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W911SD-17-R-0002

SECTION SF 30 BLOCK 14 CONTINUATION PAGE

SUMMARY OF CHANGES

SECTION SF 1449 - CONTINUATION SHEET

The following have been modified:

52.212-1 ADDENDUM

52.212-1

PROPOSAL PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS

A. Proposal Submittal and Inquiries.

1. Proposals shall be submitted prior to the closing date and time identified on the SF 1449, to the following address:

Mission and Installation Contracting Command – West Point Attn: Kymberly Aviles, Contract Officer 681 Hardee Place, Room 104 West Point, NY 10996

2. Electronic submissions via email or facsimile will not be accepted. Offers shall be mailed through a commercial/Government carrier or hand carried.

3. The point of contact responsible for supplying additional information and answering all inquiries is the Contracting Officer. Address all questions or concerns the offeror may have to Contracting OfficerKymberly Aviles (845-938-5861). All questions regarding this solicitation shall be submitted in writing via email to:

Kymberly.y.aviles.civ@mail.mil

4. Site Visit. The Government will hold a site visit, all personnel attending the site visit will convene at the Mission and Installation Contracting Command – West Point’s office located on the 1st Floor, 681 Hardee Place, West Point, NY on 14 June 2017 beginning at 10:00 AM local time. All interested firms may attend with a limit of three (3) attendees per firm. Please submit, in writing, the names of attendees to Kymberly Aviles at Kymberly.y.aviles.civ@mail.mil 17 June 2017.

B. General Instructions

1. The selection of a source for award purposes will be conducted utilizing simplified acquisition procedures as delineated in FAR Part 13.5.

2. The Offer. The submission of the documentation specified below will constitute the offerors acceptance of the terms and conditions of the RFP, concurrence with the Statement of Work (SOW), and contract type.

3. It is the Government’s intention to award without discussions. Offerors are encouraged to present their best mission capability and prices in their initial quote submission.

4. Instructions outlined in paragraph C below, prescribe the format for the proposal and describes the approach for the development and presentation of proposal data. These instructions are designed to ensure the submission of information needed to allow for evaluation of Proposals.

5. If an quoter believes that the requirements in these instructions contain an error, an ambiguity, omission, or are otherwise deemed unsound, the offeror shall immediately notify the contract specialist in writing with supporting rationale. The offeror is reminded that the Government reserves the right to award this effort based on the initial proposal, as received, without discussion.

6. In accordance with FAR Subpart 4.8 (Government Contract Files), the Government will retain one copy of all unsuccessful Proposals. Unless the offeror requests otherwise, the Government will destroy extra copies of such unsuccessful proposals.

7. All referenced documents for this solicitation are available on the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) website at http://www.fedbizzopps.gov. Potential Offerors are encouraged to subscribe for real-time e-mail notifications when information has been posted to the website for this solicitation.

If any necessary documents are not available on FEDBIZOPPS, please notify the point of contact shown on the Standard Form 1449.

C. Proposal Preparation Instructions

1. Offeror’s proposal shall consist of four (4) separate volumes: 8(a) certification, Mission Capability, Past Performance, and Price.

2. Format

(a) Offerors shall submit an original and the number of copies listed in paragraph (c) below of their proposal.

(b) The Offerors shall be organized into four (4) volumes. Each hard copy volume of the proposal shall be separately bound in a three-ring loose leaf binder which shall permit the volume to lie flat when open. A cover sheet should be bound in each book, clearly marked as to volume number, title, copy number, solicitation identification and the offeror's name. The same identifying data should be placed on the spine of each binder. All text shall be single spaced and printed black on white paper (Black and white requirement does not apply to graphics, photos, etc., Company stationary and logos are acceptable). In accordance with FAR 52.204-4, hard copies shall be double-sided on paper containing at least 30 percent postconsumer fiber, whenever practicable. Printing shall be easily readable (12-pitch type or 10 point proportional spacing.) Cross-references should be utilized to preclude unnecessary duplication of data between sections. In addition to submitting hard copies of the proposals, digital copies shall be provided on CD-ROM disk in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and/or Excel as outlined in Table 2. The file name shall be “Company Name – Initial” for the first submission. The file name of later submissions (if necessary), shall be “Company Name – Revision X’ with X indicating the number of the revision. Page limitations are as follows:

Table 2

(d) Limitation. The proposal shall not exceed the limits stated above. If the page limits are exceeded, the pages in excess of the limit shall be removed and returned, unread, to the offeror. The Government will not accept any changes to the contractor’s proposal after the closing date of the solicitation.

3. Content

(a) Volume I – 8(a) certification.

(b) Volume II – Mission Capability.

