SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Advisory and Assistance Services to Support the Mission of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency
- Notice Date
- 2/4/2004
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, DTRA Annex 8725 John J. Kingman Road, MSC 6201, Fort Belvoir, VA, 22060-6201
- ZIP Code
- 22060-6201
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-BDA040000378
- Response Due
- 2/12/2004
- Archive Date
- 2/27/2004
- Point of Contact
- Kurtis Jones, Contract Specialist, Phone 703-767-7881, Fax 703-767-4441, - Donald Shires, Contracting Officer, Phone (703) 325-6684, Fax (703) 325-9294,
- E-Mail Address
-
kurtis.jones@dtra.mil, donald.shires@dtra.mil
- Description
- Sources Sought Synopsis announcements are issued to assist the Agency in performing market research, to determine industry interest and capability. This is not a request for proposals. This Sources Sought synopsis follows the effort expended on May 21, 2003. After performing that market research, the Agency is further soliciting industry inputs from a broader perspective. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is seeking interested sources capable of providing Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) to support the mission of the Agency. DTRA's mission is to safeguard America's interests from weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high explosives) by controlling and reducing the threat and providing quality tools and services for the warfighter. The objective of the future solicitation is to acquire technical, business, and operational advisory and assistance services for DTRA and its operational elements, in support of research, planning, designing, developing, implementing, integrating, testing, applying, and evaluating emerging and mature technologies and developing and transitioning capabilities to DTRA customers. Furthermore, the services sought will assist the Directorates to perform their mission as delineated below: Combat Support: This mission supports the essential Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) response capabilities, functions, activities and tasks necessary to sustain all elements of forces in-theater at all levels of threat and to assist in civil support. This area includes but is not limited to the development of strategic and tactical employment concepts for advanced nuclear weapons, consistent with evolving national policy; enhanced security and surety systems for positive control, storage, transport, maintenance and operation of nuclear weapons; improved WMD response capabilities; assessments of the threat from improvised nuclear devices to include radiological dispersion devices; and WMD forensics capabilities. Technology Development: Conducts research and development in order to develop unconventional and conventional means to functionally defeat WMD facilities and delivery systems, and hard and deeply buried targets; develops models of terrorist behavior to anticipate terrorist actions; improves detection and characterization of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats; develops nuclear weapons effects lethality and survivability models, tools and devices; and, develops models to assess the significance of simulation versus simulators and identify the limitations of each. Threat Control: The objective of this mission is to shape and manage technology security. This includes but is not limited to developing non-intrusive detection mechanisms for WMD; integrating surveillance, detection and characterization of threats; developing supernetworks which can interconnect multiple databases and perform detailed analysis of large masses of data; assessing the impact of future arms control treaty policy and implementation; and, innovating advanced technologies for verification and compliance monitoring. Threat Reduction: This mission assists eligible states of the former Soviet Union to reduce the threat of WMD device proliferation. This includes but is not limited to improving management systems for enhanced monitoring and accountability of high value items; developing enhanced security systems for positive control of weapons and weapons by-products; assessing policies and strategies for expanding current agreements; and, developing structural protection, response, and repair tools. Support Functions: The objective of this area is to develop innovative management practices to streamline and make more effective the Agency's resource, business, information, and security and intelligence management activities. This area includes but is not limited to: personnel, budget and logistics management; acquisition, administration, process improvement, and public and congressional outreach; identification of future concepts to leverage information technology and human initiative; and, develop requirements and perform security, intelligence and counterintelligence functions to provide appropriate protection for information and government property and prevent hostile acts that may impact our personnel. Some of the highly technical and complex expertise required to provide support to these DTRA missions include, but not limited to:  Application of accepted business management and analysis methods to large, complex high-risk programs  DoD procurement process and methods for expedited acquisition and delivery of products and services  Homeland Defense-related technologies  Risk Assessment methodologies  In-depth scientific expertise at the advanced degree level in chemical and biological science including microbiology, toxicology, immunology, public health, biological and chemical sensing, identification and characterization.  Identification of technology shortfalls in detecting, mitigating, remediating and protecting from the effects of chemical, biological and radiological agents including toxic industrial chemicals and materials.  Information technology strategic and architecture planning;  Performance validation and standards  Technology readiness and transition  Physics (including nuclear, atmospherics, blast, shock, mechanics, solid-state, and related fields), chemistry, biology, microbiology, physiology, pharmacology, toxicology and other physical and medical sciences pertinent to characterizing, mitigating and defeating the effects of weapons of mass destruction;  Electrical, mechanical, civil, and other engineering sciences pertinent to characterizing, mitigating and defeating the effects of weapons of mass destruction Capability statements should address how your company can meet any part or all of the above mentioned areas and should not exceed five (5) pages. Please send your capability statements to kurtis.jones@dtra.mil by close of business 12 February 2004. Additionally, the Agency will be hosting an Industry Day conference at the end of this month. The purpose of the conference is to solicit additional input from industry to assist the Agency's acquisition team in market research and acquisition planning. For program management issues, you may contact Akhil Govil, A&AS Program Manager, at Akhil.Govil@dtra.mil. If you are interested in attending the Industry Day conference, please send the following information to kurtis.jones@dtra.mil by close of business 12 February 2004: Name; Company; Phone Number; and E-mail Address
- Place of Performance
- Address: Defense Threat Reduction Agency, 8725 John J. Kingman Road, MSC 6201, Fort Belvoir, VA
- Zip Code: 22060-6201
- Country: United States of America
- Zip Code: 22060-6201
- Record
- SN00516020-W 20040206/040204212921 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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