FINAL RFP - Amendment 2 - Questions and Answers.docx

General Services Administration City Pair Program FY21 Requirement for Scheduled Air Passenger Transportation Services Solicitation No. 47QMCB20R0001

FINAL RFP QUESTIONS AND GOVERNMENT RESPONSES

AMENDMENT 2

Please see RFP Section B.2 Definitions, Required Flights, for service information:

Required Flights - For purposes of this solicitation, in Group 1 and 2 domestic line items, a contract carrier must have daily service Monday through Friday, including at least one inbound and one outbound flight for each of its five days of service, for it to be counted as weekly service. In Group 1 and 2 international and fifth freedom of the air line items, a contract carrier must have service a minimum of three (3) days per week, including at least one inbound and one outbound flight for each of its three days of service, for it to be counted as weekly service. For Group 3 domestic line items, a contract carrier must have service at least one (1) day per week, Monday through Friday, including at least one inbound and one outbound flight for the one day it has service, for it to be counted as weekly service. In Group 3 international line items, a contract carrier must have service at least one day per week on any day of the week, including at least one inbound and one outbound flight for the one day it has service, for it to be counted as weekly service.

Please see the Government's response to question 18.

*Passenger count (PAX) levels are subject to change on a yearly basis based on data analysis of audited data and new requirements.

Attachment 4 FY21 Group 1 Line Items

Attachment 5 FY21 Group 2 Line Items

Attachment 6 FY21 Group 3 Line Items How can we tell if markets are moved from group 1 to group 2, 3?

Example – FLL/MCO and FLL/TPA were in group 1 and now they are not in that group.

Please use FY21 Final RFP Attachments to see which markets fall under Group 1, Group 2 and Group 3.

For FY20, FLL/MCO (line item #1506) and FLL/TPA (line item #1523) were in Group 1.

For FY21, FLL/MCO (line item #5418) and FLL/TPA (line item #5446) are now in Group 2.

Attachment 2 FY21 COPS User Manual

· Please check the file header format before upload I tried to upload the csv file – I named it johnsmith1*- please advise exactly how I should name the file.

*The Contracting Officer changed the username in this question to protect the offeror’s privacy.

The error message you received is due to a change to the static fields. As discussed in the COPS Q&A Session held on February 13th, please do not change the column names or the static fields.

Please see Attachment 2 FY21 COPS User Manual, 3.2.3 Downloading Offers, page 12:

Files can be downloaded for either Group 1, Group 2 or Group 3. Please note that each Group file has 7 static fields (columns A-G) that if modified will send an error email stating that the offers were not accepted and that the static fields cannot be changed. The COPS system does not allow changes to columns A-G. Columns A-G include, Item Number, Origin Airport, Destination Airport, Minimum Service, Passenger Count, Number of Flights, Domestic/International.

Also, for your file uploads, please make sure to add a 1 (Group 1), 2 (Group 2), or 3 (Group 3) after your COPS User ID. Example: johnsmith1, johnsmith2, johnsmith3

Line item Origin Destination

9523 HFD FRA

9524 HFD GLA

9525 HFD GUM

9526 HFD LON

9527 HFD MAD

9528 HFD OKA

9529 HFD TYO

9530 HFD VCE

Yes, these line items are correctly identified as extended connect. The extended connection markets allow for a maximum of 420 minutes in connection time, it is not a minimum.

Line item Origin Destination

7960 MAZ SJU

7961 SJU VQS

Yes, these markets are Domestic (PR to PR). Please see Attachment 5 for the updated D/I determination.

Line item Origin Destination Flights

1906 HNL GUM 2

1914 HML TYO 3

2057 SAN TYO 3

2106 WAS BRU 2

2112 WAS FRA 3

2118 WAS LON 3

2129 WAS STR 2

2130 WAS VIE 2

Yes, the minimum requirements for the flights that were identified have been updated for the FY21 City Pair Program solicitation.

On page 2 of the FY21 RFP under the header of “Significant Changes,” the solicitation states the following; The attention of offeror is invited to the following changes made since the issuance of the last solicitation for the supplies/services covered herein. Please be advised that this list is not all encompassing and it is incumbent upon all interested offerors to review the RFP in its entirety.

Thank you for bringing this error to our attention. We have corrected it and have uploaded a revised copy of the FY21 Final RFP to beta.SAM.gov with Amendment 2 for your records.

ISN is an airport that officially closed back in October and a new airport opened in its place (XWA). Will the line items below be modified to change from ISN to XWA or will these line items be removed?

Line item Origin Destination

6242 ISN OMA

12126 DEN ISN

12081 DCA ISN

12655 ISN MSP

Attachments 5 and 6 have been revised to reflect the updated city pair code (XWA).

Please see RFP Section B.2 Definitions, Required Flights, for service information:

Required Flights - For purposes of this solicitation, in Group 1 and 2 domestic line items, a contract carrier must have daily service Monday through Friday, including at least one inbound and one outbound flight for each of its five days of service, for it to be counted as weekly service. In Group 1 and 2 international and fifth freedom of the air line items, a contract carrier must have service a minimum of three (3) days per week, including at least one inbound and one outbound flight for each of its three days of service, for it to be counted as weekly service. For Group 3 domestic line items, a contract carrier must have service at least one (1) day per week, Monday through Friday, including at least one inbound and one outbound flight for the one day it has service, for it to be counted as weekly service. In Group 3 international line items, a contract carrier must have service at least one day per week on any day of the week, including at least one inbound and one outbound flight for the one day it has service, for it to be counted as weekly service

As stated in Section F.5 of the FY21 Final RFP, The contract carrier shall notify the Government in the above stated manner when the carrier discontinues nonstop service in a connect line item. Though the contract carrier may still provide the minimum level of service required with connect service, the basis of award may have changed. In such situations, the Government reserves the right to reevaluate all offers in that line item. The Contracting Officer may re-award the line item to a carrier whose offer represents the best value to the Government. Contract carriers shall implement modification changes in commercial distribution and reservation systems within two (2) business days of the modification’s effective date.