NRC-HQ-11-R-33-0011 A006.pdf

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Offers must acknowledge receipt of this amendment prior to the hour and date specified in the solicitation or as amended, by one of the following methods:

The above numbered solicitation is amended as set forth in Item 14. The hour and date specified for receipt of Offers

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(a) By completing Items 8 and 15, and returning __________ copies of the amendment; (b) By acknowledging receipt of this amendment on each copy of the offer submitted; or (c) By separate letter or telegram which includes a reference to the solicitation and amendment numbers. FAILURE OF YOUR AC- KNOWLEDGMENT TO BE RECEIVED AT THE PLACE DESIGNATED FOR THE RECEIPT OF OFFERS PRIOR TO THE HOUR AND DATE SPECIFIED MAY is not extended.

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RESULT IN REJECTION OF YOUR OFFER. If by virtue of this amendment you desire to change an offer already submitted, such change may be made by telegram or letter, provided each telegram or letter makes reference to the solicitation and this amendment, and is received prior to the opening hour and date specified.

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A006 06/17/2011

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Div. of Contracts Attn:

Mail Stop: TWB-01-B10M Washington, DC 20555

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Div. of Contracts Mail Stop: TWB-01-B10M

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To all Offerors NRC-HQ-11-R-33-0011

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Pearlette Merriweather Contracting Officer

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The purpose of amendment #6 is to:

1. Notify potential Offerors that the proposal due date for functional areas FA3: Requirements and Design (full and open competition with potential for multiple awards) remains JULY 18, 2011.

2. Notify potential Offerors that functional areas (FA) 4 “Legacy Modernization and New Software Application Development” and FA5 Maintenance and Operation System are combined into one FA, the new FA4 “Legacy Modernization, New Software Application Development, and Maintenance and Operation of Modernized Systems.”

3. As a result of combining FA4 and FA5 - Amend Sections L and M as follows:

a. Delete all FA5 headers and rename FA4, “FA4 Legacy Modernization, New Software Application

Development, and Maintenance and Operation of Modernized System.”

b. Amend Section L.11 (a) Proposal Content and Page Limitations, pages L-12 - L-13 as follows:

The following table contains the page limitations for each portion of the proposal submitted in response to this solicitation. Additional instructions for each component of the proposal are located in the provision noted under the Reference heading.

Proposal Component

Volume

Page Limitations per Functional Area

Offer Documentation I No limit Technical Capability (including Executive Summary) Documentation II

35 Pages (except FA4, which is 50 pages)

Cost/Price Documentation III No limit Past Performance Information IV 10 Pages* Small Business Subcontracting Plan V No limit

Table 3: Proposal Page Limits *Includes offeror and its subcontractors.

4. The above changes in Section L.11 (a) Proposal Content and Page Limitation, pages L-12 – L-13 do not apply to FA3.

5. The modification of terms, provisions and conditions in this amendment do not apply to FA1 and FA2.

6. Delete pages L-14 – L-16 in Section L – INSTRUCTIONS, CONDITIONS, AND NOTICES TO OFFERORS;

replace with the following:

2. INSTRUCTIONS FOR VOLUME II

Volume II should have a separate tab that includes the offeror’s proposal section for each subfactor listed below.

a. Management Plan

Applies to all Functional Areas:

An “Other than small business” shall indicate how they intend to ensure compliance with the following FAR clauses: 52.244-2 and 52.244-5. If the Government determines that the other than small business offeror has not adequately addressed these FAR clause requirements, the Government may determine the offeror’s proposal to be unacceptable as a whole and not further evaluate it.

A “Small business” shall indicate how they intend to ensure compliance with FAR clauses 52.219-6, 52.244-2 and 52.244-5. If the Government determines that the small business offeror has not adequately addressed these FAR clause requirements, the Government may determine the offeror’s proposal to be unacceptable as a whole and not further evaluate it.

The offeror, regardless of whether they are an “other than small business” or a small business, shall also describe how it proposes to manage its personnel resources to meet solicitation requirements (excluding small business subcontracting plan requirements). The offeror shall include appropriate charts or tables to depict how the offeror proposes to manage its human resources and how the offeror would interact with its subcontractors. The offeror shall also indicate how the offeror plans to manage its task order negotiation and award process with the NRC contracting officer.

