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A -- A--Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for BAA-13-G-01-MOD-01 SUBMARINE ESCAPE, RESCUE, AND DIVER SAFETY AND EFFECTIVENESS, AS WELL AS DIVING EQUIPMENT Research and Development - Attachment

Notice Date

4/5/2013
 

Notice Type

Attachment
 

Contracting Office

N61331 Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division 110 Vernon Avenue Panama City, FL
 

Solicitation Number

BAA13G01MOD05
 

Response Due

4/30/2013
 

Archive Date

4/30/2014
 

Point of Contact

RYAN WEBB (202) 781-4056
 

E-Mail Address

RYAN.M.WEBB@NAVY.MIL
(RYAN.M.WEBB@NAVY.MIL)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

THE DEADLINE FOR TECHNICAL PROPOSALS HAS BEEN REVISED TO 30 APRIL 2013. A--Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for BAA-13-G-01-MOD-01 SUBMARINE ESCAPE, RESCUE, AND DIVER SAFETY AND EFFECTIVENESS, AS WELL AS DIVING EQUIPMENT Research and Development POINT OF CONTACT: Ryan Webb, (ryan.m.webb@navy.mil) Phone: (202) 781-4056 NOTE: This BAA replaces BAA-13-G-01-MOD-05 The Navy Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU) is soliciting pre-proposals and proposals for applied Biomedical Research and Diving Equipment Development with a focus on Submarine Escape and Rescue, Diving Safety, and Diving Effectiveness. The goals of this program are presented in more detail below. It is the intent that this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) be open for a one year period from the date of this publication (or until 2/15/2014). However, specified dates are given in paragraph (2) below for submission of pre-proposals and proposals to be awarded within FY 2014. (1) Primary Interests This program's objectives are to focus on improving or developing diving equipment that can be rapidly transitioned to a fleet capability and researching the biomedical aspects of Submarine Escape, Rescue, and Diver Safety so that procedures can be developed/improved that will increase the levels of safety and effectiveness for Navy personnel. The typical project will be two years or less although three year projects are considered. The areas of primary interest in submarine escape and rescue are: (1) development of rapid methods of disabled submarine (DISSUB) atmosphere assessment; (2) development of novel means to manage oxygen toxicity aboard the pressurized disabled submarine; (3) development of novel means to accelerate or eliminate saturation decompression of survivors; including, but not limited to greater oxygen use and perfluorocarbon (PFC) administration; (4) assuring survival in a disabled submarine (DISSUB) for seven days by evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of present life support stores. Improved Guard Book guidance and procedures, utility of medication to reduce the metabolic rate of the crew; impact of starvation, dehydration, sleep deprivation and nitrogen narcosis at 5ATA on decision making and ability to carry out Guard Book directed survival actions and escape; (5) improving understanding and guidance for thermal stress in a disabled submarine by development and evaluation of heat stress curves for time and/or conditions to escape; heat mitigation measures (body cooling) in conditions of increased temperature and elevated CO2 (2.5 - 3%); (6) improving understanding and guidance for surface interval decompression sickness (DCS) risk after saturation dropout or aborted decompression, including, but not limited to; mitigation with various periods of oxygen pre-breathing and perfluorocarbon (PFC) administration; (7) evaluating the adequacy of hypothermia protection with present available clothing in combination with SEIS suits in SEIS rafts; (8) evaluating capability to escape from depths deeper than 600 feet by updating escape procedures and equipment; identifying necessary compression rates and further escape procedure and equipment changes that are needed; including new classes of operational submarines in the analysis; (9) improving senior survivor decision tools;(10) improving care of escape and rescue casualties within the U.S. Navy Submarine Rescue Diving and Recompression System, including, but not limited to critical care and casualty assessment. The areas of primary interest in diving equipment, safety and effectiveness are organized along five Lines of Operation (LOO). These LOO describe the primary areas of limitations for a diver and are: Breathing Gas Supply, Human Performance, Environmental Protection, Decompression, and Tools, Transportation and Training. Areas of interest in each LOO are: (I)Breathing Gas Supply: (1) Development of High pressure air flask, hose and regulators, high pressure defined for this purpose as greater than 5,000psi; (2) Improved CO2 scrubbing material for both free-swimming and fixed systems; (3) development of portable, minimal power input, O2 concentrators capable of working in conjunction with existing diving air compressors; (4) Developing a diver-worn system to extract breathing gas from surrounding seawater; (5) Developing a diver-worn system that could utilize seawater as CO2 scrubbing medium; (6) Improved helium