N00024-13-R-4305_Amendment_0014_Bidders_Questions_(Enclosure_1).pdf

N00024-13-R-4305 Amendment 0014

NAVSEA REFERENCE NUMBER: NAVSEA-111

SHIP/PROGRAM: LCS Class Ships Sustainment Execution - N00024-13-R-4305

SPECIFICATION NO: Section C, Statement of Work PARAGRAPH NO. N/A

TITLE: N/A PAGE NO.: 126, 135

QUESTION:

Offeror notes that Amendment 11, Summary of Changes document page 90 of 164, indicates changes have been made to the EPCP requirements in the Section C statement of work. Paragraph t (page 120) of the Repair and Alteration CLINs removes reference to EPCPs and paragraph i (page 129) of the Non-Scheduled Emergent and Continuous Maintenance Repairs and Alteration CLINs also removes reference to EPCPs, consistent with direction received from CNRMC in letter dated 19 Sep 14, Eliminating Expanded Process Control Procedures. However, the conformed copy of the RFP still references utilization of NAVSEAINST 5400.108A (series) titled, "Policy for Quality Management of Work on Non-Nuclear Surface Ship Critical Systems" (pages 126 and 135) and Section L.III.B, page 237 of the Technical Approach still requires response to question B.8 (Describe how the Offeror will account for Expanded Process Control Procedures). Please clarify that a response to question B.8 is still required or revise the solicitation accordingly.

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ANSWER: Section C Statement of Work, paragraph 1.t. for CLINs 1025, 1026, and associated Accomplish CLINs will be revised in a subsequent amendment to reflect a change from NAVSEAINST 5400.108A (series) titled, "Policy for Quality Management of Work on Non- Nuclear Surface Ship Critical Systems" to COMUSFLTFORCOMINST 4790.3 (series) Joint Fleet Maintenance Manual (JFMM), Volume VII, Chapter 4, CNRMC Ltr 4700 Ser C200/193 dtd 19 Sep 2014. The Contractor shall utilize an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) database or equivalent system for a standard template and a PCP repository.

Section C Statement of Work, paragraph 1.i. for CLIN 3010, 3011, and associated Non-scheduled CM/EM Repairs and Alts CLINs will also be revised in a subsequent amendment to reflect a change from NAVSEAINST 5400.108A (series) titled, "Policy for Quality Management of Work on Non-Nuclear Surface Ship Critical Systems" to COMUSFLTFORCOMINST 4790.3 (series) Joint Fleet Maintenance Manual (JFMM), Volume VII, Chapter 4 and CNRMC Ltr 4700 Ser C200/193 dtd 19 Sep 2014. The Contractor shall utilize an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) database or equivalent system for a standard template and a PCP repository.

Section L, Paragraph III.B.8, will be marked “REMOVED” in a subsequent amendment.

NAVSEA REFERENCE NUMBER: NAVSEA-113

SHIP/PROGRAM: LCS Class Ships Sustainment Execution - N00024-13-R-4305

SPECIFICATION NO: RFP Attachment J-13 PARAGRAPH NO. 2

TITLE: N/A PAGE NO.: 126, 135

QUESTION:

Offeror notes that Amendment 11, LCS SEC Attachment J-13, LCS_FM_CC_WI_Spec_897-11-002, identifies Contract N00024-12-G-4329/4330 as a required reference on page 1, paragraph 2 "REFERENCES". The Offeror does not have access to this Reference. Please provide as GFI.

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ANSWER: Attachment J-13 will be revised in a subsequent amendment to reflect reference to RFP N00024-13-R-4305 in paragraph 2.1.

NAVSEA REFERENCE NUMBER: NAVSEA-114

SHIP/PROGRAM: LCS Class Ships Sustainment Execution - N00024-13-R-4305

SPECIFICATION NO: RFP Attachment J-14 PARAGRAPH NO. 2

TITLE: N/A PAGE NO.: 126, 135

QUESTION:

Offeror notes that Amendment 11, LCS SEC Attachment J-14, LCS_Planned_Maintenance_WI_Spec_897-11-001, identifies LCS SKED data requirements as a required reference on page 1, paragraph 2 "REFERENCES". Please specify the source document.

