SSS QA 10052020.docx

PWS Comment:

The vendor must be able to accomplish all tasks of the PWS, we are particularly interested in having you address your experience in meeting the Dask principle contributor requirement coupled with development and deployment of their own machine learning platform in PWS paragraphs 2.2.2 and 2.4.4.

· Contractor skill set including but not limited to development and deployment of Apache ecosystem, Jupyter Hub deployment, Python, R, Dask, Minio, Presto, Kubernetes, Fully containerized hosted applications

· Experience managing Dask distributed clusters at scale and have a background as a community contributor to Dask Question #1:

Question: What do you mean by : “cost estimate for each item you can provide”? Are you looking for us to provide a price estimate for the opportunity? If so, can you please provide the anticipated Level of Effort?

Answer #1:

We are estimating 7 CME’s for this effort, but at this point a cost estimate is not our main focus. We seeking information on whether this effort could be competed and what vendors are available to meet all of our requirements.

Question #2:

First of all can you please tell me who is the incumbent contractor, and what is the value of the incumbent contract?

Answer #2:

There is no incumbent.

Question #3:

Regarding paragraph 3.5, requiring some personnel (on-site) to report their time in a Government accounting system, that seems in contrast with paragraph 1.4. And why would only the on-site personnel have to do this?

Answer #3:

Paragraph 3.6 is where the majority of the on-site effort will be conducted. The length and duration of the on-site support is covered in Paragraph 5 Travel.

Question #4:

Regarding paragraph 6, which personnel require a SECRET clearance?

Answer #4:

The people requiring a security are identified in Paragraph’s 2.4.2, 2.4.4, 2.4.6 and 2.4.7

Question #5:

Regarding paragraph 7, how do we know how we will be evaluated? What are “application deploy targets”?

Answer #5:

Since this is a draft PWS paragraph 7 and 10 are still being finalized and will be completed prior to issuing the RFQ. Since we are just seeking contractor capability, evaluation criteria is irrelevant at this point. Application deploy targets are milestones to deploy each application.

Question #6:

What is paragraph 11?

Answer #6:

Paragraph 11 used to define the skillsets in 2.4. For example: Senior Data Scientist – IL4 is Impact level 4

Question #7:

What will be the contract value for this opportunity?

Answer #7:

There is no current contract value.