reclaim system to support mixed gas and saturation dive systems; (7) Improved O2 sensor for use in closed-circuit UBAs; (8) Improved Portable Air Monitor that can test for all contaminants listed in table 4-2 of the U.S. Dive Manual in real time. (II)Human Performance: (1) Improving understanding of mechanism of oxygen toxicity and development of mitigations; (2) Developing and/or refining noise protection exposure limits; (3) Refine the understanding and mitigation of hypercapnia in divers; (4) Improve understanding of nitrogen narcosis to include mitigations and predictions of equivalent narcotic depths; (5) Improve understanding of effects on human body from immersion, exertion, breathing resistance, and temperature in relation to working underwater; (6) Improving understanding of and developing guidance for the prevention of immersion pulmonary edema (III)Environmental Protection: (1) Diver worn heater and/or chiller; (2) Temperature control for submerged divers in a wet submersible; (3) Physical protection for diver in grossly contaminated water as well as decontamination equipment and procedures; (4) Improved understanding of heat loss/retention in the submerged body, in effort to optimize heating/cooling of diver; (5) Improved passive thermal protection for divers to include improved durability to support field/combat conditions (IV)Decompression: (1) Development of new decompression models valid across the full spectrum of diving; (2) Improved procedures for shallow nitrogen-oxygen saturation diving including downward excursion dive capability on helium-nitrogen-oxygen mixtures; (3) Pharmacological or other novel mitigations for elimination of retained nitrogen in a diver; (4) Improving diagnosis of decompression illness through, but not limited to utilization of algorithms; (5) Improving understanding of the mechanisms of isobaric counter diffusion as it effects the skin, inner ear, and deep body tissues. (6) Improved decompression profiles based on the use of alternate gas mixtures, to include but not limited to Trimix. (V)Tools, Transportation and Training: (1) Electronic recording and archiving of operational dive profiles to develop an operational dive data base; (2) Develop a Transportable Recompression Chamber System (TRCS) replacement of similar or smaller dimensional size and functionality, using advance materials (i.e. carbon fiber, or other lightweight material) to reduce overall system weight for easier transport in military and commercial aircraft; (3) Improved diver communications, both wired and through-water; (4) Ability to track divers location underwater from surface support craft; (5) Through water data communication for divers (text, navigation, biometrics); (6) Improved diver propulsion devices to include diver worn and diver as passenger; (7) Decompression dive computer with flexibility to support multiple dives and varying breathing gas mixes; (8) Heads Up Display (HUD) for divers, both free-swimming and surface-supplied. HUD need not be limited to life support data (text, navigation, diagrams/schematics for projects, etc); (9) Low visibility vision enhancement for diver. (2) Instructions for Preparation of Pre-proposal and Proposals For FY14, the deadline for submission of pre-proposals is 3:00 PM CST, 30 March 2013 for the funding cycle that begins 1 October 2013, and the deadline for submission of full technical proposals is 3:00 PM CST, 30 April 2013. Proposals received after the due date will be considered only if funds remain available. The format for pre-proposals and proposals may be obtained from the Program Manager, at 202-781-4056 or E-mail: ryan.m.webb@navy.mil. The pre-proposal should be three to five pages of text and should include an estimate of overall costs (including indirect) for each year of the proposed effort. A curriculum vitae of the principal investigator(s) should be appended together with any supporting information, such as reprints or preprints, which will assist in the evaluation of the pre-proposal. Offerors submitting the most promising pre-proposals will be invited to submit a full technical and cost proposal on all or part of their pre-proposal submission. However, any such invitation does not obligate the Government to make an award. Offerors are also advised all awards are subject to the DCAA contract audit process. Any offeror may submit a full technical proposal even if its pre-proposal was not identified as promising or if no pre-proposal is submitted; however any full proposal submission would be made without the benefit of feedback prior to full proposal submission. A completed animal use protocol with supporting documentation is required before award when animals are employed. (Ref. SECNAVINST 3900.38C) Any proposal that involves the experimental use of human subjects must include a separate evaluation of proposed technical approaches and associated risks by the contractor's committee for protection of human subjects. Before award, required documentation includes DoD Assurance, IRB approved Consent or waiver of documentation of informed consent, IRB approved protocol, documentation that the submitter/PI completed