Solicitation Questions 18JUN25.xlsx
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- Solicitation number
- FA8201-25-R-0003
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The file is a Solicitation Questions document for Solicitation FA8201-25-R-0003, an Architect-Engineer (A-E) 25 Services contract for Hill Air Force Base. The solicitation will award up to ten contractors, with the first two slots reserved for small businesses and the remaining slots open to full and open competition. The contract supports the 75th Civil Engineering Group's mission, with performance locations including Hill AFB, Little Mountain Test Annex, Utah Test and Training Range, and Boulder Seismic Station.
Key details from the questions and answers include: the proposal due date is extended to July 18th due to the July 4th holiday, offerors must submit 3-6 example projects (1 page each), and resumes must be provided for 12 named disciplines. Specific requirements include providing Past Performance Questionnaires (PPQs) or CPARS, with example projects completed within the last 5 years. Font requirements mandate 11-point Arial or Times New Roman, and strict page limitations apply to different sections of the proposal. Offerors can submit multiple resumes per discipline, but they will be evaluated collectively.
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| Attachment 3 - Hill A-E25 PPQ_Rev 1.pdf | ||
| Solicitation Questions 07JUL25.xlsx | XLSX spreadsheet | |
| Solicitation Questions 25JUN25.xlsx | XLSX spreadsheet | |
| Solicitation - FA820125R0003 18JUN25.pdf | ||
| Solicitation - FA820125R0003.pdf | ||
| Attachment 1 - Section L - Hill A-E25 Submission Reqs.pdf | ||
| Attachment 4 - SF330.pdf | ||
| Attachment 3 - Hill A-E25 PPQ.pdf | ||
| Attachment 5 - Hill A-E25 Qualifications Evaluation Guide - Final.pdf | ||
| Attachment 2 - Hill A-E SOW 2025 - 28 May 2025.pdf |
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| Line Item # | Reference | Question | Response | Response Posted Date | |
| 1 | SAM.gov | The SAM.gov record for this solicitation states questions are due by June 30th. Given the holiday on July 4th and the current due date of July 11th, please consider answering submitted questions as they are submitted instead of answering all questions after the June 30th deadline. The short duration between June 30th and July 11th affords offerors little time to adjust their solicitation response to information provided in the answers. | Yes, we will extend the proposal due date to July 18th due to the holiday. | 6/18/25 | |
| 2 | Attachment 1- Section L Hill A-E25 Submission Reqs, SF330 Part I, Section E | The solicitation requires offerors provide resumes for 12 named disciplines and allows one page per resume. The Section E is allocated 20 pages. Are the additional pages so offerors may provide more than one resume for a discipline and if so, will those resumes be scored individually? | More than one resume for a discipline could be submitted, but they will be scored together by discipline. | 6/18/25 | |
| 3 | Solicitation: Specialized Experience and Technical Competence | Solicitation states, "At least half (rounding up) of the required example projects provided in a firm's SF330 must have been completed by the prime." Will a sub's project receive equal consideration as a Prime project would? | All of the example projects will receive equal consideration as long as the constraints given are met. Subs and the prime can also have worked on the same example project. | 6/18/25 | |
| 4 | Solicitation FA820125R0003, p 32/33 | The solicitation states offerors must provide a completed PPQ for each project in Section F. Please confirm Offeror's should only complete a PPQ for the Section F project if a CPARS is not available. | You can use CPARS, PPQ or both. If CPARS only is used, a copy of the relevant evaluation sections should be provided. If both are used, the PPQ should be provided and then the CPARS referenced. | 6/18/25 | |
| 5 | Attachment 1 Section L Hill A-E25 Submission Reqs, SF330 Part I, Section F | The solicitation states offerors must submit at least 3 example projects and can provide 2 optional projects. The project descriptions in Section F are limited to one page per project with a maximum of 6. Please comfirm offerors can submit up to 6 projects and the pages allocated to Section F should be up to 6. | Confirmed, the page limit for Section F should be up to 6. Offerors can submit up to 6 projects, 1 page per project. The page limit total then in Para 2 should be 50 for the SF 330 Part I submittals sections with page limits. | 6/18/25 | |
