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Amendment 003

SF 30 - BLOCK 14 CONTINUATION PAGE

The purpose of this amendment is to provide responses to prospective offerors’ questions as follows:

Question 77: D.1.8 (c)(3) require that proposed Task Order budgets include a firm fixed price for direct labor based on the daily rate shown in B.3. Section B.3 requires submitting hourly, not daily labor rates. Please clarify.

CORRECTION TO QUESTIONS 61 and 62. Section B.3. and all other applicable sections of the solicitation will be amended to reflect DAILY rates.

Question 78: How will a small business team be defined? In other words, is it based on the prime contractor, all the team members, or the combined percentage of the work that is performed by small businesses that make up the team? If it based on the percentage of work split between small and large businesses, how is that determined for the sake of this IDIQ response?

And how will it be determined over the life of the contract, ie would the percentage needed to be maintained on a cumulative basis or for each assignment?

The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR 9.601) defines contractor team arrangement as

“an arrangement in which (1) two or more companies form a partnership or joint venture to act as a potential prime contractor; or (2) a potential prime contractor agrees with one or more other companies to have them act as its subcontractors under a specified government contract or acquisition program.”

For the former, see FAR 19.101(7) and 13 CFR 121.103(f)(3) for Small Business size standard requirement for each member of the partnership/joint venture. For the latter, the prime Contractor will determine the Small Business size standard status. Only the prime Contractor will be issued a contract under the IDIQ solicitation. Only the prime

Contractor has privity of contract with the Government and can interact with the

Government. The prime Contractor will be responsible for its subcontracting activities.

FAR policy also states that teaming arrangements are recognized by the government provided “the arrangements are identified and company relationships are fully disclosed in an offer or, for arrangements entered into after submission of an offer, before the arrangement becomes effective.”

Question 79: Can a firm join multiple teams? If yes, can it prime one bid and subcontract to another firm on a separate bid?

Yes.

Question 80: We note in the RFP that a “major subcontractor” is defined as a subcontractor whose subcontract is more than 20% of the proposed total price. We understand how this will work in the case of an RFQ response. But how will major subcontractors be determined for the sake of the IDIQ response, given there is no proposed total price?

For purpose of past performance evaluation offerors are instructed to submit a list of the five (5) most recent Government and/or commercial contracts where the offeror served as the prime for contracts or task/delivery orders, and/or served as a major subcontractor.

The solicitation stated that for the purpose of this solicitation, a major subcontractor is defined as one whose subcontract is for more than 20% of the total proposed price.

Question 81: Reference: Section D.1.13, Page 35. Does this paragraph mean if a contractor performs an individual task order that results in an additional task order(s), that contractor cannot compete for those additional task orders without an exemption? Are contractors are prohibited from competing for other task orders within the USTDA program not related to this solicitation?

Yes. Unless USTDA offers a waiver, a contractor shall be prohibited from working on project preparation activities (either as a prime or subcontractor) for which the contractor provided a funding recommendation while under contract to USTDA. A contractor may compete for other task orders that are not related to the project(s) that the contractor has recommended.

Question 82: In reference to page 43 EVALUATION FACTORS / FACTOR 3 PRICE: How will the pricing information be considered in the evaluation as only the rates will be provided but no hours? Higher rates may be compensated by experience and fewer hour s required for the analysis / response.

One of more techniques contained in FAR 15.404 will be used to evaluate the daily cost/price data submitted. The Contracting Officer will evaluate the reasonableness of the offered prices.

Question 83: In reference to page 33 paragraph D.1.8: Can a firm be the prime on this response for the IDIQ solicitation, but be a sub on the response to an RFQ?

Question 84: Reference: Section E.1.8, Page 42, Paragraph ii. Please clarify if under this section the Offeror is expected to demonstrate their experience in “Project Planning and

Development” in specific energy areas or for projects in general.

The Offeror shall provide at least three examples of its technical expertise in project planning and development related to the requirements under this solicitation, ie specific energy areas related to those listed in E.1.8, paragraph i. Project planning and development is described in D.1.7.1 and includes the development of terms of reference, budgets, energy roadmaps, plans, analyses, final reports, and other project development recommendations. USTDA regularly contracts for these types of products and will favorably evaluate examples that highlight these project development and planning products.

Question 85: Reference: Section E.1.1, Page 38, Paragraph one. In case USTDA decides to use the option to perform a Feasibility Study or for another Task Order outside of the IDIQ selected contractors, would a prime or sub that obtained one of the awards still be eligible to bid on that opportunity?

