Questions for EOC 4 24 Feb 2025.xlsx
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This is a Questions and Answers document for the EOC 4 ManTech Center of Excellence solicitation (N0001425R7001) from the Office of Naval Research, with questions submitted by Pennsylvania State University.
The Q&A addresses several clarifications regarding proposal submission requirements, including: confirmation that all travel must be pre-approved, updates to missing CDRL attachments provided in Amendment 1, rejection of DoD SAFE for proposal submissions, addition of SF33 form via Amendment 1, acceptance of PDFs for signed documents only, clarification on cost volume attachments (now attachments 26 and 27), and updates to the Statement of Work regarding Special Projects task order assignments and Quarterly Contract Management Review language. The document reflects administrative and technical clarifications rather than details about specific products or services required.
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| Respondent Name | Respondent POC | Respondent POC Email Address | Solicitation Reference | Solicitation Reference Page # | Solicitation Reference Section or Paragraph | Respondent's Question | Government Answer |
| The Pennsylvania State University | Melissa Castilyn | EOCContracts@arl.psu.edu | RFP Section G | 11 | ONR - Travel Costs | Please confirm whether the intention is that all travel must be preapproved or is travel that was previously proposed and awarded considered approved? | |
| All travel must be pre-approved IAW contract requirements. | |||||||
| The Pennsylvania State University | Melissa Castilyn | EOCContracts@arl.psu.edu | RFP Section J | 59 | List of Documents | Attachment 24 and 25 CDRLS pdfs are missing pages. |
Requesting updated Attachment 24 and Attachment 25 PDFs showing all CDRLs.
| Updates CDRLS are attached to Amendment 1. | ||||||
| The Pennsylvania State University | Melissa Castilyn | EOCContracts@arl.psu.edu | RFP Section L | 86 | L.3 Submission of Offers | Solicitation states that proposals are to be emailed. |
Can DoD SAFE link be requested from the contracts specialist and can DoD SAFE submission serve as valid submission to the Government under this solicitation?
| DoD SAFE is not approved for receipt of competitive proposals. | ||||||
| The Pennsylvania State University | Melissa Castilyn | EOCContracts@arl.psu.edu | RFP Section L | 86 | L.3 Submission of Offers | Standard Form 33 and Standard Form 30 are not included in the solicitation, likely due to the new contract writing system. |
Are any contract forms required to be signed with the proposal?
| The SF33 is added via Amendment 1 as a separate PDF document for signature. | ||||||
| The Pennsylvania State University | Melissa Castilyn | EOCContracts@arl.psu.edu | RFP Section L | 87 | L.5 Instructions for Submittal of Proposal | Fourth paragraph says that Proposals shall not be submitted in PDF. |
Note that some required proposal documentation exists as PDF documents (signed document or agreement or budget information).
| Confirmation requested that pdf documents are acceptable. | PDF is acceptable for documents that need to be siged. Offerors shall to follow all directions regarding other forms or documents to be submitted. | |||||||
| The Pennsylvania State University | Melissa Castilyn | EOCContracts@arl.psu.edu | RFP Section L | 90 | L.9 Volume II | Solicitation says RFP Attachment 5 and 6 are for the Cost Volume. Current uploaded Attachments 5 & 6 are not for the cost volume. Solicitation says to complete two Price Proposal - Cost Plus Fixed Fee, Attachment 6 (See Section J for a copy of the document) Spreadsheet. No spreadsheet is included in the attachments uploaded. | ||
| Requesting upload of the Cost Volume RFP Attachments. | The cost volume is included as attachments 26 and 27 on Amendment 1. | |||||||
| The Pennsylvania State University | Melissa Castilyn | EOCContracts@arl.psu.edu | RFP Section L | 91 | L.9 Volume II | "Offerors shall not include labor hours for Special Project Development/Management in the individual proposed Special Project." Is this statement correct? Per the overall COE Operations tasking, should not all facets of the Special Project occur under Task Order 1? | Project development and Management should be proposed under the appropriate task order. The SOW has been updated. | |
| The Pennsylvania State University | Melissa Castilyn | EOCContracts@arl.psu.edu | Attachment 1 EOC 4 Statement of Work | 10 | Task 3.0 | "Rapid Response and Special Projects will be managed and executed under the Second Task Order." Is this statement correct? This SOW section states that Special Projects should be on Task 2, which is in conflict with Section L, page 91, of the solicitation. Per the overall COE Operations tasking, should not all facets of the Special Project occur under Task Order 1? | The SOW has been updated. | |
| (No Question) | Offerors are notified that the SOW has been revised to include the Quarterly Contract Management Review language. |
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