Hello-
We are responding to a FFP RFP as the Prime to the Marine Corp and there is a Travel CLIN for both the base period and option period. In section L of the RFP is states “Travel is on a Cost Reimbursable CLIN; therefore, the government will provide the unburdened overall estimated cost to be used in all Offerors’ price proposals”. In the pricing deliverable the government provides dollar values for the Travel CLINs.
My two questions are as follows:
1. We have multiple subcontractors that will require travel to support us. Should we, as the prime, request the subcontractor not include travel in their proposal back to us since a travel figure is already provided by the government to us? If travel should be included by subcontractor, I’m not entirely sure where to place the travel dollars in their proposal within ours.
2. Internally we are not bidding any travel, again since a dollar figure is already provided, but are requesting BOE providers to bid the labor associated with a travel events and time on location. Just want to make sure this is how we should be interpreting the government’s expectations based on the above.
Q&A period has already passed and we are trying to determine the best path forward.
More than happy to provide any additional data or information that I may have mistakenly omitted.
Thank you in advance!