GAMT III - DRAFT Instructions to Offerors.pdf

ADDENDUM TO

52.212-1 INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFERORS (ITO)

- COMMERCIAL ITEMS

1.0 GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

1.1 General Guidance

1.1.1 This section of the Instructions to Offerors (ITO) provides general guidance for preparing proposals as well as specific instructions on the format and content of the proposal. To assure timely and equitable evaluations of proposals, Offerors must follow the instructions contained herein. Offerors are required to meet all solicitation requirements, including terms and conditions, representations and certifications, and technical requirements, in addition to those identified as evaluation factors or subfactors. Failure to comply with requirements may result in the offer being ineligible for award. Offerors must clearly identify any exception to the solicitation terms and conditions and provide complete accompanying rationale. The offer shall consist of three separate volumes:

Volume I – Price

Volume II – Technical

Volume III – Past Performance

1.1.2 The Contracting Officer (CO) has determined there is a high probability of adequate price competition in this acquisition. Upon examination of the initial offers, the CO will review this determination and if, in the CO’s opinion, adequate price competition exists no additional cost information will be requested and certification under FAR 15.406-2 will not be required.

However, if at any time during this competition the CO determines that adequate price competition no longer exists, Offerors may be required to submit additional information to the

CO for determination of fair and reasonable pricing.

1.1.3 The proposal shall be clear, concise, and shall include sufficient detail for effective evaluation and for substantiating the validity of stated claims. The proposal should not simply rephrase or restate the Government’s requirements, but rather shall provide convincing rationale to address how the Offeror intends to meet these requirements. Offerors shall assume that the Government has no prior knowledge of their facilities and experience, and will base its evaluation on the information presented in the Offeror’s proposal.

1.1.4 The proposal acceptance period or validity of the proposal shall be for 365 calendar days from the closing date of the solicitation. The Offeror shall make a clear statement in the proposal documentation that the proposal is valid until this date.

1.1.5 IAW FAR Subpart 4.8, Government Contract Files, the Government will retain one copy of all unsuccessful proposals.

1.1.6 Offerors shall apply all appropriate marking to their proposal, including those prescribed in FAR 3.104-4, Disclosure, Protection, and Marking of Contractor Bid or Proposal

Information and Source Selection Information.

1.2 General Information

1.2.1 Point of Contact. The Procuring Contracting Officer (PCO) is the sole point of contact for this acquisition. Offerors shall address any questions and concerns to the PCO as soon as possible, but no later than 0900 Central European Summer Time (CEST), (Insert Date). The subject of the email shall be “Questions – FA564121R0002”. Questions shall include a reference to the specific solicitation element to which they pertain. The Government will take into consideration all questions submitted by the deadline set forth above and will answer them via posting to beta.sam.gov. Written requests for clarification and questions shall be sent to the

PCO, Mr. Thomas Collins, at thomas.collins.16.de@us.af.mil. A courtesy copy shall be sent to the Contract Specialist (CS), Ms. Christin Grub, at christin.grub.de@us.af.mil.

1.2.2 Discrepancies. Should any portion of this solicitation contain a perceived error, omission or otherwise be unclear, the Offeror shall immediately email the CO, clearly describing the portion of the solicitation in question and the impact the discrepancy has on the Offeror’s ability to prepare their proposal.

1.2.3 Electronic Reference Documents. All referenced documents for this solicitation are available on the Beta.sam website at https://beta.sam.gov/. Potential Offerors are encouraged to subscribe for real-time email notifications when information has been posted to the website for this solicitation.

2.0 SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS

2.1 Receipt of Proposals. Only electronic submissions (i.e.email and DoD Safe site

(https://safe.apps.mil/)) will be accepted unless explicitly authorized by the CO.

2.3 The Offeror shall prepare the proposal as set forth in the Proposal Organization Table 1.1 below. The titles and contents of the volumes shall be identified below, all of which shall be within the required page limits and with the number of copies as specified. Pages exceeding the page limitations set forth in this Section will be removed from the proposal and will not be read or evaluated and may render the proposal unacceptable.

ELEMENT TITLE MAXIMUM #PAGES

Forms, fill-ins, required information, documents, and records

Contract

Documentation

As required

VOLUME I Price As required

VOLUME II Technical 25

VOLUME III Past

Performance mailto:thomas.collins.16.de@us.af.mil mailto:christin.grub.de@us.af.mil https://beta.sam.gov/ https://safe.apps.mil/

2.4 The page limitation for all volumes is inclusive all material except:

Title page

Table of contents

2.5 All volumes shall contain text using no smaller than 10 pitch, Times New Roman Font.

Elaborate formats, bindings or color presentations are not desired or required.

2.6 The Offeror’s proposal shall include a signed copy of the Standard Form 1449. This includes:

2.6.1 Acknowledged Solicitation Amendments. Provide all executed Standard Forms 30, or other appropriate amendment acknowledgements (if applicable).

3. VOLUME I - PRICE (FACTOR 1)

3.1 General. Provide a firm fixed price (FFP) proposal IAW the Contract Line Item Numbers

(CLINs) on Standard Form (SF) 1449.

3.1.1 All proposed prices shall be submitted in EURO. All proposed prices shall extend to no more than two (2) places to the right of the decimal (i.e. prices proposed up to the “hundredths” decimal place).

3.1.2 Complete all blanks for unit and total prices in the Price Schedule.

4. VOLUME II – TECHNICAL (FACTOR 2)

4.1 General. Information the Offeror deems appropriate to address the technical criteria should be included in the proposal in an orderly format and be consistent with the evaluation criteria for award set forth in Addendum to FAR Clause 52.212-2 of this solicitation. Proposal paragraphs shall correspond to the below evaluation factor and pertinent Performance Work

Statement (PWS) paragraph (where referenced). To facilitate evaluation, the information contained in Volume II shall be specific, detailed, and clearly demonstrate that the Offeror has a thorough understanding of the requirement for the accomplishment of this effort.

