Period of Performance

[patrickmcconnell]

Question/Comment on Department of Labor 14(c) RFQ

Name and affiliation

Patrick McConnell, SemanticBits, Agile BPA Manager

Section of RFQ documents

1. Period of Performance. The Period of Performance (POP) is 60 days with no option periods.

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2.0 OBJECTIVES

Question/Comment

There are numerous complexities in this project, including:

• Authentication
• Role-based authorization for seven roles (Applicant, Parent, Certification Team Member, Certification Team Manager, Policy Team Member, Wage and Hour Investigator, WHD Field Manager)
• Building a web form, including validation, conditional logic, save partial forms, pre-population, file upload
• Data searching, sorting, viewing, full-text query
• History logging
• Work assignment
• Notifications, including receipt and status confirmations
• Reporting, including inventory reports, general reporting, and producing trend data
• Data import and export
• Workload management, including calendaring, time reporting, metrics
• System integration, including WHISARD and CPS
• Online calculator functionality

Two months may be an extremely risky timeframe to implement a production system with all of these requirements, even with a very large team. The functionality alone is challenging to fit in this timeframe, as well as there being numerous touch points that rely on other parties (authentication, integration, wireframe/mockup review, etc.).

Will the government consider an increase in the period of performance?

[rrefoy]

The deadline to submit questions was Monday, July 18th at 6pm EST.

[patrickmcconnell]

@rrefoy , understood. I hope the government still considers this important question. For us, it is a bid/no-bid decision maker.

[patrickmcconnell]

@rrefoy , the due date for proposal submission was extended two days. Is it possible to have the question submission deadline extended two days to 7/20?

[rrefoy]

The deadline for questions will not be extended.