RFP Amend 02 DIPS GS10F12LPR0001.docx

MODIFICATION SCHEDULE

Kimberlee Wallentine (253) 931-7183

Vendor ID: 0000

9B. Date (See Item 11)

DUNS:

October 14, 2011

10A. Modification of Contract/Order No.

10B. Date (See Item 13)

11. THIS ITEM ONLY APPLIES TO AMENDMENTS OF SOLICITATIONS

Offers must acknowledge receipt of this amendment prior to the hour and date specified in the solicitation or as amended, by one of the following methods:

submitted; or (c) By separate letter or telegram which includes a reference to the solicitation and amendment numbers. FAILURE OF YOUR ACKNOWLEDG-

MENT TO BE RECEIVED AT THE PLACE DESIGNATED FOR THE RECEIPT OF OFFERS PRIOR TO THE HOUR AND DATE SPECIFIED MAY RESULT

IN REJECTION OF YOUR OFFER. If by virtue of this amendment you desire to change an offer already submitted, such change may be made by telegram or letter, provided each telegram or letter makes reference to the solicitation and this amendment, and is received prior to the opening hour and date specified.

12. Accounting and Appropriation Data (if required)

13. THIS ITEM APPLIES ONLY TO MODIFICATIONS OF CONTRACT/ORDERS.

IT MODIFIES THE CONTRACT/ORDER NO. AS DESCRIBED IN ITEM 14.

Set fourth item 14, pursuant to the authority of FAR 43.103 (b)

C. This supplemental agreement is entered into pursuant to authority of:

D. Other (Specify type of modification and authority)

is required to sign this document and return 3 copies to the issuing office.

14. Description of Amendment/Modification (Organized by UCF section headings, including solicitation/contract subject matter where feasible.)

Dial-tone Infrastructure Procurement System (DIPS) for the Tri-State Region of Washington, Oregon and Idaho

See next page for details.

Except as provided herein, all terms and conditions of the document referenced in item 9A or 10A, as heretofore changed, remains unchanged and in full force and effect.

(Signature of Contracting Officer) 16C. Date Signed

_____________________________________________(Signature of person authorized to sign)

STANDARD FORM 30 (REV. 10-83)

PREVIOUS EDITIONS UNUSABLE

Prescribed by GSA FAR (48 CFR) 53.243

A. GENERAL.

This Amendment provides changes as described herein as well as formal response to pre-proposal inquiries recvied in response to the posting of the RFP.

NOTE: The proposal deadline has been extended as a result of this modification. Proposals are now due on December 6, 2011 at 10:00 a.m.

B. ATTCHMENTS.

The following documents have been revised and/or are hereby incorporated to the Solicitation as a result of this Amendment:

i. (revised) Section A – Cover Page

ii. (revised) Standard Form (SF) 33

iii. (revised) Section B – Schedule for Idaho

iv. (revised) Section B – Schedule for Oregon

v. (revised) Section B – Schedule for Washington

vi. (revised) Section C – Statement of Work

vii. (revised) Section F – Deliveries or Performance

viii. (revised) Section H – Special Contract Requirements

ix. (revised) Section L – Instructions, Considertaions and Notices to Offerors

x. (revised) Section M – Evaluation Factors

C. REVISIONS TO SECTION A – COVER PAGE AND SF 33 FORM.

1. Section A, para A.5 – Proposal Due Date is hereby changed to reflect the proposal deadline extenstion as discussed above.

2. Likewise, a revised Standard Form (SF) 33 (in fillable PDF format) is also attached reflecting the new proposal due date discussed herein.

D. REVISIONS TO SECTION B – SCHEDULES.

The three price schedule Excel workbook documents (Section B – Schedule for Idaho, Section B – Schedule for Oregon and Section B – Schedule for Washington) are hereby replaced in their entirety with the attached revised Excel workbooks. The following changes are thus incorporated as a result of this change:

1. CLINs CMHI (Line 16), CMMI (Line 17), CMMJ (Line 18), CMMJa (Line 19), CMP25 (Line 20), CMP4 (Line 21), CMPVC4 (Line 22), CONN (Line 23), CONP (Line 24) and OSL003A (Line 35) from the original Schedule C for Idaho, Orego and Washington are hereby deleted and replaced with the notation “Reserved”.

2. Formula errors for purposes of totaling estimated prices have been corrected in each of the Schedules for all three States.

3. Formula calculations for purposes of totaling estimated prices have been revised to reflect the new eight-year (vice the original eleven-year) total contract period of performance. (See also, Section H below).

