Attachment 5 Questions and Government Responses JOC W911S722B0004 8 6 2022.pdf

QUESTIONS AND RESPONSES

W911S722B0004

Fort Leonard Wood, Job Order Contract (JOC)

1. When do you generally expect the actual solicitation to be issued?

Governments Response: Solicitation was already posted to the governments point of entry.

2. Who is the incumbent?

Governments Response: There is no current JOC Contract

3. What are their coefficients?

Governments Response: There is no current JOC Contract/no current coefficient

4. What has been the spend on the current contract?

Governments Response: There is no current JOC Contract

5. For the bid submittal it states 1 hard copy (sealed) and 1 electronic copy, CD-ROM. May we use a jump/thumb drive as a replacement for the CD-ROM?

Governments Response: No, must be CD-ROM

6. Can you advise as to where I may source the UPB to be used for this solicitation?

Governments Response: Please see ATTACHMENT 1, page 6, Section B

7. Is there a pre-bid meeting for this solicitation?

Governments Response: No, there will not be a pre bid meeting.

8. The RFP states that RS Means facility guide and master composite guide are the UPB for the resultant JOC contract. Where is UPB? Does this guide go by other name or will the use of RS

Means Facilities Construction Cost Data be acceptable?

Governments Response: The most up-to-date RS Means Facilities Construction guide will be the UPB for this contract

9. The RFP states that RS Means technical specifications is to be used. Where we can find these specifications.

Governments Response: See section C1.6 of Attachment 1, Statement of Work

10. Are we to use weighted average City Cost Index for the closest city to Ft. Leonard Wood to price task orders?

Governments Response: City Cost Index will be Rolla, Missouri.

11. Are we to use the RS Means bare cost column or the O&P column to price task orders.

Governments Response: RS Means O&P column

12a. Who will be developing and supporting the Unit Price Book and providing associated JOC software and support services? See section C1.5 B of Attachment 1, Statement of Work. The software referred to is e4Clicks Premier

12b. Can I offer you and your technical team a no obligation information session via the web to introduce our capabilities?

Governments Response: We are not accepting these services at this time

13. Can you clarify the due date for offers?

Governments Response: 31 August 2022

14. Would the Government like offerors to provide the UEI in lieu of or in addition to the

DUNS number?

Governments Response: Provide both the UEI and DUNS numbers

15. Did the Government intend to refer to Attachment 4 on page 48 rather than to Attachment

5?

Governments Response: Yes

16. Can the Government please provide Attachments 5-9 as mentioned in Section J or amend Section J accordingly?

Governments Response: MICC to answer. I believe Att 5-9 were listed in error

17. Will pricing be bare cost or with O&P cost?

Governments Response: RS Means O&P column

18. Part I General Instructions, Section C1.7 Contractor Provided Personnel, Subsection T. Contractor Employee Training, page 11 of 69 implies that eGordian software is the preferred estimating tool. There are other estimating software that are equally as good as eGordian such as WinEst, which have been utilized on both federal and none federal JOC contracts. Will the use of other software be acceptable?

Governments Response: No, the most up-to-date RS Means Facilities Construction guide will be the UPB for this contract. The software referred to is eGordian e4Clicks Premier.

19. Part I General Instructions, Section C1.12 Technical Support, second paragraph Page 17 of 69 states “Engineered products are anticipated for some individual projects . We understand that the cost associated with producing engineered products will be compensated as a line item (e.g.

stamped drawings, certified calculations,…etc). Please clarify.

Governments Response: Yes, these features of work will be pre-priced by the line item.

20. Part I General Instructions, Section C1.12 Technical Support, subsections 1 through 3 list several technical and engineering products the contractor is expected to provide such (e.g. tests, soil boring, load tests, CAD drawings, code reviews, …etc). Such technical requirements require significant engineering work involving the involvement of A/E and testing labs.

a. We understand that not every project will require all this technical support. When such technical support is needed, how will the contractor be compensated for this very involved engineering and testing work? Will the government issue a task order to investigate the site?

Governments Response: A/E services that can be placed into a line item from the price book, will be priced accordingly. All other services requested will be priced under the non pre-priced category.

21. Please clarify the payment and performance bond requirements:

a. Umbrella bond or bonding each task order separately

Governments Response: For MICC to answer

b. If annual umbrella bond, what the value of the annual bond? $5M?

Governments Response: For MICC to answer

22. Item 44 on page 24 of 69 lists drawings, sketches and other scope incidental documentations as part of the price proposal package. We understand that none of these items require the involvement of professional engineer/architect nor any of these documents requires any professional stamps. Please confirm.

Governments Response: See question 19

23. Will the government provide bidders with access to the unit price book in order to perform price analysis for the coefficient?

Governments Response: No

24. Can you tell me how many contractors will be awarded this IDIQ?

Government Response: There will be one contractor selected.