Itemized_Summary_of_Changes_in_Amendment_0003.docx

Summary of Changes in Amendment 0003

Note: All page references are to the original solicitation (19 December 2013) page numbers. These pages may no longer correspond to the amended solicitation.

Pgs 4-7 – Section B, CLINS 0002, 1002 and 2002: Added statement regarding burden.

Pg 12 – PWS Section 3: Removed “advisory and assistance services” and “test and evaluation support”.

Pg 14 – PWS Task 4.20 was merged into Task 4.4.

Pg 15 – PWS Task 4.18 was merged into Task 4.8.

Pg 22 – PWS Section 5.4: “3 years cumulative experience” changed to “6 years cumulative experience”.

Pg 23 – PWS Section 5.5.2: “BA/BS + 4” changed to “BA/BS + 3”.

Pg 23 – PWS Section 5.6: Changed “and accounting” to “or accounting:.

Pg 23 – PWS Section 5: Added new section 5.7 that shows approved degree substitutions

Pg 24 – PWS Section 7: Average study duration changed from “11” to “10.5” months.

Pg 25 – PWS Section 9.1, items 6 and 7: Merged the two items, as there will be no time and materials task orders awarded

Pg 26 – PWS Section 10: References to “Cost” changed to “Price” and other changes to wording.

Pg 27 – PWS Section 11.2: Changed Office “2003” to “2007” or latest version.

Pg 31 – PWS Section 12.1: Added 50-mile radius.

Pg 35 – Section F.1.3 : “5th day” changed to “10th day”.

Pg 37 – Sections G.4.2 and G.4.3: Reworded to more accurately describe an FFP Labor with Cost-Reimbursable Travel and ODC arrangement.

Pgs 42-43 – Sections H.32, H.3.6 and H.3.9: Corrected all cross-references from H.4.X to H.3.X.

Pg 48 – Section H: Wage Determination information added.

Pg 92 – Section L-1.1: Ombudsman updated.

Pg 94 – Section L-5.1: Updated table to add “Cover Letter (Letter of Transmittal) and remove “Letter of Introduction” and “Small Business Participation Plan” from Technical Volume. Added “Compliance Matrix” and replaced “SF33” with “SF1449” in Business Volume. Changed page limit of Business Volume to 50 pages.

Pg 94 – Section L-5.2.1: Added “compliance matrix”, “OCI Mitigation Plan”, and “Compensation Plan”.

Pg 95 – Section L-5.3.3: Changed all previous reference to Microsoft software to “Office 2007”.

Pg 95 – Section L-5.3.4: Changed “Windows NT” to “Windows XP or later”.

Pg 96 – Section L-5.7.1: “Cost volume” changed to “Business Volume”.

Pg 96 – Section L-5.8.3: References to electronic transmission of proposals deleted, as electronic transmission of proposals is not allowed.

Pg 98 – Section L-6.3.2.1 b): Section “I” changed to “H”.

Pg 100 – Section L-7.1.3, item (1): “Quotes” changed to “proposals”.

Pg 102 – Section L-7.2, second paragraph: Added a comma to separate “small disadvantaged” from “women-owned”.

Pg 103 – Section L-7.3: Moved to Section L-7.4 and changed page limit from “25” to “50”.

Pg 103 – Section L-7.4.6: Changed wording of first sentence to emphasize that offerors should price according to labor mix of an historical average study. This is important for baselining the price evaluation. Added second sentence. Deleted reference to CLINs “3001 and 4001”.

Pg 104 – Section L-7.4.7: Changed wording to include burden on Travel, in addition to ODCs.

Pg 104 – Section L-7.4.8: Reworded to remove reference to “function area”.

Pg 104 – Section L-7.4.9: Renumbered to Section L-7.5, as this is a separate section from the Price Factor. Changed “BY/4-Options” to “BY/2-Options”.

Pg 105 – Section L-8.1: Updated wording to remove some sections that do not require a fill-in or submission.

Pg 105 – Section L-8.2: Added additional sentence.

Pg 107 – Section M-3.1: Second paragraph, first sentence – Changed “test & evaluation” to “technical operations research”.