Solicitation_questions_through_December_30.doc

Solicitation questions through December 30

1. Statement of socioeconomic size – Do you have a sample statement of the wording we should use?

Answer: Socio economic status is determined by the SBA. Categories are found in FAR 19.102 and are included in the CCR/SAM registration process to determine the business size. Some examples are Small Business (SB), Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB), Veteran Owned Small Business (VOSB), Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), Small Disadvantaged Business (8(a)), HUBZone, etc business.

2. Annual Certification on ORCA – I am not able to pull this from SAM, I have registered in SAM and migrated CCR, but I cannot access ORCA to print an Annual Certification.

Answer: Your Reps and Certs are now in SAM. I cannot see SAM from your perspective, however, when I do a general search for a builder name, I click on view details, then over on the left there is a section for Reps and Certs that you can click on. It appears that if you are logged into your SAM account, you would then read and complete any information needed. Once this is done, you should be able to print the FAR report that shows all your Reps and Certs like you use to do with ORCA.

3. Regarding Past Performance information, the RFP states on page 25 of 139, paragraph 2.2, “do not include price or pricing information in this section.” However, Exhibit A, Part 1 requires Original and Final Contract Values for the cited Past Performance project. Please clarify whether or not price information is to be included.

Answer: This statement “do not include price or pricing information in this section” is referencing pricing of the prototypical project on which you are currently proposing. This information should not be included in Volume II. The information being requested on Exhibit A, Part 1 requires original and final contract value of the Past Project you are submitting as part of your Past Performance. This value is used to determine the size/magnitude of the past projects in comparison to the range of the requirements.

4. There are two locked files, do we need access to these files?

Answer: No, there was a problem with the two locked files, therefore there were reloaded into different UNLOCKED packages with the exact same files for each package.