Questions and Responses 9-15.pdf

TRANSPORTATION SAFETY AND SECURITY II (TRANSS II)

SOLICITATION HTC711-12-R-R011

QUESTIONS & RESPONSES

Questions 9 – 15

9) Reference: Section SF 1449 - CONTINUATION SHEET Page 5, paragraph Item NO 0006 – Travel

Question: Will the government provide historical data for the travel costs for the base and each of the option years of the current TRANSS contract?

Response: Historical Travel cost for the current TRANSS contract are as follows:

Base Year: $290,826 Option Year 1: $244,832 Option Year 2: $256,913 Option Year 3: $278,103 Option Year 4: $251,237 (Oct 11 – Jul 12)

10) Reference: Section Sub-factor A, Management of Operations, Page 34, Sub-Factor A, paragraph (ii)

Question: Paragraph (ii) Inspection Methodologies instructs that “Offerors shall address the quality, thoroughness and completeness of inspection process, checklists,” Etc. It may be difficult to provide our checklists in our response to the government in the allowable page limitation. Will the government consider allowing offerors to submit checklists and reports as attachments that are not included in the overall page limitations?

Response: The Government will amend the solicitation to indicate that checklists are not included in the 75 page limit and may be included in the offeror’s Volume 1 proposal as attachments.

11) Reference: Section Attachment 1, Performance Work Statement (PWS), Page 2, paragraph 4.1.2

Question: The Government will “provide contractor the number and types of inspections to be conducted for the following month”. Will the Government also provide a schedule of the ground shipments for AA&E and HAZMAT/FAK for the following month?

Response: The contractor will be required to coordinate the schedule with the Transportation Offices at the locations provided by the Government.

12) Reference: Section Attachment 1, PWS, Page 2, paragraphs 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3

Question: How is SDDC delivering the data listed in Sections 4.1.1, 4.1.2, and 4.1.3 of the PWS (e.g. Email, Secure Information Transfer to the web-based solution)? That is:

a) How is the list of approved DOD carriers and the number and types of inspections to be conducted (4.1.1) transmitted to the contractor?

b) How is the document containing the number and types of inspections to be conducted for the following month (4.1.2) transmitted to the contractor?

c) How is the approval or modification of the contractor inspection schedule (4.1.3) transmitted to the contractor?

Response: The Government will correspond with the contractor by e-mail. Please note the PWS does not reference a “web-based solution.”

13) Reference: Section Attachment 1, PWS, Page 2, paragraphs 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3

Question: Has DoD classified the data provided by the Government to the contractor in Sections 4.1.1, 4.1.2, and 4.1.3 (e.g. Unclassified, Confidential, Secret, Top Secret or Level I, II, or III, or other)?

Response: The data has not been classified and will not been classified.

14) Reference: Section Attachment 1, PWS, Page 9, paragraph 7.1 Data Collection, Processing, and Distribution

Question: What documents will the government be transmitting to the secure, single repository?

Response: The Government will not transmit documents to the contractor’s secure, single repository.

15) Reference: Section Attachment 1, PWS, Page 9, paragraph 7.1 Data Collection, Processing, and Distribution

Question: Has DoD classified the data provided by the Government to the contractor’s secure, single repository?

Response: The Government will not transmit documents to the contractor’s secure, single repository.