S000000182 Q and A.pdf

Question Nbr Question Subject Question Text Answer

1.00 Resumes

How do we provide resumes for the Experience section as described in Paragraph 2 and not violate the instructions provided in Paragraph 4 to not include details?

Please remove names and identifiers from the resumes as described in Paragraph 4. For example, redact the resource's name or replace the name of the resource with their job title such as "Project Manager" and specific project experience/clients with generic monikers such as "State

Government Client", etc.

2.00 Resumes

Do we create generic resumes for each category and generalize our specific experience while not being specific to any Arkansas experience?

Prospective Contractors may include a resume for each proposed staff member. Please see the response to question #1.

3.00 Experience

Are we allowed to specify our experience using the specific tools that we know the State uses when we are listing our experience such as

Tracit, AppXtender, A2IA, OPEX, and Active

Reports or is that being so specific that it would cause our proposal to be rejected?

Prospective Contractors may specify experience with specific tools provided that those tools are not proprietary products owned by the Prospective Contractor.

4.00 Resumes

Can we attach redacted resumes, without names, as attachments and reference them in the response sections?

Please see questions #1 and #2.

5.00 1.4 Solicitation schedule

5 working days post Q&A posting is going to be very challenging to provide a comprehensive response- especially given the Holiday session-we would respectfully request and extension

The deadline to respond to the RFP will not be extended.

6.00 3.2(A) Will subcontractor experience be considered in the scoring?

The RFP will be evaluated based on the evaluation criteria and response requirements. Page 6 of the Response

Packet includes information that will be scored in the

"Experience" section. If a Prospective Contractor is using

Subcontractors, any experience provided must be relevant to the resource or resources proposed for the project.

7.00 2.6 (5)

Will we be allowed to utilize remote resources as needed for subject matter expert input to assist the onsite resources- especially in the first year?

All resources must be assigned to the Contract and on-site for at least the first year.

8.00

S000000182 Response

Packet - Page 6, Information for Evaluation -

Experience

RFP Response Packet Section 'INFORMATION

FOR EVALUATION ? EXPERIENCE' requires the contractor to provide resumes for all proposed resources and a narrative that describes relevant experience, and a skills matrix that summarizes relevant experience of proposed resources.

Are the resumes, narrative describing the experience and skills matrix of the proposed resources part of the 20 page limit?

Resumes will not count towards the 20 page limit. Narrative and skills matrix must not exceed 20 pages.

9.00

Official Bid Price Sheet -

Transition in phase costs

(tab 4)

RFP describes the price evaluated is the total cost from Table 1 on Tab 1. Would the department consider removing the transition-in costs as an evaluation criteria in order to provide a comparison between all respondents?

No.