Yes. Contractors under this Energy IDIQ may bid on other USTDA-funded energy sector activities. Contractors, however, may not bid on USTDA activities that they have recommended for USTDA funding while under contract to USTDA.

Question 86: Reference: Section E.1.1, Page 38, Paragraph one. The USTDA intends to award at least 12 to 15 IDIQ contracts for the services set forth in the RFP with no less than five (5) of the total IDIQ awards going to small businesses. The cover note also indicates that the acquisition is set aside 25% for small business. Please clarify if the 25% is based on the total dollar amount of the whole project by year.

The 25% is based on total dollar amount obligated through the life of the project.

Question 87: Is it acceptable for various firms to be combined in one submission indicating prime and subcontractor relationship as in other USTDA submissions?

See response to Question 77.

Question 88: Please confirm that it is sufficient to demonstrate the capability to contract out a technical expertise, if requested in an RFQ and not currently available within the company.

Yes. See Section D.1.7.1 of the solicitation.

Question 89: As indicated during the conference please confirm that the participation on this contract does not precludes the contractor to provide following up services to the recipient of the studies, unless it is explicitly indicate on the RFQ and on a case by case basis. On the same topic please clarify to what type of services clause D.1.13 is referring to.

On a case-by-case basis, Contractors (not USTDA) will be responsible for determining whether they will be precluded from Host Country-funded follow-up activities resulting from USTDA-funded project planning assistance under this IDIQ. USTDA will endeavor to solicit this information from its Host Country partner and to communicate this information to IDIQ contractors on our partner’s behalf. Regarding D.1.13, if a

Contractor recommends that USTDA fund a particular feasibility study, that Contractor will be precluded from bidding on that feasibility study unless USTDA issues a waiver.

Question 90: If two separate firms enter into an IDIQ contract with the USTDA, can they team up in a response to an RFQ?

Question 91: With regards to the following statement "The successful contractor may be ineligible to compete for, as a prime or subcontractor or otherwise, USTDA funded “program” activities resulting from the performance of individual task orders": would a subcontractor to an

IDIQ prime contractor be excluded from bidding on "program" activities resulting from the performance of individual task orders (e.g. activities recommended under a Definitional Mission contract performed by the IDIQ prime contractor through the IDIQ) if the subcontractor had no role in the performance of that specific individual task order (e.g. a definitional mission contract task order)?

If an ineligible prime contractor and a subcontractor compete for a task order, then the entire team will be considered ineligible. If any party (prime or sub) is ineligible, then the entire team will be considered ineligible.

Question 92: How are junior and senior level personnel defined? Can USTDA provide definitions of each seniority level (Junior and Senior) based, for example, on degrees and number of years of relevant experience?

The solicitation does not provide specific requirements for junior or senior level personnel.

A combination of substantial experience and advanced education is expected for senior level personnel. USTDA will more favorably evaluate senior level personnel with advanced degrees and at least ten years of experience in their respective fields.

Question 93: Page 42, Section E.1.8 states: “Offerors shall provide resumes showing the academic and work experience of proposed staff.” Please confirm that other documentation such as Letters of Commitment, references, and biodata forms/salary history is not necessary.

Volume I (Technical and Past Performance) of the Offeror’s proposal may not exceed seventy (70) pages. This page limit is inclusive of CVs. It is up to the Offeror to determine what information it wishes to include in its proposal given this 70-page limit. Other information, such as Letters of Commitment, will be favorably evaluated by USTDA.

Question 94: Please confirm that junior personnel need not have knowledge of US export competitiveness in developing countries, so long as this knowledge is represented in our proposed personnel roster and/or by at least one proposed expert in each technical category listed in Section D.1.7.1.

See Section D.1.7.1 of the solicitation.

Question 95: Pg. 24: “The IDIQ MAXIMIM: The contract maximum dollar amount is established at $50,000,000.00.” Please confirm that this is the cumulative ceiling for all task orders awarded to all holders of the IDIQ.

Question 96: May cost and pricing files be submitted in Excel if/when needed, or would

USTDA prefer only MS Word or .PDF files, per instructions on Page 40?

Per E.1.8, “All files will be submitted as either a Microsoft Office file or an Acrobat (PDF) file or compatible.”

Question 97: Other than Request for Task Order Proposals (RFTOPs) that are set aside for small businesses (worth $1 million or less), could an RFTOP of any size or scope be set aside by

USTDA for small businesses under the IDIQ?

