Revised__SECTION_M.docx

52.212-2 -- Evaluation -- Commercial Items

Evaluation -- Commercial Items (Oct 2014)

(a) The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers:

The Award will be made to the responsible offeror submitting the Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA)

FACTOR A: TECHNICAL CAPABILITY

Sub-factor 1. Personnel: See Revised Attachment 5: Personnel Qualifications and Experience Sub-factor 2. Corporate Experience

FACTOR B: PAST PERFORMANCE

FACTOR C: COST / PRICE

(b) Options. The Government will evaluate offers for award purposes by adding the total price for all options to the total price for the basic requirement. The Government may determine that an offer is unacceptable if the option prices are significantly unbalanced. Evaluation of options shall not obligate the Government to exercise the option(s).

(c) A written notice of award or acceptance of an offer, mailed or otherwise furnished to the successful offeror within the time for acceptance specified in the offer, shall result in a binding contract without further action by either party. Before the offer's specified expiration time, the Government may accept an offer (or part of an offer), whether or not there are negotiations after its receipt, unless a written notice of withdrawal is received before award.

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SECTION M

EVALUATION FACTORS FOR AWARD

The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers:

The Award will be made to the responsible offeror submitting the Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA).

It is the Government’s intention to award without discussions. Offerors are encouraged to present their best technical proposal and cost/prices in their initial proposal submission. However, in accordance with (IAW) FAR Part 15.306, should discussions become necessary, the Government reserves the right to hold them. If discussions are conducted, a competitive range will be determined and offerors will be notified. The competitive range may be limited for purposes of efficiency IAW FAR Part 15.306 (c) (2).

FACTOR A: TECHNICAL CAPABILITY

(1) Sub-factor 1. Personnel Qualifications and Experience: See Revised Attachment 5 for Personnel Qualifications and Experience. The contractor shall submit the following with their proposal to be evaluated:

· Resumes for personnel identified in Revised Attachment 5 Personnel Qualifications and Experience;

· Unofficial Transcripts for personnel identified in Revised Attachment 5 Personnel Qualifications and Experience;

***Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education***

(2) Sub-factor 2. Corporate Experience: The offeror shall submit a copy of supporting data that reflects a minimum of 1 years’ experience as a Prime or Sub-Contractor within the past 5 years providing support in an AOR environment as note in: Revised Attachment 5 for Personnel Qualifications and Experience and the company must possess an active Top-Secret or Interim TS facility clearance at the time of award.

The offeror shall provide evidence of prior experience in the following format:

· The title of the Project or Contract No. for the Commercial or Government requirement

· A clear description of qualifying work experience

· Length of contract/project (From: year/month/date – To: year/month/date)

· Value of contract/project total amount

· Complete POC of employer (including name, phone no, and e-mail) and validating POC

Technical Acceptable/Unacceptable Ratings

***All Technical Elements Must Be Met to Be Deemed Acceptable for Award***

FACTOR B: PAST PERFORMANCE:

The Past Performance evaluation will be accomplished by reviewing aspects of an Offeror's recent and relevant Past Performance, focusing on and targeting performance which are recent and relevant to the effort as it directly relates to the services being procured under this solicitation and as defined in Section M (Basis for Award). This volume shall contain past performance information regarding similar recent and relevant contracts. This volume shall not exceed 25 pages, excluding Past Performance Questionnaire Forms. Offerors shall submit all Government and/or commercial contracts for the prime offeror and each major subcontractor in performance or awarded during the past ten years, from the issue date of this RFP, which are relevant to the efforts required by this solicitation. Relevant efforts are defined as services/efforts that are the same as or similar to the effort (as compared to NAICS code 561110) required by the RFP. In conducting the Past Performance evaluation, the Government reserves the right to use both the information provided in the offeror’s Past Performance Volume and information obtained from other sources, such as the Past Performance Information Retrieval System (PPIRS) or similar systems, Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) and commercial sources. Offerors are reminded that both independent data and data provided by offerors in their proposals may be used by the Government to evaluate offeror past performance. However, the burden of providing thorough, complete, and current past performance information as requested in this paragraph remains with the offerors. Proposals that do not contain the information requested by this paragraph risk rejection or a less than acceptable performance rating by the Government. All past performance comments received will be taken into account and could affect the overall rating. The overall past performance evaluation is a subjective decision based on the whole of all data received.

1. Section 1 – Contract Descriptions. This section shall include the following information in the following format.

(a) Contractor/Subcontractor place of performance, CAGE Code and DUNS Number. If the work was performed as a subcontractor, also provide the name of the prime contractor and Point of Contact (POC) within the prime contractor organization (name, and current address, e-mail address, and telephone and fax numbers).

(b) Government contracting activity, and current address, Procuring Contracting Officer’s name, e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers.

(c) Government’s technical representative/COR and current email address, telephone and fax numbers.

(d) Government contract administration activity and the Administrative Contracting Officer’s name, and current e-mail address, telephone and fax number.

(e) Government contract administration activity’s Pre-Award Monitor’s name, and current e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers.

(f) Contract Number and, in the case of Indefinite Delivery type contracts, GSA contracts, and Blanket Purchase Agreements, include Delivery Order Numbers.

