ASPR_Professional_Staffing_Industry_Day_Advanced_Questions_10_May_2019.pdf

ASPR Professional Staffing Support Industry Day – Advanced Questions:

1. Will companies In State have a stronger preference?

a. There is no special preference based on a company’s physical location.

2. Does the government have a forecast how many positions planning for each Support Area over the life of the contract?

a. At this stage ASPR estimates maintaining ≥100 or more contractors annually in support of all ASPR Program Offices, but this estimate is subject to change.

3. How many businesses does the government plan to issue contracts to support Staffing

Requirements?

a. This is not known to United States Government (USG) at this time.

4. Will companies have an opportunity to partner on the Staffing requirements?

a. Yes.

5. What is the government’s anticipated procurement strategy? Will you issue IDIQ, BPA, or Task

Orders to the small businesses?

a. At this stage the planned procurement approach is a Multiple Award IDIQ with both

Small and Other Than Small awardees, but this is subject to change.

6. Are there incumbents currently supporting the requirement?

a. Yes.

7. What is the anticipated RFP release date?

a. At this stage it is 2020, but this is subject to change.

8. Will the requirement result in multiple awards?

a. See answer to question 5.

9. What is the expected period of performance?

a. At this stage the plan is for a base period with option years not to exceed five (5) years from the date of award, but this is subject to change.

10. What is the expected spend for the contract?

a. The ceiling will be determined as we define our requirement.

11. What are the acquisition support needs for the ASPR?

a. See Section II of the RFI.

12. What are the ASPR set aside goals?

13. What is an anticipated timeline for the acquisition?

a. See answer to question 7.

14. What Company is the incumbent or is this a new requirement?

a. Aveshka, Inc is the incumbent.

15. How are the positions and services of interest currently staffed/procured?

a. See answer to question 2.

16. Will ASPR consolidate similar positions into larger, scalable BPA's that meet ASPR's needs quicker than individual RFP/RFQ would?

a. USG will take this under consideration.

17. Does ASPR have a preferred contract vehicle at this time?

18. Does ASPR have a preferred contract vehicle at this time?

a. See answer to question 17.

19. Do any ASPR staff require clearance?

a. This will be defined in the RFP.

20. What is the estimated budget?

a. See answer to question 10.

21. Is there an incumbent currently working in this contract?

a. Yes, see answer to question 14.

22. How many vendors will be awarded?

23. What are the staffing positions?

a. See answer to question 11.

24. What type of contract (BPA, IDIQ, etc.) does the Government anticipate releasing for this work?

25. What is the volume of Professional Support staff the Government anticipates needing each year?

26. For #12, IT at local and enterprise level, does the Government intend to release IT development

RFQs/RFPs, or just Government staff augmentation for existing development efforts?

27. Are there sample opportunities or actual requirements for areas 12 and 15 from the RFI?

28. Will they sole-source for any of the staffing requirements?

a. All support needs will be made based on the awardees selected from the RFP, also see answer to question 5.

29. Does the Government plan to issue this solicitation as a small business set-aside?

30. Is the Government planning to issue this solicitation on a Government-wide or Agency-wide acquisition contract (e.g. GSA Schedule)? If so, which vehicles are being considered?

a. No it will be on FBO.

31. Is this a new requirement?

a. No, this is a recompete.

32. Will all of the staffing support needs fall under one contract?

33. Will it be single or multiple award?

34. What evaluation method do they plan to use?

35. Will it come out on FBO or GSA schedule?

a. See question 30.

36. When does the Government anticipate the release of the final RFP?

37. Will support for the Strategic National Stockpile be completed in 2019? If so has the acquisition strategy been completed and when will the first RFI be published?

a. See answer to question 11.

38. What is the government’s planned acquisition strategy for this recompete? Will it be full & open, a complete small business set-aside, or will it be a combination? If some aspects of the work will be small business set-aside, which ones?

39. For each area of the RFI, what is the current number and what is the anticipated number of staff support needed and where are they geographically located?

40. What is the government’s expectation for the new contractor(s) to retain existing contract support staff?

a. This will be defined in the RFP as part of transition.

41. Will this contract be covered by the Service Contract Act?

a. When the labor categories are determined during the RFP phase, if any are listed on the

Wage Determination through the DOL then it will be used.

42. What role will this contract support play in helping HHS ASPR to manage and execute the

Strategic National Stockpile?

a. The Strategic National Stockpile is one of multiple ASPR Program Offices that will use this procurement to fill its contractor support requirements.

43. How many awards does the government anticipate making?

44. How does this contract work with other support contracts providing similar services?

a. All contracts are administered based on the requirements stated in the contracts award.

45. Is this a re-issue of solicitation as RFP-16-100-SOL-00023, which was awarded to Aveshka, Inc.

on September 13, 2016 as contract award number HHSO100201600021I?

a. No, this is not a re-issue of solicitation as RFP-16-100-SOL-00023. This is market research with the intent of recompeting, and will have a different RFP number when solicited.

46. Should there be an incumbent, is there anything that would preclude them from submitting a proposal response to this solicitation?

a. No.

47. Should there be an incumbent, what were their pricing rates for the contract?

a. This is proprietary information that the USG will not provide.

48. Should this be an existing contract, how many positions were filled within the 13 areas as described in the RFI for HHS-ASPR-ORM-04032019?

49. Budget of IT Staffing positon?

50. We have noted the Labor categories; approximately how many positions in total?

51. What level clearance(s) required?

52. What support services would be required in Washington DC?

a. Vendors should anticipate USG support services for all areas listed in Section II of the RFI for both Washington, DC and Atlanta, GA.

53. What support services would be required in Atlanta, GA?

a. See answer to question 52.

54. Would these services also support BARDA?

a. See answer to questions 2 and 42.

55. What is the anticipated contract ceiling?

56. Are there any anticipated set-asides for any portion of the work?

57. What clearance levels are anticipated for the work?

58. Will any of the work that is described in the RFI be carved out due to Organizational Conflict of

Interest (OCI) that exists with other work that is included in the scope of the RFI? Are there broad OCI restrictions that Industry should be aware of?

59. Are there specific small business set-aside goals for HHS or for individual groups within HHS? If so, what are these?

60. Do you have a small business point of contact that is available to answer questions about small business opportunities?

a. Gwendolyn Miles at Gwendolyn.Miles@hhs.gov.

61. Do you share a forecast of opportunities for small businesses?

62. What type of contract do you anticipate awarding?

63. Will it be a single or multi award IDIQ?

64. What are the anticipated small business goals?

65. Will it be a F&O or Small Business Set-aside?

66. Will there be an upcoming ASPR Profession Staffing Support Industry Day in Atlanta, GA this year?

mailto:Gwendolyn.Miles@hhs.gov

a. At this time there is no planned Industry Day to be held in the Atlanta, GA area related to this requirement.