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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF JANUARY 01, 2016 FBO #5152
MODIFICATION

D -- DOMEX Platform and Triage System

Notice Date

12/30/2015
 

Notice Type

Modification/Amendment
 

NAICS

541519 — Other Computer Related Services
 

Contracting Office

Other Defense Agencies, Virginia Contracting Activity, Virginia Contracting Activity (ZD50), 200 MacDill Boulevard, Post Office Box 46563, Washington, District of Columbia, 20035-6563
 

ZIP Code

20035-6563
 

Solicitation Number

288-0035-16
 

Archive Date

2/5/2016
 

Point of Contact

Mishelle Miller,
 

E-Mail Address

mishelle.miller@dodiis.mil
(mishelle.miller@dodiis.mil)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

This a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial service/items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. The solicitation is being issued as a Request for Proposal (RFP). The solicitation is being issued as a Request for Proposal to include the solicitation number as 288-0035-16. The solicitation document (288-035-16) and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-85. This is a request for the submission of a proposal and does not constitute a contract or authorization to begin work. Nor does an offeror's submission of a proposal constitute a contract or authorize the individual or company to begin work. 1. All interested offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management at time of proposal submissions. For more information, please visit https://www.sam.gov/. Interested firms are expected to submit the following information with each proposal: Cage Code, DUNS number, Tax identification Number, Prompt Payment Terms, Delivery Time, and Proposal Validity Date. 2. This requirement is 100% small business set-aside. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code for this requirement is 541519, Other Computer Related Services. The small business size standard is $27.5 Million. All responsible sources may submit a response to this RFP. 3. The Government contemplates a single award of a Time and Material contract type resulting from this solicitation, FAR Subpart 52.216-1, Contract Type of Contract (APR 1984). 4. The Period of Performance of the contract is for one 12-month base period and four 1-year option periods plus six months after the last option period to allow for the possibility that the Government may exercise the option at FAR 52.217-8. 5. Items: Contract Line Items see Attachment C. 6. Description: The Virginia Contracting Activity (VACA) is seeking a contractor to provide operation and maintenance support, and research, development, testing and evaluation support to a Document and Media Exploitation (DOMEX) Triage Platform. The contractor shall provide system sustainment, including development, engineering and enhancements based on continuous user and environment requirements, to an existing digital forensics platform. The platform enables fast, thorough, and efficient investigations and can evolve through customized modules, scripts, and third party tool integration allowing for the automation of a significant portion of exploitation efforts. A version of the platform produced by this effort shall, upon review and approval by the Government, be released by the contractor as Open Source under an Open Source license. The terms of the Open Source License must also be approved by the Government prior to release. Labor costs will be funded by both Operations and Maintenance (O&M) and Research, Testing, Development and Evaluation (RDT&E) funding. 7. Place of Performance: All development work will be unclassified and will be completed off-site at the Contractor's facility and designated Government facilities in the National Capital Region (NCR) as required by operational requirements. All work performed at the Contractor's facility will be UNCLASSIFIED. As required by operational needs, some meetings, training events, development, integration, and transition of the developed product into operations may be required at Government facilities at the TS/SCI level. End-user training events may be required both CONUS an OCONUS as required by operation requirements 8. Data Rights: The Government will receive Government Purposes Rights to Technical Data and computer software developed and delivered under this contract. The Contractor shall identify any technologies submitted that contains proprietary right of the Contractor. These technologies are Technical Data and Computer Software as those terms are defined in FAR 52.227-14, DFARS 252.227-7013, and DFARS 252.227-7014. Technologies, which were developed at the private expense of the Contractor, are considered proprietary information and belonging solely to the Contractor. "Government Purpose Rights", as used in this document, means rights to use, duplicate, or disclose Data, in whole or in part and in any manner, for U.S. Government purposes only and to have or permit others to do so for U.S. Government purpose only. U.S. Government purposes includes competitive re-procurement, but do not include the right to have or permit others to use Data for Commercial purposes. "Data", as used in this document, means recorded information developed in the performance of work under this Agreement, regardless of form or method of recoding, which includes but is not limited to, technical data, computer software, trade secrets, and masks works. The term does not include financial, administrative, cost, pricing or management information and does not include subject inventions. 