Per Section B.1, task orders valued at $150,000 or less will be set aside for small business.

Question 98: Could USTDA issue non-competitive RFTOPs under the IDIQ (I.e., only to one holder of the IDIQ)? Under what circumstances? Please clarify.

USTDA anticipates only competitive RFTOPs under this IDIQ. Non-competitive RFTOPs under the IDIQ would be extremely rare and only pursued in accordance with FAR requirements.

Question 99: May a company seeking to qualify as one of the small business contractors selected under the IDIQ, meet the personnel requirements in some categories by indicating intent to subcontract with a company that would not meet the small business requirements?

Question 100: May a company bidding in its own right to qualify as one of the small business contractors selected under the IDIQ also supply personnel to be included in another, larger (non-small business qualifying) company’s proposal?

Question 101: If a small business company selected under the IDIQ, subsequently wins and performs a Task Order for a Definitional Mission under which a Feasibility Study or Technical

Assistance grant has been prepared, will that small business company be barred from bidding on the subsequent Task Order for the Feasibility Study?

Question 102: If USTDA allows that a small business company selected under the IDIQ may have also supplied personnel for inclusion in a larger company’s IDIQ proposal, would the small business company’s personnel be barred from being included in the larger company’s bid for the

Feasibility Study if the small business company had performed the Definitional Mission?

Yes. In this scenario, the small business is ineligible to perform the FS. If an ineligible subcontractor competes for a task order, then the prime will be considered ineligible, as well. Stated differently, if any party (prime or sub) is ineligible, then the entire team will be considered ineligible.

Question 103: Is there any general prohibition against companies and individual personnel being included in more than one IDIQ proposal?

No.

Question 104: Do we understand correctly that for each Task Order under the IDIQ, a bid request will be issued to all companies selected under the IDIQ, except for those up to the $150K level for which solicitations will be sent only to all of the small business companies selected under the IDIQ?

Question 105: Do we understand correctly that IDIQ selected companies are not under any obligation to bid on any particular Task Order bid solicitation, but that some level of non-responsiveness would be grounds for non-renewal of the contractor under the IDIQ or even

“ramping off” of that contractor?

That is not correct. With the exception of those specific task orders that are set aside or in instances where an IDIQ pool member is disqualified from bidding on a specific task order, it is USTDA’s expectation that all IDIQ pool members participate in the procurement process.

Question 106: If so, please provide some further guidance under what level of non-responsiveness would be grounds for non-removal or ramping off of a contractor. For example, if a small business selected contractor has particular expertise in say 6 of the 9 categories listed under the RFP, and so responds to all of the Task Orders under those 6 categories but chooses not to respond to the Task Orders under the other 3 categories that it feels less qualified to deliver services under, would this be held against it in determining non responsiveness?

USTDA wishes to maintain an active, high-quality, and competitive pool of contractors for this IDIQ. Poor performance or non-responsiveness to numerous successive task order requests on which the contractor is otherwise qualified to bid may be grounds for off-ramping.

Question 107: The RFP requires that all bidders, including small businesses offer to provide services under all nine of the categories. As is well known, many small businesses have particular areas of expertise which may expand easily to a majority of the categories but not all.

Some of the categories are highly specialized. For example a power sector oriented small business consultant may be expected to easily provide expertise in all of the areas of power generation, transmission and distribution, and energy efficiency and acquire expertise in environmental engineering, legal advisement and project development and planning related to its core expertise, but might be uncomfortable in providing services under fossil resources development and alternative fuels and advanced vehicles, even with acquisition of outside experts, as the small business company may have no experience managing project assignments in these categories. Is there any possibility that USTDA could allow small business companies to fulfill requirements in say, only 6 or 7 out of the 9 categories?

Per D.1.7.1: The Contractor must provide qualified personnel, or demonstrate its ability to obtain qualified personnel, who can provide the essential skills for each category. All

Offerors must be able to demonstrate their ability to meet the full requirements of the contract.

Question 108: Do we understand correctly that as part of the financial proposal a price should be provided for labor in each and every one of the categories in the table under Section B.3 and for each of the option years? Should the pricing be provided on an hourly rate basis as shown in

Section B.3 or on a daily rate basis as shown in the attachment D.2. “USTDA TASK ORDER

PRICE/COST CHART”?

