PBGC01-RP-17-0002-02_Questions_and_Answers_-_8_2_2016.xlsx
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AMENDMENT 02 - QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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| RFP Document or Attached Reference | ||||
| (or state "General") | Paragraph No. | Offeror Questions | Government Answers | |
| Section H.4 | a | Please confirm an actuarial firm contracted under this PBGC contract would have an OCI issue for a plan if they are also engaged as the actuarial firm for the plan sponsor. | PBGC will evaluate at the task order level potential OCI issues related to an actuarial services firm’s previous actuarial work for a plan sponsor. | |
| Page 1, SF 1449 | Block 8 | Q1) Is the offer due at 12:00 AM or 12:00 PM on August 9, 2016? | See Amendment 02. | |
| Page 6, Section B | 4 | Q1) May sample Task Orders of each possible contract type (Firm Fixed Price, Labor Hour, Time and Materials, and Hybrid) be made available to the Offerors? Q2) Will there be any requirements to provide invoices with hourly data or record hourly data on fixed price task orders? Q3) If so, are there any restrictions on how fixed price task orders are billed? (e.g. does the work have to be delivered before the last invoice is submitted?) | Q1) No, a sample is not available. |
Q2) No Q3) FFP Task Orders will be billed as negotiated at the time of award (i.e. Payment Schedule). Final Payment would not occur until the final deliverable is inspected/accepted by the Government.
| RFP Document and General | Page 12-13, C.4 | At what stage will PBGC perform a fair opportunity consideration for a case? Will it be based on work types? | Fair opperunity will be provided on all task orders subsequent to the initial task orders as indicated in Section G. |
| Page 25, Section F | 6 | The Deliverable Deadline for the Financial Management Report is "3rd of the month following the covered month." Q1) Is that the 3rd business day of the month or 3rd calendar day? The 3rd calendar day potentially leaves only one business day to update the Financial Management Report which is not sufficient time. Q2) Will this Deliverable Deadline be extended or can you confirm that it is the 3rd business day of the month? | See Amendment 02. |
| Page 34, Section G | 1.3.2 | Q1) Please reconcile this section with subsection G.1.5 on page 35 with regards to past performance. The latter section refers to "current" task orders where as 1.3.2 refers to "previous task orders only." | See Amendment 02. |
| RFP: Qualification of Personnel | H.1 (page 39) | The description of (5) Actuarial Assistant I and (6) Actuarial Assistant II are identical. In the past, LC006 has required less than 3 years of experience. Please provide the current requirements. | See Amendment 02. |
| Page 39, Section H | 1 | Q1) Is "Senior Lead Actual or Primal contact" in Roles and Responsibilities for (3) Assistant Actuary a typo and should it be "Senior Lead Actuary or Primary contact"? | See Amendment 02. |
| Page 39, Section H | 1 | Q1) Do the Minimum Qualifications sufficiently cover the Required Specialized Experience for (3) Assistant Actuary? Q2) If not, how is the Required Specialized Experience to be determined? | See Amendment 02. |
| Page 39, Section H | 1 | Q1) Are the Minimum Qualifications for (4) Actuarial Programmer, (5) Actuarial Assistant I, and (6) Actuarial Assistant II truly "N/A" or should the Required Specialized Experience be the Minimum Qualifications for these labor categories? | Minimum qualifications are the same as the requried specialized experience for these labor categories. |
| Page 39, Section H | 1 | Q1) Are the years of defined benefit pension experience 3 or 0 for (6) Actuarial Assistant II? | See Amendment 02. |
| RFP: Past Performance | L.7.2.1 (page 117) and L.8.2.1 (page 121) | May we provide more than three past performance references within the overall 6 page limit? | Only three past performance references may be submitted with the proposal. |
| RFP: Past Performance | L.8.2.1 (page 121) | Will PBGC be contacting past performance POC? Please provide an indication who and when such contact may be made so we may alert our POC to anticipate your outreach. | PBGC may contact the past performance POCs anytime between the receipt of proposals and contract award. |
| RFP: Overall Basis for Award | M.1 (page 128) | States that the Government intends to make up to three (3) IDIQ awards, although the current Actuarial Support Services consist of four (4) contracts. Does PBGC intend to reduce the number of contractors to no more than three? | See Amendment 02. |