E. REVISIONS TO SECTION C – SCOPE OF WORK.

1. Section C – Scope of Work is hereby changed to reflect changes associated with voice over internet protocol (VOIP) services.

F. REVISIONS TO SECTION F – DELIVERIES OR PERFORMANCE.

1. Section F – Deliveries or Performance is hereby changed to correct a typographical error on page 2.

G. REVISIONS TO SECTION H – SPECIAL CONTRACT REQUIREMENTS.

1. Section H, para H.1 – CONTRACT TYPE, is hereby changed to reflect a performance period of one five-year BASE Period, and three one-year OPTION Periods, for a revised total contract performance period (if all options were to be exercised) of eight (8) years.

G. REVISIONS TO SECTION I – CONTRACT CLAUSES.

1. FAR Clause 52.217-9 Option to Extend the Term of the Contract is hereby changed to reflect a revised total contract duration in para (c) as a result of the changes made herein this Amendment via para (C) and para (E) above related to the new eight-year period of performance.

H. REVISIONS TO SECTION L – INSTRUCTIONS, CONSIDERATIONS AND NOTICES TO OFFERORS.

1. Section L, para L.11.2 – Proposal Formant Instructions is hereby changed to clarify page dimensions.

I. REVISIONS TO SECTION M – EVALUATION FACTORS.

1. Section M, para M.4.5 is hereby changed to deleted erroneous reference to “Schedule E”; Schedule E does not exist for this Solicitation.

J. RESPONSES TO PRE-PROPOSAL INQUIRIES.

The RFP is hereby clarified/corrected as follows:

1. Will an extension be granted?

ANSWER: An extension has been issued as necessitated by changes within this Amendment; please check www.fbo.gov regularly as any additional extensions if so granted will be posted there.

2. Another question, please clarify if the GOVT will award to multiple vendors due to the entire footprint for 3 states being requested for services.

ANSWER: See Question & Answer #6 on Amendment A01.

3. Please confirm if the services within the bid are mandatory to provide pricing as an all or nothing response or if a vendor is allowed to price as ala carte based on their service offering.

ANSWER: All items are mandatory for the entire tri-state region; ala carte proposals are not acceptable.

4. Please clarify the small business plan requirement and if a vendor is bidding and does not plan to utilize a small business for the Local Dial offerings which are tariffed. Mandatory requirement for this would in turn require additional costs for services that an ILEC would already have employees in place to provide the services today.

ANSWER: See Section L, para L.10.3. Subcontracting plans shall be submitted with offers for any offeror that is other than small for the identified NAICS.

5. In Section L (L.11.1.4 Volume III Technical Proposal) there are five separate plans that need to be provided in our response. Three of these five plans are described in Section C under paragraph C.7 Plans. Paragraph C.7.1 describes the information to be included in the Transition Plan. However, some of the information such as “Update the Implementation Schedule Every Two Weeks,” sounds like a post-award task. Please clarify what specifically, of the items being requested in the Transition Plan, is to be included with the RFP response.

ANSWER: Information related to the Transition Plan is addressed specifically in para M.4.1 FACTOR 1 – Management Approach, Sub-factor(a). Also, in accordance with Section M, para M.4 Evaluation Factors and Sub-factors, “…the plans submitted as a part of the successful Offeror’s proposal will be incorporated as attachments to the contract”. Thus, the Plans submitted as part of the Proposal shall be the basis upon which updates will be made during conract performance.

6. Again under paragraph C.7.1 Transition Plan what is meant by item c) Identify service delivery location? And how does this item relate to the other items in the paragraph? In other words is there supposed to be a narrative per service delivery location as to what our “general approach” would be?

ANSWER: See answer to Question #5 above.

7. In Under paragraph C.7.1 what is meant by an As Of Date Report and Planned Versus Completed Progress? Are these meant to be post-award items?

ANSWER: The “as of” designation requirement for the Transition Plan is in reference to the date on which the report is generated (i.e. “Report X is submitted with information current “as of” XYZ date”). Likewise, the “Planned versus Completed Progress” requirement is to illustrate the planned milestone dates vice the actual completion dates for each activity as work is on-going.

8. Information that responders are supposed to provide in the Transition Plan, Overall Management Plan and the Quality Control Plan is given in Section C of the RFP. Would you please point out where we can find information concerning what is to be provided in the Corrective Maintenance Plan, and the Risk Mitigation Plan?

