Question/Comment

Name and affiliation

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Shubhi Mishra - President

HealthStar Informatics - 8(a) - GSA Contract: 47QTCA18D003V

Section of RFQ documents

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All sections of the RFQ are mentioned in Bold in the questions.

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1. • Contract Number - What is the current contract number and contract value?
2. • Price Submittal - It seems that a permission is required to view one of the documents mentioned in the RFQ. Specifically, this is the link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bmsshuqnFdhFXky6QEMJW_6ldgAedUAi_MFJKGwOtSc/edit?usp=sharing . It is in "Price Submittal" section on page 2
3. • Evaluation process - Will the price (phase 3) be reviewed after oral interviews (phase 2)?
4. • Technical Approach - Does the 10 page limit exclude cover page and table of contents?
5. • Response Form - The "GSA TTS Search.gov Development Support RFQ Response Form" seems to have an issue. It isn't recognizing our DUNS #. We believe there is an issue in the validation for this screen. Although we're entering a 9 digit number it still says "Must be a number equal to 9". Here is the screenshot demonstrating the issue
6. • Key Personnel - Is it up to the industry to come up with the number of key personnel? Will the number of key personnel be a factor in evaluation?
7. • Similar Experience - The second last bullet point has text "or an anonymized fork of a repository with Personally Identifiable Information/sensitive information is strongly encouraged" Is this a typo...should it read without Personally Identifiable?
8. • Similar Experience - We believe the sentence "[..] is strongly encouraged over screenshots of private repositories" unduly restricts vendors doing work for clients that don't want their source code posted openly because of intellectual property concerns and unduly favors vendors doing work on the open source. We request the government to remove this wording from the evaluation process. Since Oral presentations are part of the evaluation process, government can request to view the vendors private repositories over a screen share session as part of the oral evaluation.
9. • Similar Experience - Will two projects similar in scope suffice or are 3 projects required at a minimum?
10. • Price Submittal - Can the price be submitted via the XLSX file found on GitHub or does it need to be submitted via the RFQ Pricing Form? If latter, then the link to the form needs to be updated. We are not able to access https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bmsshuqnFdhFXky6QEMJW_6ldgAedUAi_MFJKGwOtSc/edit?usp=sharing

Question/Comment

When posting an RFI as a Google Form, it would be helpful if 18F could also provide a complete list of questions. When posted as a Google Form, it's not immediately obvious that there are follow up pages of questions, or what happens when partially completing the form. It would be helpful to be able to see all the questions up front, be able to compose responses to each of the questions, and then submit via the Google Form all at once.

This applies to all 18F Google Form-based RFIs.

Thanks!

Name and affiliation

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Greg Gershman, Ad Hoc LLC

Section of RFQ documents

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Question/Comment

Name and affiliation

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## Section of RFQ documents
Amendment 1 RFQ - PWS Background (p. 8)

Question/Comment

1. Is there a current incumbent vendor performing Search.gov ongoing support and maintenance related to this opportunity?
2. What is the current contract number for Search.gov ongoing support and maintenance related to this opportunity?
3. Was the original Search.gov application developed in-house or by a vendor?
4. What is the vendor name and contract number for the original development of Search.gov?

## Section of RFQ documents
Amendment 1 RFP - Quote Due By: Noon EST on June 22, 2018

Question/Comment

Will the Government consider an extension by one week to noon EST on June 29, 2018? This will allow qualified vendors sufficient time to prepare a quality proposal response that thoroughly addresses TTS's needs.

Question/Comment

Name and affiliation

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Arlene Barrow, Technical Writer at Fearless Solutions

Section of RFQ documents

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Specific Sections of the RFQ are specified in bold below.

Question/Comment

1. GENERAL QUESTION: Is there a size standard or set aside requirement for any teaming partners or subcontractors that would be working on this project?

2. Factor 4: Price: For the pricing template, do all of the GSA Schedule SINs have to be from the 8(a) Prime contractor, or can we also submit SINs from a teaming partner/subcontractor's GSA schedule?

3. RFQ Response Form - Pricing Based on the description of the RFQ Pricing Form template, it seems that this is an excel document. Does the Government expect to receive a cost volume narrative additionally, or will the Offeror only be expected to complete the provided RFQ Pricing Form template?

4. RFQ Response Form - Pricing If the Government would like an accompanying Cost Volume narrative, are there any page limitations on this document?

Question/Comment

Name and affiliation

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Melaku Worku
DevOps
IT Data Consulting LLC
11951 Freedom Drive, Suite 1300, Reston, VA 20190
SBA Certified 8(a) | DUNS: 070990867 | CAGE: 7J6G9

Section of RFQ documents

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1. Where is search.gov hosted ....cloud, on premises...
2. search.gov, Is it in house developed or purchased
3. What kind of search tools is being used currently
4. Which infrastructure automation tools used currently ..... Chef, puppet, ansible .....
5. What kind of application programming languages used to develop search.gov