4.1.1 SUBFACTOR 1: Past (Technical) Experience. The Offeror shall demonstrate evidence of past experience providing similar services of a similar magnitude within the last three (3) years on contracts lasting at least one (1) year. Any proposal not demonstrating evidence of past experience as set forth above will be technically unacceptable.

Offerors shall submit a list of contracts meeting the above criteria. Contract listing shall contain the following elements:

Contract Number

Period of Performance

Number of kilograms processed annually

Points of Contact (POCs)

POC title

Telephone number/Email address

4.1.2 SUBFACTOR 2: Management Approach. In order to be considered technically acceptable, the Offeror’s Management Approach shall clearly meet the below parts and successfully demonstrate:

(A) Location of Mail Handling Facility - The Management Approach shall provide the location of the facility where performance will be conducted, located in Germany at the

Frankfurt am Main International Airport (FRA). The Offeror shall provide a delivery point on FRA for USPS-contracted airlines to offload and upload mail for the contractor to receive and dispatch mail to the GAMT IAW PWS paragraph 14.

(B) Process Prograde and Retrograde Mail: The Management Approach shall address how the Offeror plans to satisfy the processing of Prograde and Retrograde Mail in accordance with PWS paragraph 5.

(C) Interface: The Management Approach shall clearly identify lines of communication and explain how the Offeror plans to interface with Government Mail

Control Activities and the onsite COR Staff on U.S. Army Transportation Liaisons, or

DHL/DP Transporters issues, in accordance with PWS paragraphs 4 and 5.

4.1.3 SUBFACTOR 3: Quality Control Plan (QCP). The QCP shall clearly identify the

Offeror’s approach to the following:

(A) How the Offeror will ensure a direct line of communication with the onsite COR Staff of the

GAMT processes of mail handling and processing, and with the Mail Control Activity Staff for mail movement concerns to and from the Air Carriers, and Airline Ground Handlers IAW PWS para 4 & 5

(B) Offeror shall identify their Organizational structure to show accountability of the work to be performed, to include any applicable subcontractor(s) task to be performed.

(C) A comprehensive approach to identification, and proposed mitigations or controls to prevent reoccurrences.

(D) Offeror shall define their process to ensure the designated Critical Entry/Exit Timelines, and

STMR Dispatch Schedule are met. Government QASP Inspection by the COR will validate this process against the Offeror’s Quality Control Plan.

(E) Offeror shall define their process to ensure the Security, Safety, Integrity, and Accountability of the mail at all times within the Mail Handling Facility. Government QASP Inspection by the

COR will validate this process against the Offeror’s Quality Control Plan.

Further details regarding the Quality Control Plan are provided in Addendum to FAR Clause

52.212-2 of this solicitation.

5. VOLUME III – PAST PERFORMANCE (FACTOR 3)

5.1 The Offeror shall provide recent past performance information on no more than five (5) contracts. Past performance information will be evaluated on a rating of Acceptable or

Unacceptable.

5.2 Relevant Past Performance Information. The Offeror shall provide past performance information on previous and current contracts where the Offeror is or was responsible for performing services with a similar scope as identified in the PWS, and magnitude greater than or equal to 3,000,000 kilograms of mail processed annually.

5.3 Recent Past Performance Information. The Offeror shall provide past performance information on previous and current contracts for mail handling and distribution within the last five (5) years from the date of issuance of this solicitation.

5.4 The Government will evaluate the quality of the offeror’s performance deemed relevant to the requirements of this RFP. The Government will use information submitted by the Offeror and other sources such as other Federal Government Offices and commercial sources, to assess past performance. If overall contract value is associated subcontract value. In addition, the

Offeror shall provide past performance information on any subcontractor, teaming partners, or joint venture partner who is anticipated to perform 25 percent or greater of the effort based on the total estimated costs, or who will perform efforts that are critical to the overall successful performance.

5.5 The information for each contract or subcontract shall include the following:

Contract Agency or Customer

Contract Number

Number of kilograms processed annually

Date of Award

Period of Performance

Description of the requirement

Description of the role of the Offeror and each subcontractor

Rationale supporting the Offeror’s assertion of relevance

CO’s Name or Commercial POC, telephone number and email address

5.6 Offerors shall ensure that Past and Present Performance Questionnaires provided at

Attachment X, are sent to all POCs listed in each of the Offeror’s Past Performance submission’s reference list in the Past Performance Volume. Respondents to the Past and present Performance Questionnaires shall be instructed to email completed questionnaires to

Mr. Thomas Collins at thomas.collins.16.de@us.af.mil and Ms. Christin Grub at christin.grub.de@us.af.mil. Respondents to the questionnaires shall not send the completed information sheets back to the Offeror. The Government will conduct any follow-up required by the POCs as necessary. Offerors shall not follow-up with repspondents to ensure they have completed the questionnaires. The Past Performance Volume may also include any other metrics, recognitions or the like to support the Past Performance evaluation. The Government mailto:thomas.collins.16.de@us.af.mil mailto:christin.grub.de@us.af.mil may contact references other than those identified by the Offeror. The Government will also review any other sources deemed necessary to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation of Offeror’s past performance.

5.7 The Offeror shall also submit a summary page containing a Consent Letters executed by each subcontractors. (Past Performance information pertaining to a subcontractor cannot be disclosed to the prime Offeror without the subcontractor’s consent). If applicable, provide with the proposal a letter from all subcontractors that will perform major aspects of the requirement consenting to the release of their past performance information to the prime contractor (See

Attachment X: Subcontractor Consent Form).