not be included in the page count for Volume II.

2.4 Points of Contact. The Contracting Officer (CO), MSgt Theresa Terry, and the

Contract Specialist (CS), Ms. Traenesha Miliner, are the sole points of contact for this acquisition. All questions or concerns should be e-mailed to the CO and CS by 2:00 PM

Eastern Time on 13 March 2018. The contracting team may be reached via e-mail at usaf.jbanafw.afdw-staff.mbx.afdw-pk-pks-saf-pks-pitbulls@mail.mil or call 240-612-

6202/240-612-6142.

2.5 PROPOSAL VOLUME REQUIREMENTS

The proposal shall be accompanied by a cover letter prepared on the company’s letterhead stationery.

The cover letter shall identify all enclosures being transmitted and shall be used only to transmit the proposal and shall include no other information with the exception of acknowledging amendments as an attachment. The first or title page shall be in accordance with FAR 52.212-1. If there are amendments to the RFP, provide, as an attachment to the cover letter, acknowledgment of any amendments. The attachment to the cover letter will only be allowed to address amendments. Only proposals submitted in accordance with these instructions will be accepted. This cover letter is not included in the page count.

2.5.1 Instructions for how proposals shall be received are detailed below in Table 1. Proposals can be submitted by mail via common carrier or hand carried delivery. Submissions via e-mail will not be accepted with the exception of oral presentation documents. Hand carried proposals must be delivered to The Jones Building located at 1500 Perimeter Road, Suite 5750, Joint Base Andrews, MD 20762.

The sealed package used to submit your proposal must show the time and date received by CO or CS (if hand carried), the Solicitation Number, and the name and address of the Offeror. Offerors should notify the CS or CO if they intend to hand deliver their proposal. SOME DELAY SHOULD BE

ANTICIPATED WHEN HAND CARRYING PROPOSALS AS WELL AS MAILING BY

COMMON CARRIER DUE TO POTENTIAL BASE MAILROOM DELAYS. DEADLINE:

Proposals are due by 2:00 PM Eastern Time. Offerors should allow sufficient time to arrange for the

CS or CO to meet PRIOR to the time specified for receipt. Late proposals will be processed in accordance with FAR Provision 52.212-1(f) Late Submissions, Modifications, Revisions and

Withdrawals of Offers.

2.5.2 Proposal Timeline:

RFP Release 9 March 2018

RFP Questions 13 March 2018 mailto:usaf.jbanafw.afdw-staff.mbx.afdw-pk-pks-saf-pks-pitbulls@mail.mil

Offeror Suspense Date to Request SWAG Scenario Oral Presentation

Date/Time

13 March 2018

SWAG Scenario 22 March 2018

Oral Presentations – SWAG Scenario 26-30 March 2018

Notification to proceed to Step 3 or stop at Step 2 4 April 2018

Offeror Suspense Date to Request Technical Volume Oral

Presentation Date/Time

20 April 2018

IDIQ Staffing/Management Plan Submission 25 April 2018

Proposals Due Date 25 Apr 2018

Oral Presentation – Technical Volume Proposal 30 April – 4 May 2018

2.6 Oral Presentations. The Government will require oral presentations for the SWAG Scenario and Factor 1, Technical Volume. Oral presentations will be limited to 1.5 hours for the SWAG scenario. Oral presentations will be limited to 2.5 hours to include ten (10) minute break for Factor 1

-Technical Volume proposal. Offeror’s are limited to four (4) attendees for their oral presentations.

Offerors shall email usaf.jbanafw.afdw-staff.mbx.afdw-pk-pks-saf-pks-pitbulls@mail.mil NLT 13

Mar 18 for a time slot to orally present the SWAG Scenario. Within two business days, Offerors will be notified of the date, time, and location of their presentation. The Government will have the

Offeror’s presentation pre-loaded on a laptop and the Offeror will be able to present from a pull down screen. If any offeror fails to schedule an oral presentation as instructed, the offeror’s proposal will not be evaluated and will make the offeror ineligible for award. Offerors shall ensure the personnel present for the oral presentation are able to make decisions on behalf of the organization.

The Government will assume that briefers are allowed to enter into exchanges with the Government.

