Q-0011_Questions_and_Answers.pdf

Questions Solicitation W912D1-19-Q-0011:

1) What is the geographic coverage area required for the satellite service?

A:The CENTCOM area of operation (AO) South West Asia(SWA)

2) What satellite(s) are you using now? Do not know

A: 85.0 E is all that we know for the TRACPHONE Satellite.

3) What size dish and wattage BUC are you using now?

A: 60 cm dish/ 4 Watts

4) What satellite modem are you using now? 5) Are the modems customer furnished or does it need to be provided by the vendor?

A: Integrated CommBox Modem (ICM). Vendor Provided

6) Is there a size/weight restriction for the maritime VSAT antenna?

A: 150 lbs / 3 ft.

7) Is a single antenna solution acceptable or does the customer require dual antennas to overcome ship infrastructure blockages?

A: Can possibly work with one antenna, but two would work best.

8) What length IFL cables are needed? What is the distance between the above deck equipment (ADE) (i.e antenna) and below deck equipment (BDE) (i.e modem)?

A: 80 Feet.

9) Can you please extend the due date by 20 days after you publish answers to allow sufficient time to gather pricing and provide a quote?

A: Response date extended 26 November 2018.

10) What is the delivery address?

A: Delivery and installation will take place at Camp Patriot, Kuwait.

11) Can the delivery date be extended beyond 10DEC18 to allow sufficient time for delivery (Ie maybe 30-60 days)?

A: Delivery and installation required NLT 16 December 2018.

12) What are the min and max operating temperatures required? Need to know temps to determine if heaters and/or air conditioners are required unless this is known by the government.

A: Operational (-15 degrees C to 55 degrees C) Survival (-15 degrees C to 70 degrees C)

13) Would an unlimited usage plan be preferred over the requested monthly data cap of 40GB?

A: 40 GB monthly data required.

14) Will the government be performing the installation? If not, additional details will be required to quote installation (ie place of install, is an existing mounting platform available, length of cable runs, power available, etc).

A: Installation will be at Camp Patriot Kuwait, current system installed is TRACPhone V7IP.

15) Is on-site training required?

A: Training needs to be completed on how to utilize upgraded equipment at time of installation.

16) Is an existing iDirect TDMA network acceptable?

A: N/A

17) Is KU Band acceptable?

A: Yes, it is preferred

18) please confirm whether the 10Mbps Download (shore to ship) and 3Mbps Upload (ship to shore) is the Maximum Information Rate (MIR) or a Committed Information Rate (CIR) (ie dedicated bandwidth).

A: Yes, that is the MIR

19) If it is MIR and not dedicated bandwidth, what is the maximum acceptable contention ratio for the network?

20) section 1.4.1 states: “The contractor will maintain a 99.99% service level of working TRAC Phone service over the course of this contract.” Is the government open to alternatives to tracphone service (proprietary to KVH) or is this a sole source requirement? If sole source or brand name only, is there a justification and approval (J&A)?

21) section 1.0 states: “The Contractor shall provide satellite airtime service and updated V7IP HTS”. The “V7IP” is again a specific model number proprietary to KVH. Is alternative maritime VSAT hardware acceptable oris this a sole source requirement? If sole source or brand name only, is there a justification and approval (J&A)?

22) what is the section criteria for this contract: Lowest Price Technically Acceptable or Best Value?

A: 52.212-2 Evaluation – Commercial Items (OCT 2014) – ADDENDUM

EVALUATION OF PROPOSALS – BASIS OF AWARD:

The Government intends to award to the responsible vendor providing the lowest priced, responsive quote that is fair and reasonable.

A vendor is determined responsible in accordance with FAR 9.104. A quote is determined responsive if it meets or exceeds the specifications and requirements identified in the solicitation.

The Government intends to evaluate only the lowest priced quote submitted to determine vendor responsibility, responsiveness, and price fair and reasonableness; no other quotes will be evaluated. If the lowest priced quote is not determined responsive, fair and reasonable, and/or if the vendor is not determined responsible, then the Government will evaluate the second lowest priced quote. This method will continue until the lowest priced quote can be determined responsive, fair and reasonable, and the vendor can be determined responsible. The government intends to make an award without holding discussions; however, the government reserves the right to hold discussions, if necessary.

(End of Provision)

23) Any requirement or qualification for Prime Contractor such as Prior Work Experience with certain amount of Value?

24) Would you please provide the information of currently using Marine Satellite Equipment for LSV 5 and LSV 6 so that we can come up with the best solution either upgrade or newly install?

A: TRACPhone V7IP

25) As per Para 1.6 Identification of Contractor Employees: Not applicable. The contractor will not be working in the government facility or directly with government personnel.

We would like to double check with you that no contractor personnel will not be required to stay for emergency service at the vessel, right?

A: statement corrected in PWS.

26) As a Delivery date of 10 December 2018 for the items, how many days does contractor have for completion to install new equipment and when do you expect to undertake?

A: Installation needs to be completed by the 16 December 2018.

27) Are there presently any equipment onboard LSV 5 and LSV 6, and you simply need them to be upgraded, or there are no equipment available at all? Please list the equipment if there are any available.

Equipment is available aboard the LSV-5 and LSV-6. The equipment needs to be upgraded, TRACphone V7IP

28) It is stated that LSV 5 and LSV 6 are currently berthed at Kuwait Naval Base.

Can you let us know the anticipated radius of activities for these two vessels during the 3 years period of performance?

A. South West Asia.

29) Can the Government confirm that the COMBINED SYNOPSIS/ SOLICITATION FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS document attached to the fbo.gov listing is complete?

The document indicates a page count of 30, but the file downloaded contains only 6 pages of 30.

A: 30 pages, PDF re-uploaded.

30) – The RFQ references incorporated provisions and clauses but none are listed in the RFQ. Please provide.

Provisions and clauses included in COMBINED SYNOPSIS/ SOLICITATION.

31) – Is this a new requirement or a recompete of an existing contract? If this is a recompete of an existing requirement, can you please provide the contract number for the existing contract?

New requirement to upgrade existing TRACPhone V7IP.

32) Is installation of the upgraded equipment required?

Installation of new equipment is required, current TRACPhone V7IP system is installed.

33) Please provide the vessel specifications.

275-foot long logistic support vessel.

34) Please advise what is the largest antenna size that would be acceptable.

150 lbs / 3ft

35) Due to the incomplete requirements in the attached RFQ document, offeror kindly requests an extension to the response date from November 21, 2018 11:00am Eastern to December 5, 2018 11:00am Eastern? At a minimum, offeror requests a week to review any posted amendments to include updated solicitation documents to review and provide a compliant competitive response.

A: Requirement response extended until the 26 November 2018. Installation of new equipment required NLT 16 December 2018.

36) Are we safe to assume that the Installation of the antennas are not included in this solicitation?

A: Installation of equipment is required by 16 December 2018. Existing satellite equipment is TRACPhone V7IP.

37) The solicitation requirements give FOB Destination for shipping. What is the shipping address so that a price can be determined? Will a forklift be available at the delivery location?

Delivery location is Camp Patriot, Kuwait. Forklift is available.