RFP_QUESTIONS_AND_ANSWERS_27_August.docx

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

1. RFP Section L 1.3, Page 136, Small Business Subcontracting Plan: If the Offeror participates in the DoD Test Program prescribed under DFARS 219.708(b)(1)(B), will submittal of its Comprehensive Small Business Subcontracting Plan satisfy this requirement? If so, will the test program clauses be substituted for the standard clauses in the final contract award document?

ANSWER: YES. 252.219-7004 WOULD BE ADDED TO THE CONTRACT.

2. RFP Section L 2.6: Past Performance: The RFP states that “Offerors that do not have at least three (3) projects listed in CPARS shall provide Past Performance Questionnaires to their customers for completion for up to five contracts…” Should the offeror (or a qualifying subcontractor) only have 1 or 2 CPARS rated relevant contracts, may the Offeror submit the CPARS references for evaluation as well as Past Performance Questionnaires for non CPAR contracts and will both the CPAR references and the Past Performance Questionnaire references be considered as long as the total references are five (5) or less? Or will the Offeror need to also provide Past Performance Questionnaires for the relevant CPAR to customers as well as the non CPAR customers?

ANSWER: BOTH THE CPARS AND PAST PERFORMANCE QUESTIONNAIRES WILL BE EVALUATED. AN OFFEROR NEED NOT PROVIDE A PAST PERFORMANCE QUESTIONNAIRE FOR THE SAME CONTRACT IN CPARS.

3. RFP Section L 2.6: Past Performance: If utilizing Past Performance Evaluations using CPARS, it states in (b) that the pages will not be counted against the proposal page count. If past performance references are submitted by subcontractors utilizing CPARS, as stated in (c), will those pages be counted against the proposal page count?

ANSWER: NO.

4. RFP Section L 2.6: Past Performance: For the Past Performance Questionnaire section, Paragraph 3, Offerors questionnaire pages will not be counted against the proposal page count. For Paragraph 4, are Past Performance Questionnaires submitted by subcontractors counted in the total page count of the proposal?

ANSWER: NO

5. RFP Section L 2.6: Past Performance: Past Performance Questionnaire section, Paragraph 1, states that contracts are required to be within the past 5 years. Paragraph 3 states to utilize relevant experience within the past 3 years. Please clarify if the requirement is for 3 or 5 years.

ANSWER: 3 YEARS.

6. RFP Section L 2.6: Past Performance: For subcontractor Past Performance Questionnaire Part IV submissions by customers, should these also be submitted directly to Melissa Ardis as well as Offeror Part IV submittals?

ANSWER: PLEASE NOTE A CHANGE IN ALL PAST PERFORMANCE QUESTIONNAIRE SUBMISSIONS. SUBMISSIONS SHALL NOW BE MADE TO ANDREW NAGELHOUT AT andrew.c.nagelhout@navy.mil.

7. RFP, Section L 3.3.5: Should subcontractor proposals contain proprietary financial rate data which cannot be disclosed to the Offeror, may they submit their proprietary data packages directly to the Government or must these sealed packages be submitted by the Offeror with its proposal submission?

ANSWER: SUBCONTRACTORS SHALL SUBMIT SANITIZED COST DATA TO THE PRIME OFFERORS AND SHALL SUBMIT PROPRIETARY COST DATA DIRECTLY TO THE GOVERNMENT.

8. RFP Section M 2.4.1.2 – Evaluation for Engineering Services of the CPFF CLIN’s: Should the reference to Table L-2 be Table L-5? Table L-2 appears to relate to CPIF CLINs.

ANSWER: YES.

9. RFP Section M 2.4.1.6 – Evaluation for Data Rights Options: When evaluating the price including CLIN 9001, what will be added if the Offeror provides a price for CLIN 9003 but not 9001? Will the evaluated price be adjusted by 2% of the value of the max production quantity in the GTEP for CLIN 9001? Also, is the max production quantity equal to 22 (6+8+8) or is it based upon the predetermined quantity that is not disclosed to Offerors.

ANSWER: THE EVALUATED PRICE WILL BE ADJUSTED BY 2% OF THE VALUE OF THE MAX PRODUCTION QUANTITY IN THE GTEP FOR CLIN 9001. THE MAXIMUM QUANTITY WILL BE DETERMINED BASED UPON THE PREDETERMINED UNDISCLOSED QUANTITY USED FOR EVALUATION.