26_Jan_16_-_Government_Response.docx

Government response to questions as of 26 January 2016.

Offeror shall identify fully burdened labor rates for both their Prime and Sub labor categories. If both the Prime and Sub will accomplish a labor category, insert a new row to list the Prime on one row and the Sub on the next row with the applicable rates. Companies who are identified in the workbook are not the only ones that can staff a position. As stated in Section M 2.4.6, “All labor rates provided for each of the five years are binding and will be added to Section J of the contract.”

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In the Question and Answer document dated 22 December, questions #19 and #20 state resumes are to be provided for all personnel in Task Order 2 and 3. Depending on a staffing plan, this could result in submitting upwards of 45+ resumes at an average of 3 pages per resume. As an example, if a staffing plan has 7 positions to cover GSP Help Desk are we required to submit 7 different resumes for this task area or can we only submit 1 resume for the task area?

All positions for Task Orders 2 and 3 are key personnel and therefore, resumes shall be provided for all positions (7 resumes in your example).

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Executive Summary Master Table of Contents. The Government previously stated in the 11 January questions and answers that the Master Table of Contents was included in the page limitation for the Executive Summary and Table of Contents for the Technical and Past Performance were included in those respective volume page counts. However the latest set of questions and answers dated 14 January just excluded the Table of Contents for the Technical and Past Performance volumes from their respective page count. To be fully compliant with inserting the Table of Contents from each volume into the Master Table of Contents, will the Government also consider excluding the Master of Table of Contents from the Executive Summary page?

The Master Table of Contents is excluded from the page count per Section L 3.2.

The Original Proposal shall be counted in the number of copies, for a total of 5.

Yes, Surge CLIN on page 2 of the RFP should say Emergency Support.

CLIN 0200 is a Cost Reimbursement CLIN.

Contract ordering period of the IDIQ will be five years from the date of award.

The Funds and Man-hours report is required for CLIN X002, Emergency Support, when applicable.

Questionnaire’s will be accepted using either method.

The Master Table of Contents is excluded from the page count per Section L 3.2.

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The government in its response to questions dated 11 January 2016, question no.2, stated that there are to be 2 primary contractor SMEs for each group of functional areas listed – 1 for Infrastructure Engineering and Installation, Network Technician and Hardware Technician; and 1 for Systems Administration and Storage and Enterprise Backup. This answer seems to indicate that there could be a total of 10 SME’s if we apply the instruction of 2 SME’s for all functional areas with exception of those listed above that are grouped and only receive one for each group (2 SME’s for 3.1, 2 SME’s for 3.6, 2 SME’s for 3.7, and 2 SME’s for 3.8); then for 3.2 and 3.3 combined there would be 1 SME; and for 3.4 and 3.5 combined there would be 1 SME. If correct this would provide the government with 10 total SME’s. On page 43, 7 SMEs are specified. In the pricing workbook tab for Task Order 01 Transition pricing, 5 SMEs are called out with one task order manager and one VTC Operations FTE.

How many SME’s is the Government requesting? Request the Government provide a table clearly stating the SME requirements by functional area as specified under Task Order 1 paragraph 3, “Requirements /Description of Services”, pages 2 to 23. For those functional areas that the government desires to combine for SME requirements please indicate that as well in the requested table.

For the purposes of Task Order 1 management, 2 SME’s shall be identified for only the 2 groups of functional areas provided. The SME’s for transition are not related to the functional area SME’s; however, may be the same person is some cases.

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Request the government unlock hours in the pricing workbook for the TO1 transition tab. This currently does not allow the offeror to distribute partial hours or to add the IDIQ PM who will be working from day one.

Partial hours can be identified by indicating a fraction of an FTE (ex. .25, .50, etc).

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The government has stated that the Master Table of Contents (MTOC) is not excluded from the page count for the Executive Summary which is restricted to 3 pages total. If the MTOC captures all headings and subheadings across all three volumes, there will not be any room left for the narrative summary requirement as stated in Section L, 4.1.1. Can Offerors provide a MTOC at a very high level to allow room for both the narrative summary and MTOC?

The Master Table of Contents is excluded from the page count per Section L 3.2.

Per DoD 5220.22-M, Chapter 7-101, “The subcontractor must possess an appropriate FCL and safeguarding capability if possession of classified information will be required.”