ANSWER: See Section M, para M.4 Evaluation Factors and Sub-factors. Information related to the Corrective maintenance Plan is addressed specifically in para M.4.1. FACTOR 1 – Management Approach, Sub-factor(d). Information related to the Risk Mitigation Plan is addressed specifically in para M.4.1 FACTOR 1 – Management Approach, Sub-factor(e).

9. In reference to Page B-3, Section B, Exhibit 2 and M-7, Para M.4.5 Factor 4 – Price, there are references to a Schedule E, which is not referenced elsewhere. Please confirm this is a typographical error. If it is not an error, please provide Schedule E.

ANSWER: Confirmed; there is no Schedule E. See attached revised Section M.

10. In reference to Price Workbooks, Section B – Schedules, Pricing Tables Schedules A – D, There are formula errors in all three excel pricing files resulting in an erroneous (#REF!) Grand Total calculation. Please provide a corrected version of the pricing sheets.

ANSWER: See attached revised Section B – Schedules for Idaho, Oregon and Washington. See also note herein this Amendment under Item (D).

11. In reference to Price Workbooks, Section B – Schedules, Pricing Tables Schedules A – D, there is an error in the formula calculating the Total Per Year Price. This formula should be changed to multiply the summation of Unit Purchase Price and Unit Installation Price by the Estimated Quantity. Please provide a corrected version of the formulas and re-send the pricing tables.

ANSWER: See attached revised Section B – Schedules for Idaho, Oregon and Washington. See also note herein this Amendment under Item (D).

12. In reference to Page C-5, para C.2.7, (a) What is the required bandwidth (DS1, NxDS1) at each site requiring Managed VoIP and premise-based VoIP? (b) What version of Outlook is being used by end-user customers? (c) What is the potential number of sites requiring Managed VoIP? (d) How many seats (i.e., phones) per location are required for Managed VoIP? (e) What is the maximum number of seats required at a location requiring Managed VoIP? (f) What are the evaluation factors for IPTEL? (g) What weight will this section carry in the overall evaluation?

ANSWER: See attached revised Section C – Scope of Work, para C.2.7. All reference to “managed VOIP” has been removed from this Solicitation.

13. In reference to Price Workbooks, Section B – Schedules, Pricing Tables Schedules A – D, specifically Site Survey Reports. Please provide a CLIN for site surveys in order to price ICB cable and installation situations competitively.

ANSWER: See also note herein this Amendment under Item (D); Section B Schedules for all three States have been revised to remove CLINs associated with cabling/hardware requirements.

14. In reference to Price Workbooks, Section B – Schedules, Pricing Tables Schedules A – D, specifically CLIN CMHI – Purchase and installation of cable termination hardware; unit per port. (a) Is this CLIN only for the MDF/IDF end? (b) Please clarify the type of termination hardware GSA is requesting; for example, is it 66 blocks, 110 hardware or patch panels? (c) If patch panels; please specify 24 or 48 port and CAT5 or CAT 6. (d) Should this pricing assume an existing rack or wall mount for the equipment?

ANSWER: See also note herein this Amendment under Item (D); Section B Schedules for all three States have been revised to remove CLINs associated with cabling/hardware requirements.

15. In reference to Price Workbooks, Section B – Schedules, Pricing Tables Schedules A – D, specifically CLIN CMMI – Purchase and instllation of cable management (ceiling mount ladder racks, etc) Unit Per Foot. This pricing can vary considerably depending on the actual site conditions. Factors such as firewalls, elevation changes, corners, rack size, rack construction/type, ceiling height and access. Please provide parameters to enable competitive pricing. For example, please consider multiple quantities such 0-10ft, 11-50ft and 51-100ft.

ANSWER: See also note herein this Amendment under Item (D); Section B Schedules for all three States have been revised to remove CLINs associated with cabling/hardware requirements.

16. In reference to Price Workbooks, Section B – Schedules, Pricing Tables Schedules A – D, specifically CLIN CMMJ – Purchase and installation of cable hardware (J Hooks Pre-construction ) Unit 10. Please specify the size of the J Hooks and whether they are shot or anchored in concrete.

ANSWER: See also note herein this Amendment under Item (D); Section B Schedules for all three States have been revised to remove CLINs associated with cabling/hardware requirements.

17. In reference to Price Workbooks, Section B – Schedules, Pricing Tables Schedules A – D, specifically CLIN CMMJa—Purchase and installation of cable hardware (J Hooks post construction); Unit: 10. Please specify the size of the J Hooks and whether they are shot or anchored in concrete.

