Questions and Responses for Combined Professional Services RFP 200000002075 - MISEP Statistician.pdf

Questions and Responses for Combined Professional Services RFP 200000002075 - MISEP Statistician

Q# Document & Section Page # Bidder Question Response

Proposal Instructions, Section N/A N/A

Does MDHHHS require a proposal in a standard proposal format (with cover, TOC, etc.) and required forms from the solicitation; or are we required to respond within the fields in the RFP document (and then return the completed RFP document) or will the proposal elements need to be keyed in and/or attached in separate parts, in the SIGMA VSS system?

Refer to RFP 200000002075, Section 5 Delivery of Proposal for instructions. Bidders should provide responses as indicated within the fields the RFP document and attach the completed RFP document and any other additional attachments to their response.

Please see attached HOW to Respond to a Solicitation on Vendor Self Service (VSS) SERVICE Job Aid.

Proposal Instructions, Section N/A N/A

Does MDHHS have a preferred model for how Bidders' labor should be calculated (i.e. 1920 vs. 2080)?

Refer to Schedule B Pricing. 2. Price proposals must include all costs, including but not limited to, any one-time or set-up charges, fees, and potential costs that Contractor may charge the State (e.g., shipping and handling, per piece pricing, and palletizing). Bidder should provide an hourly rate inclusive of all costs.

Schedule A

Statement of Work, Section N/A

N/A

Is there currently a contractor supporting this requirement, or significant portions of the requirement? If so, would the state please share the name of the vendor and the last contract award value?

Current State of Michigan contracts can be found on the Contract Connect website located at:

https://www.michigan.gov/dtmb/0,5552,7-358-82550_85746---,00.html

Contract 071B6600019 with the Regents of the University of Michigan provides services which respond directly to the need for reporting and validation for the Modified Implementation, Sustainability and Exit Plan (MISEP), however this current contract is limited in scope to the MISEP and is not reflective of the expanded RFP. This RFP is for a new contract that expands the scope of reporting and requires numerous other outcome reports, trending reports and dashboards.

Schedule A

Statement of Work, Section N/A

N/A Given the importance of accurate, validated reporting, how much time is anticipated to be allotted from the start of the contract to when the first reports are due?

Refer to Schedule A Statement of Work Section 5.3.2 Reporting Timetables Section A, which has been amended.

Schedule A

Statement of Work, Section - Introduction

13-14

The solicitation states that: “The Contractor must respond to each requirement or question and explain how it will fulfill each requirement. Attach any supplemental information and appropriately reference within your response.”

Are there any page length limitations or expectations regarding the amount of text or pages the vendor uses to respond to each requirement? For example, page 14 states: “Bidder’s response must demonstrate understanding of information provided under 1. General Requirements and provide information regarding experience with the tasks listed:”. What are the expectations/limitations on the length of the narrative provided in response to that section, or is it open-ended?

Refer to RFP 200000002075, Section 5 Delivery of Proposal for instructions. There are no page length limitations or expectations regarding the amount of text or pages.

Attachment file size is limited to 6 MB per document.

Questions and Responses for Combined Professional Services RFP 200000002075 - MISEP Statistician

Q# Document & Section Page # Bidder Question Response

Schedule A Statement of Work, Section 1.1

The solicitation states: “To comply with MISEP reporting for which there is no administrative data, the Contractor must develop a data analysis and case read approach that can generate accurate performance estimates and identify key underlying mechanisms that may be responsible for the performance issues.”

Please further elaborate/define what it means by a “case read” approach where there is no administrative data? Is a case read approach based on variables already stored within the dataset, or does it require additional data abstraction beyond what is currently available in the data?

Refer to Schedule A - Statement of Work - Section 1.1 MISEP Monitoring, A. Requirements #4. which has been amended to describe "a case read approach," and some additional examples of required work needed to collect data not available through regular datasets.

Schedule A Statement of Work, Section 4.2

Under Key Personnel, the solicitation states the statistician must possess “a Master’s Degree in Social work or Business…” Please confirm that a Master’s Degree in Economics is either included in the intended list of acceptable degrees, or is an acceptable substitution for the Master's Degree in Business.

Refer to Section 4.2 1.a. which has been amended to include a Master's Degree in Economics.

Contract Terms, Section N/A

Please confirm the anticipated contract award type is Firm Fixed Price. Refer to Schedule A State of Work Section 6 Pricing, 6.1 Price Term. Pricing is firm for the entire length of the Contract.