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ANSWER: Attachment J-14, Reference 2.5 LCS SKED data aligns with the data required under CDRL A015. Much of the data that is required in CDRL A015 appears in PMS SKED.

Attachment J-14, Reference 2.5 will be revised in a subsequent amendment to reflect RFP N00024-13-R-4305 CDRL A015. In addition, Section 3.9 has been revised to LCS SKED data requirements/Weekly Reporting vice LCS SKED data requirements for clarification purposes.

NAVSEA REFERENCE NUMBER: NAVSEA-115

SHIP/PROGRAM: LCS Class Ships Sustainment Execution - N00024-13-R-4305

SPECIFICATION NO: RFP Attachment J-14 PARAGRAPH NO. 2

TITLE: N/A PAGE NO.: 126, 135

QUESTION:

Notional Work Item 992-31-001 revised and provided with Amendment 011 is for a DDG-51 Class vessel.

1) Please confirm that the Government intended to provide this as a template to use as the basis for estimating the cleaning and pumping requirements for this contract.

2) If so, please confirm for estimating purposes, that the space designations for DDG vessels should be disregarded and offerors should estimate the requirements of similar size and configuration LCS Class spaces.

3) The Government estimate in Section L did not change when the SOW changed from the LCS work item with 7 spaces to a DDG work item with 10 spaces.

Please clarify.

ANSWER:

1) For pricing purposes, the Offeror shall utilize the Notional Work Item for 992-31-001 provided under Amendment 0011 to develop an estimate for cleaning and pumping requirements for LCS SRA(d) and DSRA availabilities.

2) The space designations for DDG vessels as specified in the work specification, Paragraph 2, shall be utilized, for developing a proposed estimate in the event the Offeror deviates from Government’s estimate.

3) The Government’s estimate for the subject notional work item remains unchanged.

NAVSEA REFERENCE NUMBER: NAVSEA-119

SHIP/PROGRAM: LCS Class Ships Sustainment Execution - N00024-13-R-4305

SPECIFICATION NO: Section C and L PARAGRAPH NO. N/A

TITLE: N/A PAGE NO.: 019 (Amendment 0010); 126, 127 (Amendment 0012)

QUESTION:

It appears that the requirement to process EPCPs has been deleted in Amendment 12 yet there is still a requirement to describe how to account for EPCPs in the Technical Proposal.

Original Solicitation Section C Requirement (pg. 109):

t. The Contractor shall accomplish maintenance/modernization on identified critical systems by creating and accomplishing Process Control Procedures (PCPs)/Expanded Process Control Procedures (EPCPs). Critical systems maintenance shall be required to utilize NAVSEAINST 5400.108A (series) titled, “Policy for Quality Management of Work on Non-Nuclear Surface Ship Critical Systems.” The Contractor shall utilize an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) database or equivalent system for a standard template and an EPCP repository.

Solicitation Amendment 0012 Section C Requirement (pg. 126):

t. The Contractor shall accomplish maintenance/modernization on identified critical systems by creating and accomplishing Process Control Procedures (PCPs). Critical systems maintenance shall be required to utilize NAVSEAINST 5400.108A (series) titled, “Policy for Quality Management of Work on Non-Nuclear Surface Ship Critical Systems.” The Contractor shall utilize an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) database or equivalent system for a standard template and a PCP repository.

Solicitation Amendment 0012 Section L.III.B.8 Requirement (pg. 237):

Describe how the Offeror will account for Expanded Process Control Procedures (EPCP).

Is the requirement to describe how to account for EPCP in the Section B of the Technical proposal required or not?

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ANSWER: Please see response to NAVSEA Reference Number 111, as it pertains to this question as well.