| Section C.7.1.2 | a | This section requires the financial reports to be submitted on the 3rd of the month following the covered month. We believe that additional time is required to provide accurate required reports, particularly if the month ends on a Friday. Will PBGC consider changing this requirement to provide additional time (i.e. to the 10th day of the month following the covered month)? | See Amendment 02. |
| Section C.9 | 1 | Please confirm that offerors are required to name only one ACTUARY and only one ASSOCIATE ACTUARY as key personnel at the IDIQ level. | Resumes shall be provided for all Actuary and Associate Actuary as specified in L.8.1.3. |
| Section H.1 | N/A | The years of experience (three) is the same for both Actuarial Assistant I and II. Will PBGC consider differentiating the qualifications of these labor categories to three years for Actuarial Assistant I and one year for Actuarial Assistant II? | See Amendment 02. |
| Section L.8.3 & Section L.2 | 2 & 1 | The third sentence in paragraph 2 of section L.8.3. states: "The acceptance period entered on the proposal form shall not be less than 90 calendar days from the date specified for the receipt of offers." However, the first sentence in paragraph 1 of section L.2. states: "The PBGC requires a minimum offer acceptance period of 180 calendar days." Please verify the required offer acceptance period. | See Amendment 02. |
| Section M.1 | 1 | This section states that PBGC intends to make up to three IDIQ awards. Given the potential size of the IDIQ, and PBGC’s stated goal in section C.5 to “have qualified Offeror resources available in case of an unexpected surge to the number of plans or receipt of a large, highly complex plan” will the PBGC consider expanding the range of possible awardees? An expanded range will provide additional competition for task orders and reduce the risk to PBGC should one awardee either become unable to perform under this IDIQ or deliver sub-standard performance to the PBGC. | See Amendment 02. |
| Section M.3 | 1 | Paragraph 1 in the referenced section states: "The evaluation factors are listed in descending order of importance." In the previous section (M.2. Paragraph 1), the five evaluation factors are listed in a different descending numerical order from 1 to 5. Please confirm the order of importance for all of the evaluation factors. | See Amendment 02. |
| Page 3, SF 1449 | Continuation of Blocks 23 and 24 | Q1)What Unit Price and Amount are to be entered here? "Here" is SF 1449 Blocks 23 and 24. | These sections may be left blank. Only Section B needs to be completed in regards to pricing. |
| Page 89, Section J | Attachment D – PWS PRS Table | The language in the Text Box is cut off. It is as if the Text Box is not enlarged enough to show all of the text. There is a sentence cut of and there is no way to know what else is missing from the Text Box. We would like all the language in this Text Box be made available. | Performance Standard – Using objective and measurable terms, describe the standard of quality you expect the deliverable to adhere to. For example, restores desktop computer service within 4 hours of receiving trouble report during business hours. |
, etc. Example: 100% Inspection Frequency – State how often inspections will take place.
| Page 119, Section L | 8.1.1 | Q3) What is meant by "High Level Design" as this term is heavily associated with IT architecture versus the services requested in this Solicitation? | See Admendment 02. |
| Page 75, Section J | Attachment D – PWS PRS QASP Template, PWS 5 | Will the Government confirm what the page limitation will be? | See Amendment 02. |
| Page 116, Section L | 7.1 | Q1) Would the Government accept tables that utilize a font size of 10 pitch print or larger in Times New Roman? | Smaller text may be used for header, footer, exhibits/diagrams, and tables. |
| Page 116, Section L | 7.1 | The Solicitation requires Offerors to respond using 12–point font. Q1) May Offerors use a smaller, still readable font for the following: headers and footers, requirement text, exhibits/diagrams, and tables? | Smaller text may be used for header, footer, exhibits/diagrams, and tables. |
| RFP Document | Page 34, G.1.3.1, G1.3.2 | How will PBGC differentiate legitimate new information complicating a case after TO has been awarded? | This would be handled on a case by case basis and contingent upon the nature/significance of the new information/circumstances |
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