| 6 | Attachment 5 Hill A-E25 Qualifications Evaluation Guide Final | The evaluation criteria listed on page 1 are listed in order of importance. Are the Evaluation Parameters listed n the subsequent pages also shown in order of importance? | No, not for all. Please see Section M, Sections 3 and 4 for clarification on importance of Primary and Secondary Selection Criteria. For Primary Selection Criteria #5, Secondary Selection Criteria #6, and Secondary Selection Criteria #7 the parameters are listed in order of importance. | 6/18/25 | |
| 7 | Solicitation - FA820125R0003 and Attachment 1 - Section L Submission Requirements; | ||||
| Page 25 of 33, Section L.2 and Page 1 of 4, Section 2 | The solicitation states "...no smaller than 11-point Arial or 11-point Times New Roman, shall be used throughout". | ||||
| Will the Government consider a smaller size font for graphics, charts, and tables? | No | 6/18/25 | |||
| 8 | Solicitation - FA820125R0003 and Attachment 1 - Section L Submission Requirements; | ||||
| Page 25 of 33, Section L.2 and Page 1 of 4, Section 3 | The solicitation states "SF330 Part II submittals to no more than one (1) page for the Prime, one (1) additional SF330 part II page for each of the Prime's non-local offices". | ||||
| Due to the size of our firm and the number of Experience areas for Block 10, our Part II are two pages. Please confirm that is acceptable. | Please follow the instructions provided for SF 330, Part II | 6/18/25 | |||
| 9 | Solicitation - FA820125R0003 and Attachment 1 - Section L Submission Requirements; | ||||
| Page 25 of 33, Section L.2 Page 26 of 33, Section L.4.a.(c)(2) and Page 2 of 4, Section 4 | Please confirm that what is referred to as the "cover letter" on page 25 of the solicitation is the same as what is referred to as "first page" on page 26. | ||||
| Please confirm that these are also the same as the reference to "cover letter" on page 2 of 4 in Attachment 1. | Yes, the cover letter would be the first page of the document. | 6/18/25 | |||
| 10 | Solicitation - FA820125R0003; | ||||
| Page 26, Section L.4.a.(e)(1) | Please confirm that the title page is not included in the page limitation. | Confirmed. The cover page is not included in the page limit as stated in Attachment 1. | 6/18/25 | ||
| 11 | Solicitation - FA820125R0003 and Attachment 5 - Qualifications Evaluation Guide; | ||||
| Page 31 of 33, Section M.3.2 and Page 3 of 8, Primary Selection Criteria 2: Specialized Experience and Technical Competence | The solicitation indicates "Past Performance within the last 5 years", but Attachment 5 indicates "Examples projects completed within the last 3 years." | ||||
| Please confirm that example projects must have been completed within the last 5 years. | Attachment 5 should be corrected to state "Example projects completed within the last 5 years" . Yes, example projects must have been completed in the last 5 years. | 6/18/25 | |||
| 12 | Solicitation - FA820125R0003 and Attachment 1 - Section L Submission Requirements; | ||||
| Page 32 of 33, Section M.3.2 and Page 2 of 4, Section 4 | Attachment 1 states "Optional: Submit 1 example project demonstrating airfield design and/or planning experience". The solicitation states that "At least one airfield pavement design and/or airfield planning project should be listed as relevant experience." | ||||
| Please clarify. | Section M should state "Up to one airfield pavement design and/or airfield planning project may be listed as relevant experience." | 6/18/25 | |||
| 13 | Solicitation - FA820125R0003 and Attachment 1 - Section L Submission Requirements; | ||||
| Page 32 of 33, Section M.3.2 and Page 3 of 4, Section 4 | Attachment 1 states "Optional: submit 1 example project demonstrating Title II experience". The solicitation does not list any requirements for this type of experience. | ||||
| Please clarify. | You may optionally submit up to 1 example project that demonstrates Title II experience. | 6/18/25 | |||
| 14 | Solicitation - FA820125R0003; | ||||
| Page 32 of 33, Section M.34 | Please confirm that if a CPAR is provided for an example project, a PPQ is not required. | See line item 4 above. | 6/18/25 | ||
| 15 | Attachment 1 - Section L Submission Requirements; | ||||
| Page 2 of 4, Section 4 | Offerors must submit 3 example projects and can submit a maximum of 6 projects, 1 page each. However, the page limit is 5 pages. | ||||
| Please clarify. | See line item 5 above. | 6/18/25 | |||
| 16 | Solicitation - FA820125R0003; | ||||
| Page 32 of 33, Section M.3.2 | Due to the font size limitation and the required number of inclusions for each project, will the Government consider alloting 2 pages per project? | No | 6/18/25 | ||
| 17 | Solicitation - FA820125R0003; | ||||
