OSA_Q&A5.pdf

NAVAL SEA SYSTEMS COMMAND

N00024-17-R-4428

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS #5

The following are answers to questions received from potential offerors. The answers provide clarification only and DO NOT constitute an amendment to the solicitation.

91. Q. Will the Government please calculate the inter-port differential (IPD) and provide a

Price Differential for Kittery, Maine as the place of performance?

A. IPD for Kittery, ME added to Section L and M in Amendment 5.

92. Q. Will the Government please calculate the inter-port differential (IPD) and provide a Price Differential for Mobile, Alabama as the place of performance?

A. IPD for Mobile, AL added to Section L and M in Amendment 5.

93. Q. Please state how the Price Differential amounts were calculated, including disclosure of any underlying formulas or data used.

A. The categories of cost that make up the Inter-port Differential are set forth in the

RFP. Specific values are considered sensitive and are not publicly disclosed.

94. Q. The current Attachment J-3 does not identify the incentivized milestones nor dates.

Will these be provided?

A. Section B-1, “Key Event Milestones” was revised, directing potential offerors to

“PM_2017-0003_TPPC”for incentivized milestone dates instead of Attachment J- 3.

95. Q. The Contractor seeks clarity for the requirements to obtain the Incentive payout.

Specifically, are the incentive payout tied only to performance as they relate to milestones listed in Attachment J-3 and/or does the evaluation also consider individual compartment closeout dates and criteria?

A. Section B-1 was revised in Amendment 5, incorporating individual compartment closeout dates into the incentive criteria.

96. Q. Are there predetermined dates of accomplishment for the Incentivized Milestones and, if so, will these be listed as such on a revised Attachment J-3 as the subject of an amendment to the solicitation and incorporated in the contract upon award?

A. Please see response to questions and answers #94.

97. Q. Please identify any cost or schedule impacts that the inter port differential amounts are intended to address.

A. As explained in Section M of the RFP, the inter-port differential amounts are calculated using the foreseeable costs for fuel, towing and pilot charges, and travel to the Contractor’s facility by applicable Government personnel (Management, Oversight, Assessment, Survey, Certification, and Ship’s Force (to include relocation, sustainment and crew training costs)).

98. Q. Please explain how the inter-port differential amounts relate to the cost or schedule of performing the work under the RFP.

A. In accordance with 10 USC §7299a(b), the inter-port differential amounts represent the foreseeable costs of performance of the availability outside the ship’s homeport area.

99. Q. Following the ALO and PCD Milestones for Liquidated Damages incurred per Day

(bottom of page 84), there are three rows of location-specific Liquidated Damages incurred per Day, for Mayport, Pascagoula and Norfolk (top of page 85). What is the Milestone associated with these Liquidated Damages?

A. The event associated with those liquidated damages is "Commence Crew Move Aboard". See Amendment 5.

100. Q. At the top of page 85, Liquidated Damages incurred per Day are specified for

Mayport, Pascagoula and Norfolk. Please explain the basis for assessing different amounts of Liquidated Damages based upon location.

A. These values represent costs associated with supporting the crew, availability oversight, and management. Location differences are driven by pier diem rates and other locality pays.

101. Q. Regarding the inter-port differential (IPD) calculation - is the amount based on the ship's move to NAVSTA (on 01 FEB 2019 per solicitation attachment J-3), or is the differential calculated on the End of Availability date?

A. IPD is calculated on the ship's "Move to NAVSTA."

102. Q. Liquidated Damages are tied to Performance Incentive Key Event Milestones

(page 27 of Solicitation). Is the Contractor required to meet Incentive Milestone dates in order to avoid liquidated damages?

A. Yes, liquidated damages are not applied when applicable event milestone dates are completed on-time.

103. Q. Can the Inter-port Differential (IPD) Model utilized be explained ? Why were the

IPD Costs changed from the original solicitation to Amendment 0001? Can the Navy show what variables and associated costs were entered into the model for the calculation of the IPD cost calculation? At the IPD Industry day in 2016, SEA21 said they would promulgate the new model for calculations for the IPD Costs. Has that model been developed and can it be promulgated? Using the Navy's 1988 Model, we hold the IPD Calculations for Pascagoula and Mayport are considerably higher than in the Solicitation.

A. The IPD model was presented at the NAVSEA Industry Day on 30 Nov 2016. As explained in Section M of the RFP, the inter-port differential amounts are calculated using the foreseeable costs for fuel, towing and pilot charges, and travel to the Contractor’s facility by applicable Government personnel (Management, Oversight, Assessment, Survey, Certification, and Ship’s Force (to include relocation, sustainment and crew training costs)). Specific values entered into the model are considered sensitive and are not publicly disclosed.