The offeror's management plan shall indicate the management chain of command and its integration with subcontractors, with particular reference to its contract management functions and the demonstrated ability of the offeror to escalate and resolve issues through that escalation.

Provide information on subcontracting arrangements, which includes information on the range of core competencies that each subcontractor brings to the proposal and how subcontracts would be managed.

Provide information on the offeror’s communication and transition approach, which includes communicate with other contractors across functional areas and transition functional area deliverables to subsequent awardees throughout the period of performance of this contract.

The following sections provide instructions for completing the Management Plan (Subfactor A) for each of the four functional areas.

FA1:

The FA1 offeror shall:

a) Propose its methods for capturing and reviewing with the NRC program manger the established performance metrics.

b) The NRC currently utilizes a facility within ten miles of the NRC Headquarters Building, with a dedicated high speed connection and a VPN connection established. The offeror shall provide a detailed description of its facilities, to include location (within ten mile radius of NRC Headquarters Building), dedicated connection from contractor facility to NRC, high speed network connections, VPN connection, etc.

FA2:

The FA2 offeror shall:

a) Describe how its proposed organization, development staff, management, and overhead will be decreased/changed as legacy systems are modernized and transferred to other contractors while ensuring the required testing, documentation, and quality control is maintained and keeping a highly motivated workforce.

b) Describe software development methodologies.

FA3:

The FA3 offeror shall:

a) Describe its communications plan, to include how questions concerning requirements or design from vendors in other functional areas will be addressed to ensure a successful outcome of the modernization effort.

FA4:

The FA4 offeror shall:

a) Describe its communications plan, to include how questions concerning modernization or new development from contractors in other functional areas will be addressed to ensure a successful outcome of the modernization/development effort.

b) Identify and describe its proposed methodology for development efforts to support the modernization of legacy NRC systems.

c) Describe how the offeror proposes to cross-utilize staff resources to minimize the total number of development staff while maintaining effective and timely maintenance and operations service delivery.

d) Describe how the offeror’s existing or proposed policies and training approach will ensure that offeror’s developers maintain and acquire technical capability in NRC target technologies (see Appendix F).

b. Technical Approach

The Offeror shall describe its proposed overarching technical approach to satisfy solicitation requirements. The offeror shall also indicate how it would ensure compliance with more detailed technical requirements at the task order level. Finally, the offeror shall indicate how it will ensure compliance at the task order level with the applicable standards specified in the task order performance work statement relating to statutory requirements, including but not limited to FISMA, Clinger-Cohen, and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (see www.section508.gov for more information).

a) Describe its understanding of IBM Rational tool suite including the Jazz platform in management and development of requirements design and testing documents.

b) Describe the offeror’s approach to comply with MD 2.8, Project Management Methodology.

c) Describe/propose a methodology to review requirements and evaluate alternative solutions such as COTS, Cloud, or custom development to address business needs, risks, and implementation of the 2011 Telework Act.

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d) Identify and describe offeror’s management approach and corporate policies supports maintenance and operations activities and adheres to the NRC MD 2.8, Project Management Methodology.

The FA4 offeror shall:

a) Identify and describe offeror’s understanding and solutions to iterative development such as Agile or RUP development, using formal CM processes, and maintaining appropriate technical documentation.

b) Describe offeror’s approach to flexibility, code quality and consistency, and reusability of components for use in future development.

c) Describe offeror’s approach to transition from the legacy system(s) to the modernized system(s) to ensure the modernized system is sustainable, supportable and stable.

d) Describe how the offeror’s management approach and corporate policies support maintenance and operations activities to ensure it personnel adhere to the NRC MD 2.8, Project Management Methodology.

c. Corporate Experience

The offeror shall describe the breadth and depth of its experience in performing contracts similar to solicitation requirements for the applicable functional area. The narrative shall indicate who the customers were (organization name, address, technical contact name, technical contract phone number and technical contract email address), contract/order number, period of performance, scope of work, total dollar amount of the contract, contract type. The information shall also demonstrate how that experience is relevant to the solicitation requirements. The experience may be from Federal Government contracts, State Government contracts, Local Government contracts, commercial contracts or contracts with nonprofit organizations.