(1) The Mission Capability Volume shall be clear, concise, and include sufficient detail for effective evaluation and for substantiating the validity of stated claims in the Offeror’s proposal. Legibility, clarity and coherence are very important. Proposals will be evaluated against the Mission Capability factors defined 52.212-2 Addendum. The proposal should not simply rephrase or restate the Government's requirements, but rather shall provide convincing rationale to address how the offeror intends to meet these requirements. Statements that the offeror understands, can, or will comply with the PWS (including referenced publications, technical data, etc.); statements paraphrasing the PWS or parts thereof (including applicable publications, technical data, etc.); and phrases such as “standard procedures will be employed” or “well known techniques will be used,” etc., will be considered unacceptable. Offerors shall assume that the Government has no prior knowledge of their facilities and experience, and will base its evaluation on the information presented in the offeror's proposal.

(2) The Mission Capability Volume shall, at a minimum, be prepared in a form consistent with the PWS and the evaluation criteria for award set forth in Section M of this solicitation. The section shall be prepared in an orderly format and in sufficient detail to enable the Government to make a thorough evaluation of the contractor’s technical competence and ability to comply with the contract task requirements specified in the PWS.

(c) Volume III - Past Performance. The Past Performance evaluation will be accomplished by reviewing aspects of an Offeror's recent and relevant Past Performance, focusing on performance which is relevant to the effort as it directly relates to the work being procured under this solicitation and as defined in Performance Work Statement (PWS)

Past Performance information described herein is required on the offeror and all subcontractors, teaming partners, and/or joint venture partners expected to perform 20 percent or more of the proposed effort based on the total proposed price. The offeror shall submit, along with the information required in this paragraph, a consent letter, executed by each subcontractor, teaming partner, and/or joint venture partner, authorizing release of adverse past performance information to the Government. Offerors will be provided the opportunity to respond to adverse past performance information. For each identified effort for a commercial customer, the offeror shall also submit a client authorization letter, authorizing release to the Government of requested information on the offeror's performance.

1. Early Proposal Information. The offeror is requested to submit the Past Performance Volume 10 calendar days after the RFP issuance date, to the Contracting Officer.

2. The offeror shall include documentation regarding its relevant past performance as it directly relates to the work being procured under this solicitation. The offeror SHALL NOT go back any farther than three (3) years for the submitted data. The past performance data shall document a successful history of past contract performance.

3. In conducting the Past Performance evaluation, the Government reserves the right to use both the information provided in the offeror’s Past Performance Volume and information obtained from other sources, such as the Past Performance Information Retrieval System (PPIRS) or similar systems, Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) and commercial sources. Offerors are reminded that both independent data and data provided by offerors in their proposals may be used by the Government to evaluate offeror past performance. However, the burden of providing thorough, complete, and current past performance information as requested in this paragraph remains with the offerors. Proposals that do not contain the information requested by this paragraph risk rejection or a less than acceptable performance rating by the Government. All past performance comments received will be taken into account and could affect the overall rating. The overall past performance evaluation is a subjective decision based on the data received. In the case of an offeror without a record of relevant past performance or for whom information on past performance is not available or so sparse that no meaningful past performance rating can be reasonably assigned, the offeror may not be evaluated favorably or unfavorably on past performance. The offeror shall be determined to have unknown past performance. In the context of acceptability/unacceptability, “unknown” shall be considered “acceptable.”

4. Submission Requirements. The offeror shall submit a Past Performance Volume containing the following:

· Table of Contents

· Summary Page describing the role of the offeror and each subcontractor, teaming partner, and /or joint venture partner that the offeror is required to provide Past Performance Specific Relevant Contract Reference Sheets for the past performance experience in accordance with Attachment 1.

· Consent Letters executed by each subcontractor, teaming partner, and/or joint venture partner, authorizing the release of past performance information to the Government. Offerors will be provided the opportunity to respond to such information. A sample consent letter is attached as Attachment 1.

· Specific Relevant Contracts Format - Sheets in accordance with Attachment 2. The offeror shall provide documentation outlining the offeror’s past performance with contracts, as a prime or major subcontractor, which is the same or similar in size, time, scope, and complexity to the services being procured under this Solicitation. The submittal shall include rationale supporting the assertion of relevance and how it was determined that the work performed previously was the same or similar in size, time, scope, and complexity to the work specified by this solicitation. Offerors are required to explain what aspects of the contracts are deemed relevant to the proposed effort, and to what aspects of the proposed effort they relate.

· Past Performance Questionnaire - See Attachment 1, For the contracts identified on each Specific Relevant Contract Reference, the offeror shall forward a copy of the Past Performance Questionnaire to the points of contact responsible for monitoring performance under such contracts. The points of contact shall return the questionnaires directly to Kymberly Aviles, Contract Specialist not Later than proposal submission due date. Any questionnaires not returned directly to the Contract Specialist will not be reviewed and evaluated. The information contained in the questionnaires will be used to evaluate the offeror’s past performance. New entities that have no past customers shall annotate on the Summary Page that they have had no previous clients and that the minimum number of questionnaires cannot be provided.

(d) Volume IV- Price – The offeror shall complete Section B of the solicitation. For the Price Volume, the electronic version will take precedence for any differences noted between the hard copy and electronic versions of an offeror’s proposal.

Certified cost or pricing data is not anticipated due to expected competition.

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