Only during oral presentations will exchanges between the Government and offerors not be provided in an Exchange Notice (EN). Neither past performance nor price will be discussed during the oral presentations. There is NO advantage to scheduling the oral presentation early or later in the process. All documents are submitted by offerors on the same date and no changes can be made once received by the Government.

2.6.1 Offeror Attendees – If you require Visitor Base Access, when requesting a date and time for oral presentations, the Government will send an Unofficial Visitor Base Pass Request Visitor

Information form. Please complete and return to the Contracting Officer (CO), MSgt Theresa

Terry, and the Contract Specialist (CS), Ms. Traenesha Miliner and return via email at usaf.jbanafw.afdw-staff.mbx.afdw-pk-pks-saf-pks-pitbulls@mail.mil.

2.6.2 Location for Oral Presentations – The location will be Joint Base Andrews, MD and details provided when available. The Government reserves the right to change the Oral Presentation site at the sole discretion of the Contracting Officer.

2.6.3 The mailing address to the Contracting Office is:

AFDW/PKS

Attn: MSgt Theresa Terry/Ms. Traenesha Miliner

Solicitation# FA7014-8-R-5004

1500 West Perimeter Road, Suite 5750

Joint Base Andrews, MD 20762

2.6.4 If the Offeror is mailing in their proposal, it is their sole responsibility to ensure delivery is made at the date and time it is due as listed above or it will be considered as a late proposal and will be processed as listed above.

2.7 Communications. Exchanges of source selection information between Government and

Offerors will be controlled by the CO and CSs. E-mail will be used to transmit such information to

Offerors. The Government intends to send answers to questions by amendment to the solicitation and posted to www.fbo.gov. The Offerors must submit all communications via email to usaf.jbanafw.afdw-staff.mbx.afdw-pk-pks-saf-pks-pitbulls@mail.mil

2.8 Amendments to Solicitation. If this RFP is amended, all terms and conditions that are not amended remain unchanged. Offerors shall acknowledge receipt of any amendment to this request by the day and time specified in the amendment(s). A single memo attached to the cover letter acknowledging all amendments is the preferred method of acceptance. This is not included in page count.

2.9 Period of Acceptance of Offers. The Offeror agrees to hold the prices in its offer firm for

120 calendar days from the date specified for receipt of offers.

2.10 Federal Holidays. The following Federal Legal Holidays are observed:

New Year’s Day

Martin Luther King Day

President’s Day

Memorial Day

Independence Day

Labor Day

Columbus Day

Veterans Day

Thanksgiving Day

Christmas Day

3.0 Preparation Instructions to Offerors.

3.1 Introduction. The purpose of these instructions is to prescribe the format of proposals and describe the approach for the development and presentation of proposal data. They are designed to ensure the essential information required for evaluation of proposals is submitted. Offerors are cautioned to follow the detailed instructions fully and carefully, as the Government intends to make an award based on initial offers received without exchanges.

3.2 Organization/Number of Copies/Page Limits. To assure timely and equitable evaluation of the proposal, the Offeror must follow the instructions contained herein. The proposal must be complete, self-sufficient, and respond directly to the requirements of this solicitation. The response shall http://www.fbo.gov/ consist of the Offeror’s SWAG Oral presentation slides and supplemental information; and four (4) separate volumes: Volume I – Staffing/Management Plan, Volume II - Technical Proposal

(Oral Presentation/supplemental information), Volume III –Past Performance Proposal, and

Volume IV – Price Proposal.

3.2.1 The Offeror shall prepare the proposal as set forth in the Proposal Organization Table below. The titles and contents of the volumes shall be as defined in the table, all of which shall be within the required page limits and with the number of copies as specified. The volumes identified in the table shall be separately bound in three-ring, loose-leaf binders, as necessary.

