Questions and Answers Spreadsheet 20260810.xlsx
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- Attached to
- DSSC; Combating Trafficking in Person
- Solicitation number
- H9821026QE018
- Issued by
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Defense Human Resources Activity
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This file is a Questions and Answers spreadsheet providing clarifications on RFQ H9821026QE018 for Combating Trafficking in Persons (CTIP) training services. The solicitation seeks a contractor to provide subject matter expertise for CTIP professional training development and program/policy-level support aligned with NSPD-22, NDAA, and DoWI 2200.01. The contract period of performance runs from September 22, 2026 to September 21, 2027, with two CLINs: CLIN 0001 for 12 months of CTIP Training Services and CLIN 0002 for travel not to exceed $8,000. Award will be made using Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) methodology to the lowest-priced proposal that meets all technical requirements, evaluated on an Acceptable/Unacceptable basis.
Key personnel requirements include a Training and Development Specialist-Senior (CTIP) with a master's degree and 5-12 years of experience in human trafficking prevention, awareness, training, or victim services. One full-time equivalent position requires Secret clearance eligibility. The incumbent contractor is Lockwood Hill Federal LLC (contract HQ003421D0014, Task Order HQ0034225FE411, valued at $233,000). Critical requirements include corporate past performance and personnel qualifications, both acceptable as resumes or personnel qualification summaries; an established survivor network with connections to trafficking survivors with military or irregular warfare experience; training development and facilitation responsibilities; and remote work with limited onsite visits to Mark Center. Government-furnished equipment, existing training files, and historical course materials will be provided. Proposals must be submitted as a single fixed-price annual service by August 13, 2026 at 10:00 AM EST, with all company information (CAGE Code, DUNS, TIN), SAM.gov registration, and complete quotes required; partial quotes will be deemed nonresponsive.
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| File | Type | Posted |
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| H9821026QE018_0001.pdf | ||
| CTIP SME PWS 20260624.docx | DOCX document | |
| Solicitation - H9821026QE018.pdf |
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| # | Document | Section | Page | Question | Answer |
| 1 | Does the Government require corporate past performance, or may the offeror use proposed personnel experience? | Both are required. | |||
| 2 | Must quotations include resumes or personnel-qualification summaries? | Personnel qualification summaries and resumes are both acceptable. | |||
| 3 | Does “Subject Matter Expertise” require any minimum years of experience, education, certification, prior DoD CTIP experience, or other qualification? | Require a master’s degree; at least 5-12 years of experience in the field or in a related area. Familiar with a variety of the field’s concepts, practices. | |||
| 4 | PWS | 4.3.10 | Regarding PWS 4.3.10, must the prime contractor possess the “extensive survivor network contacts,” or may that capability reside with a proposed employee, consultant or subcontractor? | This requirement may include subcontractors, and or subsidiaries to perform work under the this requirment. | |
| 5 | RFQ | How will the Government evaluate the adequacy of the proposed survivor network? Does the Government expect offerors to identify specific organizations, survivor consultants, letters of commitment, or examples of previous survivor-engagement work? | The way the Program Office determines the use of survivors as if they have a connection to what our training messaging consists of. Do they have any information regarding cartels, transnational threats? Do they know or have experienced trafficking related to irregular warfare- street gangs, drugs, and arms trafficking. Also, we want survivors that have a military connections. In other words we have survivors that escaped their situation by joining the military. We also have survivors that were trafficked on our military bases and can tell us examples of those situations and how they dealt with it and what happened in regards to those situations. | ||
| 6 | RFQ | What level of staffing or labor effort does the Government anticipate? Is there a historical or estimated FTE level, annual labor-hour estimate, or Government estimate available? | Refer to HQ003421D0014 TASK ORDER HQ0034225FE411, awarded toLockwood Hill Federal LLC. | ||
| 7 | PWS | Is the contractor required to provide live instruction or facilitate training sessions, or is the requirement limited to training development, updating, maintenance and advisory support? | Training development and facilitation is part of this requiremet. | ||
| 8 | PWS | The PWS states that work will be remote except for occasional Mark Center visits. Does the Government anticipate any recurring onsite schedule or minimum number of onsite days? | There are no set days for work to be performed at the Mark Center and there will be limited visits anticipated for onsite work TBD. | ||
| 9 | RFQ, PWS | The travel CLIN is limited to $8,000, but the PWS anticipates travel to South Korea and several CONUS locations. Will authorized travel exceeding $8,000 be separately funded? | While ther are several locations set for travel, there will be limited travel to only one or two of these locations during the period of performance. $8,000 is the ceiling for travel with zero additional travel funding available. | ||
| 10 | RFQ | Do proposed CTIP SME personnel require Secret clearance, or only Tier 3 suitability and CAC access? | Secret clearance is required. | ||
| 11 | PWS | 4.3.13 | PWS 4.3.13 addresses transition from an outgoing contractor. Please identify the incumbent contractor, current contract number, current contract value and incumbent staffing level. | Lockwood Hill Federal LLC, HQ003421D0014 TASK ORDER HQ0034225FE411, $233,000.00 | |
| 12 | The Government’s SAM announcement has identified Acceptable Technical Acceptability Standards as “Quote clearly meets minimum requirements of this RFQ”. |
| 2. Will the Government consider appropriately annotated resume(s) as a complete and acceptable technical response? | We require corporate experience and resumes. | |||||
| 13 | Key Personnel Requirements - Are there any required labor categories, key personnel positions, minimum qualifications, certifications, education, or experience requirements for contractor personnel supporting this effort? | Training and Development Specialist - Senior (CTIP), Require a master’s degree; at least 5-12 years of experience in the field or in a related area. Familiar with a variety of the field’s concepts, practices, and procedures. | ||||
