MODIFICATION
D -- PIRMDS2 Industry Day Questions and Answers
- Notice Date
- 11/20/2014
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 541519
— Other Computer Related Services
- Contracting Office
- N00189 NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center Norfolk 1968 Gilbert Street,Suite 600 NORFOLK, VA
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- N0018915R0005
- Response Due
- 11/25/2014
- Archive Date
- 12/10/2014
- Point of Contact
- Chandra Brinkley 7574431442
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- 1. The labor categories seem to have a significant experience requirement. Would the government consider adding some labor categories with less experience to the existing LCAT descriptions? Please include suggested LCAT requirements in your sources sought response. 2. Given the expected size and scope of the task orders, will the period of performance (PoP) for awarded task orders be able to pass the PoP of the IDIQ? It is possible that orders will exceed the PoP of the IDIQ ordering period. Typically, orders are not expected to exceed the ordering period by more than 12 months. For example, it is possible that a 12 month task order may be issued on the last day of the ordering period. 3. Are cover pages part of the 10 page limit on the sources sought? No. 4.what is the anticipated performance durations by task orders. Will some be across the five year PoP and some short term/duration? The government anticipates orders will be for various lengths dependent on the requirement. 5. Will the solicitation have a Royal Saudi Navy component? The Royal Saudi Navy is a BSC customer; however, the BSC currently does not have a near term requirement to support them. 6. Are multiple contracts being rolled up? No. 7. Will Navy and DoD past performances be given greater relevancy than those from commercial entities? Relevancy will be evaluated based on the similarity of the scope, complexity, and magnitude as compared to the PWS. 8. How many awards and/or overall percentage of the funds of this vehicle are currently earmarked for small business? To date, the number of awards has not been established nor have any amounts been set aside or earmarked for small businesses. 9. Who is the incumbent? The current MAC is held by IBM, Accenture, and Deloitte. 10. Should large businesses respond to the sources sought? Yes. While potential vendors are not required to respond to the sources sought, the Government encourages large and small businesses to respond to the sources sought. In addition to providing a capability statement, the Government requests vendors submit comments, questions, and suggestions regarding the requirement. 11. Is the intent to replace the current ERP Sustainment IDIQ with this new broader IDIQ? The new IDIQ is considered a follow on to the existing contract. 12. Will evaluation of personnel be part of the solicitation criteria (sections L and M)? Evaluation of personnel is not currently included in the tentative source selection. 13. Is it possible that new programs like EPS will fall under this procurement? Yes. 14. The IDIQ appears to include best value and LPTA. Can you share the strategy around how each will be applied to future task orders? A determination to use trade off or LPTA will be dependent on each task order competition. The Government anticipates that both best value determinations will be used during task order competitions. 15. Draft labor categories appear to contain higher education and experience requirements than the current MAC IDIQ. How will that be handled relative to trip wires? Tripwires will be discussed with NAVSUP leadership during the approval process. 16. What business process initiatives are already underway? Two examples include Financial Services Process (Business process standardization) and Warehouse Management Process. 17. How are you aligning business process designs with OSD (DCMO and SECDEF Comptroller)? Through business enterprise architecture. 18. Since the PWS looks very similar to the existing IDIQ contract, what is the Government looking to change under a new contract? While the scope is similar, the magnitude of this requirement is larger. 19. What data management initiatives are already underway? Data linkage and traceability for audit. 20. How are you aligning with OSD data management initiatives? Data architecture as depicted in Department of Defense Architectural Framework (DoDAF v 2.0). 21. The technical presentation was about new approaches to existing challenges. Is BSC interested in bringing a much broader base of talent to respond to the challenges? Yes. 22. You have a lot of existing efforts. Are you looking to extend those efforts or re-evaluate those efforts and consider new approaches? BSC Is considering all options to better support its customers. 23. Will you move the work to the capability or move the capability to the work? Remote deployment? BSC is flexible on approaches, depending on customer requirements. 24. Is there a tool or a set of tools that will be used to establish the metadata repository or/and data dictionary? Currently there are multiple with the possibility of consolidating meta-data repository systems. 25. How will these areas of support (data management, business process, etc.) be broken out via the task orders? Task order requirements depend on customer needs and existing BSC capability. 26. Do you anticipate keeping the model of dividing the work via functional capabilities in the system? BSC has not made a determination on the division of work at this time. 27. Is there a security clearance requirement? Not at this time. Should a clearance be required at the task order level it will be identified in the task PWS. 28. Identification/information on: - Types of systems - Hardware (servers, storage) - Software (o/s, 3rd party software, SAP, SAS) - Databases (types, oracle, sybase, DB2, sizes) BSC plans to publish a tech spec package for the IDIQ and task order competitions which will include this information. 29. With all of the data being assessed, analyzed, business decisions being made, where is the cyber security wrapper around this to protect yourself? All solutions must be maintained IAW Navy and DoD Cyber Security Policies. 30. Can you expand a little further on the training and communications services identified in the original PWS? This requirement is dependent on specific customer requirement and is usually applied with a specific IT System user community. 31. What is the relationship between PEO, SPAWAR, and BSC? PEO and SPAWAR are customers of BSC. SPAWAR is also a delivery partner in some projects. 32. A common issue in the user community is lack of awareness of available tools. Is there any effort to make communication with the end user community a priority, particularly with respect to tools and training that is available? Yes, as required by customer requirements and the user community. 33. Will the IDIQ be awarded on an all or nothing approach? The Government hasnt made a final determination on this yet. 34. Will you use Seaport-E? At this time, it is FLC Norfolk/BSCs intent to award its own IDIQ and not use any existing MAC. 35. How many awards? The number of awards has not been established yet. 36. How big is the magnitude? How much larger than the existing contract? BSC underestimated the aggressive growth of Navy Audit. Additional growth to the requirement was the result of new customers after NAVSISA became BSC. 37. A number of commands do not currently use Navy ERP. Will future work include bringing those commands on ERP? Yes. 38. How close are we to getting to a clean audit? What is the plan? Generally speaking IT is not a primary component of the audit. BSC is currently delivering 250 changes to ERP to contribute to a clean audit.
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