In addition to the information above, offerors for each of the four functional areas shall also:

a) Address how its corporate experience service delivery methodology, policies, and business practices have enhanced its service delivery to its customers.

b) Describe its corporate experience providing operational support to the JAVA, .Net and Jazz.

c) Describe the offeror’s involvement with JAVA, .Net and Jazz communities; and its participation in standard boards or other entities to further the usage and maintainability of JAVA and .Net

d) Describe its corporate experience using Rational tools, to include tools on the Jazz platform

e) Describe its corporate experience in dealing with multiple award contracts with significant dependencies between it and other contractors.

a) Describe its corporate experience with design of solutions using Java and .Net and the tools used to develop these solutions within the Agency target TRM identified in Appendix F in the MOM

PWS.

b) Describe its corporate experience with requirements collection, analysis and design tools including, but not limited to usability tools.

c) Describe its corporate experience with developing use cases and test cases.

3. INSTRUCTIONS FOR VOLUME III

FA1:

The offeror shall complete the FA1 cost/price template (Addendum FF). The offeror shall also refer to FAR clause 52.216-31 and address how the proposed fixed hourly rate for required labor categories was determined.

FA2:

The offeror shall complete the FA2 cost/price template (Addendum FF). The offeror shall also refer to FAR clause 52.216-31 and address how the proposed fixed hourly rate for required labor categories was determined.

FA3:

The offeror shall complete the FA3 cost/price template (Addendum FF). The offeror shall also refer to FAR clause 52.216-31 and address how the proposed fixed hourly rates for required labor categories was determined. If applicable, the offeror shall submit other direct cost ODC necessary to fully support the offeror technical approach.

FA4:

The offeror shall complete the FA4 cost/price template (Addendum FF). The offeror shall also refer to FAR clause 52.216-31 and address how the proposed fixed hourly rates for required labor categories was determined. If applicable, the offeror shall submit other direct cost ODC necessary to fully support the offeror technical approach.

4. INSTRUCTIONS FOR VOLUME IV

a. PAST PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

The offeror and any proposed significant subcontractor(s) (defined as any proposed subcontractor whose performance may exceed $1 million during the potential 10 year period of performance) shall furnish information for contracts or subcontracts (completed and ongoing) for similar efforts that your organization has had within the last 3 years. Describe how the contract is similar in scope to the solicitation requirements for the applicable functional area.

7. Delete pages M-1 thru M-5 in Section M – EVALUATION FACTORS FOR AWARD and replace with the following:

M.1 52.212-2 EVALUATION--COMMERCIAL ITEMS (JAN 1999)

(a) The Government will award contracts resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror(s) whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, evaluated cost/price and other factors considered.

(b) The Government reserves the right to make an award to other than the lowest cost/priced offeror or to the offeror with the highest technical score if the Contracting Officer determines that to do so would result in the best value to the Government.

(c) Each offeror’s proposal will be evaluated according to the factors shown below. The Technical Capability factor is more important than the Past Performance Information Factor. The Technical Capability factor and the Past Performance Information factor, when combined, approximately equal importance to the Cost/Price factor. The Small Business Subcontracting Plan factor, which applies only to FA2 and FA3, will be evaluated on a pass/fail basis.

M.2 TECHNICAL CAPABILITY FACTOR (VOLUME II)

M.2.1 Technical Capability Subfactor A – Management Plan

The Government will evaluate the soundness and feasibility of the proposed Management Plan as it supports the delivery of services identified in the SOW and discussed in the instructions.

M.2.2 Technical Capability Subfactor B - Technical Approach

The offeror’s demonstrated understanding of the work and skills required and thoroughness shown in understanding the objectives of specific functional area(s) as stated in SOW and discussed in the instructions. The soundness and feasibility of the offeror’s proposed Technical Approach for satisfying the requirements in specific functional area as stated in the SOW and discussed in the instructions, including proposed methods and techniques for completing each discrete task; any proposed quality assurance techniques; how problems would be identified, tracked and resolved; and how customer service would be managed.