3.2.2 The content of each proposal volume is described in the ITO paragraph as noted in the table 1 below:

Table 1 – Proposal Organization

VOLUME/STEP ITO

Paragraph COPIES (hard copies/CD-ROM or CD-R)

PAGE LIMIT

Step 1: SWAG Technical Approach (Oral Presentation)

4.1

5 hard copies/2

CD/ROM

55 Slides

Step 2: IDIQ Staffing/Management Plan (Volume I)

4.2

10 pages

Step 3: Technical (Volume

II) - Oral Presentation

4.5

CD/ROM

100 Slides and a maximum of supplemental pages

Volume III – Past Performance 4.6 5 hard copies/2

CD/ROM

15 (Not including the Cover Letter and Table of Contents)

Volume IV - Price 4.7 2 hard copies/1

Unlimited

3.3 Specific Instructions.

3.3.1 Page Limitations. Page limitations shall be treated as maximums. If exceeded, the excess pages will not be read or considered in the evaluation of the proposal. Blank pages, title pages, cover pages, table of contents, tab indexing, glossaries, list of tables and figures, and subcontractor consent letter(s) are not included in page limitation. Legible tables, charts, graphs and figures may be used to depict organizations, systems and layout, implementation schedules, plans, etc.

3.3.2 Page Size and Format. A page is defined as each face of a sheet of paper containing information. When both sides of a sheet display printed material, it shall be counted as two pages.

Page size shall be 8½ x 11 inches. Pages shall be single-spaced and typed, except for displays and the reproduced sections of the solicitation document. The font shall be Times New Roman and no less than 12 point in size. Use at least 1 inch margins on the top and bottom. Pages shall be numbered sequentially by volume. When text is included within displays, it may be no smaller than 8 point, but must be clearly legible without magnification, as determined solely by the CO. The size of these displays shall not exceed the page size as defined above. Oral presentations shall be single slide per page, no less than 14 font. Fold out pages are accepted for Volume IV - Pricing. These limitations shall apply to both CD-ROM and CD-R and hard copy proposals.

3.3.3 CD-ROM or CD-R Copies. Do not compress any files. Do not submit your proposal on a flash drive or CD-RW media. The content and page size of electronic copies must be identical to the hard copies. Electronic storage media shall be submitted in one of the following formats: pre-recorded

(pressed) CD-ROM or CD-R (No CD-RWs). Each volume shall be in a different directory on a CD.

One electronic copy of the proposal shall be submitted in the following formats: Microsoft (MS)

Word 2010, MS Excel 2010, or MS-Power Point 2010, or Portable Document Format (PDF), as applicable.

3.3.4 Title Page (not included in the page count). Each volume must include a title page. The title pages must show:

Solicitation Number

Name, address, telephone numbers and e-mail address of the Offeror (only one copy for all required volumes)

Cage/DUNS

Acknowledgement of any amendments as an attachment

3.3.5 Cross-Referencing. The proposal volumes shall be written on a stand-alone basis so that its contents may be evaluated without cross referencing to another volume. Information required for proposal evaluation which is not found in its designated volume will be assumed to have been omitted from the proposal.

3.3.6 Indexing. Each volume shall contain a detailed table of contents to delineate the subparagraphs within that volume. Tab indexing shall be used to identify sections and will not count against page limitations IAW paragraph 3.3.1 above.

3.3.7 Glossary of Abbreviations and Acronyms. Each volume shall contain a glossary of all abbreviations and acronyms used, with an explanation for each. As stated above in paragraph

3.3.1, glossaries do not count against the page limitations for their respective volumes.

3.3.8 Responsive. Documents submitted in response to this solicitation must be fully responsive to and consistent with the terms and conditions of the solicitation or may result in being rejected as non- responsive and not being evaluated.

4.0 Proposal Instructions. The following details the specific instructions for each volume.

4.1 Step 1: SWAG Technical Approach (Oral Presentation). The Oral Presentation shall be specific, complete and address the scenario’s (Attachment 6) requirements to include the evaluation criteria areas in Addendum to 52.212-2. The offeror shall orally present their technical approach, industry experience, and staffing plan to the Government utilizing a Microsoft PowerPoint

Presentation. During the presentation, the Technical Evaluation Team members will not interrupt the offeror to ask questions (except to request the repetition of inaudible words or statements or the explanation of terms that are unknown to them) or otherwise engage the offeror in any dialogue.

4.1.1 After the oral presentation of the SWAG Scenario, the Government will convene

(Government personnel only) for one hour to prepare for exchanges, if any are required, for the offeror. The offeror will return to the briefing room after one hour and be prepared to commence in exchanges with the Government. After the exchange session ends, exchanges for the SWAG scenario will be closed and no further exchanges will be permitted. The offeror should send a knowledgeable representative with authority to make changes in the event a response to the

Government’s question results in a proposal change

4.1.2 Time Limit – The Contracting Officer shall terminate the presentation if it overruns the prescribed time limit of one and a half hours. Any information (slides) not briefed within the time limit of the oral presentation will be reviewed by the Government at another time (see slide limitation noted in Table 1).

