Q&A22May2017.pdf

As of 22 May 2017, the Government has provided the following answers to questions asked about solicitation W9127N-17-R-0020.

Question 1: Can one use private sector past performance when completing the PPQ form?

Answer 1: Yes, your company may use private sector past performance.

Question 2: Is there an incumbent vendor for this work? If so, who are they and are they eligible to bid on this contract?

Answer 2: No, there is not an incumbent contractor.

Question 3: Please clarify whether prior experience with USACE systems as listed in section 6.6 beginning page 13 are required or whether experience providing that type of services, but in different systems, will suffice?

Answer 3: The solicitation states in provision 52.212-1 that "the offeror shall submit information for up to five (5) projects* that best demonstrates the offeror’s experience on projects that are similar in size, scope, and complexity to this project, as described in the RFP’s Statement of Work (SOW)." The offerors proposal will be evaluated in accordance with solicitation provision 52.212-2.

Question 4: For Key personnel, on page 30, the solicitation states “The offeror shall submit one résumé for the individual whom the offeror will provide to fulfill each of the following key personnel labor categories”. Can we submit more than one resume per category?

Answer 4: Submit only one resume for each key labor category.

Question 5: Do the resumes and the initial task order work plan count toward the page limit?

Answer 5: Yes.

Question 6: If we are submitting a PPQ, how many do we need to submit?

Answer 6: Submit a PPQ for each project listed by the offeror under Factor 1: Past Experience.

Question 7: Are individual task orders firm fixed price? Or are the rates firm-fixed price, but task order payment structures vary (e.g., fixed price per deliverable, time and materials, etc.)?

Answer 7: The Government will award a majority of the task orders as firm-fixed-price. The labor rates an offeror proposes in response to this solicitation will be binding if awarded a contract.

Question 8: Please clarify whether the requirement to provide appropriate personnel on-site in Portland, Oregon within 2 hours during normal business hours (M-F 8-5) is only during active Task Orders or whether it is anytime for the length of the contract.

Answer 8: It is for awarded active task orders.

Question 9: Service Employee provision [Section(k)(3)(iii)*] – will contractor employees be required to spend less than 20% of their time on the Corp?

Answer 9: The Contracting Officer didn’t check either paragraph (k)(1) or (k)(2) for solicitation provision 52.212- 3(k). The Service Contract Labor Standards are not exempt for this requirement, and offeror certifications under paragraph k of provision 52.212-3 are not applicable.

Question 10: Are acceptable project personnel limited to only the requirements provided in this RFP? For example, since the Task Order involves website designs, would it be possible to include an appropriately credentialed Art Director/Designer among the project team, in addition to the required personnel, in order to provide superior design/usability capabilities to the Corp?

Answer 10: The Government may consider alternatives if appropriate.

Question 11: Is the government dictating the number of staff needed for this project as indicated in page 12-13 (is that number is 10?)

Answer 11: No, the Government is not dictating the number of staff needed. Section 6.5 of the Statement of Work states that “the Contractor shall provide personnel to fulfill the following responsibilities, and, where stated, with the following minimum education and experience….” The potential offeror should review the submission requirements stated in the addendum to provision 52.212-1.

Question 12: Is the technology being utilize for software development and data repository the one in section 6.6.4 & 6.6.7? Is there any additional software that will be use?

Answer 12: The lists provided in section 6.6.4 & 6.6.7 are not an exhaustive list, and were provided to generally indicate the type of technology being used. Additional software and technologies can be utilized if they provide a more appropriate solution.

Question 13: Is the Hardware and System Developer position for an air space engineer and not for a network or systems engineer?

Answer 13: The description of the Hardware and System Developer position is listed in section 6.5.7.

Question 14: Can any of the work be done offsite or remotely?

Answer 14: Yes.

Question 15: Is clearance require for this project and if yes what level?

Answer 15: Please review section 7.0 of the Statement of Work.

Question 16: Is the contractor Authorize to charge for Cost + Fee?

Answer 16: No. The Government will mainly issue firm-fixed-price task orders. The Government may issue a time-and-materials or labor-hour task order when there is a need.

Question 17: Will you accept our GSA schedule for pricing on our labor categories?

Answer 17: The offeror shall submit pricing on Attachment D – Binding Price Schedule.

Task Order Questions

Question 18: Is it correct to assume the Deliverables Schedule for the first task order can be modified based on a later project start date? Does all work still need to be complete by Sept. 1?

Answer 18: Yes. The deliverable schedule will be changed to the following:

PWS Paragraph Milestone or Deliverable Delivery Date* Para. 5.4 Progress reports Due by the 10th of every month following services rendered.

Para. 5.4.1 Familiarization with Water Management data systems and the interfaces between data systems and web display – completed.

August 01, 2017

Para. 5.4.2 Implement minor web page edits completed

September 1, 2017

Para. 5.4.3 Embedded Links Completed

September 15, 2017

Para. 5.4.4 Create web pages completed

October 2, 2017

Para. 5.4.5 Web Page Refresh completed

October 20, 2017

Para. 5.4.6 Update satellite image display completed

November 1, 2017

Question 19: For Task 3, approximately how many external links need to be checked?

Answer 19: There are approximately 50 links.

Question 20: For Task 4, is the content for these pages already generated and organized?

Answer 20: The pdf files, images, text, and graphics are already generated. The data is already available for the tables and graphs. The organization of these products along with navigation aids on the pages will be determined during the first task order.

Question 21: Could you provide some additional information on the requirements for Task 5? Are you looking for analysis and a report on methods staff could use for updating and refreshing web pages, or would you like the pages to actually be refreshed, or something different?

Answer 21: Since the web pages are public facing, the data, images, reports, and other content that are served up on these pages come from servers inside the USACE firewall. Much of this content is generated automatically and can be sent out to the public web servers for display. In the first task order for Task 5 “the Contractor” will become familiar with the current approaches for updating the web pages and will investigate methods to improve on the current procedures.

Question 22: For task 6, approximately how many pages and/or images need to be corrected?

Answer 22: There are images associated with 15 reservoirs. Depending on which of the reservoirs are chosen, the choice of images changes. All the images are in a similar directory tree for acquiring. Therefore, making the necessary corrections to acquire the images correctly for one set of reservoir images will fix the issues with the other 14 reservoirs. The images themselves do not need to be corrected. Once corrections are made the pages will need to be pushed out to two other backup web servers.

Question 23: Is the first task order fixed price, or would a time and materials cost proposal be acceptable?

Answer 23: The first task order is firm-fixed-price.

Question 24: Does the first task order involve internal or public web pages? If public, can you provide a link?

Answer 24: These are public web pages.

The main web page is at: http://www.nwd-wc.usace.army.mil/nwp/wm/ Any pages or resources that are under the ../nwp/wm/ directory tree are within scope of the first task order. Any pages or resources that are not under this directory tree are not within scope.

http://www.nwd-wc.usace.army.mil/nwp/wm/