Assessment & Authorization (A&A) Services IDIQ Contract

Added: Jan 27, 2012 8:46 am Amendment 009
Solicitation SB1341-12-RP-0005

The purpose of this amendment is to provide responses to questions posed by potential offerors. The questions and their responses are detailed in the attached document entitled "Amendment 009 Questions & Responses."
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Added: Jan 26, 2012 7:15 am Amendment 008
Solicitation SB1341-12-RP-0005

The purpose of this amendment is to provide responses to questions posed by potential offerors. The questions and their responses are detailed below:

Questions & Responses
1. Is the 1920 hours a fixed ceiling number all must bid or may we bid our best estimate?

Response: Offerors must propose for 1920 hours. However, Offerors may propose an alternative solution that in your opinion will fully satisfy the NIST requirement, assuming that by "best estimate" you mean you have an alternative solution.

2. Is the person with 1370 hours a FTE who begins later in the year or a person who starts at the beginning of the task order?

Response: It is expected that the referenced contractor employee would be available for work throughout the period of performance but the level of effort estimated for this employee is only approximately 1,370 hours during the period of performance of task order 1, whereas the estimated level of effort for the other contractor employees is estimated at 1,920 hours.
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Added: Jan 24, 2012 7:51 am Amendment 007
Solicitation SB1341-12-RP-0005

The purpose of this amendment is to add the FAR provision 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors- Commercial Items (June 2008) into the RFP. This provision is automatically applicable to solicitations for commercial items. The attached document entitled "Amendment 007 RFP" contains the incorporated provision.
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Added: Jan 23, 2012 11:28 am Amendment 006
Solicitation SB1341-12-RP-0005

The purposes of this amendment are as follows:

1. To provide responses to questions posed by potential offerors, including questions that were posed in earlier amendments for which NIST did not have a definitive response at the time. These questions and their responses are provided in the attachment entitled "Amendment 006 Details."
 
2. To modify the Task Order 1 PWS found in section J to extend the period of performance and to increase the number of estimated FTE contractor employees in Gaithersburg for Task Order 1. The amended PWS is included in the attachment to this amendment entitled "Amendment 006 RFP," with the changes made shown in red font.

3. To modify the Proposal Preparation/Submission Instructions found in section L to show changes made based on this amendment. The amended document is included in the attachment to this amendment entitled "Amendment 006 RFP," with the changes made shown in red font.

4. To extend the response deadline from January 27, 2012 at 12:00 PM EST to February 2, 2012 at 12:00 PM EST.
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Added: Jan 17, 2012 8:10 am Amendment 005
Solicitation SB1341-12-RP-0005

The purpose of this amendment is to provide responses to questions posed by potential offerors. The questions and their responses are detailed in the attached document entitled "Amendment 005 Questions and Responses."
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Added: Jan 14, 2012 8:01 am Amendment 004
Solicitation SB1341-12-RP-0005

The purpose of this amendment is to provide responses to questions posed by potential offerors. The questions and their responses are detailed in the attached document entitled "Amendment 004 Questions and Responses."
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Added: Jan 06, 2012 5:09 am Amendment 003
Solicitation SB1341-12-RP-0005

The purpose of this amendment is to provide responses to questions posed by potential offerors. The questions and their responses are detailed in the attached document entitled "Amendment 003 Questions and Responses."
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Added: Jan 04, 2012 12:14 pm Amendment 002
Solicitation SB1341-12-RP-0005

The purpose of this amendment is to provide responses to questions posed by potential offerors. The questions and their responses are detailed below:

Questions & Responses
1. Can you please check the existing contract number SB1341-11-NC-0263 for the A and A procurement. That number is not popping in FPDS system, plus it appears that they are listed with a DOC in front as well. Can you confirm the contract number from last year?

Response: If looking up the previous task order in FPDS that was mentioned in Amendment 001 to the solicitation, the reference number will be DOCGS06F0270ZSB134111NC0263. This was a GSA 8(a) STARs I task order issued against GSA 8(a) STARS contract GS06F0270Z. The task order number is correct.

Added: Dec 27, 2011 2:17 pm Amendment 001
Solicitation SB1341-12-RP-0005

The purpose of this amendment is to provide responses to questions posed by potential offerors. The questions and their responses are detailed below:

Questions & Responses
1. Is this a follow-on requirement? If so, what is the incumbent contractor and contract number?

Response: Yes. This is considered a follow-on requirement. The majority of the work to be included under the resultant IDIQ contract is currently being performed under task order number SB1341-11-NC-0263 with KT Consulting, Inc.

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Added: Dec 23, 2011 8:24 am THIS IS A COMBINED SYNOPSIS/SOLICITATION FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS PREPARED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FORMAT IN FAR SUBPART 12.6, AS SUPPLEMENTED WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INCLUDED IN THIS NOTICE.

The requirement is for commercial Information Technology (IT) Services, specifically Assessment & Authorization (A&A) Services for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

THIS PROCUREMENT IS 100% SET ASIDE FOR SERVICE-DISABLED VETERAN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESSES. The primary standard classification NAICS code is 541519- Other Computer Related Services, with a small business size standard of $25 million.

NIST intends on awarding one Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract as a result of this Request for Proposals (RFP). This RFP is being competed using FAR Part 12, 13 and 15 procedures. Offerors must be actively registered in the Central Contractor Registration website at www.ccr.gov, in order to be eligible to receive a contract under this acquisition.

The ceiling amount of the resultant IDIQ contract will be $9,000,000.00. The attached RFP document provides all applicable details for this solicitation and is the official solicitation document.

Potential Offerors will be responsible for obtaining this solicitation and related Amendments, if any, from www.fbo.gov. It is, and will continue to be, the responsibility of each potential Offeror to monitor www.fbo.gov for any amendments or other information related to the solicitation; the Government will not be maintaining a mailing list. Any communications regarding this acquisition must be made in writing via email to keith.bubar@nist.gov, and shall identify the solicitation number, company name, company address, as well as point of contact email address and phone number. Please note CAR Clause 1352.215-72 in Section L.3 of the attached RFP document, which explains the conditions governing the submission of questions regarding this solicitation.