REQUEST FOR COMMENTS ON RSLP MISSION ASSURANCE DRAFT RFP

The Air Force is seeking industry feedback on the Rocket Systems Launch Program Mission Assurance (RSLP MA) Draft Request for Proposal (DRFP); the program includes systems engineering, risk management, technical analysis, Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) and quality assurance for RSLP Launch Missions, and planning and analysis for logistics concerns such as motor/component sustainment, Aging Surveillance (AS), motor refurbishment, booster build, booster test, transportation/handling, and system integration.  The Program Office is requesting  industry feedback which may be incorporated in order to improve the quality of the RSLP MA RFP (projected to be released 01 Mar 2020). 

RSLP MA’s DRFP is included as attachments to this announcement. Please provide your feedback using the provided MS Excel Comment Resolution Matrix (CRM).  Responses to this request for feedback (do not include proprietary information) are to be submitted no later than 11 February 2020 at 12pm (MST).  Additional information, which is integral to this RFP and which will ultimately be necessary to submit a proposal, is included in the Bidders’ Library which is available upon request from the Primary POC (Alicia Cawley, Contracting Officer). 

We request that interested parties focus on the following areas in response to this posting. Any additional comments will be greatly appreciated:

• Evaluation Criteria in Section M and Section L Requirements
• Recommended Fee, min/max and share ratio for cost over/underruns and supporting rationale
• Alternative recommended incentives for this contract
• Draft PWS and CDRLS
• Adequacy of information provided to prepare your proposal
• Adequacy of time to prepare the proposal (30 Calendar Days)

The RSLP MA Bidder's Library is available to interested parties, by request only. The library provides a collection of relevant program guidance and reference documents not generally available to the public which are necessary for offerors to ultimately prepare proposals to be eligible for award. The RSLP MA Bidder's Library will be sent within 24 hours of request via FEDEX Priority Overnight. Parties interested in accessing the RSLP MA Bidder's Library should send their requests to the PCO’s email address below. The requests should include: Company name; Company mailing address; Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) code; point-of-contact (POC) name, POC email and POC phone number. Foreign firms will not be allowed to participate in this acquisition at the prime contractor level and are not eligible to receive the Bidder's Library.

This request is to survey industry, for planning purposes, and does not constitute an invitation for bids, request for proposals, quotes, or indication that the Government will contract for the items contained in this notice.  The Government will not reimburse respondents for any costs associated with submission of the information being requested or reimburse expenses incurred to interested parties for responses.

This is a small business set-aside; the small business size standard is 1250 employees. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this effort is 541715.

The following is a list of attachments included for this posting:

1.Draft Model Contract FA8818-18-R-0003

2.Draft Section J Attachments

• Attachment 1 - BASIC IDIQ PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT(PWS)
• Attachment 2 - CONTRACT SECURITY CLASSIFICATIONSPECIFICATION (DD 254)
• Attachment 3 - ORDERING GUIDE
• Attachment 4 - TASK ORDER RATES FOR PRIME/TEAMING PARTNERS/MAJOR SUBCONTRACTORS (TBD)
• Attachment 5 - BASE SUPPORT AGREEMENT
• Attachment 6 - GOVERNMENT FURNISHED PROPERTY (GFP) LIST
• Attachment 7 - CONTRACT WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE (CWBS) (TBD)

3.  Draft Section J Exhibits (CDRLS)

• Exhibit A – CLIN 0001 CORE EFFORT
• Exhibit B – CLIN 0003 MISSION SUPPORT
• Exhibit C – CLIN 0005 LOGISTICS SUPPORT
• Exhibit D – CLIN 0007 CONCEPT ANALYSIS
• Exhibit E – CLIN 0009 KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT
• Exhibit F – CLIN 0011 TRANSITION

4.  Draft Section L

5.  Draft Section M

6.  RSLP MA Draft RFP Comment Resolution Matrix (CRM)

All responses and questions related to this request for feedback shall be submitted to all of the email addresses below and shall include the contact information of the requestor.

• Alicia Cawley, Contracting Officer  email:   [email protected]
• April Miller, Contract Specialist    email:  [email protected]

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CONTRACTING OFFICE ADDRESS LISTED IN THIS POSTING IS INCORRECT.  THE CONTRACTING OFFICE IS SMC/PKT, 3548 ABERDEEN AVE SE, KIRTLAND AFB, NM  87117 (NOT PETERSON AFB)