PFD Solicitation Questions_Answers.docx

15 May 2020

1) Is an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) required with the proposal submission?

Answer-Yes

a. If so, for what period? (e.g., year 1 only[?] since that has most of the items and years 2-5 are the same production activities).

Answer-For the duration of the contract.

b. At what level of detail?

Answer-Sufficient to outline what the vendor determines are critical tasks and milestones affecting and driving the proposed schedule.

2) For the final production product, will manuals need to printed as hard copies or is electronic version all that is required?

a. If hard copy printing is needed, how many manuals will need to be printed?

Answer: From CDRL A003- The First, Second, and FRC submissions may be delivered to the Government representative electronically. Each submission shall be sent with a letter of transmittal on Contractor letterhead with appropriate signature blocks completed and will be considered a draft until accepted by the Government.

3) Since the solicitation talks about all things required throughout the entire lifecycle of this contract, at times it is difficult to determine exactly what you want delivered with the proposal submission. For example, some things are only relevant at the Design Validation (DV) phase and the same thing for the Development Testing and Operational Testing DT/OT) phase. Can you please provide a checklist of what items are currently required for each of the five Volumes?

Answer: Please follow the general instructions in Section L.

4) How many offerors will be selected to proceed to the Design Validation (DV) phase?

Answer: There is no set number of offerors that will be determined to be in the competitive range for DV.