Amendment 2: Attachment A - Updated Industry Questions and Answers

Amendment 0002_Attachment A – Updated Industry Questions and Answers

Updated Government Responses: The responses below supersede the corresponding Government responses in Amendment 0001_Attachment A - Industry Questions and Answers. The original questions remain unchanged. In the event of any inconsistency, Amendment 0002 and Attachment 0003_GFPM_Revision 0002 shall control.

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Synthesized Question &
Clarification Request

Formal Government Response

Pricing Model (GFPM), CLIN Structure & Escalation

UQ-PRC-15 [UPDATED]

The solicitation incorporates FAR 52.222-41 but The solicitation is amended to incorporate FAR 52.222-43, Fair Labor does not appear to include FAR 52.222-43, Price Standards Act and Service Contract Labor Standards—Price Adjustment Adjustment (Multiple Year and Option Contracts). (Multiple Year and Option Contracts). The Government will provide for Will the Government incorporate 52.222-43, or
price adjustments to account for increases or decreases in wages and must offerors build anticipated SCA wage
fringe benefits under the Service Contract Labor Standards. Offerors increases into their out-year pricing?
shall still propose escalation rates in the GFPM to account for any other anticipated cost growth over the 66-month period of performance. Attachment 0003_GFPM_Revision 0002 replaces Attachment
0003_GFPM_Revision 0001 in its entirety. Revision 0002 provides separate annual escalation inputs for non-Service Contract Act (nonSCA) Site Supervisor labor and Service Contract Act (SCA)-covered Access Control Officer and Security Escort labor. Offerors shall use the applicable annual escalation input fields in Attachment 0003_GFPM_Revision 0002 to propose escalation for other anticipated cost growth, as applicable.

Staffing Baseline, FTE Discrepancies & Workload Hours

UQ-STF-09 [UPDATED]

The GFPM calculates Access Control Officer
requirements as positions per shift ("# Needed /
Shift") and applies a factor of 4.5816 FTEs per
24/7/365 post (8,760 hours / 1,912 hours per
FTE), resulting in ~142 ACO FTEs and a total
requirement of ~180 FTEs across all labor
categories, rather than the 69 total personnel cited
in Technical Exhibit 4, Section L.4.1, and Section
M.4.1.1. Please clarify: (1) Whether the quantities
in Technical Exhibit 4 and Sections L/M represent
posts/shift or individual FTEs; (2) Whether
offerors must price ~142 ACO FTEs (~180 total
FTEs) to support 31 posts 24/7/365; and (3)