Amendment_05_Cover_Page.pdf
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This document contains responses to questions from offerors on a solicitation from the United States Agency for International Development for the Accountability, Coordination, Evaluation, and Support (ACES) program. The solicitation seeks to strengthen accountability systems through support for formal and informal actors on specific issues. It also aims to integrate good governance principles into USAID programs in sectors such as health, education, and economic growth. One response clarifies that an attachment is required from all offerors to provide up to five references for relevant past performance on federal, state, local, or foreign government contracts within the last five years. Another response accepts the separate submission of major subcontractors' indirect cost rates due to their proprietary nature, and specifies that subcontractors should identify the prime offeror they support.
Amendment Number 5 Cover Page
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8. Please confirm that, per Section L.8.c.(d. Factor Four).i.b (on p.119), the Past Performance
Information (PPI) form provided as Attachment J.8 is required only for contracts that are not included in the CPARS.
Response: Attachment J.8 is required from all Offerors. Offerors should use J.8 to provide three to five references of the most recent and relevant contracts/assistance or orders from Federal, State, local or foreign government, commercial firms, business partners, and subcontractors, within the last five years for efforts similar tow or in the subject proposal.
If an Offeror provides a referenced contract that is not in CPARS Offerors should include in attachment J.8 a list of contact names, job titles, mailing addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, explanation of relevance to the proposed acquisition and a description of the performance to include:
Scope of work or complexity/diversity of tasks, Primary location(s) of work, Term of performance, Dollar value, and
Contract type, i.e., fixed-price, cost reimbursement, etc.
39. Section B.9 on page 16 indicates that offerors must include current approved indirect cost rates for the prime and major subcontractor(s) in the table as part of Attachment J.7 Cost/price
Evaluation Matrix. A company’s indirect rates are widely acknowledged to be proprietary and sensitive financial information, the disclosure of which would result in competitive harm and, consistent with the Trade Secrets Act, should therefore be protected from such disclosure to third parties, (including prime contractors who may be competitors on other procurements).
Thus, we respectfully request that major subcontractor(s) indirect cost rate information not be included in any resulting final prime contract. Furthermore, we request approval to have major subcontractor(s) submit their indirect cost rates directly to USAID under separate cover for this
RFP.
Response: USAID will accept the submission of indirect cost rates directly from the major subcontractors under separate cover. We ask that major subcontractors provide in their email an explanation as to what Prime Offeror they are acting as the major subcontractor for so that they may be properly paired with the appropriate Prime during our evaluation of the proposals.
Major subcontractor(s) indirect cost rate information will not be included in any resulting final prime contract due to the proprietary nature of the information. Section B.9 of the RFP has been revised as part of amendment 5 to reflect this change.
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