| Page 1 of 33, Section M.34 | Due to the 4th of July holiday, will the Government consider a one-week extension to the submittal due date. | Yes, we will extend the proposal due date to July 18th due to the holiday. | 6/18/25 | ||
| 18 | Solicitation - FA820125R0003: | ||||
| Page 1 of 32, Section M.3.4 | Are PPQs to be included in the proposal or are they to be sent directly to the Govt? Are PPQs and/or CPARS to be included as an Appendix to Part II? | See line item 4 above. For each PPQ submitted, complete fields identified as "to be completed bythe Contractor" then forward a copy of the PPQ to the customer POC for that project with a request for them to complete the "to be completed by the Customer" fields and return the PPQ to the identified emails on the PPQ by to the solicitation closing date. The PPQs and CPARs are to be provided and that may be as an appendix. | 6/18/25 | ||
| 19 | Solicitation - FA820125R0003: | ||||
| Page 1 of 32, Section M.3.5 | For Location and Knowledge of the Vicinity, the solicitation states that SF330 Part I, Section B will be used to evaluate this criterion. Please confirm that this should be SF330 Part I, Section C. | Confirmed. Section M 3.5 should reference that SF 330 Part 1, Section C will be used to evaluate this criteria. | 6/18/25 | ||
| 20 | Multiple, see question. | The small business set aside of 20 percent is stated on Solicitation-Section A, Page 2 of 33. However, Solicitation-Section M, Page 30 of 33, 1. Contract Information, 3rd Paragraph states: “This procurement is being pursued under full and open competition and is not a small business set-aside.” Please confirm that 20% of the seats are set-aside for small businesses. | This acquisition is reserving two slots for small businesses. Once those two slots are filled or if they cannot be filled by qualified contractors, the remaining slots will be considered full and open competition. | 6/18/25 | |
| 21 | Solicitation-Section L, Paragraph 2, Page 2 of 33 and Attachment 1 Submission Requirements, Paragraph 2 | Both references state that side margins are to be no smaller than 1”. However, the SF330 template provided in Attachment 4 has side margins that are less than 1”. It is our understanding that the 1” margins may be a holdover from when bound hardcopies were required for submission. Please confirm that side margins less than 1” are acceptable. | The margins in the SF 330 template provided are acceptable for the SF 330 only. For all other documents, the margins defined in the solicitation are applicable. | 6/18/25 | |
| 22 | Attachment 1 – Submission Requirements, Paragraph 4, Table Row IV | Reference states “Example Projects; 1 page per project, maximum 6”. However, the page limit for this section is 5 pages. Additionally, Table Row VII, Past Performance states “2 pages max per project” with a page limit of 12. This would indicate 6 projects are allowed. Please confirm that the maximum number of projects is 6 and if so, that Section IV page limit is also 6. Note if this is the case the overall page limit would increase to 45. | See line item 5 above. | 6/18/25 | |
| 23 | Attachment 3-PPQ | Reference states “Please return completed PPQ by xx May 2025…” Please confirm that the due date for the PPQs should be adjusted to 11 July 2025. | Yes, the due date should be 18 July 2025. Attachment Updated. | 6/18/25 | |
| 24 | Solicitation-FA820125R0003.pdf (Pg 31 & 32) & Attachment 1 (Pg 2, Section III SF330 Part I, Section E) – Resumes of Key Personnel (max 20 page limit): | Solicitation requests 20 resumes for Primary Disciplines (a.-l.). In addition to the required Discipline Resumes (a.-l.), should a firm provide resumes for additional Disciplines, will they be accepted and included in the evaluation? | A miniumum of 1 resume should be provided for each of the disciplines listed. More than 1 resume may be provided for the same discipline or resumes for additional disciplines may be provided as long as the page limit is not exceeded. Resumes submitted that exceed the page limit for this section will not be evaluated. | 6/18/25 | |
| 25 | Attachment 1 (Pg 2, Section IV SF330 Part I, Section F): | Section F Page Limit says 5 pages – however the Information/Instructions box says “1 page per project, maximum 6”. Please verify number of Projects and page limit for Section F. | See line item 5 above. | 6/18/25 | |
| 26 | Solicitation-FA820125R0003.pdf (Pg 32) Past Performance: | If a firm has a Project CPARS on file for its Section F Projects, is it still required to get a completed PPQ form filled out by the Client, and returned to the identified email? | See line item 4 above. | 6/18/25 | |
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