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NEW QUESTIONS
| Question # | Document Description | Page # | Section/ Paragraph | Question/Comment | Proposed Action/Change | Government Response |
| 19 | Section C | Pg. 345-346 | The government's response to question #2 in amendment 0001, states paragraph 5.10 applies to FFP installation CLINs 0019 to 0025. Paragraph 5.10 doesn't reference activities associated with installation services or support. Section 5.10 is entitled Equipment Refurbishment and Assemble/Component Repair. Please clarify. | The FFP CLINs are applicable only to the ORDALT Kit and Spare Parts procurements identified in Section C Paragraph 5.9.5 and to the ORDALT installation services of ORDALT Kits identified Section C Paragraph 5.9.5 and called out in Section C Paragraph 5.11. | ||
| 20 | Section C | Pg. 345-346 | The government's response to question #2 in amendment 0001, states paragraph 5.10 applies to FFP installation CLINs 0019 to 0025. What SOW paragraphs apply to the other FFP installation CLINS 0016-0024? | Refer to the answer to question #19 | ||
| 21 | Section C | Pg. 345-346 | Multiple subsections of section 5.11 cannot be priced as FFP with the information provided due to the undefined nature of the requirement. For example, section 5.11.1, 5.11.2, 5.11.4, states Contractor shall provide various services, but no estimate for frequency, duration, or location of these services have been provided. Sections 5.11.6 and 5.11.7 involves efforts well in advance and after specific install dates and due to negotiation and coordination involved in completing the activities is difficult to precisely define the work scope for FFP. Please clarify if sections 5.11.3, 5.11.5, 5.11.8 and 5.11.9 are applicable to FFP CLINS 0016-0025, due to their specific relevance to clear and defined installation activities. Please clarify if the other sections of 5.11 apply to CPFF CLINS, due to the need to perform this work prior to or after installation date and/or the varied and boundless nature of this work. | Refer to the answer to question #19 | ||
| 22 | RFP | All | Request use of 10 pt minium font for all figure captions | Minimum of 10 pt font required for all figure captions. | ||
| 23 | Section 9.0 and Section 10.2 | Pg. 468-471 | [Per FAR 52.244-2, “Subcontract” means any contract, as defined in FAR subpart 2.1, entered into by a subcontractor to furnish supplies or services for performance of the prime contract or a subcontract. It includes, but is not limited to, purchase orders, and changes and modifications to purchase orders.] However, contractors typically differentiate between suppliers/vendors managed by "purchase orders" and subcontractors managed by "teaming agreements" and "subcontracting agreements". Please clarify use of the term "subcontractors" for this solicitation as it relates to the requirement to provide Past Performance and Cost data for subcontractors greater than or equal to 10%. Please note that suppliers/vendors managed by "purchase orders" are not typically prepared to compile and submit requested data efficiently, if at all. | We do not intend to alter the definition provided in the FAR. | ||
| 24 | RFP, Section L | pg. 463 Section L, 2.3, D | Please confirm that the offeror is not required to complete the entire Solicitation and incorporate into Volume 4 as part of our submittal. | The offeror is not required to complete the entire solicitation and incorporate into Volume 4. For more details, please see Section L, 2.3, D, ii, iii, and iv. | ||
| 25 | attachment J-S-1 Price Cost Template | attachment J-S-1 Price Cost Template | Tabs CLINs 0006-0010, CLINs 0011-0015, and CLINs 0031-0047 are for stepladder pricing CLINS. On those tabs, Column A lists the stepladder quantity bands, Column B requires unit price and Column D an amount, should we assume the higher or lower quantity band of the stepladder in the calculation for the column D amount? | Please ensure the correct J-S-1 attachment is being used. There was a revised version published with amendment 0002. In column D, please use the highest quantity for the amount total. Further, under total estimated cost, please use the highest stepladder quantity. | ||
| 26 | Section C | pg. 183 | It is clarified that the Table of Contents does not count toward page limit, does this also include Cross Reference matrix? | The cross reference matrix does not count toward page limit. Title pages, cover letters, tabs, index pages, glossaries, list of figures, and table of contents are the only things that do not count towards the page limit. Everything else will count toward the page limit. | ||
| 27 | Extension | STANDARD FORM 33 | DRS request an extension from 03 JAN 20 to 17 JAN 20. The purpose of this extension is to allow the government ample time to answer the bidders questions. ). We anticipate needing additional time to process the government’s responses and incorporate into our proposal. | The receipt of offers has been extended to 17 January 2020. |
ANSWERED QUESTIONS