Question 109: Section 52.217-8 of the RFP, “Option to Extend Services” states that: “The

Government may require continued performance of any services within the limits and at the rates specified in the contact. These rates may be adjusted only as a result of revisions to prevailing labor rates provided by the Secretary of Labor.” Can you explain how this clause would be enforced in relation to the IDIQ, where a selected contractor has already provided labor rates for a five year forward period?

FAR 52.217-8 revision provision applies only to an extension period not an option period;

applies only to Service Contract Act contract; and will not apply to the resulting contracts under this IDIQ.

Question 110: In reference to page 6 Schedule of prices: Can the offered rates considered as a ceiling on the RFQ responses and discounts offered depending on the situation at the time?

Discounts may be offered at the task order level.

Question 111: Can other categories be included in addition to Junior / Senior?

Question 112: In reference to page 33 paragraph D.1.8: Can a firm be the prime on this response for the IDIQ solicitation, but be a sub on the response to an RFQ?

See response to Question 82.

Question 113: Can a firm be part of various responses or needs to be part of just one response to this IDIQ solicitation?

See response to Question 78.

Question 114: When providing the price bid for the list of experts required under Section B.3, can a bidder choose to substitute sub-categories which may be priced differently from one another? For example for the Power Generation, Senior and Junior Experts, may the bidder provide instead individual pricing for Solar Experts, Biomass Experts, Hydro Experts, Geothermal Experts etc?

Question 115: Are the price bid’s for the list of experts under Section B.3, binding on a contractor selected for the IDIQ when bidding Task Orders? What if a Task Order requires expertise that has not been covered in the contractor’s IDIQ proposal?

Yes. Proposals at the task order level must demonstrate the need and price for non-covered experts.

Question 116: Reference: Section D.1.3 "Summary of Requirements": Page: 24, Paragraph: 2.

Is it acceptable that a bidder submit a proposal covering only two of the six (6) energy sector activities listed, namely, in our case, "Alternative Fuels" and "Other Energy"?

Per D.1.7.1: The Contractor must provide qualified personnel, or demonstrate its ability to obtain qualified personnel, who can provide the essential skills for each category. All

Offerors must be able to demonstrate their ability to meet the full requirements of the contract.

Question 117: Reference Section Titled: Technical and Past Performance. Item “a” notes, The

Offeror shall demonstrate technical expertise in four specific areas. We would like to confirm that USTDA expects the Offeror to have technical expertise in ALL of the items listed under “i”

(Power Generation; Power Transmission; Energy Efficiency; Fossil Resource Development;

Alternative Fuels and Other Energy)?

In Section E.1.8, Offerors are instructed to address Section E.1.8.a.i-iv (ie, i, ii, iii, iv) as part of their Technical and Past Performance. All items listed under “section i” must be addressed.

Question 118: Reference: Section B.3, Page 6, Labor category tables. On task order proposals, will local labor fall under the same labor categories and rates as presented in Section B.3, or will additional labor categories be allowed on a task order basis?

Proposals at the task order level must demonstrate the need and price for non-covered experts.

Question 119: Reference: Section B.3, Page 6, Labor category tables. Are offerors allowed to propose additional labor categories, or is this list exhaustive?

No additional labor categories may be added.

Question 120: Reference: Section D.1.7.1, Page: 30, Paragraph: first. There is a requirement stated for qualifications of senior technical experts, but not junior. Is there any minimum requirement for junior?

See response to Question 92.

Question 121: Reference: Section D.1.3, Page: 24, Paragraph: 2. Could TDA define “other energy”? Although this paragraph directs readers to Section D.1.6.1, there is no such section.

Otherwise, is this the same as “other activities” defined on page 31?

Per Section D.1.7.1, “the Contractor may also undertake activities related to energy development not captured in the aforementioned categories or energy development that involves many of the categories mentioned above. For example, USTDA has undertaken activities related to smart grids that involve energy efficiency, transmission and distribution.”

Question 122: Reference: Section D.1.7.1, Page: 31, Paragraph: Last. Pages 6-12 require the provision of “environmental experts,” but page 31 lists this category as “environmental engineering.” Must the individuals proposed for this position be engineers?

Yes, these individuals should be environmental engineers, per Section D.1.7.1 and Section

E.1.8.a.i.