9. All required deliverables must have a complete description and schedule. Deliverable requirements are contained in Statement of Work (Attachment B), Deliverables (Attachment B.2). All contents of the deliverables will be reviewed and approved by the Government at the Government destination. Acceptance will be made after any necessary revisions have been made to address comments by the Government. 10. Any prospective contractor desiring an explanation or interpretation of the solicitation, shall submit such questions in writing to Contracting Officer Mishelle Miller, mishelle.miller@dodiis.mil no later than 12:00 PM, Eastern Time, on Thursday 06 January 2016 in order to allow a reply to reach all prospective contractors before the submission of proposals. Oral questions/phone calls will not be considered. Any information provided by the contracting office concerning this solicitation will be furnished promptly to all other prospective vendors in writing. All questions and answers will be posted on FedBizOpps prior to the closing date, 06 January 2016. Interested vendors are instructed specifically to contact only the contracting officer, Ms. Mishelle Miller, in connection with any aspect of this procurement prior to contract award. Contact with any other Government official except the contracting officer, Ms. Miller without the contracting officer's express consent, concerning this solicitation may result in disqualification of the contractor from consideration for award. 11. The provision at FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition and is incorporated by reference tailored as follows: paragraph (e) of FAR 52.212.1 does not apply, and paragraph (c) of FAR 52.212.1 Period for acceptance of offerors is changed to 120 calendar days. Each offeror is responsible for the timely arrival of their proposal in accordance with the established closing date. Late submissions, modifications, revisions, and withdrawals of offers proposals will be handled in accordance with paragraph (f) of FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors --Commercial Items (Oct. 2015). See following paragraphs for additional instructions. 12. All proposals shall be submitted to Mishelle Miller, mishelle.miller@dodiis.mil no later than 12:00 NOON, Eastern Time (ET), on *21* January 2016. Offerors shall clearly mark the package and all correspondence pertaining to this solicitation with the company name, solicitation number and "Unclassified." Hand-Delivered Proposals: Proposals must be hand-delivered. Delivery location will be in Reston, Virginia. Offerors shall coordinate in advanced the hand delivery of proposals by email to Mishelle Miller, mishelle.miller@dodiis.mil no later than 12:00 NOON ET on *21* January 2016. Alternative Methods of Proposals Delivery: Proposals mailed, emailed, or submitted by facsimile will not be accepted. 13. To aid in the evaluation, each proposal shall follow the same general format. All proposals shall contain a Title Page, a Table of Contents, and responses in accordance with the requirements identified in the Statement of Work. The Title Page and Table of Contents do not count against the page limitations for the volumes. The proposal in response to this solicitation shall consist of four separate volumes: Volume 1 - Security and Contract Information Volume 2 - Technical and Management Proposal Volume 3 - Past Performance Volume 4 - Price Offerors shall use the instructions in this section of the solicitation to assist them with proposal preparation. Offerors are cautioned that no value is added to proposals that merely parrot back the solicitation requirements or provide unsupported statements of performance. The Offeror shall prepare the proposal as set forth in these instructions. Table below lists the copies required. Each volume shall be written on a stand-alone basis so that its contents may be evaluated without cross-referencing to other volumes of the proposal. Information required for proposal evaluation, which is not found in its designated volume, will be assumed to have been omitted from the proposal. Volume Title Page Limit Hard Copy CD-ROM 1 SECURTIY and Contract Documentation to include Cover page containing company, business address, POCs, email addresses, CAGE Code, Duns number None 3 Binders Original and 2 copies 1-CD-Rom including Volumes 1-3 pdf version 2 Technical/Management 15 pages including summary 4 Binders Original & 3 Copies 1-CD-ROM (pdf version and Microsoft Office version) 3 Past Performance 5 pages 4 Binders Original & 3 Copies 1-CD-ROM pdf version and Microsoft version 4 Price None except for Summary Section which is limited to 3 pages 3 Binders Original and 2 copies 1-CD-ROM (pdf version and Microsoft Excel for Pricing; Word for remainder of volume) version Page Format Each volume shall clearly identified, all pages of each volume shall be appropriately numbered, and identified by the company, date, and solicitation number in the header