Pre Award Conference Questions_answers 17 June 2020.docx

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Appliance Repair Services for US Army Garrisons in Europe
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This document provides details of an upcoming federal contract solicitation for appliance repair services. The U.S. Army Contracting Command intends to issue solicitation number W564KV-20-R-0014 in July 2020 to acquire domestic appliance repair services for Army family and unaccompanied personnel housing in Europe. The firm fixed price contract will have a period of performance of one base year with four one-year options. Prospective offerors must have an active SAM registration. A pre-solicitation conference will be held virtually on June 17th to review the draft solicitation and respond to questions. Offers will be due at least 30 days after issuance of the final solicitation on SAM. The services required include on-call repairs and management of repair parts and common standard items to ensure appliances are repaired to commercial standards.

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Pre-Solicitation Conference Questions and Answers 17 June 2020

Questions:

1. A company competing to the solicitation is able to make an offer only for 1 location or for all locations?

a. Either or; it is up to the company submitting proposal and will be competing against others with same proposal.

2. I can make my offer just for Italy?

i. Yes

3. When are you going to publish the attachments?

a. Shortly and posted to BETA.SAM as “DRAFT” due to ever-changing amounts

4. Previous contracts were FFP or different type?

a. They were FFP, yes.

5. On industry day was information provided on estimates on Task Orders?

a. Yes, it was discussed

6. When the government evaluates offers individually does that prohibit vendors with multiple country submissions?

a. Lowest Price will be the determining factor

b. Compared individually NOT together

7. Are you going to provide a facility for the offeror’s team on the base, outside base?

a. Yes, for the repair person/team, not HQ or administrative sections; at FMO

b. Not for administrative or overhead, not a HQ just the service team performing the work

8. The 3 person repair team can access the installation.

a. Yes, but remember locations of repairs are on base, off base, FMO

b. Yes, there will be a repair location to work

9. Based on previous contract, are there any additional requirements such as spare part management, I see that spare parts management and procurement is now a responsibility of the contractor.

a. The goal of this procurement is to remove the gov from micromanaging that specific detail and for the vendor to internally handle the management of that.

10. The reception desk (per PWS) in Stuttgart is new?

a. Yes, that is an increase in the requirement from previous year.

11. There is a difference in the information shared during Industry Day and the present information.

a. We said during Industry day that what is said at that time may be different from when the Solicitation is posted as the requirement is growing and needs to be further defined.

12. How open is the government to smarter digital solutions?

a. We can only look at the technical approach (i.e. 52.212-1 and 52.212-2) and price should be reflected on proposal as technology should lower overall price.

13. The common parts should be included in monthly price?

14. There will be a technical approach and look at the technical first and then look at the pricing? What is looked at first

a. Contracting Specialist reviews FAR Part 15 and explains lowest price technical acceptable based on Technical Approach

15. Regarding Past Performance: Will the government have percentage on how heavily past performance is weighed?

a. References made to evaluation criteria and language

**Questions or comments please send to POC’s per Solicitation

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