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Sr. Director of Innovation responsible for ensuring we provide provide innovative technology solutions to provide our customers service excellence.
On page 6 of the SOW the government states:
To perform these functions, the Data.gov PMO estimates that on a per month basis,
the project team will consist of
○ 1 FTE Project Manager
○ . 5 FTE Architect
○ 2 FTE Programmer
○ 1 FTE Deployment specialist
○ .5 FTE Quality Assurance/testing
Zolon Tech has done a detailed analysis of the program, issues, and desired state. Will the government allow for deviations in the PMO estimates to ensure that the government gets the best value.
Proposal Coordinator
Page 15
GSA states, “The Offeror should describe how it plans to use CKAN, WordPress, and the other technologies in the Data.gov stack as described in Section 1 to deliver the development support required by Data.gov….” Does this requirement refer to the tools listed in paragraph 2 on page 3 of the solicitation beginning with “The system involves a variety of open source applications”?
Sr. Director of Innovation responsible for ensuring we provide provide innovative technology solutions to provide our customers service excellence.
Government states, "The technical volume is limited to no more than 12,
single-sided pages in total. Information provided in the quotation shall be concise,
specific, and complete."
Please specify the following page limitations for the following sections as it is unclear what is under the 12 page limitation as written.
Technical Approach
Experience
Staffing
Past Performance
Also please confirm that Cover Page, Table of Contents, and Cover Letter (if provided) are not part of the page count.
Richard Owens - Sales Team/Digital Designer - Tellenger, Inc.
Question is based on Section 4.0 Requirements which, on page 6, lists the Data.gov PMO estimates for personnel.
Will the government consider minor adjustments to the staffing mix provided on page 6 (i.e. a full time Architect or a half-time Project Manager) that will provide a better value to the government?
Proposal Coordinator
Page 14: Quotation shall be formatted for viewing/printing using 8.5 by 11inch paper size, single sided, and in electronic pdf format. The technical volume is limited to no more than 12, singlesided pages in total.
Please confirm that the cover page, table of contents, attachments, Executive Summary, and tables/graphics are not counted towards the 12-page limit.
What is the minimum font size expected for body text? What is the minimum size permissible for tables and figures?
Technical Writer, Qocreate
Instructions, Condition, and Notices to Offerors, p. 14
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Gj Pereira, Eigennet, LLC
Pg.2..Components of Data.gov
Are you open to utilizing additional AWS services such as Redshift, Athena, Quicksight, etc for querying and monitoring data sources.
Can the Government please provide position descriptions and skill/experience requirements for the positions identified in the SOW (Architect, Programmer, etc.)?
Technical Writer, Qocreate
SOW 4.0, "Requirements", p. 6
What is the Government's policy for this RFQ regarding substitution of key personnel?
Technical Writer, Qocreate
SOW 4.0, "Requirements", p. 6
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GJ Pereira
Pg.2
Are you open to including easier methods for data access such as rest apis, database connections etc. within the data.gov website?
Sr. Application Engineer within our Procurement team.
Section 5.3: Security Clearance and GSA Access Card.
and
Instructions, Conditions, and Notices to Offerors.
Are the contractors required to already possess a security clearance and if so which level of clearance is required?
Does the 12-page limit of the Technical Volume include candidate resumes/staffing information?
Business Analyst within our Proposal Team
Submission of Quote
The submission instructions state to email the proposal to the contracting officer. Please confirm what if any information should be entered into the eBuy site.
Brittany Foster, E-Logic, Inc. (BD Member)
5.0 Security Considerations: In accordance with GSA Schedule 70 Terms and
Conditions. Page 6.
Is the prime contractor required to have a secret facility clearance?
Brittany F. - BD Member, E-Logic, Inc.
SOW Page 19 - Contract clauses
Will the Government make the contract awardee re-certify as a small business at the time of award?
NiyamIT
General Question
Will GSA give additional credit to small businesses submitting a proposal response?
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GJ Pereira, Eigennet LLC
Monitoring
Would real time monitoring of data updates be useful within data.gov?
