QAs_3rd_clarification.docx

1. “To clarify Question #13 on the March 27th Q&A for the GEITA11 Solicitation, our team respectfully requests that multiple task orders under IDIQ or BPA contracts be allowed to be grouped into a single work effort in Table L-1 and the Corporate Experience Narrative. Our team members have multiple (over 10) IDIQ contracts directly related to performing A&AS services. Our firms have performed a significant numbers of task orders on each of these IDIQ/BPA contracts (nearly 500 collectively). Selecting and describing 10 (or even 20-30) individual task orders does not allow us to show the depth and breadth of experience each of our firms have obtained during performance of all task orders under these IDIQs over the past three years. Also, many of these task orders are specific to one type of work or mission support area. However, permitting firms to write up/describe multiple (30+) task orders performed under an ID/IQ contract as a single major work effort would allow us to clearly and concisely demonstrate our total team corporate experience across the entire PWS tasks and Mission Areas. While we completely understand that the government does not want firms to write up basic IDIQ contracts, and wants to see the actual specific work that our team has performed, we feel that we should be allowed to combine multiple task orders issued under a BPA or IDIQ contract into one major work effort in Table L-1 and L-2, as well as the corporate narrative. Additionally, by allowing firms to combine multiple task orders, we feel that the corporate experience narrative can more clearly and succinctly demonstrate relevant corporate experience. Would the government reconsider allowing multiple task orders under an IDIQ or BPA contract to be written/presented as a single major work effort?”

Answer: It is not necessary for an offeror to show the entire depth or breadth of their experience as long as they meet the minimum corporate experience requirements. Since this acquisition is LPTA, no credit will be given for exceeding the minimum requirement.

A major work effort used to populate the table in attachments L-1 and L-2 shall be consistent with the definition of a major work effort and include performance of at least one mission area and four mission support tasks as presented in L-2. Task orders cannot be combined for the purposes of populating the table in Attachments L-1 and L-2.

The description of corporate experience should describe the details of the major work efforts that cover the required minimum PWS mission areas and mission support tasks. For the purposes of writing the corporate experience narratives, offerors may combine individual major work efforts to summarize the team’s experience provided that a minimum of two major work efforts are from the prime, and one major work effort for each team member expected to perform 20% or more of the work are provided. Any remain major work efforts may be distributed among the team, at the discretion of the offeror. Information presented in the corporate experience narrative must correlate/track to major work efforts present in L-1 and L-2.