4.2 Step 2: The Government will evaluate the Offeror’s IDIQ Level Staffing and

Management Plan.

4.2.1 Management Plan. The Offeror shall demonstrate a plan to monitor their employees at multiple locations, including subcontractors, to continuously meet the Government’s requirements as outlined in the PWS. The Offeror’s proposal should demonstrate a sound management plan and discuss their established procedures/processes to complete all required tasks IAW PWS requirements. This demonstrates an offeror’s plan to managing the basic indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract and all awarded Task Orders.

4.2.2 Staffing Plan. The Offeror shall demonstrate their capability to properly allocate resources in accordance with the PWS and the capability to recruit and retain employees. Offerors shall provide a plan to fill vaccines within five (5) calendar days with qualified personnel. A well-defined

Staffing Plan will document/identify qualified personnel to support this PWS, minimize impact on recruiting and retention and incentivize employees to meet or exceed requirements. It will also clearly identify all personnel resources and skill sets to fulfill the full scope of the PWS requirements, and explain how the labor mix will be successful in performing the tasks in the PWS.

Offerors shall provide resumes for all personnel identified as key personnel in Appendix 1 of the PWS, Attachment 3). If alternate labor categories are proposed, provide rationale.

4.2.3 Task Order 0001 Staffing Plan - Offerors shall provide a cross reference matrix that assigns proposed labor categories and FTEs IAW PWS.

4.3 In order to proceed to Step 3, the Offeror’s SWAG scenario proposal and

Staffing/Management Plan proposal shall BOTH be rated ACCEPTABLE by the Technical

Evaluation Team. An UNACCEPTABLE rating in either the SWAG scenario or

Staffing/Management plan or both, will be eliminated from further evaluation and will not move to Step 3. ACCEPTABLE proposals will continue to Step 3. Offerors will be notified via email if they are to continue to Step 3 or if their proposal has been eliminated from further evaluation.

4.4 Step 3: Evaluate Remaining Factors

4.5 Volume II, Factor I - Technical Proposal (Oral Presentation). Notified offeror’s shall orally present their technical approach and commercial industry experience to the Government utilizing a Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation. Per the last amendment, the Government updated the PWS with both different labor categories and additional labor categories. The contractor shall submit an updated IDIQ Staffing/Management Plan to reflect the Government’s labor category changes. If the contractor proposes different or additional labor categories than those in the updated PWS, then rationale must be provided in the format used to describe labor categories in accordance with PWS Appendix I. The page limit for the updated IDIQ

Staffing/Management Plan is 12 pages and must be submitted (electronically and in hard copy format according to Table 1) at the same time as the Technical Volume, which is due 2:00PM

Eastern Time on 25 April 2018.

4.5.1 After the oral presentation of Technical (Volume II), the Government will convene

(Government personnel only) for one hour to prepare for exchanges, if any are required, for the offeror. The offeror will return to the briefing room after one hour and be prepared to commence in exchanges with the Government. After the exchange session ends, further exchanges will be in writing via an exchange notice (EN).

4.5.2 Time Limit – The Contracting Officer shall terminate the presentation if it overruns the prescribed time limit of two hours per section 2.6. Any information (slides) not briefed within the time limit of the oral presentation will be reviewed by the Government at another time (see slide limitation noted in Table 1).

4.5.3 Supplemental Pages. Offerors shall submit a written technical proposal to address the areas prescribed in paragraphs 4.5.4 to 4.5.7. Supplemental pages shall not exceed page count on table

4.5.4 Technical. The Technical proposal should be specific and complete. Legibility, clarity, and coherence are very important. The proposal shall demonstrate an Offeror’s understanding of the technical requirement, and provides their approach and methodology to complete the required tasks IAW with the PWS. The proposal should not merely reiterate or rephrase the objectives or reformulate the Government’s requirements specified in the solicitation but shall provide convincing rationale to address how the Offeror intends to meet these requirements. The Offeror’s proposal should demonstrate how they will bring an innovative approach to meet the PWS requirements. The Offeror should address their commercial and federal experience and discuss examples of each. Additionally, the Offeror shall demonstrate how they have executed Enterprise

Resource Planning from requirement development to implementation.