Gayathri Prithiviraj, Business Development Manager, DevCare Solutions
Page. 9 - Section 8.1 - Place of Performance
Page. 6 - Section 5.1 - Security Clearance
"Additionally, the vendor must be located within the Washington, DC metropolitan area since t his position requires ad-hoc meetings at GSA’s Central Office location as well as in-person representation at team meetings. " - Should the prime contractor be located within the Washington, DC metropolitan area? if so, should there be a Security Clearance for the proposed facility?
What will be the number of awards for this contract?
Proposal Coordinator
N/A
Is GSA anticipating that the offeror will provide a dev environment or is there already an existing one?
Sr. Director
Staffing
There are no resume requirements specified in the RFQ, but question and answers specified that resumes must be 2 pages each and not counted toward the page count. Please provide clarification around the staffing section and resumes. And Page Count
Capture Manager
General
Are you facing any challenges in operating the platforms that the new vendor must be addressing immediately after the award?
{please be specific about the section of the RFQ documents you have a question or comment about, if applicable}
Proposal Coordinator
Page 5, Section 4
Are there any significant customizations of the CKAN open-source main-branch code in use at Data.gov?
Proposal Coordinator
Page 5, Section 4
Is Data.gov using CKAN to manage WordPress templates?
Capture Manager at ASSYST
INSTRUCTIONS, CONDITIONS, AND NOTICES TO OFFERORS; page 14 section f. and last sentence in 2nd paragraph.
The total proposed price (including all options) is required information on the cover page in the RFQ response, but instructions also say that technical proposals must be sanitized of any pricing information. Please clarify whether to include price information on the cover page or only in price quotation document.
Business Analyst within our Proposal team. IT WORKS
Section 4.0 Requirements #2: a,b,c,d
Please clarify what is meant by Application deployment, Database management, Website content management, and website administration as actual deliverables.
{ask away!}
Who is the incumbent contractor or employer of staff currently performing these duties? Under which contract number? Why is a change being considered?
Herschel Chandler, Principal, IUI
N/A
Proposal Coordinator
Page 14: Quotation shall be formatted for viewing/printing using 8.5 by 11inch paper size, single sided, and in electronic pdf format. The technical volume is limited to no more than 12, singlesided pages in total.
To allow for a sufficient technical response, will GSA allow past performances to be excluded from the 12-page limit?
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GJ Pereira, Eigennet LLC, CEO
Pricing
Should cost of AWS usage and cost of additional services subscription included in the cost proposal.
Question
Michael Drescher, BD/Capture
General
Will the government raise page count from 12 pages to 15 pages? Offerors will not be able to sufficiently address all requirements in detail with the current page limit.
NiyamIT, Inc.
Staffing Page 15
This instruction references the Contractor and not the Contractor Staff. Suggest clarifying with the following revision which better aligns to the evaluation criteria:
Provide a description of the experience, skills and capabilities of each (if multiple) proposed contractors. Descriptions shall include quality and depth of experience of the proposed contractor staff in working on similar projects in terms of background, education, work experience and accomplishments, with special emphasis in the technologies listed in the Experience section above
What is the composition of the incumbent's team compared to the composition of 5 FTEs (Architect, Programmers, PM, QA/Tester, and Deployment Specialist) provided in SOW 2.0?
Technical Writer, Qocreate
SOW 2.0, "Background", p. 2
Question
Will the government accept resumes as an appendix, outside of page count, to the proposal?
Instructions
The government specified that font must be 12 point TNR. Does this include graphics and tables? Will the government allow 10-point font for graphics and tables?
Brittany Foster, E-Logic, Inc. (BD Member)
Section 4.0 Requirements Number 7 (list of labor categories) Page 6
In proposing the labor categories, from our GSA schedule, will the Government allow us to propose more than one personnel for each labor category? Such as if the requirement is for 5 FTE's and we only have 3 labor categories on schedule, can we cross-walk the labor categories and provide resumes for support?
Sr. Director of Innovation responsible for ensuring we provide provide innovative technology solutions to provide our customers service excellence.
Page 14. The government states "The technical volume is limited to no more than 12, single-sided pages in total."
Can the government clarify that Cover Page, Table of Contents are excluded from the page count.
Proposal Coordinator
Page 5, Section 4
Is Data.gov using WordPress Multi-Site Themes?
