Complete Q and A_01 Jun 2020.xlsx

PWS

PWS 3.13.2.8 Electronic Maintenance Data Collection Systems states: "The contractor shall be responsible for acquiring, managing, maintaining, repairing, storing, shipping, replenishing an disposition of spares, EME and support equipment... ...maintain an inventory control system to track the status of the assets bought, modified or provided under this contract. ...provide a management plan containing the contractor's management and staging plan for the spares, EME and support equipment required..."

Question: These references imply the successor contractor will be providing the support spares for this program, and the sustainment of those spares.

1. Is there an inventory of spares and repair parts the Government is providing to the successful contractor as GFP/E/M? If so, please provide a list of spare and repair parts the Government will provide for all device types. If not, please clarify how the necessary spares will be identified.

2. Is it the Government’s intent that the successor contractor provide the support spares and sustainment of those spares for this contract? If so, please provide a list of recommended spares so the contractors can obtain cost and pricing data to include in our price proposals? If a list of recommended spares is not available, please provide the current contracts’ maintenance history that indicates what items have been replaced, repaired and consumed for all device types during the current contract.

For JTC TRS and JTC TRS DT, on site is only required if the help desk is not able to fix the issue.

9 PWS 3.13.5.4.1 The PWS states that states the contractor shall report GFP status quarterly to ensure Training System Assets are accurately reported in the AF property and Logistics System Is attachment JTC TRS FA8621-20-R-003 Attachment X Asset List the only GFP currenly on the program? The National Stock Numbers on this list are end items is there currently a spares list? Attachment 7, Asset List - The purpose of the attachment is to list those items that will be GFP upon contract award.

No spares list.

1) Please clarify if there are spare and repair parts for the equipment listed in the Attachment 7 of the RFP. Please provide the current spares list for the devices on this program.

2) Please provide the Government’s current Recompetition Support package list including the spares and repair parts being provided to the contractor.

Attachment 8, GFE List 16 Attachment 1_PWS_11 May 20, para 3.10.6.6 Technical Assistance Agreements 3.10.6.6 Technical Assistance Agreements (TAAs): The contractor shall have and maintain current Technical Assistance Agreements (TAAs) for releasing data to the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other coalition countries in association with this contract. This is necessary to support foreign exchange officers or coalition partner co-manned forces using the training system, training events with connections to other countries, training events with connections to other US training systems being used by foreign exchange officers or coalition partner co-manned forces.

This Ramp-Up Period paragraph cites Ramp-Up and Ramp-Down periods related to the contract being awarded as a result of this solicitation. The Transition Period’s period of performance is unclear for the contract being awarded.

1. Please clarify if the Ramp-Up/Ramp-Down periods in this section refer to the incumbent contractor’s Ramp-Down of the current contract and the successor contractor’s Ramp-Up for the contract being awarded. If this is the case, please verify transition period is a 90-day period spanning the last 60-days of the incumbent’s existing contract and the first month of the successor’s awarded contract to assure continuity of operations and allow an orderly transition of responsibilities from the incumbent to the successor.

2. If item 1 is not the Government’s intent, please clarify if there is an overlap of contractual periods of performance for the purposes of ensuring transitioning the responsibilities from the incumbent contracts to the successor contractor. Please verify that the incumbent contractor remains contractually responsible for contract performance and site/device performance during the successor’s Ramp-Up period.

3. Please clarify the start and stop dates of the Ramp-Up period for the JTC TRS contract being awarded. Please clarify whether the Ramp-Up occurs during the last month prior to the end of the current contract or during the first month of the successor contract.

4. Please provide the current JTC TRS Program's contract: Ramp-Down period duration; period of performance; and, the incumbent contractor's Ramp-Down/Transition Period contractual requirements. 1. Correct

2. The incumbent contractor remains contractually responsible for contract performance and site/device performance until current contract expiration.

Due to the timing, don't anticipate overlap between the two contractors.

3. The Ramp-Up period occurs during the first month of the successor contract which may overlap with the last 30 days of the current contract dependent on contract award date .

4. The current JTC TRS program contract Ramp-Down period is the final 60 days of the contract; the period of performance ends 6 Jan2021.

During the final 60 days of the contract, and subsequent options, the contractor shall provide over-the-shoulder training in the areas of operation and maintenance to the successor contractor. (Probably not happening).

