Alliant_2_Special_Notice_of_Amendment-Number-4_19JUL2016.pdf

A2 Unrestricted SPECIAL NOTICE OF RFP AMENDMENT # 4 19JUL2016

ALLIANT 2 UNRESTRICTED GWAC

SPECIAL NOTICE OF RFP AMENDMENT #4

19 JULY 2016

NOTICE 1: The following subsection of the table under RFP Section L.4.1 PROPOSAL TABLE is a CORRECTION from SPECIAL NOTICE OF RFP AMENDMENT #3 (18JUL2016), NOTICE 8, is amended to change “limited to 2 pages” to “3 pages” for Attachment J.P-2 and J.P-3 as presented below:

2 L.5.2.2 PSC Group Relevant Experience

1 PDF per project (Maximum of 7 files).

Each Project with all supporting documents should be submitted in a single .pdf in the following order:

1. Section J.P-2

2. FPDS, if applicable

3. Award Form, if applicable

4. Contract Statement of Work, if applicable

5. Supporting Information Related to a Merger, Acquisition, Novation, or Change of Name on a Specific Project, if applicable

6. Section J.P-7 and CTA agreement, if applicable

Section J.P-2 Template limited to 3 pages.

No page limit for supporting documents.

CompanyName.VOL2.PSC1-1.pdf CompanyName.VOL2.PSC1-2.pdf CompanyName.VOL2.PSC1-3.pdf CompanyName.VOL2.PSC1-4.pdf and/or CompanyName.VOL2.PSC2-1.pdf CompanyName.VOL2.PSC2-2.pdf and/or CompanyName.VOL2.PSC3-1.pdf

2 L.5.2.3 Leading Edge Technology Relevant Experience

1 PDF per project (Maximum of 30 files) Each Project with all supporting documents should be submitted in a single .pdf in the following order:

1. Section J.P-3

2. Original Contract Award Document

3. Contract Statement of Work

4. Supporting Information Related to a Merger, Acquisition, Novation, or Change of Name on a Specific Project, if applicable

5. Section J.P-7 and CTA agreement, if applicable.

Section J.P-3 Template limited to 3 pages.

No page limit for supporting documents.

CompanyName.VOL2.LET1-1.pdf CompanyName.VOL2.LET1-2.pdf CompanyName.VOL2.LET1-3.pdf and/or CompanyName.VOL2.LET2-1.pdf CompanyName.VOL2.LET2-2.pdf CompanyName.VOL2.LET2-3.pdf and/or

(If applicable, the Offeror may include more files by citing one or more of the LET categories indicated in the RFP)

NOTE FROM A2 PCO: The Government will not reject any locked proposal templates the Offeror submits due to exceeding page limits caused by formatting problems and uncontrollable limitations of the template.

NOTICE 2: L.5.5.2 Cost/Price Methodology and Instructions is amended to include the estimated start date for pricing purposes replacing the first sentence of the third paragraph in this section as follows:

Offerors shall only provide the ceiling rates for Year 1 of the contract with an estimated Start Date of 1 October 2017.

NOTICE 3: B.14 GWAC Contract Access Fee (CAF) is amended (in red text) to add the following sentence to this fourth paragraph of the section.

If a customer organization has negotiated a CAF rate based on a special written agreement and/or Memorandum of Agreement by the GWAC Program that is other than the established CAF rate, GSA will provide advance notification. The CAF Rate, effective at time of the Task Order award, shall remain the same for that Task Order for the full term of the Order.

NOTICE 4: L.5.7.1 Organizational Risk Assessment is amended (in part) to include:

Definition of “previously performed” and to clarify one sentence with a rewrite (in red text) below:

Within the J.P-1 Document Verification and Self Scoring Worksheet, the offeror shall identify if it has previously performed in the same business arrangement as proposed.

“Previously Performed” Definition: “Previously performed”, for the purposes of this evaluation factor, is defined as performance that took place before the issuance of the Alliant 2 Unrestricted GWAC solicitation.

A Business Arrangement for the purposes of this evaluation factor is defined as:

OTHER THAN SMALL BUSINESS OFFERORS

1) An individual company, or

2) An Established Joint Venture/Partnership

SMALL BUSINESS OFFERORS

1) An individual company, or

2) An established or new Joint Venture/Partnership, or

3) A Prime Contractor and its proposed First Tier Subcontractor team

A Business Arrangement is considered to have previously performed together if one of one of the following applicable these conditions is have been met:

(The remainder of this Section L.5.7.1 remains unchanged.)

NOTICE 5: M.7 Scoring Table, stating L.5.4.6 to L.5.4.9, Industry Certifications, ISO 9000 is replaced with ISO 9001. Therefore, only ISO 9001 certification will be recognized for earning points, and ISO 9000 will not earn any points.

NOTICE 6: L.5.4.10 Facility Clearance Level (FCL) is amended to allow for an Interim FCL and to clarify conditions for earning points. All changes are noted in red text below:

For purposes of the evaluation, proposed Facility Clearance Level (FCL) submitted is treated as a rated offer factor that will result in contractual promises as indicated in Section H.8 SECURITY: SECURITY CLEARANCES. GSA will not sponsor Offerors for any type of security clearances.

If claiming credit for this scoring element, the Offeror must identify their Government Facility Clearance Level (FCL) on the Document Verification and Self Scoring Worksheet in Attachment J.P-1. For a Small Business Prime Contractor with Subcontractor relationship, the Small Business Prime Contractor must have the clearance. For any Joint Venture (JV) or Partnership the facility clearance can be either in the name of the JV/Partnership, or all members of the JV/Partnership must have it.

The Offeror shall submit in a single PDF file format a letter signed by the Offeror’s Facility Security Officer identifying the Offeror’s CAGE code, Facility Clearance Level (FCL) and cognizant security office, such as the Defense Security Service (DSS) Office, verifying that a facility clearance (secret, top secret or higher) has been granted. An Interim FCL approval is acceptable.

Supporting documents such as the DSS screen shot of the FCL clearance, and updated letters regarding company status to the FCL will help in the evaluation of the FCL requirement. GSA will verify the claimed FCL with DSS.

NOTE: Interim Facility Clearances are not acceptable and will not receive any points in this category.

The above changes will be enacted via formal SF-30 Amendment to the RFP in the near future.

PLEASE NOTE – The PCO anticipates multiple FBO postings into this A2 RFP document on addressing the critical questions and issues that may affect the Offeror’s submission of a proposal. The intent of the PCO is to provide important information to the public quickly as acquisition team responses for critical questions are developed. Therefore, rather than delay any information to the public for the sake of delivering a single document with all responses and RFP changes, which may inadvertently result in a much later FBO posting date, the PCO has decided to release information in smaller packages over multiple postings. - J. Cavadias, GSA Alliant 2 PCO