EVEREST RFP Q and A Responses.pdf

# Submitted Date RFP Section Page Number Language Cited Question Government Response

1 1/15/2024 RIK-L011 (4) Section 4 viii; RIK-M001 (e)(1)

L-11, M-2

(viii) Small Business Participation Plan. All offerors are required to submit a Small Business Participation Plan which will be used for the purposes of evaluating the extent to which offerors identify and commit to small business in contract performance on the effort. The Participation Plan is required from all offerors, including small businesses and companies with commercial subcontracting plans and comprehensive subcontracting plans.

(1) Factor 1: TECHNICAL. The Technical factor will be evaluated on the basis of the following Subfactors, Subfactors 1, 2, 3, will be of equal importance to one another where subfactor 4 will be of lesser importance compared to the others. Each subfactor within Technical Factor 1 will receive a separate technical rating (subfactor assessment).

Please confirm. Does the Government want “Subfactor 4 - Small Business Participation” addressed as a section in Volume III Technical proposal, when it is already addressed in Volume I, Contracts Forms?

The Small Business Participtation Plan should be submitted as part of Volume I Contract Forms. Subfactor 4 of the Technical Evaluation factor will be evaluted based on the submission in Volume I.

2 1/15/2024 Attachment # 9 Labor Category Minimum Qualifications

Sec J Attachment # 9 Page 357

If specific position requires administrator privilege Security + will be required

Did the Government intend to include the System Software Engineer (Senior) in the certification change from Security+ only, to IAM/IAT/IASE level II? That was a typo. The certification should be IAM/IAT/IASE Level II.

3 1/15/2024 RIK-L009(a) L-7 Preferred file types include searchable PDF, Microsoft Word.docx, and/or Excel .xlsx files.

Will the Government confirm this does not apply to embedded graphics, images, screenshots, etc.

This does not apply to embedded graphics, images, screenshots etc. This is for the proposal files themselves.

4 1/15/2024 RIK-L009(a) L-7 Unclassified proposals and modifications to proposals that do not contain CUI shall be submitted via email to: Roman Zhuk, roman.zhuk@us.af.mil and Terrence B. Lipinski, terrence.lipinski@us.af.mil Will the Government confirm email file size limit for submissions.

Typical file size limit for our emails is 15MB per email. If contract file sizes are larger than that you can request a DoD Safe Site dropoff request submitted to Roman Zhuk, roman.zhuk@us.af.mil and Terrence B. Lipinski, terrence.lipinski@us.af.mil and a file dropoff request will be sent to you.

With this please also send an email notifying us that you submitted your drop-off so that we can confirm we've received it.

5 1/15/2024 RIK-L010(c) (1) (3) L-7

Format of the above proposal volumes shall be as follows:

(1) Proposals will be prepared on 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper except for foldouts used for charts, tables, diagrams, which may not exceed 11 x 17 inches. Foldouts will not be used for text. Pages will have a one inch margin.

(3) Type size will be no smaller than 10 point character height (vertical size) and no more than an average of 12 characters per inch. Arial 10 or Times New Roman 11 are acceptable. Use of type-setting techniques to reduce type size below 10 points or to increase characters beyond 12 per inch is not permitted. Such techniques are construed as a deliberate attempt to circumvent the intent of page limitations set forth above.

The Government templates do not currently match the formatting requirements in RIK-L010. Will the Government confirm offerors may leave the format to all Government provided templates (e.g., Attachment No. 11) and Offerors do not need to adjust the format (i.e., font, margins, etc.).

Offerors may leave format as is for any Government provided template for offerors to complete.

6 1/16/2024 RIK-L010 L-8

(5) All pages shall be numbered sequentially from the first to the last page using only Arabic numerals. Pages printed on both sides shall be numbered on both sides.

(a) The table of contents and tabs are exempt from the page limits.

Will the Government allow front matter (such as table of contents, glossary) to be numbered with roman numerals, such as “Page i”, “Page ii”, followed by the Proposal response numbered sequentially using Arabic numbers (starting with “Page 1”)?

The instruction currently states that the table of contents is exempt for the page numbering requirement.

7 1/15/2024 RIK-L012 Cost Proposal Preparation Instructions

L-14 (h) The Cost Volume must be unclassified, and shall consist of one

(1) section each for Task Order 0001 and Sample Order 0002.

Will the Government confirm we need two separate sections to meet this requirement? There will be a lot of duplication in verbiage, doubling the length of the cost volume. No this must be separate sections.

8 1/15/2024 RIK-L014 (3) L-17

(3) …Provide a description of related experience and qualifications of proposed types of cooperative expericence and management personnel that the Offeror considers central to performance, and the quantity and quality of the Offeror's corporate experience relevant to program requirements, including related experience.

Resumes of cooperative expericence and management personnel should be provided and may be appended to the Management Volume provided names of personnel are redacted. Resumes are not counted toward any page limitation set forth elsewhere herein.

Will the Government please confirm the typo referenced should be “corporate experience”. Yes that is a typo. It should have read "corporate experience".

9 1/15/2024 RIK-M001 M-2

Program Management Plan (PMP): identification of tasks required to accomplish the complete program and its relationship to the events, accomplishments, and entry/exit criteria; detailed milestone schedules in the Master Integrated Program Schedule with realistic durations given overall program delivery requirements.

Will the Government allow the Master Integrated Program Schedule to be outside of the 30-page limit for Volume IV Management?

No the 30 page limit must be met with the exeception of excluding resumes of management/engineering/scientific personnel.

10 General Is there an incumbent on this contract? Please provide the incubment name, current contract number, period of performance and value of the contract.

The incubment contractor is Assured Information Security (AIS) under FA8750-19-D-0001, the current period of performance for ordering is 04/30/2019 - 4/29/2024.

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