| Question # | Document Description | Page # | Section/ Paragraph | Question/Comment | Proposed Action/Change | Government Response | |
| 1 | Solicitation | 80 | Section 3, paragraph 3 | This section directs the Contractor to manufacture, test, and deliver the ORDALT Kits in | |||
| accordance with the applicable Technical Data Package (TDP) and associated GFI provided under this contract. DOD Safe is not working thus the USG has to send out CDs to offerors which is delaying review and quoting. Many manufacturing facilities and OEMs shut down in December making it extremely difficult to obtain material quotes. This gives an advantage to the incumbent(s) currently building these systems. | Request RFP due date be extended into 2020 to allow offerors ample time to review, ask questions and obtain quotes and ensure fair and equal competition between all offerors and reduces the risk to the government of providing an unfair advantage to the incumbent. | The proposal due date has been extended to 3 January 2020. | |||||
| 2 | Solicitation | 83-91 | Section C | Can the Government clarify which paragraphs are applicable to the FFP CLINs and which are applicable to the Engineering Services CLINs? For example, Section 5.3 requires Obsolescence Management and Reporting. Will the government fund this under the engineering services CLIN on a continuing basis? | Please provide CLIN identification next to paragraph headings to clarify the tasks which will be funded under engineering services and which tasks should be priced into the FFP CLINs. | The following paragraphs are related to OA Kits and spared parts with FFP Components identified in respective CLINs. |
Paragraphs 5.9.5 for the OA Kits. CLINs 0006 to 0015.
Paragraphs 5.9.5 for the Spare parts. CLINs 0031 to 0047 Paragraph 5.10.2 for cost to repair of the spare parts identified under paragraph 5.9.5. CLINs 0031 to 0042 Paragraphs 5.10, labor for OA Kit installation for the OA Kits identified in paragraph 5.9.5. CLINs 0019 to 0025
| 3 | Solicitation | 83 | Section C, 5.1.12 | This paragraph states, "In conjunction with the COR and Contracting Officer, the Contractor shall assign standard eCRAFT labor categories to each existing proposed and executed labor category on the Task Order/Contract." | Please clarify if this statement means that after award other labor categories not identified in the RFP may be used that are still compliant with eCRAFT? | The solicitation has been amended to delete SOW paragraph 5.1.12. The applicable eCRAFT labor categories are identified in Attachment J-S-1. |
| 4 | Solicitation | 86 | Section C, 5.5.2 | This paragraph directs the contractor to "review field failure date from sites, shipyards, and the fleet…" However, there is no provision in the RFP for the USG to provide this data to the Contractor. | Please clarify the USGs plan for collecting and reporting this information to the Contractor | USG will provide failure data to support tasking related to failure and trend analysis by the contractor. |
| 5 | Solicitation | 86 | Section C, 5.6.1 | This paragraph indicates the Contractor will provide services to test, evaluate, and qualify INCO spares. However, the procurement of material for INCO Spares are not listed as a CLIN so it is unclear how this material will be provided to the Contractor, nor is there a listing of what comprises the INCO spares kit. | Please clarify how INCO spares will be provided to the Contractor as well as an INCO Spares kit listing. | INCO Spares, if requried will be procured under the Spare Parts CLIN (CLINs 0006 to 0015)and will be made available to the ORDALT Kit installing activity. |
| 6 | Solicitation | 87 | Section C, 5.7.1 | A host of products and activities are listed which are elements of Integrated Logistics Support (ILS). However, the RFP does not establish an ILS program as is typically required to support the ISEA. The Labor Categories and Annual Hours table do not list the personnel required to perform these activities. | Please clarify if the requirement for this contract is only for maintenance and update of existing documents, or will new development efforts be required and if required, specify requirements | The requirement for this contract is for maintenance and update of existing documents to sustain the CDS current configuration. Obsolescense issues will drive changes and require technical refresh to the existing configuration leading to the development of change packages or ORDALT Kits with associated ILS products, including creating of new ILS products and updates to the existing ILS products. |
| 7 | Solicitation | 183 | Section L, 7.1.1 k. | This paragraph directs the offeror to describe the approach to providing Distance Support. Section C does not provide any detailed discussion of Distance Support so it is left to the offeror to determine the level of effort and organization which will fulfill the USG expectation. This lack of direction could lead one offeror to describe a very basic and simple approach and another to describe something much more complex. Both may be valid responses but significantly different. | Please clarify what the USG's goals and requirements are for distance support in order to maintain an equal and competitive response between all offerors | Section C, Paragraphs 5.11 describes Field Services related activities, including distance support. |