ANSWER: See also note herein this Amendment under Item (D); Section B Schedules for all three States have been revised to remove CLINs associated with cabling/hardware requirements.

18. In reference to Price Workbooks, Section B – Schedules, Pricing Tables Schedules A – D, specifically CLIN CMP-25—Purchase and installation of 25 pair Riser/Plenum rated cable; Unit: Per Foot. (a) Please specify multiple quantities, such as 0-50ft, 51-100 ft and >100 ft? (b) Is this Cat 6e or Cat 3 cable? (c) Is this cable installed vertically in riser type closets and/or horizontally through offices? These two situations can result in substantial prices variance.

ANSWER: See also note herein this Amendment under Item (D); Section B Schedules for all three States have been revised to remove CLINs associated with cabling/hardware requirements.

19. In reference to Price Workbooks, Section B – Schedules, Pricing Tables Schedules A – D, specifically CLIN CMP-4—Purchase and installation of 4 pair Cat 6e cable (plenum rated); Unit: Per Foot. (a) Because competitive pricing for this item varies considerably depending on the actual site conditions, please clarify or provide a description of the space. Relevant factors include firewalls, elevation changes, conduits, ceiling height and access. (b) Please consider providing multiple quantities like 0-100 feet, 101-200 ft and 201-295 ft? (c) Because the majority of services in the SOW do not require CAT6e cables, does the Government want those services tested and documented as to Cat 6e compliance? (d) Are Cat 6e jacks included along with termination? (e) Please provide an assumption for termination hardware type in the MDF/IDF?

ANSWER: See also note herein this Amendment under Item (D); Section B Schedules for all three States have been revised to remove CLINs associated with cabling/hardware requirements.

20. In reference to Price Workbooks, Section B – Schedules, Pricing Tables Schedules A – D, specifically CLIN CMPVC-4—Purchase and installation of 4 pair Cat 6e cable (PVC); Unit: Per Foot. (a) Because competitive pricing for this item varies considerably depending on the actual site conditions, please clarify or provide a description of the space. Relevant factors include firewalls, elevation changes, conduits, ceiling height and access. (b) Please consider providing multiple quantities like 0-100 feet, 101-200 ft and 201-295 ft? (c) Because the majority of services in the SOW do not require CAT6e cables, does the Government want those services tested and documented as to Cat 6e compliance? (d) Are Cat 6e jacks included along with termination? (e) Please provide an assumption for termination hardware type in the MDF/IDF?

ANSWER: See also note herein this Amendment under Item (D); Section B Schedules for all three States have been revised to remove CLINs associated with cabling/hardware requirements.

21. In reference to Price Workbooks, Section B – Schedules, Pricing Tables Schedules A – D, specifically CLIN CONN—Purchase and installation of conduit (2 inch) New construction; Unit: Each Foot. Competitive pricing varies considerably depending on the site conditions, such as firewalls, elevation changes, corners, rack size, rack construction/type, ceiling height, and access. Depending on the use, this could also require electrical permits. We would suggest this work is best be priced ICB. (a) Will the conduit be installed inside or outside, exposed or buried, metal or plastic? Can you Please clarify or provide a detailed description. (b) Please consider multiple quantities like 0-100 feet, 101-200 ft and 201-295 ft?

ANSWER: See also note herein this Amendment under Item (D); Section B Schedules for all three States have been revised to remove CLINs associated with cabling/hardware requirements.

22. In reference to Price Workbooks, Section B – Schedules, Pricing Tables Schedules A – D, specifically CLIN CONP—Purchase and installation of conduit (2 inch) post construction; Unit: Each Foot. Competitive pricing varies considerably depending on the site conditions, such as firewalls, elevation changes, corners, rack size, rack construction/type, ceiling height and access. Depending on the use, this could also require electrical permits. We would suggest this work is best be priced ICB. (a) Will the conduit be installed inside or outside, exposed or buried, metal or plastic? Can you please clarify or provide a detailed description. (b) Please consider multiple quantities like 0-100 feet, 101-200 ft and 201-295 ft?

ANSWER: See also note herein this Amendment under Item (D); Section B Schedules for all three States have been revised to remove CLINs associated with cabling/hardware requirements.

23. In reference to Pabge L-10, para L.11.2 Proposal Format Instructions. We would propose the Government allow 11 X17-inch page size for the Completed Price Schedules in Volume II Price Proposal. This will make it easier for reviewers to follow the data in the table.

ANSWER: See revised Section L for revised format requirements.

No other changes outside of those described herein this document are made as a result of this Amendment.

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