H98210-19-R-0024_Amendment_0001.docx

H9821019R0024

SECTION SF 30 BLOCK 14 CONTINUATION PAGE

SUMMARY OF CHANGES

SECTION SF 1449 - CONTINUATION SHEET

The following have been modified:

ADDENDA TO 52.212-1 & 2

Addendum to 52.212-1 -- Instructions to Offerors -- Commercial Items. (DEVIATION 2018-O0018) The following paragraphs are changed as follows:

(b) Submission of Offers. Quotes should be submitted electronically via email to the following: Contract Specialist Juan C. Gomez at juan.c.gomez2.civ@mail.mil and Contracting Officer Karen Cimorelli at karen.s.cimorelli.civ@mail.mil by the date identified in block #8 of Standard Form 1449. Any questions to this requirement must be submitted to the Contract Specialist no later than 3:00 P.M. EST on 5 September 2019.

(b)(4) A technical description of the items being offered in sufficient detail to evaluate compliance with the requirements in the solicitation. The technical quote shall not exceed 20 pages in length. This may include product literature, or other documents, if necessary; Technical quote must demonstrate an understanding of the requirements by describing:

(i) Approach for providing complete program management support that will fully integrate, manage, control and document all phases of this requirement.

(ii) describe the project management plan and demonstrate the approach to ensure the quality and integrity of services/products, including: (1) management and task controls to assure work will be completed as required; (2) plans for identifying and correcting problems; (3) preventing reoccurrence of the problems; (4) maintaining staffing levels/preventing turnover; (5) training its own personnel;

(iii) how would you provide recommendations and support for the development and delivery of prevention capacity for sexual assault prevention-related topics to include webinar development and delivery; piloting, revising, and finalizing curricula; training delivery for DoD sexual assault prevention practitioners; and tools to help officers and senior enlisted leaders support their prevention professionals and oversee effective prevention activities?

(iv) how do you plan on obtaining and retaining qualified key personnel?

(v) how staffing plan will support recruiting, retention, identify proposed key personnel positions (describe the qualifications, knowledge, skills and abilities key personnel will possess) and the PWS requirements by providing labor categories, number of proposed hours, describe the qualifications, knowledge, skills and abilities each category of personnel will possess, and a crosswalk to the PWS requirements.

(vi) An example of the labor category and adequate description are as follows:

A. Senior Curriculum Development Specialist Master’s degree in the field of education, training or equivalent with a minimum of ten (10) years’ experience.

Experience:

· 5 years experience analyzing and studying extremely complex training requirements requiring a thorough understanding of all parameters affecting client needs within the sexual assault prevention area.

· 5 years experience in training and curriculum development methods and procedures.

· 2 years experience in training and curriculum development specific to sexual assault prevention or a related field of prevention.

B. Subject Matter Expert (Sexual Assault Prevention) Master’s degree in the field of sexual assault prevention with a minimum of ten (10) years’ experience.

Experience:

· 5 years experience and technical knowledge as well as a functional understanding of applications and operational environment of the subject matter, processes, procedures, systems, and operating requirements.

· 5 years experience in lead training in multiple types of presentation environments and participation in the development of test materials and training scenarios.

· 10 years experience and knowledge of sexual assault prevention, with 2 years of knowledge at the federal level.

(b)(6) Price. The vendor must submit pricing using the CLIN structure identified in pages 3 through 6 of this solicitation. The vendor must also submit a breakdown of the pricing that includes:

a. Fully burden Labor Rate (hourly rates).

b. A breakdown of the labor mix including the proposed labor categories

c. Number of hours proposed for each labor category.

(b)(10) Past Performance: The Government may use data provided by the Vendor and will use data obtained from other sources, including the Past Performance Information Retrieval System (PPIRS), which houses the Contractor Performance Assessment Rating System (CPARS) reports. Past performance information is limited to those performed within the last five years as of the date of the solicitation.

(c) Period for acceptance of offers. The offeror agrees to hold the prices in its offer firm for 90 calendar days from the date specified for receipt of offers. Note: the period of performance dates may be adjusted based on the date an award is made, however, the base period will remain at 9 months and option will remain at 12 months.

The following paragraphs are deleted

(d) Product Samples.

(h) Multiple Awards.

The rest of this provision remains unchanged.

Addendum to 52.212-2 -- Evaluation -- Commercial Items. (Oct 2014) The provision is changed as follows:

(a) The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible vendor whose quote conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers:

Technical Past Performance Price

Technical and Past Performance when combined, are more important than cost or price.

(b) Options. The Government will evaluate offers for award purposes by adding the total price for all options to the total price for the basic requirement. The Government may determine that an offer is unacceptable if the option prices are significantly unbalanced. Evaluation of options shall not obligate the Government to exercise the option(s).

(c) This RFQ is conducted under the guidelines of FAR Parts 12 and 13. Award will be based on a determination of best value to the Government, price and other factors considered. “Best Value” means the expected outcome of an acquisition that, in the Government’s estimation, provides the greatest overall benefit in response to the requirement. Best value evaluation is, in and of itself, a subjective assessment by the Government of the proposed solution that provides the optimal results to the Government.

(d) This method does not use any aspects of FAR subpart 15.3. The use of FAR Part 12 and 13 procedures does not obligate the Government to determine a competitive range, conduct discussions with any contractors, solicit quotes or revisions thereto, or use any other source selection techniques associated with FAR subpart 15.3.

(e) Technical quotes will be reviewed for strengths, weaknesses and deficiencies.

(f) Past performance will be reviewed for quality of performance and customer satisfaction based on information found in PPIRS. Evaluation will be determined acceptable or unacceptable as follows:

Acceptable: Based on the vendor’s performance record, the government has a reasonable expectation that the offeror will successfully perform the required effort, or the vendor’s performance record is unknown.

Unacceptable: Based on the vendor’s performance record, the government does not have a reasonable expectation that the vendor will successfully perform the required effort.

(g) A comparative analysis will be conducted to determine the best value based on the strength of the technical understanding, acceptable past performance and price.

(h) A written notice of award or acceptance of an quote, mailed or otherwise furnished to the successful quoter within the time for acceptance specified in the offer, shall result in a binding contract without further action by either party. Before the quoter’s specified expiration time, the Government may accept a auote (or part of a quote), whether or not there are negotiations after its receipt, unless a written notice of withdrawal is received before award.

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