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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS – 12 SEPTEMBER 2014

QUESTION 1: Should Tables L-3 and L-4 be referenced instead of Tables L-1 and L-2?

ANSWER 1: L-2 IS NOT REFERENCED IN THIS PARAGRAPH. THE REFERENCE TO L-1 SHOULD BE L-3.

QUESTION 2: The following GFI items: LCS Human Systems Integration Plan (HSIP) 20 December 2013 and LCS Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP) 10 April 2013 were not provided with the GFI DVD. Was this omission intentional?

ANSWER 2: AT THE TIME OF SOLICITATION, THESE DOCUMENTS DID NOT HAVE THE APPROPRIATE DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT FOR RELEASE WITH THE RFP. THESE DOCUMENTS CAN NOW BE MADE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST, PURSUANT TO THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS:

Approval is granted for LIMITED RELEASE of the following PMS 420 technical data as government furnished information (GFI) to U.S. DoD offerors:

a. Human Systems Integration Plan for the Littoral Combat Ship Mission Modules Program of 20 Dec 13

b. Littoral Combat Ships Mission Modules Program - ACAT IC Life Cycle Sustainment Plan of 10 Apr 13 Authorization for release of this GFI to non U.S. DoD offerors requires a case by case review by PEO LCS/PMS 501 and a valid international traffic in arms regulation compliant technology assistance agreement to be in place.

QUESTION 3: Escort Mission Module Baseline Component Weights, the weight of the cofferdam is given as 0.6 MT, this is a reduction from 3.6 MT defined in the same table published in the White Paper GFI, is the reduction intentional or a typo and the table should read 3.6 MT for this item?

ANSWER 3: THE WEIGHT OF THE COFFERDAM IS 0.6 MT.

QUESTION 4: All documents, spreadsheets, databases, or other data submitted must be compatible with Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Project 2007, and Adobe Acrobat 9. Would it be acceptable to submit documents in MS Office 2010?

ANSWER 4: MICROSOFT OFFICE 2010 AND MICROSOFT PROJECT 2010 ARE ACCEPTABLE.

QUESTION 5: Proposals are due by 1400 on October 13, 2014. This is a government holiday. Will there be personnel present on this day to receipt the proposal?

ANSWER 5: THE PROPOSAL DUE DATE/DATE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO 14 OCTOBER 2014 AT 1400.

QUESTION 6: May BOEs and applicable supporting documents that are required for subcontractor costs be submitted directly to the Government by the subcontractor?

ANSWER 6: THIS INFORMATION SHALL BE SUBMITTED WITH THE PRIME OFFEROR’S PROPOSAL.

Question 7 Document Name/Date: RFP 8/14/14 Page: N/A Section: Attachment 1, CDRLs Question: CDRLs F018 - F028 Reference Section SOW paragraph 3.4.6, which does not exist. Please confirm that the paragraph following SOW paragraph 3.4.5.5 beginning with "Technical Data Package (TDP)" is paragraph 3.4.6

ANSWER 7: CORRECT AS STATED.

Question 8 Document Name/Date: RFP 8/14/14 Page: N/A Section: Attachment 1, CDRLs Question: CDRL G001 references SOW paragraph 3.8, which does not exist. Please confirm that the paragraph following SOW paragraph 3.7 beginning with "If option 9003 is exercised…" is paragraph 3.8

ANSWER 8: CORRECT AS STATED.

QUESTION 9

Document Name: RFP

A) One set of all equipment required to install and operate the Technology on an LCS-1 configuration ship.

B) One set of all equipment required to install and operate the Technology on an LCS-1 configuration ship, plus the unique materials required to install and operate the Technology on an LCS-2 configuration ship.

C) One set of all equipment required to install and operate the Technology on an LCS-1 configuration ship, plus the all of the equipment required to simultaneously install and operate the technology on an LCS -2 configuration ship (i.e. two shipsets, one for LCS-1 and one for LCS-2) Will the government specify the configuration required for the Assessment (EDM) unit?

ANSWER 9: THE CONFIGURATION REQUIRED FOR ASSESSMENT SHOULD SUPPORT INSTALLATION AND OPERATION ON EITHER LCS VARIANT.

QUESTION 10

A) One set of all equipment required to install and operate the Technology on an LCS-1 configuration ship.

B) One set of all equipment required to install and operate the Technology on an LCS-1 configuration ship, plus the unique materials required to install and operate the Technology on an LCS-2 configuration ship.

C) One set of all equipment required to install and operate the Technology on an LCS-1 configuration ship, plus the all of the equipment required to simultaneously install and operate the technology on an LCS -2 configuration ship (i.e. two shipsets, one for LCS-1 and one for LCS-2) Will the government specify the configuration required for the production units?