NAVSEA REFERENCE NUMBER: NAVSEA-123

SHIP/PROGRAM: LCS Class Ships Sustainment Execution - N00024-13-R-4305

SPECIFICATION NO: Section F Exhibit L002 PARAGRAPH NO. N/A

TITLE: N/A PAGE NO.: N/A

QUESTION:

The revised CLIN structure does not appear to provide all of the information necessary to price some of the CLINs. For example, Exhibit L002 lists CLIN 1060 as the Execution Planning CLIN for LCS-2 FY18 DSRA. Per solicitation instructions on page 258, the start date is one year prior to the start date of the hull availability in Section F-3. There is no availability listed in Section F- 3 nor on Exhibit L002 for the LCS-2 FY18 DSRA. Page 260, paragraph 11 provides guidance for pricing TBD CLINs but does not provide guidance for establishing the period of performance for EP CLINs that do not have a corresponding execution availability in Section F-3.

Please advise.

ANSWER: Section L, Paragraph IV.C.1(a) will be revised in a subsequent amendment to read as follows:

For execution planning CLINs (see Table L-1), the start date shall be 1 year prior to the start of the hull availability CLIN (see Section F-3), and the completion date shall be the hull availability CLIN start date (see Section F-3). For CLINs 1060, 1070, and 1080, the start date shall be 1 year prior to the dates specified under a separate correspondence to be provided upon request.

NAVSEA REFERENCE NUMBER: NAVSEA-124

SHIP/PROGRAM: LCS Class Ships Sustainment Execution - N00024-13-R-4305

SPECIFICATION NO: Section F Exhibit L002 PARAGRAPH NO. N/A

TITLE: N/A PAGE NO.: N/A

Section J Exhibit L002 lists Execution CLINs 1085 and 1086. These CLINs are not listed in Section B or in RFP Table L-2. Please advise.

ANSWER: Section J Exhibit L002 will be revised in a subsequent amendment to reflect the removal of CLINs 1085 and 1086 as these CLINs will not be included in the resultant contract.

NAVSEA REFERENCE NUMBER: NAVSEA-125

SHIP/PROGRAM: LCS Class Ships Sustainment Execution - N00024-13-R-4305

SPECIFICATION NO: Section C Statement of Work PARAGRAPH NO. N/A

TITLE: Tag Out SOP COMLCSRONONEISNT 4700 1E PAGE NO.: 100, 105

Amendment 11 replaced previous J-15 Attachment (Tag-Out Users Manual for Littoral Combat Ship Pilot), in its entirety with LCS Tag-Out Standard Operating Procedures, 4700.1E. On page 100, the RFP states, "The Contractor shall perform Hazardous Energy Control/Tag-Out (HEC/T- O) services in accordance with the Tag-Out Users Manual (TUM) for Littoral Combat Ship Pilot/S0400-AD-URM-010 (series)." Similarly on page 105, the RFP states, "The Contractor shall perform Hazardous Energy Control/Tag-Out (HEC/T-O) services in accordance with the Tag-Out Users Manual (TUM) for Littoral Combat Ship Pilot/S0400-AD-URM-010 dtd 30 Dec.

2008."

Please clarify if the Government intends for Hazardous Energy Control/Tag-Out (HEC/T-O) services be conducted in accordance with the current J-15 attachment, LCS Tag-Out Standard Operating Procedures, 4700.1E.

ANSWER: Section C, Statement of Work, paragraph 100.1, subparagraph 4.b and 4.b(5) under CLINs 0100 and 0105 and paragraph 200.1, subparagraph 3.f under CLINs 0200 and 0205 will be revised in a subsequent amendment to reflect “LCS Tag-Out Standard Operating Procedures, 4700.1E dtd 22 Mar 2013.”

NAVSEA REFERENCE NUMBER: NAVSEA-127

SHIP/PROGRAM: LCS Class Ships Sustainment Execution - N00024-13-R-4305

SPECIFICATION NO: RFP Section L PARAGRAPH NO. N/A

TITLE: Tables L-10 and L-11 PAGE NO.: N/A

The conformed Amendment 0013 RFP Tables L-10 and L-11 totals are incorrect. Info only.