104. Q. Were the requirements in Surface Force Readiness Manual (COMNAVSURPACINST/COMNAVSURFLANTINST 3502.3) taken into consideration in the training of the crew and the TADTAR requirements to meet Team Training requirements and Crew Certification requirements in the Inter-port Differential (IPD) Costs?

A. Yes, the requirements in Surface Force Readiness Manual

(COMNAVSURPACINST/COMNAVSURFLANTINST 3502.3) were taken into consideration in the IPD.

105. Q. There was a sizeable change in the Inter-port Differential Cost in Amendment 1 in the Norfolk IPD ($243,244). We surmise this is due to the APL Barge Transfer to the LMA's Shipyard. Please explain why the IPD for Norfolk is $273,244 for OSCAR

AUSTIN DMP.

A. The IPD increase in Amendment 1 was due to application of costs required for modernization oversight in the homeport. Amendment 5 revises the manner in which IPDs are provided. The homeport IPD is now $0, with out-of-homeport IPDs reflecting the net difference between the out-of-homeport location value, minus the homeport value.

106. Q. RAMAGE's TADTAR controls from the TYCOM exceeded all other Non-deployed DDGs by a considerable amount in FY17. You would assume this delta is driven by RAMAGE's (DDG 61) ESRA out of homeport availability. Should those costs absorbed by the TYCOM be calculated in the IPD Costs when pushing a CNO Availability out of the Homeport and out of a Fleet Concentration Area? It looks like any savings NAVSEA is seeing is being absorbed by the TYCOM in TADTAR Costs to support SFRM Requirements.

A. IPDs include all foreseeable costs that can be qualified with reasonable certainty.

107. Q. Recent Training Reports (TRAREP) for OSCAR AUSTIN on deployment indicate that the ship will require a plethora of Team Trainers and schools for required NEC Shortfalls that are only taught in a Fleet Concentration Area (FCA) during the DMP

Period of Performance. Are the TADTAR resources that are required to support the TRAREP shortfalls and school requirements for Crew Certification included in the Inter-port Differential (IPD) evaluated table? Please review the OSCAR AUSTIN TRAREP for their shortfall and what will be required during the DMP Period of Performance against the COMNAVSURFPAC/COMSURFLANTINST 3502.3 Surface Force Readiness Manual requirements.

A. Yes, the requirements in Surface Force Readiness Manual

(COMNAVSURPACINST/COMNAVSURFLANTINST 3502.3) were taken into consideration in the IPD.

108. Q. The OSCAR AUSTIN DMP is the most in-depth, biggest and complex DDG Modernization to date. By the Government Planning Yard estimates the OSCAR AUSTIN DMP is 2K mandays larger in work then the ROOSEVELT DMP and has the added addition of 247,616 mandays in AGR that the ROOSEVELT DMP (176,392 mandays) did not have. This is a high-risk availability with the compressed schedule and 96% of all spaces on the ship being impacted. This avail did not have a defined work list of the AITs in each of the spaces like previous avails and due to 96% of the ship spaces being impacted, that adds more risk to the avail with unknown AIT work. The LMA will be forced to include a large Overtime costs in their bid due to these circumstances. Is there any schedule relief on the DMP and can the Government provide defined AIT Work and turnover per space to bidders to lower the risk to this availability?

A. Please see Questions and Answers #36 provided in Q&A3. The ship's follow-on schedule does not support extending the availability. Due to the size of the Oscar Austin work package, an additional (46) days of production time were built into the schedule when compared to USS Roosevelt DMP (Roosevelt PCD at A+217;

Oscar Austin PCD at A+263). The Government acknowledges potential offerors have the option to include overtime into their pricing proposals to complete the availability on time. The work specification package provided on CD includes a "POA&Ms" file folder containing AIT POA&Ms that provide notional space turnover dates. Multiple work items refer potential offerors to reference "PM_2017-0003,_TPPC", provided on the work specification package CD in the "References" file folder. This reference contains notional AIT schedules and space turnover dates.

109. Work items 631-11-003 thru 631-11-005, 631-11-009, and 631-11-010 . Paragraphs 3.6, 3.7, or 3.8 (varies per work item), state to accomplish 009-32 Table 5, Line 18 for surfaces of piping and components that have an operating temperature of 125-200 degrees Fahrenheit. DDG's do not have any piping systems with that degree of temperature and is therefore not applicable on this item. Recommend these paragraphs be deleted.

A. USS Oscar Austin has piping with operating temperatures between 125-200 degrees Fahrenheit (i.e. Lube Oil). If all surfaces of piping and components addressed in the subject work specifications operate outside of the stated temperature range of 125-200 degrees Fahrenheit, no action is required by the contractor. The Government does not intend on deleting paragraphs 3.6, 3.7, and

3.8 of these work items.