ANSWER 10: THE CONFIGURATION REQUIRED FOR PRODUCTION UNITS SHOULD SUPPORT INSTALLATION AND OPERATION ON EITHER LCS VARIANT.

QUESTION 11

ANSWER 11: THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT PROVIDE DATA, REPORTS OR LESSONS LEARNED UNTIL AFTER AWARD.

QUESTION 12

ANSWER 12: YES.

QUESTION 13

Does this SRVM count towards the page limit for Proposal Volume 2?

ANSWER 13: THE SRVM COUNTS TOWARDS PAGE LIMIT, HOWEVER IT IS ONLY NECESSARY TO INCLUDE SRVM ENTRIES FOR THE SPECIFIED SEMP AND PEMP PARAMETERS.

Question #14 Document Name/Date: RFP 8/14/14 Page: 158-161 Section M Question: Section M identifies that offerors will be evaluated on Technical Merit, and defines a "Strength" (Section M 1.3.1) as an "aspect of an Offeror's proposal that has merit or exceeds specified performance or capacity requirements in a way that will be advantageous to the Government. However, Section 1.3.2 defines "Outstanding" as "Proposal meets requirements and indicates an exceptional approach and understanding of the requirements." Further, Section M 2.0 Evaluation Factors for Award States under Factor 2, Subfactor 1 that the Government will evaluate "How much improvement is being obtained for the PEMP."

All else being equal, will offerors whose technical approach exceeds the PEMP objective requirement receive higher Technical Approach scores than offeror's whose proposals do not?

ANSWER 14: A RATING OF GREATER THAN “ACCEPTABLE” WOULD INVOLVE EXCEEDING MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS/APPROACH.

Question #15 Document Name/Date: RFP 8/14/14 Page: N/A Section Attachment 1 CDRLs Question: CDRL G001 References CLIN 9002, which is to be exercised per Section I NLT 60 MAC, and is a redelivery of CDRL's previously delivered during earlier phases of the contract. The DID for CDRL G001 states that the Date of First Submission is "Deliver with TDP, 180 days after completion of 1st Unit Delivery and updated 60 days after each 1st delivery in production option build if options is exercised. If exercised, is the GPR Option, CLINs 9001 - 9003 to be delivered with each production year, or delivered once with the exercise of the final production option?

ANSWER 15: If Option 9001-9003 is exercised, then subsequent production TDP deliveries would include the same data as it did previously but the restrictive markings will have been removed or modified.

Question #16 Document Name/Date: RFP 8/14/14 Page: N/A Section Attachment 1 CDRLs Question: CDRL G001 cites only Product Drawings/Models and Associated Lists, Drawing Updates, but does not cite any of the other CDRLS listed in SOW section 3. Please clarify by CDRL number(s) which specific CDRLs are expected to be re-delivered with the exercise of CLINs 9001 and/or 9003?

ANSWER 16: For convenience, only a single data deliverable was created, Item G001, to be associated with CLIN 9003 and 9001. The Contractor shall assemble any or all drawings of the TDP for re-delivery under this single deliverable item. Examples of the data components include interface specifications, software code, product drawings, or assembly instructions or other data.

QUESTION 17

Section L 1.4 (second paragraph below the table) states "Every paragraph, figure, and table shall be numbered; paragraphs within sections do not need to be numbered". Is it the Government's intent to state that "Every section, figure and table shall be numbered"?

ANSWER 17: EVERY FIGURE AND TABLE SHALL BE NUMBERED. SECTIONS WITHIN PARAGRAPHS DO NOT NEED TO BE NUMBERED.

QUESTION 18

Cost/Price Volume: Is it acceptable to include 11'' X 17" foldouts in the Cost/Price Volume?

ANSWER 18: FOLDOUTS SHALL BE USED ONLY WHEN NEEDED. EACH FOLDOUT SHALL CONTAIN PRINTED MATERIAL ON ONLY ONE SIDE OF THE FOLDOUT. FOLDOUT PAGES SHALL FOLD ENTIRELY WITHIN THE PARTICULAR VOLUME. FOLDOUTS SHALL FOLD FROM LEFT TO RIGHT (SIDEWAYS), SHALL NOT EXCEED 11” IN HEIGHT AND SHALL NOT EXCEED THREE (3) FOLDS.

QUESTION 19

Tables L-1 and L-2: -Does the Government expect hours for "Major Subcontractors", as defined is RFP Section 3.2.14 (10% of total contract price or $700,000 per year, whichever is less), to be included in Tables L-1 and L-2 in the Technical Volume?

ANSWER 19: YES.

