QuestionsAnswers_Solicitation_SBAHQ18Q015.pdf

Questions/Answers for Solicitation SBAHQ-18-Q-0015

Content Design, Production and Printing for the National Women’s Business Council Annual Report

1. I am hoping to find out if there is an incumbent contractor currently performing these services or if this is a new requirement. If there is an incumbent, could you please provide the contract number?

The NWBC considers this requirement to be a brand new solicitation separate from any active award done prior. Therefore, no incumbent has performed the services of this specific new requirement.

2. In the Instructions to Offerors, Technical Approach directions (#3), it states that offeror should provide “a statement of interest and initial research questions that will guide the approach to Task A” and #4 states “at least one example of research methodology that could be included in Task B, to which the offeror shall not be bound.” The PWS provided by the government does not delineate a Task A or Task B. Please clarify.

Please see updated instructions to offerors posted on July 24, 2018.

3. In the Instruction to Offerors, under “Information Collection” it references “additional surveys.” Again nothing in the PWS references surveys and given the very tight turnaround on the development of the report, conducting a survey would seem impossible.

Please clarify.

Please see updated instructions to offerors posted on July 24, 2018.

4. In the Instruction to Offerors, under “Impartiality” it references an “initial hypothesis” related to research and other references not included in the PWS. Please clarify.

5. In the Instruction to Offerors, under “Project Goal” it states the “intent of this contract is to conduct groundbreaking research.” This is not the goal stated in the PWS, please clarify.

Please see updated instructions to offerors posted on July 24, 2018.

6. The link provided for examples is not working.

Please see updated link: https://www.nwbc.gov/category/annual-reports/

7. Evaluation Factor 1 seem to all be based on research project versus the scope outlined in the PWS. For example, criteria b states that the researcher qualifications are important https://www.nwbc.gov/category/annual-reports/ even though there is no mention of a researcher in the PWS. Please clarify if the evaluation criteria provided are for this PWS or were mistakenly inserted.