and/or footer. A Table of Contents shall be created for each Volume. MS Word (.doc) files shall be used. Margins, Top, Bottom, Left, Right 1" Gutter 0" From Edge - Header, Footer 0.5" Page Size, Width 8.5" Page Size, Height 11" No hyperlinks The following additional restrictions apply. Each paragraph shall be separated by at least one blank line. A standard, 12-point minimum font size applies. New Times Roman fonts are required. Tables and illustrations must also use the same font and font size may be reduced down to 8-point. Proprietary statements, security markings (if required), and page numbers can fall within the defined margin area. Each required section within a volume shall be numbered consecutively within the section. Page Count Page limitations shall be treated as maximums. Those pages that exceed the page limitation for each volume or attachment will not be evaluated. Each section in the volume shall begin the numbering of that section as page 1 so that the total page count may be easily examined against the maximum page count for the section. Title/Cover pages, Proposal matrix, Table of contents are not included in the page count: Each volume of the proposal shall consist of a Table of Contents, Proposal Matrix, Summary Section, and the Narrative discussion. The Proposal Matrix shall list the appropriate proposal paragraph for each evaluation criteria. The Summary Section shall contain a brief abstract of the volume not to exceed 3 pages. Proprietary information shall be clearly marked. All pricing information shall be addressed ONLY in the Price Proposal Volume 4. Each page shall include the company name in the header. Each volume shall be written on a stand-alone basis so that its contents may be evaluated without cross-referencing to other volumes of the proposal. Information required for proposal evaluation, which is not found in its designated volume, will be assumed to have been omitted from the proposal. Hard Copies: Each hard copy shall have a detailed table of contents to delineate the topics within that volume. Electronic: Each CD-ROM shall contain a detailed table of contents file to match the files on the CD. Folder/file names shall be named according to the table of contents to facilitate navigation. An electronic CD-ROM and hard copy of the proposal shall be submitted according to Table 1. The electronic proposal shall be submitted on CD-ROMs in a protective sleeve. Each electronic proposal volume shall be on a separate CD-ROM. The contents of the hard copy proposal shall be identical to the electronic copy of the proposal. The Government is not responsible for identifying inconsistencies between the hard copy and CD version of the proposal and may rely either version as the proposal of record. Disk label shall include the Offeror's name, solicitation title, solicitation number, classification marking (Unclassified) and Volume #. Electronic file directory titles and organization shall reflect the titles and organization of the proposal. Electronic PDF files shall be in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document File (PDF) (searchable and selectable text format) or in a Microsoft Office version as listed in Table 1. All electronic files shall be saved so when displayed are shown head-to-foot so that each page can be read when opening (no rotation required). Offerors shall ensure electronic copies on CD-ROM are virus free. Sound or video (e.g. MPEG) files shall not be embedded into the proposal files nor shall the files be password protected. Electronic copies of each volume shall be compatible with the following available Government equipment and software products: • Windows compatible PCs • Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.0 • Microsoft Office 2007 The hard copy of the proposals shall be submitted in a 3-ring binder with a separate binder for each volume/copy. Each hard copy of Volume 1 through Volume 4 shall include a cover sheet that includes the Offeror's name, solicitation title, solicitation number, Volume #, and Original marking. Do not submit proposals in comb, staple or spiral binding. Security Classification. The proposal shall NOT include any classified information. Proposal Validity: Proposal shall be valid for 120 days after proposal due date. Volume 1 - Security and Contract Documentation The Security Portion of Volume 1 shall contain the following: Table of Contents, Cage Code, DUNS number, and the Offeror's Contractor's Security Officer's name, title, phone number, and email address. Volume 1 - Security. This volume shall provide the Offeror's CAGE code identifying that the Prime Offeror has a TOP SECRET facility clearance and shall include the Offeror's Security Officer's contact information. Facilities Clearances will be validated through the Defense Security Service. The Government shall evaluate the Security factor on a "Pass/Fail" basis. If the Offeror does not receive a "Pass" in the Security Factor, the proposal will not be evaluated further. Volume 1 - Contract Documentation: The Contract contents shall include the following: Exceptions to Terms and Conditions Provisions and Clauses with completed fill-ins A separate page and electronic file shall accompany the proposal and contain the company's contact information (Company Name, Address, and Point of Contact of the signature authority, negotiation authority, and security officer (name, title, phone number, and email address of each)), CAGE code, and DUNs number. Exceptions to Solicitation Requirements Offerors are required to meet all solicitation requirements, such as terms and conditions and technical requirements, in addition to those identified as evaluation factors or sub-factors. Failure to meet a requirement may result in an offer being ineligible for award. Offerors shall clearly identify any exceptions to Terms and Conditions of the solicitation. Exceptions are strongly discouraged. Failure to comply with the terms and conditions of the solicitation may result in the Offeror being removed from consideration for award. Exceptions taken to terms and conditions of the solicitation, to any of its formal attachments, or to other parts of the solicitation shall be identified. Each exception shall be specifically related to each paragraph and/or specific part of the solicitation to which the exception is taken. Provide rationale in support of the exception and fully explain its impact, if any, on the performance, schedule, price, and specific requirements of the solicitation. Failure to comply with the terms and conditions of the solicitation may result in the Offeror being removed from consideration for award. Security Specification The draft DD Form 254 (Attachment D), Contract Security Classification Specification, is an Attachment of the solicitation, and will be applicable to the contract awarded as a result of this solicitation and will be finalized at time of award. Volume 2 - Technical and Management The Technical and Management Volume 2 shall contain the following: • Table of Contents • Proposal Matrix • Section Summary Narrative The Technical and Management Capability Volume shall be specific and complete. The Offeror shall provide all information required for the evaluation criteria listed in this solicitation. Volume 3 - Factor 3 - Past Performance The government will evaluate the Offeror's record of past and current performance to ascertain the probability of successfully performing the required efforts of this contract The Government will focus its inquiries on the Offeror's record of performance as it relates to this requirement, including 1) Cost, 2) Schedule, and 3) Performance A significant achievement, problem, or lack of relevant data in any element of the work can become an important consideration in the evaluation process. Therefore, offerors should include the most recent and relevant efforts in their proposal. The Government may use data provided by the Offeror in its proposal and data obtained from other sources, including data in government files, data in past performance databases, past performance questionnaires, or data obtained through interviews with personnel familiar with the contractor and its current and past performance. Although the government may seek and use data as described in the preceding sentence, it is ultimately the Offeror's responsibility to demonstrate the relevancy, recency, and quality of its past performance. Volume 4 - Price The Price Volume 4 shall include the following: Table of Contents, Price Summary, and Pricing Worksheets. Price proposals shall only include the information as per the instructions contained herein. Offerors are cautioned not to include information relevant to any of the other factors within these pages, as it will not be evaluated. Offerors shall discuss the impact of all stated assumptions on its price. The Offerors are responsible for the accuracy and correct application of all formulas to ensure that price data submitted is free of arithmetic errors. NOTE: Offerors shall adhere to the following guidance in preparing its price data. The price worksheets (Attachment C) shall use MS Excel 2003 or MS-Excel 2007. The Price worksheet has several areas of information to be completed in building the Offeror's pricing worksheet. Use formulas as necessary to allow the Government to review calculations. The pricing worksheet shall include the following as a minimum: • SOW Labor Category • Quantity of hours • Total Labor Category Price If using subcontractors, hours shall be identified as prime and sub and shall provide a subtotal for each category (Prime and Subs). ODCs will be provided as a Government plug figure for the base and each option period. Use $5,000.00 for ODCs for each period. ODCs will be cost reimbursable only. No indirect costs will be paid. Each option period shall have a pricing worksheet completed, with each worksheet summarizing total labor and ODC price for the period and one worksheet identifying price for the entire 5-year period plus six months Failure to provide complete pricing may render the proposal unacceptable. The pricing worksheets shall be provided as Excel worksheets with formulas provided. The hourly rate as proposed will be the basis for the Offeror's proposed price and establishes the maximum labor rate that can be charged for a particular labor category. This labor rate will be incorporated into the resultant contract by attachment. The evaluated price will be the sum total of the offeror's proposed prices for the base year and all option years plus six months