QUESTION 20

Section L 3.2.4 requests Table L-2 for the CPFF CLIN's 2001, 4001, 4003 and 4005. Should the reference to Table L-2 be Table L-5, since the title of Table L-5 is "Cost Summary, CPFF CLINs"? In Section L 2.5.3, Table L-2 is entitled "Cost Summary by CWBS (CPIF CLINs)" and appears to be for the CPIF CLIN's 1001 and 1002. Should Table L-2 also be included in Section L 3.2.2 along with Table L-1?

ANSWER 20: REFERENCES TO TABLE L-2 SHOULD BE TABLE L-5 IN L 3.2.4. REFERENCES SHOULD BE TO TABLE L-3 IN L 3.2.2.

QUESTION 21

Section L 3.3.2.2 - CLIN's 2001, 4001, 4003 and 4005 are set at a defined number of labor hours to be proposed with no Bill of Material being proposed in these specific CLIN's (all ODCs under separate CLINs) . Can the Government provide clarification on the supporting cost data required in Section 3.3.2.2 for these specific CLINs (2001, 4001, 4003 and 4005)?

ANSWER 21: THE OFFEROR SHALL PROVIDE ONE BILL OF MATERIAL AND ONE BOE FOR EACH CLIN IN ACCORDANCE WITH L 3.3.2.2.

QUESTION 22

Document Name/Date: RFP 8/14/14 Page: 120 Section L Initial Question: Section L paragraph 2.5.3 requires the offeror to "include a chart showing personnel loading by skill category over time for this program". Does the Government want the offeror to use the maximum quantity for stepladder CLINs for developing this chart?

ANSWER 22A: CLINS 1001 AND 1002 DO NOT INCLUDE STEPLADDER QUANTITIES. PLEASE CLARIFY.

Clarification: Offeror reference should have been page 129. Section L paragraph 2.5.3 does not state that it is applicable to only CLINS 1001 and 1002, therefore the assumption is that it applies to all CLINs. Can the government please clarify the applicability of this section?

ANSWER 22B: THIS SECTION APPLIES TO ALL CPIF AND CPFF CLINS.

Question 23

Page: 52 Section C 3.5 and Section F Question: Section C 3.5 RTI TECHNOLOGY SUSTAINMENT AND SUPPORT PRODUCTS (FFP Option, Applicable to CLINs 3001 - 3002) C 3.5.1 States: The Contractor shall:

a) Provide integrated logistics support (ILS) throughout the duration of the contract;

b) Analyze Fleet problems and failures to provide engineering and logistic solutions

The Government is requesting the offeror to bid ILS throughout the duration of the contract, including analysis of fleet problems and failures under this FFP CLIN, which has a period of performance of 12 months (as stated in Section F), during which only the Test Article is fielded. Please clarify the FFP scope desired under the cited paragraphs a) and b), and specifically, the conflict between paragraph C 3.5.1 (a) period of performance “duration of the contract”, and the POP for CLIN 3001 as stated in Section F.

ANSWER 23: There is a discrepancy in the RFP. Items a and b of section C 3.5 should not be in the FFP scope. The following updates / revisions apply:

Section C 3.4 Reads:

"3.4 FIELDING (RTI Phase IV, FFP OPTIONS) (Applicable to CLINs 3001-3002, 5001-5003, 6001-6003 and 7001-7003)."

Should read:

"3.4 FIELDING (RTI Phase IV, FFP OPTIONS) (Applicable to CLINs 5001-5003, 6001-6003 and 7001-7003)."

Section C 3.5 Reads:

"3.5 RTI TECHNOLOGY SUSTAINMENT AND SUPPORT PRODUCTS (FFP Option, Applicable to CLINs 3001 - 3002)" Is correct and should remain as-is. This is a FFP CLIN, and once the delivered products are approved they have completed the requirements.

3.5.1, Items (a) And (b) are hereby deleted. The revised paragraph shall read as:

"3.5.1 Sustainment and Operational Support Products The Contractor shall develop logistics support and sustainment products to cost effectively support the RTI technology and achieve the warfighters’ peacetime and wartime readiness requirements. The Contractor shall ensure that the system can be cost effectively supported through its life‐cycle, and that the infrastructure elements necessary to the initial fielding and operational support of the system are developed and delivered.

The Contractor shall:

Question 24

Page: 65 Section C Question: Section C, Clause HQ C-2-0037 ORGANIZATIONAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST (NAVSEA) (JUL 2000) Paragraph (e) states that " during the performance of this contract and for a period of three years after completion of performance of this contract, the Contractor....shall not furnish to the United States Government, either as a prime contractor or as a subcontractor, or as a consultant to a prime contractor or subcontractor, any system, component or services which is the subject of the work to be performed under this contract. This exclusion does not apply to any recompetition for those systems, components or services furnished pursuant to this contract."

