Questions and Answers for 20250624.pdf

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1 PWS/Page 13 The requirements section skips from 5.1.12 directly to 5.1.19. Are requirements 5.1.13 through 5.1.18 intentionally omitted, or is this an

PWS/Page 1 and 12

PWS, Section 4.1 General states "Except for those items specifically stated to be Government-Furnished in Paragraph 3.0, the contractor shall furnish everything required to perform these services as indicated in Paragraph 1.1." Can the Government please provide a specific listing of the equipment, tools, and materials that the contractor is required to provide?

The medical provider is required to have a stethoscope, but all other equipment to conduct the assessments will be provided. Additonally, the employee will be required to wear business casal or clinic appriorpriate clothes that will not be provided by the government.

PWS/Page 1 PWS, Section 1.1 "Scope" states “ Medical treatment is not authorized.

Can the government please confirm that the contractor personnel will only be providing health assessments?

As stated, no medical treatment is authorized.

PWS/Page 3

PWS Section 1.4.5.1 “Common Access Card (CAC)” states at the discretion of the sponsoring activity, an initial CAC may be issued based on a favorable review of the FBI fingerprint and the scheduling of a Tier 1 investigation. Can the government please clarify is contractor personnel will have the ability to perform onsite after a “favorable review” is conducted, and typically how long of a duration of time is this government favorable review process anticipated to be?

Everything is dependent on what is found during a background check if the employee can perform after a favorable review or how long this process will take. We will follow the recommendations from our G2 office of how we can proceed.

PWS/Page 12 and 13

PWS, Sections 5.1 Medical Provider and 5.1.6 Clinical Knowledge and Skills state the licensed medical provider shall possess the required technical skills, expertise, and knowledge to perform the functions.

Can the Government please provide the technical skills, expertise, and knowledge requirements that are necessary for the medical provider to possess in support of this requirement?

The medical provider is required to have knowledge of how to conduct a physical assessment and understand what is considered normal or abnormal.

The medical provider will need to understand basic health promotion to educate the Soldiers regarding various wellness topics and injury prevention to improve their health.

PWS/Page 13

PWS, Sections 5.1.7 Education state that the medical provider will be responsible to educate Soldiers on resources available to improve health and wellness. Can the Government please clarify the specific written government information that will be provided to the contractor relating to the resources available concerning health and wellness so the medical provider will have the ability to perform this Soldier education requirement?

We have limited written resources and will review those documents with the medical provider upon starting.

PWS/Page 15-17

Some of the links listed within Section 6.0 “Applicable Publications” do not contain useable links. Can the government please provide to offerors useable links for the following publication references?

1. Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Publication 201-2 Personal Identity Verification (PIV) of Federal Employees and Contractors (paragraph 9)

2. Army Directive 2014-05 Policy and Implementation Procedures for Common Access Card Credentialing and Installation Access for Uncleared Contractors

3. AR 25-2 Information Assurance

4. AR 530-1 Operations Security

5. AR 525-13 Antiterrorism

6. AR 381-12 Threat Awareness and Reporting Program (TARP) (Section II, ¶ 2-4.b)

7. AR 40-68, Clinical Quality Management

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

9. AR 40-502, Medical Readiness

10. DoDI 6025.19, Individual Medical Readiness Program

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

12. DD 441 Department of Defense Security Agreement

1. the link does works, http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/FIPS/NIST.FIPS.201- 2.pdf

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

Army Directive publications are :

https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/ArmyDir.aspx

Army Regulations are:

https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/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/60251

9p.pdf?ver=R2OKfDXWHtMkQ9hrl8wdOw%3d%3d DD Forms (DoD Forms), all the forms are listed in numerical order https://www.esd.whs.mil/Directives/forms/

Follow-up Question Clarification question to Q3 of the Q&A posted 6/20/2025 on SAM.gov.

The response notes that there are two medical providers. Please clarify if this request is for one (1) or two (2) FTEs?

The request is for one FTE as tstated on page 4 of solicitation (e.g., Continuation of Description). Q&A Rev01 from 20250620 has been posted to clarify this question.

General

Please clarify if CPARS are required. If so, would the government accept PPQs in place of CPARS? Or, please provide any other alternative to CPARS.

CPARS/FAPIIS, and SPRS record will be review by contracting officer.

Mainly to identify nor records found or debarr record.