The contractor shall provide a plan for the ramp-down transition period. The transition plan will describe those actions necessary for the 60 day transition to include, but may not be limited to:

- An audit of data, documentation and software package to ascertain completeness

- An inventory list of all GFP/GFE

- An audit of current system support spares

- Identification and disposition of contractor-owned inventory

- Identification of warranty information on current inventory

- An inventory of software and licenses

- A proposed schedule of upcoming activities and events listed in the plan

- Out-brief to successor contractor to include the status of all system components

18 Attachment 1_PWS_11 May 20, para 3.15.3 Ramp-up/Ramp-Down Joint Inventory 3.15.3 Ramp-up/Ramp-Down Joint Inventory states: “The contractor shall participate and complete the ramp-up and ramp-down joint inventory no later than ten (10) working days prior to the end of the ramp-up/ramp-down period. …” Based on the “Ramp-Up period stated in paragraph 3.15.1 of “1-month transition” and the entire program joint inventory at 27 sites in CONUS and OCONUS locations must be completed in a “ten (10) working days prior to the end of the ramp-up/ramp-down period”, the Government is allowing approximately 20 days to accomplish this requirement. This is appears to be an aggressive requirement.

1. Please clarify that the successor contractor will be granted access to sites during normal off-duty times, e.g., evenings, weekends, holidays, etc. during the Ramp-Up period. Please clarify that the incumbent contractor and the necessary Government representatives will be available to support the required Inventory at each site.

What is considered a major software change? Would 1067, ECPs that add to the baseline software be considered major software changes?

What frequency is the other Govt. provided JTAGSS software expected to be updated at? Once a year? Twice a year?

Will the Govt. provide monthly cyber updates for the Govt furnished software?

Is the Govt. responsible for providing yearly license updates for the GOTS software JET is the only SW that needs to be sustained, the Gov office will manage cyber, and the Gov would provide licenses for GOTS SW.

JTAGSS Software updates are expected twice a year (same as JTC TRS).

22 PWS Paragraph 3.15.4 Paragraph 3.15.4 JTAGSS Device Transition The contractor shall transition every JTAGSS device listed within Section J, Attachment 11 - Asset List into the JTC TRS Program from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Warfighter Readiness Research Division (711 HPW/RHA) defense contractor within 90 days of contract award.

Section L_M

The GFP attachment provides only a single part number each for the JTC TRS Base Device, JTC TRS EME Package (AFSOC), and JTC TRS Desktop Trainer.

The provided top-level, or assembly-level, part numbers provide insufficient insight to the Offeror in terms of defining the current operational software baseline, or in determining appropriate form, fit, function hardware.

Question: Please clarify if there are any differences between the two glossaries, or if this might be a typo. Section 3 should be List of Acronyms Section 6 should be Glossary 4 Section L, Paragraph 2.3.2.1

Section M Paragraph 2.3.1.1.1 Subfactor 1: Training Device Production Further, In Attachment 12, 2.3.1.1.1 Subfactor 1: Training Device Production, “the subfactor is met when a sound approach for producing additional JTC TRS dome training devices compatible with the current operational software baseline, using Form, Fit, Function hardware…”

Please clarify if these requirements are correct as expressed in Attachment 11 - Section L. Removed requirement from the Executive Summary.

Small Business Participation should only be in the Contracts Volume.

JTC TRS System Evaluation Test Plan Paragraph 3.3 CLIN 8650 Section L indicates that "The Offeror shall describe any Non-Recurring Engineering (NRE) associated with the development of their integration software evaluated during SET. NRE shall be separately priced under the JTC TRS NRE CLIN..."

The System Test and Evaluation Plan Paragraph 3.3 requires 100% of critical test points and 50% of non-critical test points to be compliant during the SET event.

For an offeror replacing any component of the baseline, NRE can be reasonably expected to be incurred in order to successfully execute a SET event. Given the minimum compliancy requirements, additional NRE of the offered solution may be required (post-SET) to bring the offered system up to full compliancy.

Section M states "This subfactor is met when the offeror provides a sound approach for producing additional JTC TRS dome training devices compatible..."

All PPI is requested by Friday, 19 June 2020 (10 calendar days prior to the date set for receipt of proposals).