after the last option period to allow for the possibility that the Government may exercise the option at FAR 52.217-8. Thus, the Offeror's total price for the purpose of evaluation will include the base period and all option periods plus six month after the last option period. The Offeror shall provide evidence indicating that its accounting system is adequate for accumulating and reporting incurred costs applicable to the contract and that acceptable systems are in place to track employee labor hours for the ability to invoice T&M labor. Evidence may include DCAA audit reports, or other relevant audit reports. The Offeror shall identify any deviations from standard procedures in preparing this proposal. Submission of this information in the price volume is merely to facilitate review of the information by the appropriate evaluators. 14. Basis for Award-Offerors are notified that this acquisition is being conducted in accordance with FAR Subpart 12.602 Streamlined Evaluation and Solicitation for Commercial Items, and supplemented with additional information included in the DOMEX Platform and Triage System Statement of Work (SOW). The rules, policies, and procedures of FAR Part 15.3 and DFARS 215.3 do not apply to this acquisition. The Government anticipates a single award Time and Material (T&M) contract. This is a Small Business Set-Aside, NAICS code 541519, Other Computer Related Services which is selected for this acquisition. Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated to determine if the proposal addresses all areas of the National Media Exploitation Center's (NMEC) Document and Media Exploitation Platform and Triage (DOMEX) System Statement of Work (SOW) requirement consistent with the Best Value source selection criteria provided below and is compliant with this Request for Proposal (RFP). The Government's objective is to obtain the highest technical quality considered necessary to achieve the program objectives, with reasonable price. The Government will perform an evaluation of the non-price factors to determine the best value to the Government. The Government may reject any or all offers if such action is determined to be in the best interest of the Government. The Government intends to award the contract without discussions with offerors; however, the Government reserves the right to hold discussions. Offerors are encouraged to submit their best proposal from both a technical and price aspect, and not assume that the government will hold discussions. The Government reserves the right to conduct discussions if the Contracting Officer determines them to be necessary. However, during the evaluation process the Government may, solely at its discretion, communicate with an offeror for any purpose such as to gain a better understanding of the proposal. The Government need not communicate with all offerors. Rather, the Government may, at its discretion communicate with only some offerors or only one offeror. As a result of such communication, the Government may allow an offeror to submit a proposal revision. Government need not provide all offerors with an opportunity to submit a proposal revision. Rather, the Government may, at its discretion, permit only some offerors or only one offeror to submit a proposal revision. If proposal revisions are allowed from more than one offeror, the Government may, solely at its discretion, impose non-common due dates for the revisions. In other words, the Government may elect to have a proposal revision date for an Offeror that is different than a proposal revision date for another offeror(s). At any time prior to award, including upon receipt of proposals, the Government may exclude a proposal from further consideration for reasons such as, but not limited to, non-compliance with instructions related to this solicitation or the proposal is not likely to be selected for award. NOTE: Statements that the Offeror understands, can, or will perform the requirements of the SOW without supporting information or narratives are inadequate. Offeror's are cautioned that simply "parroting" the SOW in their proposals will not be looked upon favorably by the evaluation panel and may result in an unfavorable rating. Offerors are cautioned that the award may not necessarily be made to the lowest price offered. The Government is more concerned with obtaining superior technical features than with making an award at the lowest overall price to the Government. However, the Government may make an award at a significantly higher overall price to achieve slightly superior technical features. 