Questions and Answers_Part 2.pdf

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1 General Will the government provide the contract number if this service is currently being performed?

W912K624P0019

General If this service is currently being performed can the government provide an estimated number of years this service has been performed to include all contracts associated with this service?

This service is currently been performed.

Government reserves the right for any previous contract done in the past.

3 General Is this solicitation fully funded? Yes

General Will the government base its evaluation on LPTA, Best Value, or Other?

Best Value approach. Factors are: Technical and Price. Technical evaluation includes: Offeror's Representation and Certifications, 2024-2025 past performance ratings for similar jobs, no records in CPARS/FAPIIS, and vendor must meet all PWS criteria listed. Price: Offerors shall provide a total pricing for CLIN 0001.

Solicitation, pg 22

Please clarify if complete Representations and Certifications are required to be returned with the submittal, or if active status on SAM.gov is acceptable?

FAR clause 52.212-3 is included full text.

Offeror's requires to fill out. Page 22

Solicitation, pg 21

Will the Government please clarify the order of importance regarding the provided evaluation factors of Technical, Price, and Past

Performance? Is one weighted more than the others?

See answer of question#4

General Will the Government please clarify if there are any file size limitations that will affect the allowable size of email submissions from Offeror's?

Proposal should include unit price and amount for CLIN 0001, resume of the candidate, FAR clause 52.212-3 fill out, price, technical capability and past performance on similar project. This should not be more than 40 pages top.

Special Notes / Requirements

Submit to (name & email) ng.md.mdarng.list.uspfo-arpc@army.mil Submittal Subject Line

Question Submittal Due Date 6/6/2025

Solicitation, pg 21

Can the Government please confirm that there is no required volume structure that the three evaluation factors need to be presented in? For example, are Offerors able to address each evaluation factor in its own separate "volume" or document, rather than one large file.

Besides everything mentioned in Answer#7.

Vendor must be active in Sam.gov and registered as 8(a) Small business concern on SBA database

Standard Form 1449, pg 19

Within the Standard Form 1449 listing of Contract Documents, Exhibits, or Attachments it represents the Performance Work Statement (PWS) with a Document Name of "Dental Examinations_Performance Work

Statement" dated 22 May 2025. Can the Government please confirm if the separate Attachment of the PWS titled "Performance Work Statement (PWS) FOR Medical Readiness: Dental Examinations" with Ver. October 2022 in the footer is the PWS that guides the solicitation requirements?

I don't know which one got uploaded, but my version does have ver.October 2022 as a footer

Performance Work Statement (PWS) Attachment, pg 1

PWS, Section 1.1 "Scope" represents a listing of which includes for the contractor to provide equipment, tools, and materials necessary, except as specified in PWS paragraph 3.0 as government furnished, to perform medical readiness examinations and assessments. Can the

Government please provide a specific listing of the equipment, tools, and materials that the contractor is required to provide?

The contractor will supply the dentist who can provide dental examinations and if applicable, dental health education. If the dentist wants a dental loupe, that will need to be provided, but are not required per Army dental policies to conduct the dental examination.

11 PWS, pg 2 PWS, Section 1.4 "General Information", 1.4.1.3 states PWS, Section 1.4 "General Information", 1.4.1.3 states

PWS, pgs 2-3

PWS, Section 1.4.3 "Quality Control (QC)" refers to a contractor QC Plan (QCP) with the final QCP to be submitted to the Contracting

Officer's Representative no later than 10 days after contract award.

Can the Government please clarify if a Draft QCP is required to be submitted within the offeror's response?

Draft QCP not required

PWS, pg 4

PWS, Section 1.4.5.1.1 details the Background Investigation requirements while noting that the entire process from submitting the PSIP form to return of the fingerprint check may take two to six weeks.

Can the Government please clarify if the proposed candidate can perform to contractor receiving the Background Investigation results?

Yes the contractor can work while we are working through the background investigation. If the results are not favorable and they are not able to obtain a CAC, the contractor will not be able to work any further.

PWS, pg 12

PWS, Sections 5.1 Dentist and 5.1.6 Clinical Knowledge and Skills state the licensed Dentist shall possess the required technical skills, expertise, and knowledge to perform the functions. Can the Government please provide the technical, expertise, and knowledge requirements that are necessary for the Dentist to possess in support of this requirement?

Required technical skills and expertise to perform the functions with minimal guidance:

The dentist needs to be able to conduct a basic dental examination, read and properly interpret dental xrays, identify dental issues/concerns, establish a recommended treatment plan and provide dental health eduacation. Additionally, the dentist must know the Army criteria (AR 40-35) of dental classification. The classification is using the dentist best judgement if that Soldier is at risk for a dental emergency within a year.

PWS, pg 13

PWS, Sections 5.1.7 and 5.1.21 Education state that the Dentist will be responsible to educate Soldiers on resources available to improve oral health and dental readiness. Can the Government please confirm that specific written information will be provided relating to the resources available concerning oral health and dental readiness so the Dentist will have the ability to perform this Soldier education requirement?

We will provide specific guidance for Soldiers who require dental treatment, but are unable to afford

it. As for oral health, this is specific to the Soldier and their dental requirements. It could be something as simple as encouraging the Soldier to get an annual dental cleaning or to floss. As for readiness, it could be informing the Soldier that not taking care of x problem will result in them being not deployable. We do not have any handouts for

Soldiers for education.

PWS, pg 16

PWS, Section 5.2.8 Dental Treatment Plan states that the contractor is responsible to ensure the contractor personnel is required to coordinate the dental treatment plan with appropriate medical or dental facilities.

Can the Government please clarify that the dental treatment plan is provided by others and the contractor's personnel is limited to the dental examination only?

The contractor is limited to dental examination only, but will require the knowledge of what treatment is required to maintain a ready status for the military. Some times civilian providers or the Army vendor may ask for clarification of what is required or recommended. This doesn't happen very often and most of the time, the military dentist will assist.

PWS, pgs 16-18

PWS, Section 6.0 Applicable Publications provided websites which the hyperlink does not launch to the following Publications:

1. Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement

2. Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Publication 201-2

Personal Identity Verification (PIV) of Federal Employees and Contractors (paragraph 9) 3. Army Directive

2014-05 Policy and Implementation Procedures for Common Access Card Credentialing and Installation Access for Uncleared

Contractors 4. AR 25-2 Information Assurance

5. AR 530-1 Operations Security

6. AR 525-13 Antiterrorism

7. AR 381-12 Threat Awareness and Reporting Program (TARP) (Section

II, ¶ 2-4.b) 8. AR 40-68, Clinical Quality Management

9. AR 40-35, Preventive Dentistry and Dental Readiness

10. AR 40-502, Medical Readiness

11. DoDI 6025.19, Individual Medical Readiness Program

12. DD 1172-2 Application for Identification Card/DEERS Enrollment

13. DD 441 Department of Defense Security Agreement

Can the Government please provide usable hyperlinks for 13 websites listed above for contractor to review the respective

Publication requirements?

1. The second site does work

2. FIPS: The website work

All the provided links do work and you will need to scroll down to find the correct regulation. They are numberial in order.

All Army Directive publications are :

https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubFor m/ArmyDir.aspx

All Army Regulations are:

https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubFor m/AR.aspx **AR 525-13, the website works but the publication is FOUO. I don't think you can access without a CAC

DoDI https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/ DD/issuances/dodi/602519p.pdf?ver=R2OKfDXW

HtMkQ9hrl8wdOw%3d%3d DD Forms (DoD Forms), all the forms are listed in numerical order https://www.esd.whs.mil/Directives/forms/