| 14 | CTIP SME Expectations - Does the Government require proposed personnel to have prior Department of Defense CTIP experience, or will demonstrated human trafficking prevention, awareness, training, or victim-services experience be considered acceptable? | Experience with human trafficking programs will be considered. | ||||
| 15 | PWS | 4.3.10 | Survivor Network Requirement - For PWS 4.3.10, does the Government require the contractor to maintain existing survivor network relationships at contract award, or may those resources be established after award through approved partnerships and consultants? | Require at award. | ||
| 16 | Clearance Requirements - What percentage of contractor personnel are expected to require Secret clearance eligibility, and which labor roles will require access to classified information? | Training and Development Specialist - Senior 1 SME/FTE | ||||
| 17 | Government Furnished Resources - Will Government Furnished Equipment, system access, existing training files, storyboards, source files, and historical course materials be provided to the contractor at transition? | Yes, the government will provide Governement Furnished Equipment (GFE) | ||||
| 18 | Incumbent Information - Who is the current incumbent contractor, and what is the current contract value? | Lockwood Hill Federal LLC, HQ003421D0014 TASK ORDER HQ0034225FE411, $233,000.00 | ||||
| 19 | Content Update Volume - Approximately how many CTIP courses, toolkits, guides, and training products does the Government anticipate requiring updates during the performance period? | TBD by program office based on Department wide strategy. | ||||
| 20 | Annual Workload Estimates - Can the Government provide historical averages for: | |||||
| • | Number of training updates per year | |||||
| • | Number of data calls per year | |||||
| • | Number of white papers or briefing packages per year | |||||
| • | Number of stakeholder reviews conducted annually | These numbers have all been at a variety of levels based on Departmental needs. | ||||
| 21 | Meeting Support - Approximately how many quarterly task force meetings, working groups, and other recurring meetings does the contractor support annually? | There are typically 1 or 2 annual conferences. | ||||
| 22 | Travel Expectations - Can the Government provide estimated annual travel frequency, number of travelers, and anticipated destinations associated with the travel CLIN? | 1 traveler with potential for travel to 1 or 2 locations TBD. | ||||
| 23 | Transition-In Pricing - Is transition-in effort expected to be included within the fixed-price proposal, or should it be separately identified? | There will be limited transition in period based on short suspense programatic changes. | ||||
| RFQ | 17 | Page 17 of the solicitation is titled “Evaluation Factors for Award,” but no evaluation factors appear. Will the Government issue an amendment containing the missing evaluation criteria and basis of award? | This information is posted in the description Section of the RFQ post on SAM.gov as Lowest Price Technically Acceptable: The government will evaluate technical acceptability on a Acceptable/Unacceptable, and award will be made to the lowest-priced proposal that meets all technical requirements. | |||
| Will the quotation deadline be extended after the Government issues the missing instructions and evaluation factors? | No | |||||
| Please provide the complete quotation-submission instructions, including required volumes, content, page limits, file format, naming conventions, submission email or portal, and maximum attachment size. | This information is posted in the description Section of the RFQ post on SAM.gov as Lowest Price Technically Acceptable: The government will evaluate technical acceptability on a Acceptable/Unacceptable, and award will be made to the lowest-priced proposal that meets all technical requirements. | |||||
| Is the award methodology lowest-price technically acceptable, best value tradeoff, or another approach? What is the relative importance of technical capability, past performance and price? | This information is posted in the description Section of the RFQ post on SAM.gov as Lowest Price Technically Acceptable: The government will evaluate technical acceptability on a Acceptable/Unacceptable, and award will be made to the lowest-priced proposal that meets all technical requirements. | |||||
| RFQ | The Government's announcement in sam.gov mentions technical acceptability standards and the LPTA evaluation methodology; however, the RFQ itself does not contain instructions for the technical submission and contains a blank page under 'evaluation factors for award'. Will the Government incorporate the desired/required content for the technical proposal (if any) and identify the corresponding evaluation criteria into the solicitation, so that offerors can appropriately prepare a response? | This information is posted in the description Section of the RFQ post on SAM.gov as Lowest Price Technically Acceptable: The government will evaluate technical acceptability on a Acceptable/Unacceptable, and award will be made to the lowest-priced proposal that meets all technical requirements. | ||||
| The Government’s SAM announcement has identified Acceptable Technical Acceptability Standards as “Quote clearly meets minimum requirements of this RFQ”. | ||||||
| 1. Will the government incorporate these standards into the solicitation? | This information is posted in the description Section of the RFQ post on SAM.gov as Lowest Price Technically Acceptable: The government will evaluate technical acceptability on a Acceptable/Unacceptable, and award will be made to the lowest-priced proposal that meets all technical requirements. | |||||
| Proposal Instructions - The solicitation package references evaluation factors but does not appear to contain detailed proposal preparation instructions. Can the Government provide the required quote format, volume structure, page limitations, font requirements, and submission instructions? | This information is posted in the description Section of the RFQ post on SAM.gov as Lowest Price Technically Acceptable: The government will evaluate technical acceptability on a Acceptable/Unacceptable, and award will be made to the lowest-priced proposal that meets all technical requirements. | |||||
| Evaluation Criteria - Please provide the evaluation factors and their relative importance, including whether Technical, Past Performance, Management Approach, and Price will be evaluated separately. | This information is posted in the description Section of the RFQ post on SAM.gov as Lowest Price Technically Acceptable: The government will evaluate technical acceptability on a Acceptable/Unacceptable, and award will be made to the lowest-priced proposal that meets all technical requirements. | |||||
| Price Structure - Should offerors submit pricing at the labor-category level, by deliverable, or as a single fixed-price annual service? | Submit as CLIN 0001 per page 3 on the Solicitation as a single fixed-price annual service |
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