SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- Advanced Future Vertical Lift (FVL) Rotor Hub Technologies
- Notice Date
- 12/21/2021 12:55:17 PM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541715
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- ACC-AVIATION APPLIED TECHNOLOGY DIR FORT EUSTIS VA 23604-5577 USA
- ZIP Code
- 23604-5577
- Solicitation Number
- W911W6-22-R-0004
- Response Due
- 2/9/2022 12:00:00 PM
- Point of Contact
- Kenny Hood, Phone: 7578780103, Laurie Pierce, Phone: 7578782071
- E-Mail Address
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kenneth.m.hood.civ@army.mil, laurie.a.pierce2.civ@army.mil
(kenneth.m.hood.civ@army.mil, laurie.a.pierce2.civ@army.mil)
- Description
- 1.0 Introduction Call number W911W6-22-R-0004, Advanced FVL Rotor Hub Technologies, solicits 6.2 Advanced Applied Technologies for FVL Rotor Systems to enable increased aircraft performance (speed, range, payload, and endurance), reduced wake-induced tail loads, and more sustainable FVL rotorcraft.� Additional instruction and information can be found under the Master Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) W911W6-21-R-0013, which can be accessed at https://beta.sam.gov. 2.0 Scope of Research Effort Future Vertical Lift (FVL) aircraft configurations under consideration include tiltrotors, coaxial rotorcraft, and single main rotor compounds.� The main rotor hubs for these configurations are complex, high maintenance, and high drag. �The US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Aviation and Missile Center (AvMC) requires applied technology (6.2) efforts to mature advanced rotor hub concepts and technologies to enable increased aircraft performance (speed, range, payload, and endurance), reduced wake-induced tail loads, and more sustainable FVL rotorcraft. Technologies of interest include, but are not limited to, tiltrotor hub concepts that efficiently allow for larger number of blades, soft inplane hub designs (tiltrotor or coaxial), advanced rotor damping configurations, materials that enhance inherent lag damping, reduced coaxial rotor spacing, increased structural efficiency for reduced hub weight, low maintenance hub designs, hub based power generation, hub based individual blade control, advanced blade folding concepts (static or in-flight), and innovative design methodologies/technologies to allow for more compact, lower drag hubs. Metrics shall be proposed to include a threshold and objective against a defined baseline. Potential metrics may include speed and range, weight, drag, vibratory hub loads, shed vorticity, O&S costs, and damping (damping performance, heat rejection, packaging/footprint, and service life). Offerors shall discuss the top technical and programmatic risks as well as potential mitigation strategies. Proposed technologies should be able to function in the harsh military operating environment (e.g. sand, rain, temperature) as well as the environment the hub experiences from the rotor system (e.g. centrifugal force (CF) loading, flapping, vibration). �The operating environment should be included in technology trade studies and down select criteria. �Risk mitigation testing and/or analysis should be performed on specific technologies that are deemed susceptible to the operational environment. Potential building block approaches for the proposed program may include, but are not limited to, technology identification and down-select, computational analyses to include validation, component testing under representative loading, failure mode analysis, demonstration article design (with associated design reviews), component fabrication, and Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 4 testing.� Technology integration studies / technology transition planning (from TRL 4 to TRL 6 and from TRL 6 to fielding) shall be included among the proposed task(s). 3.0 AWARD INFORMATION This information supplements the Master BAA (W911W6-21-R-0013) as follows: 3.1� Anticipated Award Date:� 3rd quarter of the Government FY22. 3.2 Anticipated Funding for the Program: Funding is not presently available for this effort.� Any award is contingent upon the availability of appropriated funds for which payment for award purposes can be made.� No legal liability on the part of the Government for any payment may arise until funds are made available, to be confirmed in writing by the Contracting Officer. Anticipated Government funding is approximately $2.4M total, with Government fiscal year distribution as follows:� FY22 $800,000, FY23 $800,000, and FY24 $800,000.� Proposals that are significantly out of alignment with anticipated funding profile may risk not being selected. �Any award made under this announcement may be incrementally funded. 3.3. Type of Contract/Instrument: See Master BAA W911W6-21-R-0013. 3.4 Number of Awards Anticipated: The Government anticipates two awards. However, the Government reserves the right to make multiple or no awards, based upon the technical merit and affordability of proposals received. 3.5 Anticipated Period of Performance for Individual Awards: Offerors should clearly depict their proposed schedule. The period of performance for this Call is anticipated to be 36 months. 3.6 Deliverables: All awards under this announcement will require a kickoff meeting to be held at the Offeror�s facility following award.