TAC 19-53538 Enterprise Telecommunications Expense Management software platform

36C10B19R0009

The purpose of this amendment is to issue responses to questions from vendors after the issuing of the amendment for RFP 36C10B19R0009 on June 19, 2019.

Question 1: Based on the new mod released under FBO on June 19, should vendors resubmit their entire proposal volumes including price volume or are you only asking for the technical volume submission?

Also, is VA allowing vendors to change their price proposal under this Mod?

Answer 1: All offerors have the opportunity to revise any volumes that would be impacted from the revision of Volume 1. All revised proposals shall be submitted by June 24, 2019 at 6:00 PM EST.

Question 2: Given that the new amendment is largely administrative in nature, can the Government confirm that offerors are only allowed to update their technical volume?

Answer 2: All offerors have the opportunity to revise any volumes that would be impacted from the revision of Volume 1. All revised proposals shall be submitted by June 24, 2019 at 6:00 PM EST.

All other terms and conditions remain unchanged.

36C10B19R0009

The purpose of this amendment is to clarify the answer to the Q&A # 23, clarify and revise the table in the proposal instructions as it relates to required file formats, and extend the proposal due date.

The original question asked was: The document states: "If the Offeror submits annexes, documentation, attachments or the like, not specifically required by this solicitation, such will count against the Offeror s page limitations unless otherwise indicated in the specific volume instructions below." Please confirm that any included cover page / title page, cover letter, and table of contents will not count towards page limits.

The original answer provided for Question #23 was: Refer to Section E.14. any included cover page / title page, cover letter, and table of contents will not count towards page limits. does count towards page limits.

The clarified answer is: Reference Section E.14 of the solicitation. The page limit for Volume I is 40 pages. Volume I shall be submitted in .PDF format as indicated in the solicitation. All pages submitted within Volume I (including but not limited to cover page / title page, cover letter, table of contents, annexes, documentation, attachments or the like, etc., not specifically required by this solicitation will be counted toward the 40 page limit. The page count will be determined by counting the pages in the order they come up in the print layout view. All Offerors are reminded that in accordance with the terms of the solicitation, pages which exceed the total page limit for a particular volume will not be evaluated.

All Offerors are afforded the opportunity to submit a revised proposal in light of this solicitation amendment. All revised proposals shall be submitted by June 24, 2019 at 6:00 PM EST. If no revised proposals are received, VA will evaluate proposals as originally submitted.

All offerors shall submit a signed acknowledgement of this amendment.

All other terms and conditions remain unchanged.

The purpose of this amendment is to issue responses to questions from vendors. Please see Attachment eTEMS RFP Questions and Answers 38 and 39. In addition, I want to correct my email address on page 190 on Section (E.14 PROPOSAL SUBMISSION) of the RFP to state Contract Specialist, Alma Aliaj, Alma.Aliaj@va.gov.

All terms and conditions remain unchanged.

Thank you,

Alma Aliaj

The purpose of this amendment is to issue responses to questions from vendors. Please see Attachment eTEMS RFP Questions and Answers 35, 36, 37.

All terms and conditions remain unchanged.

Thank you,

Alma Aliaj

The purpose of this amendment is to grant extension for the RFP 36C10B19R0009 to June 10, 2019 at 10 AM EST and to issue responses to questions from vendors. Please see Attachment eTEMS RFP Questions and Answers.

All terms and conditions remain unchanged.

Thank you,

Alma Aliaj

See attached solicitation 36C10B19R0009. All questions must be submitted by May 20, 2019 at 9:00 AM EST to Alma.Aliaj@va.gov and Brett.Schwerin@va.gov.