Questions and Answers - 12 20 2021.pdf

US Army Individual Terrorism Awareness Course (INTAC)

Solicitation W912HQ22R0002

Questions and Answers

1. The Gov indicates at Section 2.2.1 of the PWS that the Program Manager shall have completed 'supervisory and/or leadership and program management training.' Can the Gov provide more detailed specification as to what previous training is acceptable?

For example, would a supervisory training certification from a bona fide law enforcement agency or comparable military school be acceptable, including the DoS WPS 40-hour supervisory training course.

Answer: Yes, supervisory training certifications from a bona fide law enforcement agency or comparable military leadership schools/courses would be acceptable, along with like validation from Federal, State or local governments, as well as from private industry.

2. The Gov indicates on Page 6 of the Instructions to Offerors, #5 Page Limitations, the criteria for what information provided is to be included in the page count for Volume 1.

Can the Gov clarify whether resumes for key personnel/staff/instructors are or are not included in the page limitation?

Answer: Resumes of Key Personnel would not be counted against the page limitation.

3. Price Schedule - Can USACE publish an updated price schedule with the missing line items:

• 0008AA Vehicle Commandeering Module; 1-3 Students

• 0008AB Vehicle Commandeering Module; Additional 1-3 Students

Answer: Yes. See revised Pricing Schedule.

Government Furnished Property:

It is the responsibility of the awardee to price and coordinate the GFP movement to the new facility. See GFP list provided with Amendment 0001.

The GFP is currently at O’Gara’s facility, located at 220 Industrial Park Dr, Montross, VA 22520.

4. Submission of Offers – Instructions to Offers - Can USACE clarify submission information:

Recipient Points of Contact Email address Method of submission (PDF, Mail, etc.)

Font size Number of copies

Answer: The HECSA Contracting Personnel associated with this procurement are listed below:

POC: Amanda Eaton Contracting Officer Email: Amanda.E.Eaton@usace.army.mil

POC: Giorgiana Chen Contract Specialist Email: Giorgiana.Chen@usace.army.mil

The Offeror’s proposal shall be submitted electronically by the date and time indicated in the solicitation via email to Giorgiana Chen, Contract Specialist, Giorgiana.Chen@usace.army.mil and Amanda Eaton, Contracting Officer, Amanda.E.Eaton@usace.army.mil, with the subject line solicitation number W912HQ22R0002. The use of hyperlinks or embedded attachments in the proposals is prohibited. Your response must be received by the due date listed in the solicitation in order to be considered timely and considered for award.

Recipient Points of Contact: Amanda Eaton and Giorgiana Chen Email address: Amanda.E.Eaton@usace.army.mil; Giorgiana.Chen@usace.army.mil Method of submission (PDF, Mail, etc.) Electronic submission.

Font size: Arial or Times New Roman, 12-pint Number of copies: Electronic submission.

To avoid submission of late proposals, we recommend the transmission of your proposal file 24 hours prior to the required proposal due date and time. Please be advised that timeliness is determined by the date and time an Offeror’s proposal is received by the Government, not when an Offeror attempted transmission.

All files shall be submitted as either a Microsoft Excel (.XLS) file or an Adobe (PDF) file.

The characters shall be no smaller than 12 point. Arial or Times New Roman fonts are required. Line spacing shall be set at no less than single space.

Email messages must be limited to no more than 5MB. If necessary, please submit your response over multiple emails, indicating “Message x of x” in the subject line.

5. Exhibits – Instructions to Offers – Section 5, Page 6 - Are exhibits included as page count?

Answer: No.

6. Sub K Plan – Instructions to Offers – Section 1, Page 2 - Can we submit the Individual Subcontracting Plan as an attachment or with the Factor 5 Pricing, to save page count?

Answer: Submit the Individual Subcontracting Plan as an attachment separate from Factor 5 Pricing.

7. Regarding the USACE PPQ that we submitted to you for completion, can you please clarify, do you return the PPQ to us to submit with the proposal or will you retain the PPQ until after the proposal is submitted?

mailto:Amanda.E.Eaton@usace.army.mil mailto:Giorgiana.Chen@usace.army.mil mailto:Giorgiana.Chen@usace.army.mil mailto:Amanda.E.Eaton@usace.army.mil mailto:Amanda.E.Eaton@usace.army.mil mailto:Giorgiana.Chen@usace.army.mil

Reason I ask is that page 2, last paragraph, Instructions to Offerors, states that “Completed PPQs should be submitted with the offeror’s proposal.”

Answer: The POC completing the PPQ should submit the PPQs directly to the Contract Specialist and the Contracting Officer via email, effective the date of these FAQs are published. The government understands that POCs may not respond to the PPQ request. The offeror should provide information on to support the attempts made to have the POC respond to the PPQ (name of POC, method of communications, date(s) of communication).

POC: Amanda Eaton Contracting Officer Email: Amanda.E.Eaton@usace.army.mil

POC: Giorgiana Chen Contract Specialist Email: Giorgiana.Chen@usace.army.mil

8. Para - Evaluation Criteria, Instructions to Offerors, para. 4, page 6 – Ref Volume 1 – Factor 1,Volume 1 – Factor 2, Volume 1 – Factor 3, Volume 1 – Factor 4, Page Limit 25 Pages (Total). Question: Does the government intend that each Factor have a 25-page limit?

Answer: No, the 25 page limit is the cumulative page limit for Factor 1, Factor 2, Factor 3 and Factor 4.

9. Pricing Schedule, lines 13-14 - “0007AB – Combined Unimproved Road/Off- Road Module; Additional 1-3 students” - “0009AA – Advanced Firearms Module; 1-3 Students”.

Question: A line item number for the Vehicle Commandeering Module (PWS, 3.1.2.4) is missing from the Pricing Schedule. CLINs move from 0007 to 0009, is the Vehicle Commandeering Module intended to be 0008?

Answer: Yes, see revised Pricing Schedule.

10. PWS para. 3.1.2.4, page 12 - “Vehicle Commandeering Module” - There is no training duration listed for this training Module as is similarly provided for other training Modules.

How many hours of training does the government require for this Module?

Answer: For 18 Students +/- the duration is a Half Day (4 Hour) Training Module consisting of both lectures and practical exercises.

For an enrollment of 21 - 30 Students the duration is a Full Day (8 hour) Module consisting of both lectures and practical exercises.

11. PWS and supporting documents – Question: What is the expected start date for the first class of this iteration of the INTAC program?

mailto:Amanda.E.Eaton@usace.army.mil mailto:Giorgiana.Chen@usace.army.mil

Answer: 29 January 2022.

12. PWS paras. 2.2.3, 2.2.7, 3.1 – Question: The government provided a minimum student to instructor ratio for driver’s training, but not for firearms training. What is the minimum student to instructor ratio for firearms training?

Answer: The minimum student to instructor ratio for firearms training is one 1 Lead Instructor and an “Instructor to Student Ratio” of 1 to 3 when the Students are engaged (firing their weapons) on the Firing Line.