Human Research Protections Training, and a policy statement indicating that the institution will comply with the 32 CFR 219, DoDINST 3216.02, the SECNAVINST 3900.39 series, and all applicable sections of the 21 CFR. Offerors must state in their pre-proposals and full proposals that it is submitted in response to this BAA. This BAA provides no funding for pre-proposals or subsequent proposal development purposes. All pre-proposals will be acknowledged. Proposals will not be returned after evaluation. (3) Criteria for Selecting Proposals, their Relative Importance, and the Method of Evaluation Pre-proposal and full technical proposal submissions will be evaluated on (1) the overall basis of innovation and scientific merit; (2) the relevance to submarine escape, rescue, and diving; (3) the overall value and affordability of the proposal; and (4) the offeror's capabilities, strengths and weaknesses or unique combinations of these that are integral factors for achieving the proposal objectives. The Government reserves the right to select for funding any, all, part or none of the responses received. For efforts funded as contracts, evaluation of the socio-economic merits will include the extent of commitment in providing meaningful subcontracting opportunities for small business, small disadvantaged business, woman-owned small business concerns, and historically black colleges and universities. This is to notify potential offerors that each contract that may be placed under this announcement, or solicitation to an institution of higher education must include the following clause: "As a condition for receipt of funds available to the Department of Defense (DoD) under this award, the recipient agrees that it is not an institution that has a policy of denying, and that it is not an institution that effectively prevents the Secretary of Defense from obtaining for military recruiting purposes: (A) an entry to campuses or access to students on campuses; or (B) access to directory information pertaining to students. If the recipient is determined, using procedures established by the Secretary of Defense to implement Section 558 of Public Law 103-337 (1994), to be such an institution during the period of performance of this agreement, and therefore to be in breach of this clause, the Government will cease all payments of DoD funds under this agreement and all other DoD grants and cooperative payments unilaterally for material failure to comply with the terms and conditions of award. "If your institution has been identified under the procedures established by the Secretary of Defense to implement Section 558, then: (1) no funds available to DoD may be provided to your institution through any contract, including any existing contract, (2) as a matter of policy, this restriction also applies to any cooperative agreement, and (3) your institution is not eligible to receive a contract or cooperative agreement in response to this solicitation." See instructions above for pre-proposals and proposals. The Government's preference is to award definitive contracts under this BAA. However, an award can be made via grant at the sole discretion of the Government. All responsive sources may submit proposals that will be considered by NEDU. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and Minority Institutions (MI) are encouraged to submit proposals or join others in submitting proposals; however, no portion of this BAA will be set aside for HBCU and MI participation due to the impracticality of reserving discrete and severable areas of submarine escape, rescue, and diving for exclusive competition among these entities. This announcement constitutes a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) as contemplated in FAR 6.102(d) (2) (i). The Government reserves the right to select for award all, some, or none of the proposals received in response to this announcement. Questions regarding this announcement should be directed to the Contract Specialist identified herein. Technical content questions should be addressed to Ryan Webb, Deep Submergence Biomedical Development Program Manager, (202) 781-4921. Interested parties are invited to respond to this synopsis. All responsible parties will be considered. The following additional information is provided: (1) proposals may be submitted by any commercial firm, or institution of higher education, (2) notwithstanding the dates specified in this BAA, proposals may be submitted any time prior to expiration of the BAA, (3) the following e-mail point of contact is provided for information regarding technical programs/technologies of interest within the two areas identified: Ryan Webb (ryan.m.webb@navy.mil) for diving safety and effectiveness and submarine escape and rescue and Mr. Ryan Webb (ryan.m.webb@navy.mil) for diving equipment, (4) current in Central Contract Registration (CCR) and (5) the following e-mail points of contact are provided for information regarding contractual issues: Primary POC Ryan Webb, (ryan.m.webb@navy.mil). Point of Contact(s): Ryan Webb, (202) 781-4056, ryan.m.webb@navy.mil
 

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