Please provide the authority for this three year restriction on any system, component or service which is the subject of the work to be performed. Can you please clarify the applicability of this clause, and specifically the intent of paragraph (e) regarding the offeror's ability to provide systems, components or services which are the subject of the work to be performed under the contract to the government for a period of three years after completion of the contract? For example, does this restriction apply to any systems, components or services previously developed or previously sold or offered for sale by the bidding party and planned to be included by the bidding party in the work to be performed under this contract?

ANSWER 24: THIS CLAUSE HAS BEEN DELETED.

Question 25 Document Name/Date: RFP 8/14/14 Page: 36 Section C Question: Section C 3.2.3 Work Instructions (WIs) states the Contractor shall develop, update, and deliver WIs based on their internal fabrication processes. The DID cited in CDRL B020 for Work Instructions is for "Proposed Critical Manufacturing Process Description", and requires the data delivery to provide an explanation as to why the process should be considered critical or mandatory to the manufacture of the item or part. There is a separate CDRL (F022/F027) for ”Proposed Critical Manufacturing Process Description" which cites the same DID. It is unclear what additional Work Instructions the Government is requesting in CDRL B020.

Please clarify the requirements for CDRL B020, Work Instructions.

ANSWER 25: The title of the two CDRL items should match. Block 2 of CDRL Item B020 should read "Proposed Critical Manufacturing Process Description". Both of these items shall provide the identification of critical manufacturing process drawings, at the engineering phase and manufacturing phase, although the actual work instructions themselves are delivered with the Developmental Drawings (B013) or Product Drawings (F018) data deliveries."

Question 26

Page: 75, 129 and 164 Sections F, L 2.5.2 and M Factor 5 Question: Section F table labeled "DESIRED DELIVERY SCHEDULE" lists CLIN 0001 (Phase I) at "Not to exceed 5 months after award" and CLIN 1001 - 1004 (Phase II) at "Not to exceed 22 months after option exercise". If CLIN 1001 - 1004 immediately follow completion of CLIN 0001, the shortest not to exceed duration would be 27 months (5 months plus 22 months) or 2 years and 3 months. The same CLINs listed in Section F table labeled "REQUIRED DELIVERY SCHEDULE" provides 38 months (8 months plus 30 months) or 3 years and 2 months to complete those CLINs sequentially.

Section L 2.5.2 Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) states that "The IMS should clearly show how the project scope is phased to meet the RTI requirements of completed testing within 2 years of initial award, ....". Further, Section M Factor 5 Subfactor 2 states "How well the IMS meets RTI project schedule goals, with completed testing within 2 years of initial award,".

Please address the inconsistency between Sections F delivery schedule (27months through 38 months) and the Section L IMS requirement and Section M IMS evaluation criteria (2 years).

ANSWER 26: SECTION L AND M INTEGRATED MASTER SCHEDULE REQUIREMENTS ARE INCORRECTLY STATED (PARAGRAPHS L 2.5.2 AND SECTION M FACTOR 5 SUBFACTOR 2 RESPECTIVELY). THE GOVERNMENTS GOAL IS FOR COMPLETION OF TESTING WITHIN 27 MONTHS NOT 2 YEARS.

Question 27

Pages: 17 and 137 Sections B and L 3.2.2 Question: Note D of Section B specifies the "Maximum Fee of up to 8% of Target Cost". Further, Section L 3.2.2 states "For the Cost Plus Incentive Fee contract lines, the Offeror shall propose a minimum fee of 0 and a maximum fee of no more than 8%." Is it the government's intention that this be the true "maximum fee" after all cost sharing is calculated or does the government intend for the contractor to bid a maximum "target fee" fee of 8%? If the later is the case, is there a "maximum fee" and if so what is it?

ANSWER 27: THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PROPOSE A MAXIMUM FEE OF NO MORE THAN 8%.

Question 28 Document Name/Date: RFP Attachment 4: Performance Incentive Plan for the PEO LCS RTI Program Option 1 (Phase 2 Scope) dated 8/8/14 Page: 8 Question: The incentive fee graphics contained In Attachment 4 indicate that there is no financial incentive to exceed the schedule or objective technical requirements. Is it the government's intention to offer no financial incentive to exceed an objective requirement (for example reduce to weight beyond the 25% objective target) which may have significant overall benefit to the LCS as a whole?

ANSWER 28: REDUCING WEIGHT WOULD BE AN INSTANCE OF PEMP AT OR BELOW OBJECTIVE. SEE CASE #1.