W56HZV-20-R-0108 QA as of 13 May 2020.pdf

1. Section A.11.1 states that questions regarding the solicitation shall be submitted NLT close of business on Wednesday, April 29, 2020. Since the RFP was not released until May 04, 2020 is there a revised cutoff date for questions to be submitted?

A) The solicitation will be amended to change Wednesday, April 29, 2020 to Tuesday, May 19, 2020.

2. Section L.4.1.1 states that “For the Experience Factor, the offeror shall substantiate recent and comparable experience by providing the requested information below. The offeror may provide up to five recent Contracts. The Contract(s) must have been performed by the offeror as the prime contractor. Contracts may include foreign, federal, state, local and private industry Contracts. The Government will not consider the experience of subcontractors, individuals or key personnel; only corporate experience will be considered.”

My question is pertaining to the underlined sentence above stating that experience must have been performed as the prime contractor. As a small business, the majority of our work is captured and executed as a sub-contractor.

A) The RFP does not require an offeror to demonstrate experience specifically as the prime contractor of a U.S. Government contract. In this context, a prime contractor is considered to be any party that executes an agreement with another party to perform work.

The Government will accept recent private industry contract(s) to substantiate corporate experience, if that is what the Offeror performed as the prime contracted party (Reference L.4.1.1 “Contracts may include foreign, federal, state, local and private industry Contracts.”), so long as that instrument meets the RFP definition of a Contract (See L.4.1), and subject to the Contract limits set forth in Section L.4.1.2. If so, then the private Industry contract(s) would be the Contract information required to be submitted as detailed in L.4.1.4.4 (a)-(j), in addition to any other necessary substantiation for its proposed Experience that may be applicable pursuant to L.4.1.4.1 - L.4.1.4.3.