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Amendment 2

TIRNO-12-R-00004

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AMENDMENT RFP ISSUE DATE:

January 9, 2012 2.

ISSUED BY:

Department of Treasury

Internal Revenue Service

ATTN: Laquisha Levy

Constellation Centre (OS:A:P:I:D:B)

6009 Oxon Hill Road

Oxon Hill, MD 20745

3.

FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:

NAME:

Laquisha Levy, Contract Specialist

PHONE:

(202) 283-6838 EMAIL: laquisha.l.levy@irs.gov

FAX:

(202) 283-1290

4. PROPOSAL DUE DATE/TIME: REVISED

Proposals are due by 3pm EST, Tuesday, January 24, 2012.

PAST PERFORMANCE DUE DATE/TIME: REVISED

Past Performance Questionnaires are due by 12pm EST Friday, January 13, 2012

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AMENDMENT: The solicitation has been amended to clarify responses to the Government’s answers on Amendment 1-Question & Answers.

QUESTIONS

1. We do have a question on the applicability of our CMMI Certification. Our Certification is in reference to IT Services and not Software Development. If that will preclude us from being compliant, please let us know, because we are moving forward as if fully compliant.

ANSWER: Please review the following clauses that are listed in the RFP.

Attachment 1 IRSAP IR1052.239-9004 – Instructions to Offerors

Attachment 2 IRSAP IR1052.239-9005 – Software Development Prerequisite

Attachment 3 IRSAP IR1052.239-9006 – Software Development Prerequisite

2. I wanted to bring your attention to a most important item regarding the IRS MIDDLEWARE solicitation. Many firms, including ours, utilize graphics for their proposals. We have been particularly successful creating customized graphics to articulate our processes/workflows/benefits/results in federal proposals. As I am sure you can imagine, 12 point arial font does not work for text within these graphics. Most proposals we have responded to relax the font restriction to 9 point within graphics and tables. We are not concerned about tables, but graphics ARE CRITICAL to our proposal development process and we have seen the government finds it MUCH EASIER to look at graphics as opposed to pages full of text. Unfortunately, with the 12 point restriction, we will be forced to exclude most of our graphics.

ANSWER: Graphics and Table fonts have been changed to 9 point, Arial

3. Was the $1.8M value on the Delmock contract for the full year or just 6 months? ANSWER: The contract value mentioned in Amendment 1-Question & Answers is associated with a period of performance from May 1, 2011 through October 31, 2011 with one (1) six month option period.

4. Is the Informatica work a separate contract? Answer: Reference the RFP which outlines the required services and functions.

5. We kindly request you to extend the past performance questionnaire submission date for this opportunity from Jan 10 to Jan 24. Answer: The Past Performance questionnaire submission has been extended until 12pm (noon) Friday, January 13, 2012.

6. In reference to Solicitation Number: TIRNO-12-R-00004 questions and answers posted on 1/6/12 - 2 Per Q &A: #58 In regard to Section L.8, Instructions, Conditions, and Notices to Offers, Volume III – Cost Proposal, Page 78, can the government provide more detailed instructions regarding the cost or pricing substantiation requirement in the sentence, “The offeror shall also provide a copy of applicable current GSA Schedules or commercial labor hour price lists, as well as any required cost or pricing substantiation.” What constitutes acceptable cost or price substantiation? ANSWER: This reference has been deleted in its entirety and will not be required .Yet in the amended RFP - on page 77 the requirement is still there Answer: Page 77 has been updated to delete the reference in its entirety.