Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Enterprise Network Services (FENS), Screening Information Request (SIR) Amendment 10
Closed Solicitation Posted
- Solicitation number
- 693KA8-20-R-00022
- Agency
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Headquarters
Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Transportation
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 517311 Wired Telecommunications Carriers
- Place of performance
- Washington, District of Columbia 20591, United States
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
This Screening Information Request is issued by the Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration to procure enterprise network services to support its operations through the Federal Aviation Administration Enterprise Network Services program. The solicitation seeks proposals to provide wide area network infrastructure, communications services, information management services, security capabilities, and operational support across the continental United States over a potential 15-year period. Proposals will be evaluated based on technical approach, management, past performance, and price factors. Key dates include December 16, 2021 for submitting any revised proposals or notifying the contracting officer that no revision is needed in response to amendments correcting typographical errors.
There is no set-aside designation specified. The primary NAICS code is 518210 and PSC code D304. The incumbent contractor is the team led by [Contractor Name]. While total contract value and quantities are to be determined, the period of performance consists of a 10-year base period followed by five one-year options, for network and services supporting the FAA's operations from its headquarters in Washington, D.C. and nationwide locations.
Notice text
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Update #5 · Latest ·
Amendment 10 - Background:
Amendment 10 does not require a response or acknowledgement from offerors, but these submission instructions provide the following clarification regarding the required offeror response to Amendment 9.
The FAA issued Amendment 9 to the FENS SIR on April 5, 2022. The submission instructions issued with Amendment 9 identified two response deadlines:
April 12, 2022: Provide the FENS Contracting Officer (CO) with an assessment of whether any of the changes to the FENS SIR in Amendment 9 require proposal changes
April 19, 2022: Provide the FENS CO with the values for two linear multiplier factors and a letter signed by an authorized corporate official to extent the validity period of the offer to March 31, 2023
On April 12, 2022, the FENS CO notified each offeror via e-mail that Amendment 9 response deadline was extended to May 10, 2022 and that the FAA would be issuing an amendment to remove AMS clause 3.2.2.3-38 (Requirements for Certified Cost or Pricing Data or Data Other Than Certified Cost or Pricing Data) from SIR Section L.2.
Submission Instructions:
Amendment 10 does not require a response or acknowledgement from offerors, but these submission instructions provide the following clarification regarding the required offeror response to Amendment 9:
Amendment 9 included updates to three AMS clauses in Section K (Representations and Instructions):
3.2.5-7 Disclosure Regarding Payments to Influence Certain Federal Transactions (January 2022)
3.2.2.7-7 Certification Regarding Responsibility Matters (October 2021)
3.2.3-1 Cost Accounting Standards Notices and Certification (January 2022)
With the response to Amendment 9 that is due no later than 5:00pm Eastern Time on May 10, 2022, each offeror is required to include an explicit statement in its signed letter of transmittal whether any updates to its representations and certifications originally submitted within Proposal Volume V (Miscellaneous) are needed as a result of the updates to the three AMS clauses listed above. Offerors that need to make updates to their representations and certifications as a result of the updates to the three AMS clauses listed above must submit them to the FENS Contracting Officer at 9-ajw-fensinfo@faa.gov as an update to Proposal Volume V (Miscellaneous) with tracked changes visible no later than 5:00pm Eastern Time on May 10, 2022.
Update #4 ·
Rev 1 to Amendment 9 clarifies due dates (see below) and replaces FENS SIR Amendment 9 Read-me File to correct typographical errors. No other changes to Amendment 9 were made.
Amendment 9 contains two due dates:
April 12, 2022 - Offerors must provide any questions and an explicit statement as to whether any changes to its proposal may be required. The response is due on that date no later than 5:00pm Eastern Standard Time.
April 19, 2022 - Offerors must submit its proposed values for Factor 1 and Factor 2 to the FENS Contracting Officer and submit a letter that is signed by a corporate official who is duly authorized to bind the offeror and commit to a proposal validity period through March 31, 2023. The response is due on that date no later than 5:00pm Eastern Standard Time.