52-212-2 Evaluation -- Commercial Items (Oct 2014) The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers: Factor 1 - Security (Pass/Fail) Factor 2 - Technical and Management Factor 3 - Past Performance Factor 4 - Price Technical and past performance, when combined, are significantly more important than price. Relative Order of Importance Relative Order of Importance. The non-price factors, when combined are significantly more important than price. Factor 1 will be evaluated on a Pass/Fail basis. If an offeror does not receive a PASS for Factor 1, the proposal will be removed from consideration for award and will not be evaluated further. Factor 1 will not be considered in the price / non-price trade-off analysis. The evaluation Factors 2 and 3 and sub-factors are ranked in descending order of importance. Factor 2 is significantly more important Factor 3. Sub-factor 2.1 is slightly more important than Sub-factor 2.2. The Past Performance factor will be evaluated independently from the other non-cost/price evaluation factor. Evaluation Factors. The rating for the evaluation Factor 2, Technical/Management factor will be based on the Government's determination of the degree to which the proposal satisfies the requirements of the factor. The highest possible rating is Outstanding, with the lowest possible rating being Unacceptable. The Past Performance evaluation factor assesses the degree of confidence the Government has in an offeror's ability to supply products and services that meet users' needs, based on a record of performance. The highest possible past performance confidence rating is Substantial Confidence with the lowest possible is No Confidence. The lack of relevant past performance information will result in an "Unknown Confidence" (Neutral) rating (i.e., neither favorable nor unfavorable Price does not receive a rating. NON-PRICE EVALUATION FACTORS/SUB-FACTORS Factor 1 - Security The first volume that will be evaluated is Volume 1 - Security. The Offeror (proposed prime) must demonstrate that it possess a TOP SECRET facility clearance. The Offeror's provided CAGE code(s) will be verified with the Defense Security Service (DSS) database. The Security Factor will be evaluated with an adjectival rating of Pass or Fail. The definitions for the ratings are provided in Table 1 below. Table 1 - Security Rating Description Pass The Offeror has a TOP SECRET facility clearance. Fail The Offeror does not have a TOP SECRET facility clearance. NOTE: If the Offeror does not receive a Pass for Factor 1, the proposal will not be evaluated further and will be eliminated from consideration for award. Factor 2 - Technical/Management The Offeror shall describe, and the Government will evaluate, its operations and maintenance expertise of a modular document and media exploitation triage platform. The Offeror shall also describe, and the Government will evaluate, the Offeror's capability to perform research, development, testing, and evaluation of new technologies and tools related to documentation, media exploitation, and digital media triage as delineated in the Statement of Work. a. Sub-factor 2.1 - Technical Approach: The Government will evaluate the Offeror's proposal to the extent to which the proposal: i. demonstrates a clear understanding of the technical requirements of the Document and Media Exploitation (DOMEX) System SOW, ii. indicates in-depth knowledge of system sustainment support to include development, engineering and enhancements to an existing digital forensics platform, and iii. demonstrates depth and breadth of expertise to successfully perform the digital forensics platform and triage system research, development, testing and evaluation requirements. b. Sub-factor 2.2 - Management Approach: The Government will evaluate the Offeror's security vetting procedures, and recruitment, hiring, and retention procedures to the extent to which the proposal: i. demonstrates a robust internal security vetting procedures to ensure potential security issues are addressed before submitting proposed personnel security packages to NMEC for review by DIA security pursuant to the requirements in the SOW and Attachment A to the SOW. ii. demonstrates evidence that the Offeror has robust procedures to recruit, hire, and retain qualified personnel that meet the requirements outlined in the SOW and Attachment D to the SOW. iii. Demonstrates the Offeror's proposed Quality Control Plan provides evidence of an established and robust quality control structure and processes which are optimized to support the DOMEX Mission and provides succinct descriptions of management structure, tools, and procedures to be used to plan, monitor, control, and deliver required services. The Technical/Management Factor will be evaluated with an adjectival rating. The highest possible rating is Outstanding, with the lowest possible rating being Unacceptable. Factor 3 - Past Performance Relevancy The Government will assess the Offeror's capability to perform the requirements of the contract by evaluating the past performance information, of either a prime contractor or a subcontractor, on previous or on-going contracts with similar scope to the SOW Support Areas. The estimated value will range from $7M -$12M. Only relevant past performance efforts completed within the last 36 months prior to proposal submission, or work that is on-going will be evaluated. With respect to relevancy, more relevant past performance will typically be a stronger predictor of future success and have more influence on the past performance confidence assessment than past performance of lesser relevance. All past performance efforts rated as "Not Relevant" will not be evaluated for performance confidence assessment. The lack of relevant past performance information will result in an "Unknown Confidence" (Neutral) rating (i.e., neither favorable nor unfavorable). In conducting relevancy determination, the Government will assign a relevance rating for