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a. The normal working hours for each shop

b. The historic number of total TC-12B sorties flown for the last 3 years broken out by month

c. The average number of weekend sorties flown each month for the last 3 years. Please break out cross county and flight separately.

d. Please provide historic data for the maintenance man-hours per shop expended for the last 3 years.

e. Please provide historic data showing the number of months per year the Mission Capability metric of 80% per aircraft per day was achieved.

f. Please provide historic data showing the number of months per year the Ready for Training metric of 75% was achieved.

See also Q/A #194.

a. The successful Offeror will establish working hours to comply with all sections of the PWS, including support of flight operations per PWS 5.1.9.

b. & c. Available Government data files from 2012 and 2013, containing TC-12B sorties, will be post to FedBizOps as "TC-12 Production Slides 2012 & 2013." No other sortie data is available.

d) The data is either unreleasable or unavailable.

e) The data is either unreleasable or unavailable.

f) The data is either unreleasable or unavailable.

183 Attachment 8, CBA, paragraph 17.05 (Second paragraph 17.05)

a. The CBA contains two paragraphs 17.05. The second paragraph 17.05 defines a fringe benefit rate and quantifies the minimum employer’s requirement. The current company provided health plan includes a Health Reimbursement Arrangement that provides benefits not covered under the health insurance. Technically, a HRA is not an insurance product, but it is part of the health plan and contributions are considered in kind under Section 4980H of the Internal Revenue Code and may be taxable under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

i. Does the CBA Group Health Insurance reference in the second paragraph 17.05 exclude employer contributions into the HRA?

a. The CBA contains two paragraphs 17.05. The second paragraph 17.05 defines a fringe benefit rate and quantifies the minimum employer’s requirement as including “Leave Pay”. Leave Pay is not defined in Article 11 (Vacation). Leave is described in Article 9 (Leave of Absence).

a. Please reconcile the data between the different documents so the documents provide the same information.

b. Please confirm that bidders are to price to the Schedule B numbers.

a. The airframe projections by fiscal year include estimated airframe repairs and ACIs. ACI by site document covers ACI estimates only. A combination of the two projections were used to develop Section B which aligns with the contract year.

b. Offers are to price to Section B.

196 RFP Pg 5, Para 1.3 Table 1 indicates that MCAS Yuma has two UC-12Fs assigned under Sponsor West Marines. Page 58-62, Section B (Attachment B-1) of the RFP does not list MCAS Yuma under West Marines header (CLIN 0X16).

a. Recommend adding MCAS Yuma under CLIN 0X16 in Section B, Attachment B-1.

i. Is it the Government’s intent to increase costs for the Contractor by including the Alt. I clause?

ii. Will the Government remove the 52.245-1 Alt I clause and replace it with the 52.245-1 Government Property clause?

i. Since the wording in this clause is in conflict with 52.245-1, 52.245-1 Alt I Government Property and DFARS 252.228-7001 Ground and Flight Risk clauses, will the Government remove this clause from the RFP?

a. Question/Comment/Recommendation: Per farsite.hill.af.mil, this clause number is: 252.225-7006 Acquisition of the American Flag – AUG 2015. Please consider removing this clause

a. Question/Comment/Recommendation: Clause is incorporated by reference, however, fill-ins are required for Alternate I. Please provide directive(s) or notices(s) as applicable.

a. Page 142 of the RFP states “The cost of general purpose items required to conduct normal business operations will not be considered allowable in the performance of this contract. The following types of general purpose costs required to conduct normal business operations are not allowable: the cost and associated costs for telephones and telephone charges (except for project-related telephone charges for performance of this contract which, per contractor's DCAA-approved accounting system, may be directly reimbursed under communication expenses), modems, typewriters, reproduction machines, word processing equipment, personal computers, computer software, Internet access charges, facsimile machines, commercial carrier charges, pagers, and other general purpose office equipment and office supplies.”

b. Question/Comment/Recommendation: Is it the intention of the government that general purpose items such as those listed above are not considered “allowable” under Cost Accounting Standards (CAS)? Recommend changing this restriction to “unbillable,” as these costs are generally “allowable” under CAS.

c. Question/Comment/Recommendation: PWS (p 21) states “The Contractor shall establish and maintain aircraft site-related services including utilities such as electrical, computer, phone, and internet communications services.” Is this an exception to the statement on page 142 of the RFP?

a & b. See Amendment 1 of the RFP Section L, Part B, Paragraph 4.1c.

c. The PWS and RFP are congruent documents. No further change to the RFP is required.

a. Please clarify how the contractor will seek relief from reduced payments should any delays be attributable to Government actions if 52.249-14 is not included as part of the contract.

b. If not, please provide the justification for excluding 52.249-14 from the RFP and the mechanism by which delays that would otherwise be excusable/beyond the control of the Contractor are to be excused with regard to determining mission capable rates and all that is related thereto.

GFP Property Inventory (Transition Phase In Period): Will all GFP inventory discrepancies be the responsibility of the incumbent contractor?

Shipping: States “The Contractor shall ship by using best commercial practices to meet Appendix D, Performance Metrics. The Contractor shall be responsible for all packaging and handling.” Please confirm the Government’s intent is to defer to the Contractor’s best practices for performance under this section.

