2. Answers to Questions from RFQ-CC-25-000092.docx

Questions and Answers for Radiologist Services from 8(a) - RFQ-CC-25-000092

1. Question: The solicitation states, "The contractor shall be licensed in a state, territory, or commonwealth of the United States or District of Columbia." Does this mean that all radiologists and providers must also hold a license in Maryland, or is a license from any U.S. state, territory, or the District of Columbia is acceptable?

Answer: No, this requirement varies depending on medical staff appointment category.

2. Question: Since all radiologists and providers must have malpractice insurance, can the Prime contractor entity (including the government if needed) be added to the provider's policies as an [additional insured], or does the Prime contractor entity also need its own separate malpractice insurance for this solicitation?

Answer: The entity should have its own malpractice insurance covering the providers.

3. Question: Is this a recompete or a new requirement?

Answer: This is a recompete.

4. What is the current incumbent contract number/information?

Answer: The incumbent is CAITTA Inc. under Award # 75N90022P00205

5. Question: What is the anticipated budget, and what was the previous spending?

Answer: This will depend on the proposals received.

6. Question: The SOW states more than once “the incumbent will perform XXX.” Is this meant to be understood that the awarded contractor shall hire the current incumbent personnel?

Answer: No. The vendor could hire the current incumbent personnel but this is not required.

7. Question: How many vendors do you intend to award for this effort?

Answer: One

8. Question: How many Radiologist Physicians are anticipated for this effort? Could you please confirm the number of Radiologist Physicians required under each discipline?

Answer: This will depend on the proposals received. We do not have a set number for each discipline currently.

9. Question: What needs to be submitted as a Technical Response?

Answer: The proposal should address the published SOW.

10. Question: Are candidate resumes a requirement for this submission?

Answer: Yes. Abbreviated resume for representative Physician personnel from each subspecialty. Individual resumes will be required once contract is awarded.

11. Question: Are we required to submit resumes for Diagnostic Radiologists, Neuroradiologists, Interventional Radiologists, and/or Nuclear Medicine Physicians with the proposal? If yes, how many resumes for each position?

Answer: Yes. Prove abbreviated resume for representative Physician personnel from each subspecialty. Individual resumes will be required once contract is awarded.

12. Question: Is the government requesting a Letter of Intent? If yes, to whom or what is this pertaining to specifically?

Answer: No

13. Question: Is a letter of commitment required along with the resumes?

Answer: No

14. Question: Would the letter of commitment count toward the page limit?

Answer: Not needed.

15. Question: As this is an RFQ, with a 20 page minimum technical response, is government requesting resumes for all positions for just the Key Personnel Physician?.

Answer: Provide abbreviated resume for representative Physician personnel from each subspecialty. Individual resumes will be required once contract is awarded.

16. Question: Are all positions key positions? Which positions would need resumes and commitment letters?

Answer: No. Individual resumes will be required once contract is awarded.

17. Question: Can we replace the candidates if they are not available at the time of award? Answer: Yes

18. Question: Could you please confirm how many past performance references are required with the proposal? Are commercial references acceptable?

Answer: Provide a minimum of three.—Yes commercial references acceptable.

19. Question: Are we required to prepare our pricing sheet? Is there a specific format for submitting pricing?

Answer: Yes—subspecialty price per hour for Interventional Radiology (IR) on site and IR on-call rates and hourly rate for the non -IR specialities Body imaging, neuroradiology, nuclear medicine.

20. Question: What is the timeline for onboarding the candidates?

Answer: At the time of contract award.

21. Question: Are the estimated hours correct? Should they be equivalent full-time employee hours or part-time? For example, the IR/Diagnostic Services - Regular hours: Level 1 is listed 192 hours/year. Should that be 1920 hours/year?

Answer: The number of hours will vary according to full time, part-time and on call service provided.

22. Question: Is there a solicitation document? The listed files do not include the 1449 or proposal instructions.

Answer: A 1449 or 347 document will be generated upon award.

23. Question: Can we request an extension on the submission due date?

Answer: No

24. Question: The RFP listing on SAM mentioned a Technical Evaluation Criteria document which is currently missing. Could the NIH provide the missing documentation to better support our response?

Answer: No. This is an internal process which will directly align with the vendor’s proposal to address the SOW.

25. Question: Since the release of this RFQ on 1/22, there has been a pre-solicitation notice released on 1/26, which is currently marked inactive. Could the NIH please clarify the current status of this opportunity?

Answer: The opportunity is currently still active. The presolicitation notice was to give potential vendors more time to review the requirements before the formal RFQ (this posting) was published.

26. Question: What criteria would determine eligibility for remote work during this contract? Answer: If the subspecialty services can be performed remotely, the vendor may be eligible to provide these services remotely.

27. Question: Per Section “NIH Information Security”: All IT equipment procurement requests (servers, desktops, laptops, Blackberries, PDAs, data storage devices, and all information processing equipment) – Is the contractor responsible for providing all devices, phones and equipment for the performance of radiologist physician services or will equipment for performance of contract be provided by the government?

Answer: GFE will be provided.

28. Question: Are the stated Radiologist Positions are shown below covered by the covered Service Contract Act?

Answer: The Service Contract Act applies to every contract where the principal purpose of which is to furnish services in the United States through the use of service employees. Unless the vendor intends to hire additional personnel outside of those listed in the requirements, this requirement does not contemplate the use of service employees. Professional employees are not considered service employees under 29 CFR part 541. 29 CFR 4.113(b); 29 CFR 4.156.