M.2.3 Technical Capability Subfactor C – Corporate Experience

The Government will evaluate the breadth and depth of the Offeror’s demonstrated corporate experience and, if applicable, demonstrated experience of subcontractors that are proposed to perform at least 25% of the labor cost for the potential 10 years of the contact.

M.3 PAST PERFORMANCE INFORMATION FACTOR (Volume IV)

Past performance information by the offeror and its subcontractor(s) as it relates to all solicitation requirements, including the quality of services and products, effectiveness of cost management/control, timeliness of performance, and customer satisfaction; and indication of ability to improve performance through proactive management. In addition, the evaluation will take into account past performance information regarding predecessor companies, key personnel who have relevant experience or subcontractors that will perform major or critical aspects of the requirement when such information is relevant to this acquisition.

The Government will evaluate past performance information by contacting the references provided by the Offeror in its proposal along with the past performance questionnaires included in this solicitation. The Government may also consider other information available to evaluate the Offeror’s past performance information. If no relevant past performance information is identified by the Offeror, or if the Government is unsuccessful in obtaining past performance feedback for the Offeror from applicable references or sources, then the Government will assign a neutral rating for this factor.

In evaluating past performance information, the Government will make an assessment of the offeror's (and/or significant subcontractor’s) performance completed only within the past three years or currently in process.

M.4 SMALL BUSINESS SUBCONTRACTING PLAN FACTOR (VOLUME V)

This factor applies only to FA2 and FA3, and will be evaluated on a Pass/Fail basis. The Government will consider and evaluate the other than small business offeror’s proposed Small Business Subcontracting Plan as follows:

An individual subcontracting plan will be evaluated based upon its compliance with clause 52.219-9 Alternate II; its projected percentage of use of the small business concerns listed below; and the offeror’s procedures to ensure successful achievement of such projected percentages. The individual subcontracting plan shall ensure that small businesses, including those identified in clause 52.219-9, have the maximum practical opportunity to participate in contract performance based upon the total dollars planned to be subcontracted.

The target small business subcontracting goals for applicable NRC procurements are as follows:

To be considered acceptable or better and get a “passing” rating, the individual subcontracting plan shall meet or exceed each of the following small business subcontracting goals for any work that the offeror elects to subcontract at the task order level. In other words, for whatever work that the offeror, who proposed an individual contract plan, elects to subcontract on task orders that are awarded, the following minimum small business subcontracting goals would apply. The goals would be required to be met on an annual basis and not on a task order by task order basis:

at least 40% of the subcontracted work must be set aside for one or more Small Businesses at least 5% of the subcontracted work must be set aside for one or more Small Disadvantaged

Businesses at least 5% of the subcontracted work must be set aside for one or more Woman-Owned Small

Businesses at least 3% of the subcontracted work must be set aside for one or more Veteran-Owned Small

Businesses at least 3% of the subcontracted work must be set aside for one or more Service-Disabled Veteran-

Owned Small Businesses at least 3% of the subcontracted work must be set aside for one or more HUBZone-Owned Small

Businesses

A commercial plan would be considered acceptable, as submitted, and receive a “passing” rating if it has already been approved by a federal contracting officer prior to submission with the offeror’s proposal.

Otherwise, a new proposed commercial plan would be required to meet or exceed the small business subcontracting goals specified above.

An “other than small business” offeror shall also provide the procedures they will implement to ensure timely payment to small business subcontractors and their commitment to designate a senior executive to oversee the organization's Small Business Subcontracting Program.

M.5 COST/PRICE FACTOR (VOLUME III)

The Government will evaluate the Volume III submission for each functional area to determine: (a) whether all required labor categories for that functional area are proposed and include proposed fixed hourly rates; and (b) the extent to which the offeror complied with FAR clause 52.216-31. In addition, the Government will calculate the average of the offerors proposed hourly rates for each of the 10 years and add those averages together to derive the evaluated cost/price for that proposal for source selection purposes.