AMENDMENT__2_HQ0034-17-R-0165_Responses_to_Industry_Questions.pdf

AMENDMENT #2 Combined Synopsis/Solicitation, Historical Office of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Publications Research Assistant Support Services HQ0034-17-R-

Amendment #2 provides the following:

Responses to Questions

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

1. What is the incumbent’s period of performance and contract value?

Answer: This is a new requirement.

2. Assuming the Service Contract Act (SCA) applies (as it should for this procurement), please provide a FAR 52.222-42, "Statement of Equivalent Rates for Federal Hires" (applicable DOL Wage Determination labor category and $$) Answer: The Service Contract Act (SCA) is not applicable to this requirement.

3. Assuming the Service Contract Act (SCA) applies, please provide the appropriate DOL wage determination Answer: Please see response to question 2 above.

4. Will it be FFP labor Hour, or FFP where the bill remains the same regardless of actual hours worked?

Answer: The government will award a firm fixed price contract.

5. Please provide historical or projected workload data so bidders can understand how much work they are bidding on. In other words, we can not tell if this support necessitates 1 FTE or 3 FTEs. If workload data is not available, please provide the number FTEs expected to reasonably provide the level of support being requested.

Answer: Please see Technical Exhibit 3, Estimated Workload Data, page 14 of the Performance Work Statement (PWS).

6. Will the client sponsor the winning bidder for a facility clearance (FCL) if they do not currently have one? Note: A facility clearance is required for the winning company to hold the personal clearance.

Answer: Please see PWS Section 1.6.7, Security Requirements, and 1.6.7.1 Security Clearance.

7. Section 1.6.7 - What happens if the person submitted for the position doesn't have their TS/SCI clearance after 11 months (based on Government investigation delays)? Will we be required to terminate the person and replace them; therefore forcing the Government's security investigation process to restart on a new employee?

Answer: Please see PWS Section 1.6.7, Security Requirements, and 1.6.7.1 Security Clearance.

8. What is this procurement's evaluation criteria? Is it LPTA, is it best value? etc

Answer: Please see the solicitation, 52.212-2 Evaluation-Commercial Items (Addendum to FAR 52.212-2).

9. In order to evaluate bidders on an apples-to-apples basis, are you looking for clearable candidates (cheaper) or cleared candidates (more expensive)?

Answer: Please see response to question 8 above.

10. How many candidate resumes per position may we submit?

Answer: One Resume per Key Personnel.

11. May we assign different fully burdened pricing to different candidates? If so, would you like to see one bid with multiple prices or multiple bids?

Answer: Please see solicitation, Addendum to 52.212-1 Instructions to Offeror- Commercial Items (FEB 2012)

12. You say 1880 hours are expected. Is this total per year or total per FTE per year?

Answer: Please see PWS, page 14, Technical Exhibit 3, Estimated Workload Data.

13. You say 1880 hours are expected .Considering the typical person works 1920 hours on a Government contract, why only 1880 hours?

1920 is derived from 2080 - 80(vacation) - 80(holidays).

Answer: Please see PWS, page 14, Technical Exhibit 3, Estimated Workload Data.

*One Full Time Equivalent (FTE) is 2080 hours, which means that 280 hours will be used for leave, such as national holidays as stated in the PWS, sick and annual leave.

14. May bidders assume less than 1880 hours to reduce their FFP price?

15. Is overtime a possibility? If so, how is this handled/requested under this FFP contract?

16. We don’t have Facility clearance as of now, if we awarded for this Response, Will government sponsor it?

Answer: Please see PWS 1.6.7 Security Requirements.

17. Is this a New or Follow-On Contract?

Answer: This is a new requirement.