For past performance contract data (Table PP-1) without a contract reference number, can the constituent purchase order numbers be included in the TO# field (PP Contract Data line 4) and for the Contract Number field (PP Contract Data line 4) be included a. If the awardee's "best [shipping] practices" meet commercially accepted industry shipping standards, the answer is yes. The awardee is responsible for accomplishing movement of parts and equipment in order to meet the minimum 80% Mission Capable (MC) rate cited in Appendix D. Handling procedures for hazardous materials, ammunition and explosives are separately addressed within the PWS.

b. The contract number associated with any purchase/delivery/task order number should be provided. Additionally, ensure that the Offeror provides all purchase/delivery/task order numbers for relevancy. If CPARS are unavailable, please ensure the Offeror distributes Attachment L-4.

218 Reference PWS GFP Question:

Can the Government clarify who is responsible for the supply of common tools at the sites?

The values for CLIN 0X08 in Section B of the RFP do not match the sum of travel and material values in Attachment L-7 for CLIN 0X08. Will the government advise what value should be used for CLIN 0X08 in the price volume?

229 Attachment 8 Article 17.03

a. Please provide the Summary Plan Description for Aetna HRA HF I and Aetna HRA HF II as outlined in the CBA.

b. Per the Summary Plan Descriptions that supports the named benefits, what are the individual and family deductibles for the health plans?

c. Per the Summary Plan Descriptions that supports the named benefits, what is the company’s contribution amount into an employee’s HRA fund?

d. Per the Summary Plan Descriptions that supports the named benefits, what is the coinsurance amount for the health plans?

e. Per the Summary Plan Descriptions that supports the named benefits, what is the out-of-pocket maximum for the health plans?

f. Since the minimum Fringe Benefit Rate (FBR) was reduced from $8.55 to $5.12, please provide the percentage of employees that waive health coverage.

B-1 with Yuma added?

a. Please clarify the requirement to identify all contracts. What specifically does the Government mean by the word identify and by the word all.

b. We recommend the Government cap the total number of relevant contracts provided to the five most relevant programs (within 5 years). Should the Government desire insight to all other relevant bidder program, then we recommend bidders be required to simply provide program titles and contract numbers for relevant.

a. and b. The definitions of "identify" and "all" are the plain meaning definitions associated with them. The RFP remains unchanged.

260 MED (C-12)-065 pg K-26. TC-12B-specific requirement to “REMOVE THE WINGTIPS AND REMOVE SPAR HINGE PINS; SPLIT THE WING AND INSPECT FOR CORROSION. Reassemble wing after inspection”. This is an intensive and expense procedure that will need to be proportionally factored into the price of every ACI for the next five years.

a. Given the planned divestment of this series aircraft, would this task be better addressed as an O&A to avoid pricing in significant work that may not be needed?

a. How many aircraft have already had this modification and how many are estimated to have had this modification by contract start?

b. Another way of asking this question, How many aircraft does the government anticipate will need this modification during the POP?

c. If unable to answer a & b, will the government consider removing this modification from the ACI. Then the modification would only be priced when required as an O&A. NOTE: If it hasn’t happened already, it will only be a matter of time before planes arrive at the depot for ACI with this modification already accomplished, but priced to do this task. This will be excess cost the government should not want to pay.

a. The HBC Stabilizer Access panel kits (Hawker Beechcraft kit 101-6003-XXX) were installed on all C-12s (PWS 1.3, Table 1) in accordance with Beechcraft Super King Air B-200 and B-300-series maintenance manuals during ACI as cited in PWS 7.1.

b. Zero.

c. N/A per response to a.

262 Administrative delays processing the O&A WR have historically impacted the delivery schedule.

a. Please describe how the time the government takes to respond to a properly submitted ACI O&A work request will be factored into the number of additional O&A days.

a. Which document applies?

b. If the former, please provide a copy for reference.

c. The latter contains service requirements inappropriate for a commercial repair station, e.g. “2-6.2. TRAINING AND QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS a, b and c. The document provided by the Government, NAVAIR 01-1A-509-1 “Cleaning and Corrosion Control” is the appropriate document. It is sometimes referenced as just NAVAIR 01-1A-509 but the omission of the ‘-1’ does not indicate a separate document.

b. Contractors who maintain and repair corrosion effects for C-12 aircraft and avionics shall comply with the OEM recommendations and the requirements of NAVAIR 01-1A-509-1, as directly prescribed or the equivalent thereof.

your help.

a. Is the term “data transmission lines” equivalent to NMCI or commercial internet communication services?

b. Are these data transmission lines NMCI or Commercial?

c. Is NMCI available at all sites to include Guantanamo Bay?

d. If not NMCI data transmission lines can the contractor’s computers connect to the data transmission lines?

e. If NMCI, do contractor End Users have permission to access our Web-Based Information System for contract related business?

f. If NMCI, does the government provide NMCI computers connected at all locations?

a. b. & d. As of 29 September 2015, Commercial data access is available at all Base and Home Sites for contractor's computers; no NMCI connectivity requirement exist in this PWS.

c., e., and f. N/A; no NMCI connectivity requirements exist in this PWS.

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