each past performance references using the rating definitions of "Relevant" or "Not Relevant". Only past performance references deemed "Relevant" will be considered as part of the Government's performance confidence assessment discussed below. Performance Confidence Assessment Confidence The Government will review the relevant past performance information and determine the quality and usefulness as it applies to the performance confidence assessment. The Government will review past performance in the areas of Schedule, Cost Control, and Performance The Government may use additional information that is readily available to the Government including both the information received from Offerors, information contained in the Past Performance Questionnaires, and information obtained from other sources. During the evaluation of an Offeror's past performance, the Government may query the Government agency references provided by the offeror. Other sources may include interviews with program managers and contracting officers, available DoD and other agency past performance databases and available data from previous source selections or contractor capability assessments. Offerors are reminded that both independent data and data provided by offerors in their proposals may be used to evaluate offeror past performance. The Government does not assume the duty to search for data to cure problems it finds in proposals. The Offeror bears the burden of demonstrating the quality of its past performance. Offerors may be asked to respond to adverse past performance information. In conducting a performance confidence assessment, each Offeror shall be assigned a Performance Confidence Assessment. The highest possible past performance confidence rating is Substantial Confidence with the lowest possible is No Confidence. The lack of relevant past performance information will result in an "Unknown Confidence" (Neutral) rating (i.e., neither favorable nor unfavorable Factor 4 - Price The Government will make a determination to whether the price proposals submitted by Offerors are complete and the determination that a total price is reasonable. The reasonable determination will be based information submitted with the Offeror's proposal, comparison of other competitive offers, published labor rates, and the Independent Government Estimate. If required, other price analysis methods may be employed. Unbalanced Pricing. Offerors are cautioned against submitting an offer that contains unbalanced pricing. Unbalanced pricing may increase performance risk and could result in payment of unreasonably high prices. Unbalanced pricing exists when, despite an acceptable proposal, the price of one or more items is significantly over or understated as indicated by the application of price analysis techniques. The Government will analyze offers to determine whether they are unbalanced with respect to separately priced items. Offers that are determined to be unbalanced may be rejected if the contracting officer determines that the lack of balance poses an unacceptable risk to the Government. Total estimated ceiling price to accomplish the requirement and all of its options will be used as a basis for evaluating price. The overall evaluated price will be the sum total of the Offeror's proposed base period and all option years plus six months after the last option period to allow for the possibility that the Government exercise the option at FAR 52.217-8. Offerors are specifically advised that, under this evaluation method, the Government may determine that an offer is unacceptable if the prices are unbalanced between initial and each option year. Each proposal will be evaluated to determine whether the government considers the proposed prices are not unbalanced, and are reasonable. 15. FAR Subpart 52-212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications - Commercial Items (Attachment E) applies to this acquisition. Offerors shall complete FAR 52.212-3 and submit the completed copy with their proposal. 16. FAR Subpart 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions with its addenda applies to this acquisition. (See Attachment E). 17. FAR Subpart 52-212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statues Or Executive Orders - Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition and additional FAR clauses cited in the clause are applicable to this acquisition. (See Attachment E). 18. Defense Priorities and Allocations System (DPAS) does not apply to this acquisition. 19. Contract Terms and Conditions Clauses (Attachment E) This Section incorporates one or more FAR and DFAR clauses by reference that are applicable to this solicitation with the same force and effect as if they were given in full text. The full text of a clause may be accessed electronically at and may be obtained via internet at http://farsite.hill.af.mil: This Section also incorporates one or more contract FAR, DFAR and Agency local clauses in full text that are applicable to this solicitation. --------------------------- Amendment 01 posted on 30 December 2015 corrects two instances in #12 above to correct that proposals are due 21 January 2016 and not 06 January 21. (Questions are due by 06 January.)
 

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