4.5.5 Task Order 0001. The offeror shall propose FTEs and labor categories for the kick-off meeting. The Government will use the TO pricing sheet.

4.5.6 Commercial Industry Experience. The technical proposal should be specific about the

Offeror’s Commercial Industry experience in meeting the Government’s requirements as outlined in the PWS. The proposal should specify the Offeror’s prior or current experience on commercial or government contracts accomplishing the same/similar effort that would meet these requirements. The Offeror shall explain how projects supported in their proposal meet the requirements addressed in PWS andprovide one (1) Federal and up to three (3) commercial industry references.

4.5.7 Staffing Plan for Task Order 0001.

4.5.7.1. For Task Order 0001 (Kick-Off), The Offeror shall provide a one page proposal as part of their supplemental pages for the kick-off meeting to included LCAT and FTEs

(Contractor participants).

4.6 Volume III, Factor II - Past Performance Proposal.

4.6.1 Past Performance.

4.6.1.1 The Offeror shall provide past performance information on no more than five (5) contracts or work efforts. The scope and magnitude of this requirement can be broadly defined by the tasks in the PWS. Offeror should consider subcontractor past performance submission(s) if their proposal includes substantial subcontracting efforts. Offeror’s proposal shall provide examples of past performance that indicates a high expectation that the Offeror will successfully perform the required effort and perform major or critical aspects of the requirement when such information is relevant. The evaluation of past performance information will take into account past performance information regarding predecessor companies or subcontractors that will perform at least 30 percent of the requirement when such information is relevant to the acquisition.

4.6.1.2 Offeror shall furnish the following information for each contract submitted.

Company/Division name.

Description of service and a detailed explanation of relevance to this requirement.

Contracting Agency/Customer point of contact or reference having knowledge of contract performance.

Contract Number.

Contract Type and Dollar Value (per year cost and life cycle cost).

Designation as prime or subcontractor.

Period of Performance.

Completion Date.

Verified, up-to-date name, address, & telephone number of the Contracting Officer.

Comments regarding compliance with contract terms and conditions.

Comments regarding any known performance deemed unacceptable to the customer, or not in accordance with the contract terms and conditions.

Questionnaire log including the name, address, telephone number and e-mail address for each point of contact to whom the Past Performance Questionnaire was sent for completion.

Offerors are cautioned to ensure respective past performance information submitted is RECENT from the date of issuance of the solicitation. Any past performance information submitted over the maximum five (5) contracts

(including prime and subcontractors) will be disregarded in its entirety.

4.6.1.3 Teaming Arrangement. If a teaming arrangement is contemplated, provide a summary as to the overall arrangement, including any relevancy in past performance information on previous teaming arrangements with the same partner and must be consistent with FAR 52.207-6. The teaming arrangement summary is limited to one page per arrangement.

4.6.1.4 Past Performance Questionnaires. Past Performance Questionnaires (Attachment 11) shall be sent to the Offeror’s points of contact. The Offeror should make its best effort to send out a sufficient number of past performance questionnaires to reasonably expect the CO will receive at least one questionnaire on each cited contract/work effort. The questionnaire recipient will e-mail completed questionnaires directly to the contracting office listed on the questionnaire. Offerors shall not complete any information in the Past Performance

Questionnaire and questionnaires received directly from Offerors will not be evaluated. Past

Performance Questionnaires are requested to be received in the issuing office by 2:00 pm

Eastern Time on 25 April 2018. Questionnaires and info forms shall be sent electronically to usaf.jbanafw.afdw-staff.mbx.afdw-pk-pks-saf-pks-pitbulls@mail.mil.

4.6.1.5 Quality of Past Performance. The Government reserves the right to obtain information relative to present and past performance on its own, in addition to information provided by the Offeror. The quality of an Offeror’s past performance may be reviewed and evaluated through the use of systems such as the Past Performance Information Retrieval

System (PPIRS), Contract Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS), Federal

Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System (FAPIIS), Electronic Subcontract

Reporting System (eSRS), questionnaires tailored to the circumstances of this acquisition or other sources or databases known to the Government. Interviews may be conducted with

Program Managers and Contracting Officers, or other sources known to the Government.

