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Annual Fire Suppression Maintenance IDIQ Solicitation No. SAQMMA14R0190 Questions and Answers

Q. Has a contractor performed similar work to this for the Government in the past?

If available, please provide the incumbent contract number. If you are unable to provide a contract number, is it safe to assume this is a new requirement for the Government?

A. This is a new requirement for the Government. Therefore, there is no incumbent.

Q. This new solicitation # SAQMMA14R0190 has a NAICS code listing of 561210 & 561. Will ONLY a business that lists with this code be able to be considered?

A. The Government acknowledges that there may be other NAICS codes that are also applicable to this procurement. Offerors may submit a proposal under another NAICS code relevant to this procurement and must make a note of this within the proposal for the Government’s consideration. However, as this acquisition is a total small business set aside, offerors must be within the established small business size standards as determined by the United States Small Business Administration for that particular NAICS code.

Q. The size standard listed for this solicitation is $35.5M. Is it correct to say that any small business that makes less than $35.5M is acceptable?

A. Correct. Any small business over the life of the contract that makes less than $35.5M is acceptable. The $35.5M is simply the maximum threshold.

Q. My “Team” consists of three companies. Ourselves as the lead (Fire Alarm), a Fire Sprinkler Firm, and a Fire Pump firm. All of us are highly qualified and experienced globally with performance of United States Department of State contracts for the maintenance required of this solicitation. To qualify for this IDIQ, will we have to “officially/legally” be a joint venture? Or would submission of all three of our companies’ technicians’ resumes, experience, NICET levels, clearances, factory certifications, insurance, etc.. and designate a “Project manager/IDIQ manager” from our company that meets the qualification standards set forth in the solicitation?

To clarify the intention of this question, if not made to officially/legally a joint venture and awarded a place on this IDIQ, we as the company with the established project manager/IDIQ manager for the team would bid any task orders that involve their disciplines. In this example, United States Department of State would have understanding that an awarded task order if not directly completed by us in our discipline would be completed by only those two firms whose information was submitted as subcontractors of our company, thus qualifying as having a “direct contractual relationship” with us as the awardee based on the sub-contract PO that we award them.

A. If there is more than one company proposed apart from the offeror to perform the required services, the companies need not be a joint venture in order to be considered. Whether to pursue a joint venture is at the sole discretion of the involved parties. It is also at the offeror’s discretion whom to propose as the IDIQ manager, and how to structure the entire team.

In an absence of a joint venture, any and all subcontractor(s) for a particular IDIQ awardee will be considered as having a direct contractual relationship with the said awardee.