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Framing Questions and Ideas for White Paper Responses

OVERARCHING: Ideas for teaming arrangements, public-private partnerships or other business organizational models to minimize indirect cost, retain key capabilities, utilize required infrastructure, and maintain critical skill sets for global SOF requirements.

OVERARCHING: Solutions for Better Buying Power (BBP), reduction of sustainment cost, and Just-In-Time (JIT) support concepts to provide rapid and responsive logistical support that aligns with command priorities for global support.

OVERARCHING: Ideas and concepts for multifunctional support services that minimize personnel, support equipment and the footprint on the supported SOF Command or Customer while meeting their overall requirements and capability needs.

OVERARCHING: Ideas on solutions, systems or programs that could provide a consolidated and collaborative picture of the business base to include programmatic status, key metrics and information required to update senior leadership and conduct strategic analysis. Ideas about how to best incorporate and integrate enterprise resource planning (SAP currently in use) to positively impact cost, schedule, and performance.

OVERARCHING: Concepts and processes for implementing and maintaining risk management framework (RMF).

OVERARCHING: Ideas on executing transition from the incumbent contract to potential GLSS follow-on contract.

Consider task order transition, property inventory, and manpower transition (i.e. new and existing personnel):

o What amount of transition time would be optimal…why?

o What would be accomplished during the transition…why?

PROPOSAL PROCESS: Describe your policies, procedures, and best practices for proposal submittals.

ENTERPRISE: Ideas for how you would leverage existing enterprise infrastructure as new and unique requirements arise.

ENTERPRISE: Ideas on how to integrate Automated Information Technology in the area of logistics along with best commercial or industry practices to create an efficient supply operation that is DoD compliant in a low volume, high priority operation. What considerations does a contractor need to make knowing that the DoD Compliant Accountable Property System of Record (APSR) is DPAS?

OPERATIONAL: Ideas and concepts on how to maintain core competencies and key capabilities required for SOF unique requirements when demand significantly shifts, fluctuates, and or becomes low during the period of performance.

ENTERPRISE: Ideas for conducting logistical support in conjunction with host nation or allied partners utilizing similar or like commodities or systems.

ENTERPRISE: Ideas for executing and conducting rapid operations, and/or support services for global logistical requirements of near real-time operations or humanitarian missions.

OPERATIONAL: Ideas for repurposing, reutilizing, or disposing of SOF peculiar equipment that is still functional and serviceable, but no longer requires support for SOF customers in the operational inventory.

ENTERPRISE: Understanding PEO SOFSA performs the mission in an accredited dot-mil environment. What, if any, requirements would there be for commercial intranet and corporate business systems. If required, explain to what extent.

ENTERPRISE: Ideas for using modern technologies to enhance operations, for example wireless solutions, virtualization, artificial intelligence/machine learning, and cloud computing.

ENTERPRISE: Ideas for how you would work with local, state and federal authorities, to enhance contract security to support the PEO SOFSA mission.

MANAGEMENT: Please describe how the daily business operations would support the contract with data that is quantifiable taking into account return on investment.

MANAGEMENT: Does your company have an approved accounting system meeting the criteria contained in FAR 53.209-1(f), Standard Form 1408 and DFARS 252.242-7006? If not, how will your company insure its accounting system is properly certified by DCAA at contract execution?

MANAGEMENT: Please describe what the Business Division (Budget, accounts payable/receivable, Business Rates, Pricing, Compliance, etc.) would consist of and their functions to include business systems (accounting, pricing, vendor pay, etc.).

MANAGEMENT: Please describe where the business staff would reside (onsite or off site). If off site, what would be the method to interface with the on-site Government staff?

CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION: Ideas on what contract type/types (FFP, FFIF, FFAF, CPIF, CPFF, CPAF, T&M, Labor Hour) might be utilized to optimize contract execution via individual task order(s) taking into account the diverse nature and wide-ranging scope/magnitude of the GLSS requirement? How might OTA’s be incorporated or used?

o How would these contract type(s) be executed on contract?

o How might negative variances (a.k.a. “overruns”) on cost-type task orders be best addressed?

o How might negative variances be avoided?

o How might negative variances be proactively tracked and excess funding returned to customers in a timely fashion?

CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION: Ideas on how individual Firm-Fixed Priced requirements might be bid/proposed by a contractor with Basis of Estimate (BOE) sufficient for the Government to determine the price to be fair and reasonable for task order award without excessive risk being built into the overall price?

CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION: Ideas on what might be an optimal Contract Line Item (CLIN) structure for the base contract?

CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION: Ideas on long-term best practices for maintaining proper Cost Accounting Standards?

Additional considerations for white paper responses:

OVERARCHING (Consider including, but not limited to, the following):

1. Business organizational models

1. Rapid and responsive logistical support

1. Multi-functional support services

1. Consolidated and collaborative picture of the business base

1. Risk management framework

1. Execution of transition ENTERPRISE (Consider including, but not limited to, the following):

1. Leveraging existing enterprise infrastructure for unique requirements.

1. Integrating automated information technology within logistics, using industry best practices.

1. Conducting logistical support in conjunction with host nation or allied partners.

1. Conducting rapid procurements, leases, and/or support services for real time operations or humanitarian missions.

1. Accreditation requirements for commercial intranet in a dot-mil environment.

1. Utilizing modern technologies to enhance operations.

1. Ideas for working with local/state/federal authorities to provide contract security.

OPERATIONAL (Consider including, but not limited to, the following):

1. Repurposing/reutilizing SOF peculiar equipment

1. Maintaining Core Competencies and Key Capabilities as requirements significantly shift or fluctuate based on command requirements.

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT (Consider including, but not limited to, the following):

1. Describe how daily business operations would support the contract.

1. Describe how your company will insure its accounting system is properly certified.

1. Describe what the Business Division would consist of and their functions to include business systems.

1. Recommended location of business staff and method of interactions with Government staff.

CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION (Consider including, but not limited to, the following):

1. Describe policies, procedures and best practices for proposal submittals.

1. Suggested contract types to be available for utilization.

1. Ideas for a Contract Line Item (CLIN) structure for the base contract to ensure ease of use and flexibility.

1. Ideas on long-term best practices for maintaining proper Cost Accounting Standards.