4.6.1.6 Subcontractor Consent Letter. Past performance information pertaining to a subcontractor cannot be disclosed to the prime Offeror without the subcontractor’s consent.

Provide with the proposal a letter from all subcontractors that will perform major or critical aspects of the requirement, consenting to the release of their past performance information to the prime contractor. The subcontractor consent letter(s) is excluded from the Past

Performance Volume page count.

4.7 Volume IV, Factor III - Price.

4.7.1 This section is to assist Offerors in submitting data other than certified cost or pricing data that is required to evaluate fairness and reasonableness of your proposed price. Compliance with these requirements is mandatory and failure to comply may result in rejection of your proposal.

Proposals should be sufficiently detailed to demonstrate a fair and reasonable, balanced, and completeness pricing. The burden of proof for credibility of proposed prices rests with the

Offeror.

4.7.2 IDIQ Pricing Sheet (Attachment 9). The Offeror shall complete and submit the IDIQ

Pricing Sheet with fully burdened off-site rates. This pricing sheet will be incorporated and attached to contract. The price proposal should provide supporting cost data to include labor categories, labor rates (rounded to two decimal places), labor hours, as applicable and in accordance with the IDIQ Pricing Sheet within the RFP.

4.7.3 Professional Employee Compensation Plan (PECP). This contract is expected to exceed

$700,000 and the services to be provided will require meaningful numbers of professional employees, as such, Offerors shall submit for evaluation a total compensation plan(s) setting forth proposed salaries and fringe benefits for professional employees working on the contract.

Compensation plans must provide supporting cost data in order to be evaluated in accordance with FAR Provision 52.222-46 -- Evaluation of Compensation for Professional Employees (Feb

1993). The compensation plan(s) will be evaluated to determine if the compensation level proposed is unrealistically low or not in reasonable relationship to the various labor categories for the Washington, D.C. area. Failure to comply with the requirements in FAR Provision 52.222-46 may constitute sufficient cause to justify rejection of the proposal. Offerors shall include the tables below (or similar) to meet this requirement:

Salary/Fringe Benefits able (Example)

Task Area/Labor Category

Unburdened Rate

Fringe Percentage

Junior Task Manager $120,000.00

IT Manager $80,000.00

Benefits Table (Example)

List of Benefits Description of Benefits

Paid time off (PTO) 30 days per year

Holidays 10 paid holidays per year

Short-Term Disability

Long-Term Disability

Life & Personal Accidental Insurance

401K / IRA Plan

Medical and Pharmacy Benefits

Dental Benefits

Vision Benefits

Flex spending account

Health Care Spending Account

Pays 75% tuition Educational Assistance

Employee Referral Bonus

4.7.4 If the Offeror provides their own labor categories, they must be mapped back to the provided labor categories of the Government based on historical data provided. The

Offeror must then designate the labor categories they deem professional.

4.7.5 Task Order Pricing Sheet (Attachment 9). Complete the pricing sheet. The task order pricing must be based off the IDIQ pricing provided on Attachment 9. Thus, only requesting pricing for the identified task order.

4.7.6 Period of Performance for Pricing Purposes.

4.7.6.1 The price proposal must be submitted for a 1-year base plus 4 option years ordering period. The anticipated Period of Performance is as follows:

Period of Performance STARTS ENDS Base Year 4 December 2018 3 December 2019

Option Year 1 4 December 2019 3 December 2020

Option Year 2 4 December 2020 3 December 2021

Option Year 3 4 December 2021 3 December 2022

Option Year 4 4 December 2022 3 December 2023

4.8 General Information.

4.8.1 Discrepancies. If an Offeror believes that the requirements in these instructions contain an error, omission, or are otherwise unsound, the Offeror shall immediately notify the CO in writing with supporting rationale as well as the remedies the Offeror is asking the CO to consider as related to the omission or error. The Offeror is reminded that the Government reserves the right to award this effort based on the initial proposal, as received, without discussion. Accordingly, Offerors are advised to submit initial proposals that are well defined and clearly acceptable without additional information, additional or substitute pages.

4.8.2 Debriefings. Offerors excluded at any time during the source selection process will be afforded the opportunity to request a post-award debriefing in accordance with FAR 52.212-

1(l) Debriefing. Information relating to other Offerors proposals will not be disclosed.