This Amendment 9 to the FENS SIR contains AMS clause updates, instructions to offerors for submission of multiplicative price factors, and for extension of the required validity period of the proposals.
Note that the FAA is allowing a one-week review and comment period for offerors to assess potential impacts. A response is required from each offeror with an explicit statement as to whether any changes to its proposal may be required. The response is due no later than April 12, 2022 at 5:00pm Eastern Standard Time. Each response must: (1) notify the FENS Contracting Officer as to whether there are any impacts to its proposal that, in the opinion of the offeror, require a change to their proposal; and (2) if so, identify the scope of the impacts (i.e., specific sections) including a description of the nature of any changes sought and the rationale for the changes.
Full instructions are attached to this Amendment 9.
No change was made to any other sections of the SIR.
Update #3 ·
This Amendment 9 to the FENS SIR contains AMS clause updates, instructions to offerors for submission of multiplicative price factors, and for extension of the required validity period of the proposals.
Note that the FAA is allowing a one-week review and comment period for offerors to assess potential impacts. A response is required from each offeror with an explicit statement as to whether any changes to its proposal may be required. The response is due no later than April 12, 2022 at 5:00pm Eastern Standard Time. Each response must: (1) notify the FENS Contracting Officer as to whether there are any impacts to its proposal that, in the opinion of the offeror, require a change to their proposal; and (2) if so, identify the scope of the impacts (i.e., specific sections) including a description of the nature of any changes sought and the rationale for the changes.
Full instructions are attached to this Amendment 9.
No change was made to any other sections of the SIR.
Update #2 ·
This Amendment 9 to the FENS SIR contains AMS clause updates, instructions to offerors for submission of multiplicative price factors, and for extension of the price validity period of the SIR.
Note that the FAA is allowing a one-week review and comment period for offerors to assess potential impacts. A response is required from each offeror with an explicit statement as to whether any changes to its proposal may be required. The response is due no later than April 12, 2022 at 5:00pm Eastern Standard Time. Each response must: (1) notify the FENS Contracting Officer as to whether there are any impacts to its proposal that, in the opinion of the offeror, require a change to their proposal; and (2) if so, identify the scope of the impacts (i.e., specific sections) including a description of the nature of any changes sought and the rationale for the changes.
Full instructions are attached to this Amendment 9.
Update #1 ·
This Amendment 8 to the FENS SIR corrects a typographical error (from “data throughout” to “data throughput”) in one of the Section M evaluation criteria under Element 1.4.
The corresponding language in Section L is not changed because it was correct in the original version of the Section L when the original FENS SIR was released on September 18, 2020. Section L instructed offerors to “Describe how your proposed EBP solution meets the requirements in FFPS Sections 8.5.1 and 8.5.2 and supports current and future usage demands with respect to the number of connections and data throughput.”
Instructions:
Because the language was correct in the proposal submission instructions (Section L) in the original SIR release, the FAA does not expect that correcting the typo in Section M will impact offeror proposals. Notwithstanding, the FAA is allowing offerors to submit a revised proposal if necessary as a result of SIR Amendment 8.
Any offeror submitting a revised proposal in response to SIR Amendment 8 must provide an explanation of how the revision is directly related to the correction of the typo.
Offerors will be advised by the FENS CO if any proposal revisions submitted in response to SIR Amendment 8 are deemed by the Government to be not directly related to the amendment. Any proposal revisions submitted in response to Amendment 8 that are deemed by the Government to be not directly related to the amendment will not be evaluated.
Offerors that do not need to revise their proposals as a result of this amendment must inform the FENS Contracting Officer at 9-AJW-FENSInfo@faa.gov no later than 5:00pm Eastern Standard Time on December 16, 2021 that no proposal revisions are needed.
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