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Proposal Format Instructions. All Offerors are required to submit proposals in accordance with the format and content specified herein. The requirements below apply equally to subcontractors. Proposals that do not meet the below requirements may be deemed unacceptable and may not be eligible for award.The electronic proposal shall be prepared with: • Microsoft Word, Excel, or (searchable) Adobe Acrobat software (note: instructions regarding use of certain electronic products (e.g. Microsoft Office, Excel, Adobe) listed herein shall not be construed as Government endorsement of specified products); • No hyperlinks to locations outside a document (certain hyperlinks to places within a document, such as table of contents numbers, section headings, and table or figure cross references are acceptable); • All files named with the Offeror’s company name and title/subject of file content; • All files named with the file extension .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, or .pdf; • Spreadsheet files (workbooks) provided for all prime AND subcontractors shall include all formulas, functions, macros, computations, and equations used to compute the proposed amounts. There shall be no cell references to data or links to files not included in the Technical and Management volume and the Cost/Price volume, submissions, as appropriate. For each workbook, all rows, columns, cells, and worksheets shall be visible (object.visible=true). Zero height/zero width rows/columns in worksheets are not acceptable. Worksheet cells formatted with the font color equal to the fill color are not acceptable. Print image files or pictures (for example, a picture of an Excel spreadsheet embedded in a Word document) shall not be used; • Spreadsheets shall include all calculations in the cells (e.g. show all formulas). The Government MUST be able to determine how all direct and indirect rates are calculated. DO NOT hard enter data where formulas were used to calculate the entered value; • All files named with the file extension .doc or .docx shall be Microsoft Word 2010 compatible; • Prime /Subcontractor Cost Summaries shall be submitted using Microsoft Excel (2010 or compatible) in the Cost Summary Format provided as an attachment in Section J. This submission is in addition to the Offeror loading their Section B pricing into the portal via the web form; • Narratives related to the cost/price summary data may be provided in Microsoft Word; • Any other attached documents requested herein shall be compatible with Microsoft Office. Compress...