Questions and Answers - N0017324R0002.docx

Questions and Answers (Q&A) Solicitation: N0017324R0002 Scientific and Engineering Services for Off-board Electronic Warfare Q1: Given the challenges of meeting the page limitations assigned to Factor 2: Management and Capability, which include the Contractor Management Plan (CMP), the Offeror requests that L-6, Volume I, Factor 2: Management Capability, be revised to include the following sentence: “The CMP shall be included as part of Volume I - Technical Proposal outside of any stated page limits established under Table L-5: Proposal Organization. However, the CMP has a 10-page limitation."

A1: Section L-5, Proposal Organization, Volume I, Technical, changes the page limit from 50 pages to 65 pages (all factors combined). The CMP and any other requested plans fall within the revised counted limit. See Solicitation Amendment N0017324R00020001.

Q2: In the personnel qualifications, C10 Physicist, second bullet for experience:

• “Minimum of three years of directly related experience in an engineering field, preferably in the RG subject area.

· This experience having been performed within the last five years.”

RG is not spelled out in the document. Can you please provide what the RG acronym stands for?

A2: Instead of RG, it should read “Electromagnetic (EM)” subject area. Attachment 4, Personnel Qualifications, has been revised to include the change. See Attachment 4, Personnel Qualifications_A0001.

Q3: In reference to Section L Volume III Factor 5 - Cost/Price Proposal Page 78, Subcontractors, please clarify that all proposed subcontractors/teaming arrangements must be included in the Staffing Approach even if filling non-key positions.

A3: Yes, all proposed subcontractors/teaming arrangements must be included in the Staffing Approach even if filling non-key positions.

Q4: In reference to Section L Volume III Factor 5 - Cost/Price Proposal Page 78, Subcontractors, is it acceptable to integrate subcontractor's sanitized cost proposals into the prime's Attachment 6, or are separate/individual files required for each sub?

A4: It is acceptable to integrate subcontractor’s sanitized cost proposals into the prime’s Attachment 6.

Q5: In reference to Page 73, Paragraph 2, Page 73, Cost/Price Proposal, Paragraph 4, Page 88, Factor 3 - Staffing and Personnel Qualifications, Paragraph 3, please clarify if subcontractors with T&M/FFP subcontracts must submit unsanitized cost proposals.

A5: Only subcontractors with cost reimbursement type proposals must submit unsanitized cost proposals directly to the Government POCs identified in Section L-3.