| 8 | Solicitation | 194 | L-215-H007 (b) | This section states the deadline for receipt of questions is 10 calendar days after issuance of the solicitation. Although every effort will be made, the Government makes no guarantee that questions received after the date above will be answered. The 10 day period will pass prior to offerors receipt of the TDP. | Request period for asking questions be extended 15 business days past the receipt of the TDP package in order to allow time for adequate and responsible review of the TDP and ensure all offerors receive the information necessary to ensure a fair and equitable competition through this RFP process | L-215-H007(b) has been changed from "10 calendar days after issuance of the solicitation" to "16 December 2019." |
| 9 | Section B | Pages 2-74 | For the Holding SLINs ITEM NO 0001AA, 0002AA, 0003AA, 0004AA, 0005AA, 0026AA, 0027AA, 0028A, 0029AA, 0030AA, and 9998AA, what value should the offeror place into the AMOUNT field? Should the corresponding CLIN and holding CLIN be the same value, or should one hold the value of the CLIN and the other be 0. Please confirm approach offeror should employ for entering data in Section B CLIN and corresponding Holding CLIN AMOUNT fields. | The offerors shall input the proposed price into the Amount field for the priced holding SLIN and $0 for the corresponding informational CLIN. For example, the value of CLIN 0001 should be $0 and the value of SLIN 0001AA should be the proposed price. | ||
| 10 | Section J | Summary Total FFP | In Section J, Price-Cost Template, tab Summary Total FFP there are two columns, Total Estimated Cost (column B) and Total FFP (column C). Assuming the values from worksheet tabs associated with CLINs 0006-0047 are transferred into the corresponding Total Estimated Cost cells (column B), what values or calculations are entered into the corresponding Total FFP cells (column C)? | The "Total FFP" should only have one cell that reflects the total of all of the FFP CLINs. A revised Price-Cost Template has been added to the solicitation to make this more clear. | ||
| 11 | Section C | Para. 5.8 | Will the government provide Government-Furnished Equipment (GFE) as required to test and validate Production Acceptance Testing (PAT) procedure upgrades and other software maintenance activities associated with SOW Section 5.8? | Government will provide the GFE/GFI as identified in an attachment in Section J of the RFP | ||
| 12 | Section C | Para. 5.9 | What throughput per month should offeror be prepared to support? | The Offeror shall be capable of producing up to sixty (60) ORDALT Kits per month not to exceed six (6) months from modification execution if units are subject to first article requirements or three (3) months from modification execution if units are not subject to first article requirements. | ||
| 13 | Section C | Para. 5.11 | How many installs per year is anticipated for base year and option years? | It is anticipated that there will be five (5) installs in the base year and twenty (20) installs in each of the option years. | ||
| 14 | Section C | Pg. 103-104 C-237-H002 | Please clarify the requirements for Key Personnel. Section J does not include the list of Key Personnel. | There are no Key Personnel required for this RFP. C-237-H002 has been removed from the RFP. | ||
| 15 | Sec L | Pg. 183 | It is clarified that the Table of Contents does not count toward page limit, does this also include the List of Figures? | The Table of Contents and List of Figures are excluded from the page limitation. | ||
| 16 | Sec B | Pgs 62-73 | CLINs 31-47 for all of the spare deliverable items do not reference required pricing for a base year and then 4 option years like the RCEM and LCEM ordalt kits. Should the offerer provide pricing across 5 years for these CLINs? | The solicitation has been amended to add base and option year pricing for all of the supply CLINs. | ||
| 17 | Section C | Pg. 85, 97, CDRL A057, SOW Reference Paragraph Number 5.1.11 & 5.1.12 | The government states SOW Reference Paragraph Number 5.1.11 & 5.1.12 is associated with CDRL A057. However both decriptions are marked as "RESERVED" on page 85. Please provide the offeror with a complete description of this requirement. | The solicitation has been amended to replace applicable references to SOW 5.1.11 and 5.1.12 with C-237-W001. | ||
| 18 | Section C | Pg. 91, 92, SOW Reference Paragraph Number 5.11.1 thru 5.11.9 | Can the Government clarify which paragraphs are applicable to the ORDALT Installation (Labor Only) FFP CLINs (CLINs 16 thru 25) and which are applicable to the Engineering Services CLINs? | This question has already been addressed in the first round of questions. Please see tab two of this document titled "ANSWERED QUESTIONS" and refer to question #2. |
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