INSCOM G-2 Access Control and Security Escorts (ACES)

What they want

• Provide unarmed Access Control Officers who control and check people and equipment entering U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) secure facilities (sensitive compartmented information facilities, or SCIFs: secure spaces for classified work)
• Check IDs face to face, inspect items entering and leaving, use Government security systems and databases, and document security activity
• Staff Access Control Officer posts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year unless a task order says otherwise
• Provide Security Escorts for people without clearances, mainly 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM Monday to Friday, with occasional after-hours needs
• Provide Site Supervisors for on-site management during core business hours, Monday to Friday
• Staff at an estimated 69 full-time equivalents (FTEs): 10 Site Supervisors, 31 Access Control Officers and 28 Security Escorts; the total may change as task orders are issued
• Locations after Amendment 0001: Fort Belvoir, Springfield and Charlottesville in Virginia; Fort Meade, Maryland; Augusta, Georgia; Killeen, Texas
• After award: submit the quality control plan, hold the post-award conference, and deliver recurring reports such as monthly status and staff management plans

What they'll judge offers on

• Staffing Plan (Volume 1): your plan to recruit, vet, retain and staff the Site Supervisor, Access Control Officer and Security Escort positions with people who meet the labor category qualifications; rated with a combined technical/risk rating
• Price (Volume 2): Total Evaluated Price from the pricing spreadsheet (Government Furnished Pricing Model, GFPM) summary tab, adding the ordering period subtotals and the option to extend services; also checked for reasonableness, completeness and unbalanced pricing

What to include when you submit

• Send two volumes: Volume I is the Staffing Plan and Volume II is Price
• Complete and sign Standard Form 1449? (SF 1449, the form you sign and return as your offer), plus signed copies of Standard Form 30 (SF 30) for all amendments
• Price each labor category by location in Attachment 0003_GFPM, Revision 1 (a pricing spreadsheet)
• Price one Access Control Officer post per shift for Killeen, TX, as the pricing spreadsheet lists it
• Include a brief, high-level transition summary within the five-page limit of Volume I; the full transition-in plan is due after award
• Map each labor category (Site Supervisor, Access Control Officer, Security Escort) to the Service Contract Act? occupations in the wage determinations yourself, based on the duties in the performance work statement (PWS)
• Active SAM.gov representations and certifications may replace Section K; send only RFP-specific fill-ins if SAM.gov is current
• Travel and Defense Base Act insurance no longer need to be priced, and no Property Management Plan is required
• A Mission-Essential Contractor Services Plan is not required with the proposal

After award, you must have

• Every employee must hold a final adjudicated Top Secret clearance and be SCI-indoctrinated (cleared for sensitive compartmented information) before working on their own. An interim clearance is not enough. From Amendment 0001_Attachment A - Industry Questions and Answers_FINAL.pdf: An interim Top Secret clearance is not acceptable for personnel to begin unescorted performance.

Current contractor

An incumbent is mentioned but not named. The question-and-answer list refers to the incumbent's Task Order 26 and says the Government may extend the incumbent contract if source selection runs long. The new contractor must supply uniforms with its own logo, and incumbent staff are not under a collective bargaining agreement. No competition counts are given.

Not in the notice text

• The pricing spreadsheet (Attachment 0003_GFPM, Revision 0001.xlsx) was attached but not read, and the middle parts of the amendment's solicitation text, the performance work statement, the question-and-answer list, the deliverables list and the wage determinations were not read. Check SAM.gov for the full package.
• How to send the proposal (email or portal) was not found in the text read; Section L holds the instructions.
• The minimum order guaranteed under the IDIQ was not found in the text read.
• Whether corporate experience or past performance must be shown with the proposal was not found; only the Staffing Plan and Price factors are listed.
• Fort Meade is written as Virginia in the contract line descriptions and as Maryland in the draft DD Form 254 and the question list.
• Hours and posts at each site are set in each task order, and most task orders are expected at award.