Question 123: Reference: Section D.1.8, Page: 33, Paragraph: (c) (1). The RFP requires resumes for proposed individuals. We have two questions in this regard: 1) considering the page limitation and large amount of materials to be provided, could the resumes be placed in an annex? Alternatively, could we provide brief descriptions of individuals’ relevant qualifications, education, etc. in order to conserve space? 2) At least eighteen CVs are to be submitted

(including both junior and senior positions), but some positions would likely require more than one CV (e.g., the Power Generation Specialist is to could cover expertise in solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, hydropower, and oil and gas, but few individuals possess expertise in all these fields). Thus, shall we submit more than one CV for these categories?

Volume I (Technical and Past Performance) of the Offeror’s proposal may not exceed seventy (70) pages. This page limit is inclusive of CVs.

Question 124: Reference: Section D.1.8. (c)(3), Pages 34 and Attachment D.2.1 Page 2.

Offerors with an approved Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement (NICRA) with the US government incur General and Administrative (G&A) costs when purchasing travel and other direct costs. On task orders, will offerors with a NICRA or similar rate agreement be able to recover G&A costs on their travel and other direct costs?

See Section B.3 of the solicitation. Prices submitted in response to this solicitation should be fully loaded (to include all applicable G&A, Overhead, Profit, etc.). Also see response to

Question 18.

Question 125: Reference: Section D.1.8. (d), Pages 34, first full paragraph. The RFP states that

“each task order request shall include the requirements to be filled.” Will these requirements be to deliver a specific amount of LOE hours, or requirements to fulfill specific tasks and deliverables?

Requirements at the task order level will determine the format of the request for quotes.

Question 126: Reference: Section E.1.8, Page: 42, Paragraph: 3. The RFP requires up to 30 examples that illustrate the offeror’s knowledge. Does the three-year time limit apply to these examples?

Question 127: Reference: Section E.1.8, Page: 42, Paragraph: b. Shall we describe the work done for each of the five past performance references submitted?

Offerors may provide a brief description. Per that section, in order for USTDA to consider the past performance relevant, the Contractor must demonstrate relevant experiences that are similar in size, scope, and complexity to the effort described in this solicitation.

Question 128: Reference: Section E.2 (b), Page: 43, Paragraph: states “Government will evaluate offers for award purposes by adding total price for all options to the total price for the basic requirement.” There are plug figures of “1 hour” per labor category for each senior and junior expert listed in Table B.3. Will USTDA use just 1 hour per expert per year to determine

“total price” for basic requirement (and option years), or is there some other definition, such as assigning different weights to different labor categories?

Language referenced is the standard language of FAR 52.212-2(b). See Addendum to FAR

52.212-2 (Page 45), Price Evaluation Approach.

Question 129: Reference: Section E.2, Page: 44, Paragraph: Technical Evaluation Approach.

This section indicates that offerors are to provide an understanding of requirements and a technical approach in their proposals. However, these are not included in the evaluation factors.

Could you thus give an indication of the weight/length of these two sections?

The evaluation approach referenced is the approach by which the Government will evaluate each proposal against the evaluation factors included in the solicitation. For example, in addressing sub-factors 1 through 5 did the proposal demonstrate an understanding of the requirement? Other examples: Is the offeror’s proposed staffing and recruitment (sub-factor 5) approach workable (feasibility of approach)? Did the proposal adequately address the evaluation factor to include the sub-factors (completeness)?

See technical adjectival ratings and description of each rating on page 46.

Question 130: Reference: Section E.2, Pg 45, Paragraph: states “Reasonableness: The

Government will conduct a price analysis to determine whether the proposed prices are fair and reasonable. This determination may be accomplished by one or more of the techniques set forth in FAR 15.404-1(b)(2).” How will be the price analysis conducted?

See FAR 15.404-1(b)(2). The Government may use various price analysis techniques and procedures to ensure proposed prices are fair and reasonable.

Question 131: Can a firm be part of various responses or needs to be part of just one response to this IDIQ solicitation?

See response to Question 78.

Question 132: If a small business wishes to respond utilizing various consultants and affiliates versus a large contractor as a subcontractor, and demonstrates its ability to obtain qualified personnel – it will not necessarily be able to provide the minimum of three examples of activities undertaken in each of the six energy subsectors listed in Section D.1.7.1 at the time of this submission. Will the small business be penalized in the evaluation or rejected for the lack of the three specific examples in each of the 6 subsectors?

Due to the competitive nature of the procurement process an offeror submitting the requisite examples, all others factors being equal, may be rated more highly than one who did not.

Question 133: Examples provided in the power generation, transmission and distribution examples site traditional utility type work – is there a possibility that mini grids or off-grid power projects could be the description in some cases, specifically in rural areas of developing countries?