ANSWER: Section L, Tables L-10 and L-11 has been revised to reflect an accurate number of total hours. Shipfitter labor hours were adjusted by one (1) hour under each table. See Amendment 0014.

NAVSEA REFERENCE NUMBER: NAVSEA-128

SHIP/PROGRAM: LCS Class Ships Sustainment Execution - N00024-13-R-4305

SPECIFICATION NO: RFP Section L PARAGRAPH NO. N/A

TITLE: Tables L-10 and L-11 PAGE NO.: 264

QUESTION:

Pages 264/265 instruct offeror to price TBD EP CLINs and TBD CNO Avails with GFY 15 rates. Page 262 cost proposal assumptions instruct offeror to price TBD EP CLINs one year prior to CNO availability. (see below highlighted instructions)

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11. Option TBD CLINs

For the purposes of the Cost Proposal, Option EP TBD CLINs and Option CNO Avails TBD CLINs (reference Table L-1 and L-2) shall be priced by the Offeror using the Notional Work Package (reference Table L-9) and the estimated man-hours provided in Tables L-1 and L-2 as a basis of estimating. Offerors shall apply the GFY 2015 rates in estimating the price of the TBD CLINs.

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C. COST PROPOSAL ASSUMPTIONS

In order to promote fair and consistent pricing for this procurement, each Offeror must reflect certain assumptions in their cost proposals. Failure to comply with these assumptions may result in the determination that the proposal is non-responsive to the Solicitation and may be grounds for rejection of the proposal.

1. CLIN Period of Performance

For cost proposal preparation purposes, the Offeror shall assume CLIN, and its associated Award Fee CLIN, start and completion dates as follows:

(a) For execution planning CLINs (see Table L-1), the start date shall be 1 year prior to the start of the hull availability CLIN (see Section F-3), and the completion date shall be the hull availability CLIN start date (see Section F-3);

Question: Is it the government’s intent for the offeror to price the option TBD EP CLINs in GFY 2014 rates of GFY 2015 rates?

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ANSWER: In accordance with Section L, paragraph IV.C.11, Option TBD EP CLINs shall be priced in GFY 2015 rates.

NAVSEA REFERENCE NUMBER: NAVSEA-129

SHIP/PROGRAM: LCS Class Ships Sustainment Execution - N00024-13-R-4305

SPECIFICATION NO: RFP Section L PARAGRAPH NO. N/A

TITLE: Tables L-1 PAGE NO.: 248

QUESTION:

QUESTION: Execution Planning (EP) CLINs 1060, 1061, 1070, 1071, 1080, 1081 are for vessels that did not have a CNO period of performance provided in F-3 for the USS Independence, USS Milwaukee and USS Jackson. To price these EP CLINs with accurate GFY rates during the 1 year EP performance period requires start dates for each of these three vessels CNO availabilities to reflect any potential dual GFY performance.

Question: What are the Start dates for the CNO avails for the USS Independence DSRA (CLINs 1060/1061), the USS Milwaukee SRA(d) (CLINs 1070/1071) and the USS Jackson SRA(d) (CLINs 1080/1081)?

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ANSWER: Please see response to NAVSEA Reference Number 123, as it pertains to this question as well.

NAVSEA REFERENCE NUMBER: NAVSEA-130

SHIP/PROGRAM: LCS Class Ships Sustainment Execution - N00024-13-R-4305

SPECIFICATION NO: RFP Section L PARAGRAPH NO. F.111

TITLE: Technical Proposal Page Limit PAGE NO.: 237

QUESTION:

Section L specifies that the Technical Proposal shall not consist of more than 135 pages whereas the NAVSEA letter, Ser: 02431/618, dated 28 October specifies that the Technical Proposal page limit shall not exceed 136 pages. Please clarify the Technical Proposal page limit.

ANSWER: Technical proposals shall not exceed 136 pages. Section L, paragraphs II.F and III will be corrected in a subsequent amendment to reflect a 136 page limit.