Questions_Answers_FPS3_RFP_14_Jan_2014.docx

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Questions and Answers FPS3 RFP

Section L 2.1.6 states - All cost or pricing information shall be addressed ONLY in the Cost/Price Proposal and Contract Documentation Volumes. Cost tradeoff information, workhour estimates and material kinds and quantities may be used in other volumes only as appropriate for presenting rationale for alternatives or design and tradeoff decisions. Hard copy and electronic copies of non-Cost/Price Volumes shall be “sanitized.” “Sanitized,” as used herein, means free of unit prices, total item prices, or other information that would conform to the definition of “Cost or Pricing Data” as defined in FAR Part 2.

Question: Given that the direction in Section L 2.1.6 prohibits the inclusion of any pricing in any Volume(s) save the Cost/Price Proposal and Contract Documentation Volumes, can Government please clarify?

Offerors should provide detailed information on their assessment of the risk consequence. This assessment should include the specific cost impact to the effort if the risk should be realized. Offerors should include the specific dollar value of their estimate to explain how the cost impact was estimated and how significant the risk is. Offerors should not include both the dollar value and exact percentage impact for cost impact.

This specific information will not be considered to violate the instruction at Section L para 2.1.6, which specifies that cost/price information shall be addressed ONLY in the Cost/Price volume. As a reminder, the offeror’s information on Risk Consequence Cost should include only information on the risk Cost and not other cost/price information.

Provide a risk matrix for the sample problem identifying those significant programmatic risks or aspects of the sample problem projects you consider to have the potential for disruption of schedule, increased cost, or performance impact. Classify each risk as low, medium, or high and identify the probability and impact of occurrence. Propose a risk mitigation strategy for each identified risk. Identify and classify any new risks introduced by such risk mitigation.

Question: Does the performance impact refer to “System/Component” performance or “Contractor execution” performance or both? Please clarify.

The performance impact refers to the technical performance of the overall program (in this case the individual project for each Sample Problem).

The solicitation sample problems do not include a requirement for further design efforts beyond the submittal of the design with the proposal.

Correct, the answer to #36 of the 8 Jan 14 Q&A should read, “The description of the test plan is delivered as part of the proposed solution.”

The solicitation sample problems do not include requirements for submittal of additional test plan/procedure documentation beyond what is included in the proposal.

There appears to be confusion introduced by the answers to questions 34 and 36. Question 34 provides clarification of the WBS dictionary and pricing format for design effort. Question 36 addresses the CDRLs associated with design and install and states there are “no further requirements specified for design work”.

Please clarify whether or not Offeror’s should propose design activities (labor required to transition the conceptual/proposed designs to 100% ready for construction), or should the priced portion of the sample tasks assume that all design effort is completed and approved at proposal submission?

Correct. The offeror is not required to accomplish further design effort or submit further design deliverables for the sample problems. The offeror should assume that all design effort is complete at proposal submission.

Offerors should provide a description of the proposed test approach/plan to verify that the proposed system installation complies with the sample problem requirements including a description of how the contractor proposes to verify the functionality/performance of the proposed system/subsystems. A proposed test verification matrix in the format described in Attachment L-2, Table 4-4, will be included as Attachment 7 to Sample Problem #2.

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