Staffing - What agency means by education of contractor
Proposal Writer
On page 15, the RFP says provide a description of the experience, skills, and capabilities of each (if multiple) proposed contractors. Descriptions shall include quality and depth of experience of the proposed contractor in working on similar projects in terms of background, education, work experience, and accomplishments.
Does this mean contractor personnel education?
Business Analyst within our Proposal team. IT WORKS
Submission of Quote
The submission instructions state to email the Contracting Officer by the proposal due date. Please confirm the CO is Al Munoz, and the proper email address is [email protected].
Richard Owens - Sales Team/Digital Designer - Tellenger, Inc.
Section 4.0 Page 5 Item 4 "IT Systems support services for system architecture design, configuration management, system maintenance, system security support, infrastructure support, and maintenance of system and user documentation"
Can the government please clarify what tools are used currently for configuration management, system security support, and infrastructure support? Does the government anticipate the successful bidder taking over the existing tool sets or proposing and implementing their own solutions?
Proposal Coordinator
N/A
There is typically a one-week period until answers to offerors’ questions are released. Factoring in the Thanksgiving weekend, to provide offerors with sufficient time to complete their responses per the Q&A, will GSA please extend the RFQ due date from Monday November 27, 2017 to Monday, December 11, 2017?
Is past performance in 12 Page limit
Proposal Writer
INSTRUCTIONS, CONDITIONS, AND NOTICES TO OFFERORS
On page 14, the RFP says Quotation shall be formatted for viewing/printing using 8.5 by 11-inch paper size, single sided, and in electronic pdf format. The technical volume is limited to no more than 12,
single-sided pages in total. Is past Performance a part of this page limit
Elucid Solutions, a CMMI-DEV Level 3 certified company, specializes in software development. My role is to evaluate contract opportunities for which we can deliver the most value to customers.
This question is not specific to any section of the RFQ documents.
What is the contract cost per year for the last five years?
Sr. Director of Innovation responsible for ensuring we provide provide innovative technology solutions to provide our customers service excellence.
Modification 2 was released with font text size of 12.
Would the government allow for smaller font sizes for graphics and tables?
Over what period and at what rate does the Government anticipate requiring the .5 FTE identified (PM and QA/Tester): e.g., 20 hrs/week over the course of the year, 40 hrs/week for 6 months?
Technical Writer, Qocreate
SOW 4.0, "Requirements", p. 6
NiyamIT
Technical quotation - page 14
Please allow a single page for an executive summary outside of the 12-page limit.
Will the government confirm the Cover Page, Table of Contents, List of Figures, Acronym List and Cross Reference Matrix is outside of the 12-page limit?
Owen Barton, Direction of Engineering, CivicActions
Instructions -> Staffing (Page 15)
"This factor also considers the education, experience, knowledge, and the necessary skills of the offeror’s staff entomologist and each service technician or other technical personnel assigned to the contract."
Whilst we enjoy finding and identifying bugs in our code and do have several beekeepers on staff, we suspect this is more likely a bug in the RFP document. This sentence appears to come from an RFQ on biological pest control (http://www.ecowisecertified.org/toolkit/GSA%20%20RFP%20Eval.%20Criteria.pdf) - does this sentence/section need to be revised?
The solicitation specifies that the proposal shall be submitted to the Contracting Officer, but a CO is not named. Will the government release the name and email address of whom we should submit too?
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Gj Pereira, Eigennet LLC, CEO
N/A
Who is the supplier currently maintaining and supporting the data.gov website?
#Question
Instructions
Will the government accept resumes as an appendix, outside of page count, to the proposal?
Will the government accept key personnel references as past performances?
"Examples used shall include your key personnel and partnering participation as key subject material." Does this sentence indicate key personnel as identified in the present RFQ, or any key personnel for the past contract? I.e., is it expected that the provided past performances feature the particular personnel proposed in response to the present RFQ?
"Examples used shall include your key personnel and partnering participation as key subject material": Can the government clarify what is meant by "partnering participation"? Does the government desire: 1) References for past partners on the past contract; 2) To know the participation of our present partners on the past contract; 3) to know if the offeror participated on the past contract as prime, sub, or workshare percentage; 4) something else?
Technical Writer Qocreate
Instructions, Conditions, and Notices to Offerors, "Past Performance", p. 16
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