USAF Questions r4 final.docx

USAF Questions

In Support of

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Data Competency Center (DCC) Data Objects Cleansing Logistics Transformation Requirements.

1. In the requirements description identified as Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Data Competency Center (DCC) Data Objects Cleansing Logistics Transformation Requirements, does the “Estimated Effort” paragraph contain sufficient information to document a response for each section of this paragraph?

2. Does your company have the resources to meet the required expertise as described in the “Expertise/Professional Services” paragraph? If not does your company have the ability to obtain these resources? How?

3. What is your company’s experience with the Joint Engineering Data and Management Information Control System (JEDMICS) and interpreting technical drawings, CAD models, military specifications and illustrated parts breakdown documents?

4. What is your company’s experience/familiarity with AF and commercial systems that provide technical information related to NSN/Parts including D043, G005M, D200, G004L, Haystack® and other cataloging systems?

5. What if any, experience does your company have with Air Force developed data cleansing processes?

6. What is your company’s experience/familiarity with Product Data Management applications and with Teamcenter Enterprise 2007?

7. What is your company’s experience/familiarity with USAF Data Competency Centers (HQ level and ALC level)?

8. What is your company’s experience/familiarity with developing the Master Bill of Material (M-BOM) from drawings, illustrated parts breakdown, data systems or spreadsheets?

9. Will your company provide all the skills needed or have a team of partners (subcontractors)?

10. What is the level your company’s experience/familiarity in developing/maintaining Management/Program Plan, Master Schedule, Contractor Risk Management Plan, Quality Plan and Configuration Management with large amounts of data cleansing involved?

11. What is your company’s experience in generating Cost/Schedule Status reports, Risk Management Reports, and defined metric reports in regard to data cleansings efforts?

12. What is your company’s experience/familiarity with generating AFTO 22, AFTO 252, AF Form 3925, AF Form 3927 and deficiency documents?

13. Please provide an example where your company experienced technical and programmatic issues that impacted a project and the necessary corrective actions taken to resolve these issues?

14. Please provide an example where your company identified and resolved organizational conflicts?

15. Please provide an example where your company experienced contingency issues and implemented adequate planning to resolve these issues? (example: Network issues, key staff member moves on, etc.)

16. What is your company’s experience in developing and applying statistical techniques to determine the effectiveness of the quality, procedures and processes on major data cleansing projects?

17. What is your company’s experience in developing technical/engineering reports related to large amounts of data cleansing requirements across various organizational requirements (example: technical data, financial data, maintenance data, etc.)?

18. The Government is contemplating a service contract, NAICS Code 541330, what category does your company fall within; small business, veteran-owned small business, small disadvantaged business, Certified 8A, Hub Zone small business, women-owned small business, large business, etc? To be considered a small business under this NAICS code your company must have less than $4.5 million in revenue receipts on average for the previous three years.

19. What are your thoughts on this effort being a total small business set-aside?

20. What percentage of this workload can be accomplished by small businesses?

21. If it cannot be subcontracted to small businesses, provide information to substantiate your position.

22. What percentage of this workload do you anticipate to subcontract?

23. What previous experience does your company have with Government contracts?

24. Is your company familiar with the Government processes of contracting/ billing?

25. If you had previous contracts with the Government, what types of pricing arrangement were used?

a. What type of pricing arrangement would you recommend for the contract?

26. Provide any other comments you would like to make in reference to this market research.