Per Section L Final 2.4.2.1 'Early Proposal Information' Offerors are requested to submit their past performance information volume 10 business days prior to the required submission date for the remainder of the proposal.

Bidder's Library

Government plans on providing NRE for new development.

For a description of DORT, reference Section 2.8.3 of the Dome O&M Manuals

11 QD-6027-A029-001-A [CDRL A029] Can the government please provide the files in \\share\data? That information resides on TSSC and Operational systems, but the data is not considered to be necessary to develop a proposal

14 QD-6027-A029-001-A [CDRL A029] Document #: QD-6027-A029-001-A [CDRL A029] lists a number of previously created MACE mission files. In the interest of meeting the governments SET schedule, can the government provide these missions in the bidder’s library? The files are in a folder named ATP Folder. The files are:

• ATP_Display.mis

• ATP_MissionDemoProfile1.mis

• ATP_Aircraft.mis

• ATP_SAMS_AAA.mis

• ATP_USMilVehWpn.mis

• ATP_ForeignVehWpn.mis

• ATP_PAXWpn.mis

• ATP_CivGndVeh.mis

• ATP_Ordnance.mis

• ATP_BuildingsNonMovingTargets.mis

• ATP_PodiumEffect.mis

• ATP_MissionDemoProfile1.mis

• ATP_MissionDemoProfile2.mis

• ATP_MissionDemoProfile3.mis

• ATP_MissionDemoProfile4.mis

• ATP_1k_Entities.mis

• ATP_1000_Entities.mis

JTCTRS001-A09

JTCTRS001-A15

JTCTRS001-021CL

JTCTRS001-PL21

JTCTRS001-PL03

280500 A900108 A900109 A910031

JTCTRS003-IDSI

JTCTRS004-IDSI

JTCTRS007-IDSI

JTCTRS009-IDSI

JTCTRS001-A15

JTCTRS001-A16

JTCTRS001-001CL

JTCTRS001-002CL

JTCTRS001-PL01

JTCTRS002-PL01

QFDT1001-H01

QFDT1001-C01

JTCTRS002-PL02

QFDT1001-H02

QFDT1001-C02

The "M4 User Manual" and "IZLID User Manual" in the Dome vendor manual folders is based on the legacy system and needs to be updated.

Pricing Matrix

CLIN Series 5X00 CLIN Series 5X00: As an example, CLIN 5X00 Basic Award is a grouped award of 4 CLINs.

Question: Is it the Government’s intent to continue to award these as a group? Plan to exercise each year for each type listed separately for the quantity identified at the time of exercise.

Other

PWS Sec 3.12 JTC TRS Device Conversion PWS Sec 3.12 states "The JTC TRS product baseline for the JTC TRS dome, desktop and portable shall be established IAW with the base production contract line item number structure of the contract. The contractor shall convert all JTC TRS and JTAC Domes, Desktops and Portables in the contract Asset List (Attachment 11) to be commensurate with the JTC TRS product baseline."

Are all 3 visual solutions (monitors, projector and HMD) required to be provided as standard equipment with the Portable devices?

Are flat panel LED or LCD based displays also acceptable, or must all flat screen solutions utilize projectors? Should this read flat panel or projected display?

Item C1: PLRF-15C?

Item C2: M-22 Binoculars?

Item C4: GLTD II SOFLAM (PEQ-1/C)?

Item C14: Compass?

A. Are these systems being maintained under a separate contract from the current JTC TRS? If so ,by whom?

B. What equipment package (if any) is with the two USSOCOM JTAC Dome systems?

C. What is the configuration of the two JTAC portables delivered to Einsiedlerhof, GE? A. They were made and sustained by QD on a different contract than the JTC TRS contract.

B. AFSOC package.

C. This configuration uses a short throw projector for the student visual system. No drawings or parts lists to provide.

21 JTC TRS Q and A Matrix Final Question 26 The Government stated: "No CBA's that the USG is aware of, the SCA will apply. Minimum Rates and Fringe will have to be collected from the DOL." However, FAR 52.222–43 Fair Labor Standards Act and Service Contract Act—Price Adjustment (Multiple Year and Option Contracts) does not appear in the model contract. Please clarify if this contract is covered by FAR 52.222-43, and if the model contract will be updated. FAR 52.222-41 / 52.222-43 clauses have been added.