Industry Questions 19-Dec-11.docx

Industry Questions Post RFP release 19 December 2011

1. Amendment 0002, Section L-1, Part A, Paragraph 2.0 states: “The Offeror will provide five (5) complete copies of the proposal, on CD-ROM, to the Procuring Contracting Officer (PCO) as electronic files fully compatible with Microsoft Office 2007 AND with the latest Adobe Acrobat reader. …” Amendment 0002, Section L-1, Part A, Paragraph 3.0, within the table, instructs the offerors to submit an original and specified number of hard-copies, and 1 CD for each volume.

Question: Does the Government desire offerors to submit their proposals according to the hard-copy/CD-ROM requirements of the paragraph 3.0 table, or the hard-copy requirements of the paragraph 3.0 table plus the CD-ROM requirements (five) specified in paragraph 2.0?

Answer: The two paragraphs state requirements for different purposes. The requested CD-ROMs in paragraph 2.0 are for the PCO. These 5 (five) CD-ROMs each should contain the proposal in its entirety, whether in one continuous .pdf file or separate.pdf files for each volume. The requested hard copies and CD-ROMs in paragraph 3.0 table are for the evaluators, and are necessary in addition to the PCO’s files.