Additional Business Proposal Instructions.pdf

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ATTACHMENT 5: ADDITIONAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL INSTRUCTIONS

AND UNIFORM COST ASSUMPTIONS

Evaluation and Testing Services (ETS) for Vaccines and Other Biologics for Infectious Diseases

RFP-NIAID-DMID-NIHAI2010092

In addition to the format requirements for the Business Proposal that are contained in Section L of the solicitation, the information presented in this section of the RFP is intended to provide uniform cost assumptions and business clarifications.

Offerors are advised to give careful consideration to the Statement of Work, all reference material provided as attachments, the Technical Evaluation Criteria, and, the RFP as a whole, in the development of your proposal. The information requested in these instructions should be used as a guide for the development and formatting of your Business Proposal.

Offerors should consider and include the information requested here, as well as any other information which will benefit the proposal.

BUSINESS PROPOSAL – TABLE OF CONTENTS

SECTION 1 – PROPOSAL COVER SHEET (use form NIH 2043 identified in Section J)

SECTION 2 – COST OR PRICE SUPPORT

Section L of the RFP specifies the minimum documentation requirements for cost data and all cost related support. All related documentation should be included in the proposal in a clearly marked section.

SECTION 3 – UNIFORM COST ASSUMPTIONS

1) Technical Cost Assumptions

A. Contract Value

This contract will have a Minimum Guaranteed Award of $10,000 and a Maximum Potential Value of $138,456,608. The Maximum Potential Value is not guaranteed, but represents the potential for additional funding through task order awards under the contract during the ordering period, up to the Maximum Potential Value.

B. Estimation of Activities

The list below represents the estimated number of specific tasks and an average

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This list is provided to indicate the general activities of this contract.

Assume that the period of performance of task orders may range from less than one year to multiple years.

Task Area

Title Estimated

No. of Awards/year

Administrative, Management, and Technical Support Activities – Sample Task Order 1 1

2 Assay Development – Sample Task Order 2 7 3 Immunogenicity & Efficacy– Sample Task Order 3 1.5 4 Clinical Sample Analysis – Sample Task Order 4 1 5 Safety and Toxicity Testing – Sample Order 5 5

C. Cost Proposal for Task Order #1

Immediately upon award of the basic contract, NIAID anticipates issuing a single Task Order for Task Area 1 – Administrative, Management, and Technical Support.

The Contractor must be capable of initiating this Task Order upon award.

In the Cost Proposal section of your response to Task Order 1 [Attachment 3 – Appendix 1] Provide a detailed budget for the proposed task order using the following assumptions:

a. Options

Task Order 1 is estimated to be awarded for a Base Period of 12 months, with up to nine Options to extend for additional 12 month periods of performance. The work to be performance and required level of effort will remain the same as required under the Base Period.

b. Personnel (Level of Effort)

1) The estimated Level of Effort that is to be provided for performance of the proposed Task Order for Administrative, Management, and Technical Support is 902 total direct labor hours per year (utilizing a base work year of 1920 total productive direct labor hours). Personnel categories for this Task Order may include the following:

Labor Category Required

Hours per Year

PI/co-PI 38 Project Managers 96 Director, QA 96 Directors, Subject Matter Experts 288 Professional Support 384

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Offerors must meet the requirement for 902 total direct labor hours per year but may propose a different labor mix or labor category than is indicated here. If the offeror’s work year has a different base than the above 1920 hours, their business proposal shall identify the base year and whether it includes or excludes vacation, holiday, sick leave.

2) Subcontracting

For the purpose of responding to this RFP the offeror will not be required to have assembled potential subcontractors capable of producing all known types of vaccine and biologics testing services. The offeror will be required to present a plan for identifying current and potential subcontractors with interest and capability to support the scope of this RFP in a timeframe that enables work to start within three months of issuance of a task order.

3) Government Furnished Equipment (GFE)

The purchase of Government Furnished Equipment will not be authorized as a direct charge under this contract or any task orders.

SECTION 4 - TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR DOCUMENTATION REQUIRED UNDER

SECTION L OF THE SOLICITATION

1) Small Business Subcontracting Plan

Section L of the RFP specifies the minimum documentation requirements for completing a subcontracting plan. This plan should be turned in with the original proposal. All related documentation should be included in the proposal in a clearly marked section.

2) Extent of Small Disadvantaged Business Participation

Section L of the RFP specifies the minimum documentation requirements for small disadvantaged business utilization. This information should be turned in with the original proposal. All related documentation should be included in the proposal in a clearly marked section.

3) Past Performance Data, including references

Section L of the RFP specifies the minimum documentation requirements for providing past performance information. This information should be turned in with the original proposal. All related documentation should be included in the proposal in a clearly marked section.