(g) Contract Type (specific type such as Fixed-Price (FP), Cost Reimbursement (CR), Time & Material (T&M), etc.). In the case of Indefinite Delivery contracts, indicate specific type (Requirements, Definite Quantity, and Indefinite Quantity) and secondary contract type (FP, CR, T&M, etc.).

(h) Awarded price/cost.

(i) Final or projected final price/cost.

(j) Original delivery schedule, including dates of start and completion or work.

(k) Final or projected final, delivery schedule, including dates of start and completion of work.

2. Section 2 – Performance. Offerors shall provide a specific narrative explanation of each contract listed in Section 1, Contract Description, describing the objectives achieved and detailing how the effort is relevant to the requirement of this RFP.

(a) For any contracts that did not/do not meet original schedule or technical performance requirements, provide a brief explanation of the reason(s) for the shortcomings and any corrective action(s) taken to avoid recurrence. The offerors shall list each time the delivery schedule was revised and provide an explanation of why the revision was necessary.

3. Past Performance Questionnaire. For all contracts identified in Section 1, Contract Descriptions, a Past Performance Questionnaire must be completed and submitted. The offeror shall complete Part I of the Past Performance Questionnaire and e-mail the questionnaire to both the Government contracting activity and technical representative responsible for the past/current contract. The POCs shall be instructed to electronically complete Part II of the questionnaire and e-mail the entire questionnaire to the Contracting Office no later than the proposal due date, to anthony.s.mosley.civ@mail.mil and lian.pino.civ@mail.mil. The offeror shall e-mail to the Contracting Officer a list of all the POC’s who were sent a questionnaire. The Government must receive this list no later than the proposal due date. The POC List shall be submitted in Word for Windows Table Format to include the following fields: Solicitation Number; Company Name; Contract Number; Government Agency; POC Last Name, First Name; POC Title; POC Telephone Number; POC E-mail Address; and Date E-Mail to POC (month/day).

4. Submissions. Offerors are discouraged from providing points of contact with another contractors’ facility, i.e., in case an offeror (or one of his/her team members) is in a subcontract with another contractor who has submitted a proposal on the same requirement. Offerors shall provide and submit the prime contract number and all Governmental agency points of contact (POC) in lieu of subcontract numbers or prime contract POCs in situations as described above.

The following ratings will be used in evaluating Past Performance:

NOTE: In the case of an offeror without a record of relevant past performance or for whom information on past performance is not available or so sparse that no meaningful past performance rating can be reasonably assigned, the offeror may not be evaluated favorably or unfavorably on past performance. Therefore, the offeror shall be determined to have unknown (or“neutral”) past performance. In the context of acceptability/unacceptability, a neutral rating shall be considered “acceptable.”

FACTOR C: COST / PRICE:

1. Complete SF1449: The offeror shall provide complete CLINs identified for base period plus four (4) options. Proposed price will be reviewed to determine if the proposal is adequate, complete, and reasonable to assess the offeror understands of the solicitation.

1. The price proposal shall set forth a summary of the total proposed price for the base year and each option years.

1. The specific direct labor categories and labor rates utilized to price the proposal must be identified in the pricing proposal only.

1. If offeror does not propose any CLIN, offeror shall state zero (0) in the CLIN/SLIN.

2. Proposed prices will be evaluated to determine if the estimate is complete, realistic, reasonable and balance, and has no unbalanced to assess the offeror’s understanding of the solicitation. Any inconsistency, whether real or apparent between proposed performance and price, must be clearly explained in this volume of the proposal. For example, if unique and innovative approaches are the basis for an abnormally low-price estimate, the nature of these approaches and their impact must be completely documented.

3. A separate after-hours pricing sheet is submitted as part of Solicitation W91QEX-17-R-0007, “Surge Support Pricing Sheet.” The Offeror shall fill out the pricing sheet for each proposed Key Personnel for the base and option periods accordingly. The Offeror shall provide a price per hour for all Key Personnel in the event surge support is needed in accordance with PWS Paragraph 1.6.4, Hours of Operation. The prices proposed will not be evaluated as part of the Offerors overall evaluated price; however, the prices will be evaluated, using one or more of the techniques defined in FAR 15.404-1, in order to determine if the prices are fair and reasonable.

NOTE: If an Offeror submits pricing under the “Surge Support Pricing Sheet” that is determined to be materially unbalanced or unreasonable, the contracting officer shall make a determination in accordance with FAR Part 15.404-1(g) -- Unbalanced pricing (2) (i) (ii) & (3).

NOTE: As part of price evaluation, the Government will evaluate its option to extend services (FAR Clause 52.217-8 - Option to Extend Services) by adding one-half of the Offeror’s final option period price to the Offeror’s total price. Thus, the Offeror’s total price for the purpose of evaluation will include the base period, 1st option, 2nd option, 3rd option, 4th option, and one-half of the 4th option. Offerors are required only to price the base and four (4) options. Offerors shall not submit a price for the potential one-half year extension of services period. The Government may determine that an offer is unacceptable if the option prices are significantly unbalanced. Evaluation of options shall not obligate the Government to exercise the option(s).