� The award will require delivery of the following items delivered in Recipient/Contractor format, described fully in Section 7: (1) Program Management Plan (delivered 45 days after award) (2) Bi-Monthly Cost Reports (3) Bi-Monthly Technical Performance and Progress Reports (4) Test Plans, (5) *Final Report (6) Final Briefing at Ft. Eustis, Virginia. The final report shall thoroughly document the technical accomplishments including technology trades and maturation, testing procedures and results of the Advanced FVL Rotor Hub Technologies effort. *Note:� All data other than �Unlimited Rights� or �Government Purpose Rights� shall be delivered in an addendum to the final report. Meetings:� (1) Kick-Off Meeting at the Contractor�s facility (within 60 days after award) and (2) Final Briefing at Fort Eustis, VA upon completion of all technical effort. 4.0� ELIGIBILITY INFORMATION There are no changes; please see Master BAA W911W6-21-R-0013. 5.0 APPLICATION AND SUBMISSION INFORMATION: This Call will use the Proposal Submission Process as described in 5.2 of the Master Broad Agency Announcement, W911W6-21-R-0013, as further supplemented below. 5.2 Proposal Submission Process Specific instructions pertaining to the content and structure of proposals are provided in Master BAA (W911W6-21-R-0013), Sections 5.2.2 and 5.2.3. This information supplements the Master BAA as follows: 5.2.2 Proposal Format Technical proposals are limited to 25 pages total for this Call. Fold-out illustrations required for reader ease are allowed, however, illustration shall be counted in 8 �� x 11� increments (e.g., an 11� x 17� document will count as two pages).� Pages in excess of the page limitation will not be read or evaluated. The following are not subject to the page limitation: ����������� a. The official transmittal letter ����������� b. Cover page ����������� c. Table of contents and/or acronym table, if applicable ����������� d. Resumes of key personnel (provide as a separate stand-alone file) 5.2.3 Proposal Content Volume 1 � Technical Proposal: The technical proposal shall provide a clear substantiation for the selection of the proposed Advanced FVL Rotor Hub Technologies.� The justification/rationale supporting the proposed technologies shall be based upon the extent to which the proposed technologies contribute to the Advanced FVL Rotor Hub Technologies objective identified in Section 2. �Offerors shall substantiate their ability to achieve the desired capabilities identified in Section 2.� Offerors shall clearly and thoroughly describe the proposed technology solution and the technical approach, including tasks and schedule, to mature and verify the integrated solution.� Volume 2 � Price/Cost Proposal:� See Master BAA for Cost Volume content�� 5.3 Data Rights The Government desires �Unlimited Rights� in the technical data and software developed under any awarded funding instruments but requires, at a minimum, Government Purpose Rights as defined by the Department of Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation (DFARS) 252.227�7013, to all technical data, deliverables, and computer software developed under this program. It is the Offeror's responsibility to clearly acknowledge or take exception to the Government�s desire for at least �Government Purpose Rights.� The Offeror shall propose legends for each data item identified as other than unlimited rights.� In addition, all Offerors will identify the technical data or computer software that they assert would be furnished with restrictions on use, release or disclosure if an award is made under this announcement.� This information is to be provided with the technical proposal (Volume I) using the format/table included in the Defense Federal Acquisition Supplement (DFARS) 252.227-7017, Identification and Assertion of Use, Release or Disclosure Restrictions. Ambiguities will be negatively evaluated. 5.4 Security Access to classified material is not anticipated under this Call. �The technologies to be developed are unclassified.� This effort will likely generate technical data that is subject to export control laws and regulations. �The Government does not anticipate the generation of classified data as part of this effort. JCP certification will be required before an award will be made when the agreement or contract will involve information that falls under ITAR or EAR. 6.0 Additional Proposal Instructions� Classified responses will not be accepted. �Unclassified technical and cost proposals should be submitted electronically to the DoD Safe Access File Exchange at https://safe.apps.mil.� Send an email to drop off request to �kenneth.m.hood.civ@army.mil and laurie.a.pierce2.civ@army.mil with the subject: �Drop-off request Call W911W6-22-R-0004, at least 3 business days prior to the due date and a link to the DoD SAFE site will be provided.� Responses should be provided in Microsoft Word or as a portable document format (*.pdf) file. �In addition to other format, the cost proposal shall be provided in Excel format for cost verification purposes Questions shall be submitted in writing via email to request to kenneth.m.hood.civ@army.mil and laurie.a.pierce2.civ@army.mil. �All questions must be submitted within 10 days prior to the Call closing date to ensure a response.� All questions and responses received will be posted to https://beta.sam.gov as an amendment to the Call.� Proposals received after the date and time specified for closing will be handled in accordance with FAR 52.215-1, Instructions to Offerors � Competitive Acquisition.� Proposals shall be received not later than February 9, 2022; 3:00 PM EST� Request proposals include a validity date and request they be valid for a period of 7 months from the closing date of this Call. 7.0 Deliverables 7.1� Program Management Plan Contractor shall develop, implement, and maintain a Program Management Plan to accomplish the tasks contained in this Statement of Research Effort (SORE)/ Statement of Work (SOW). Within 45 days after the effective date of the award, Contractor shall submit a Program Management Plan for Government approval. Within 15 days after receipt, the Government will provide review comments (if any) and Recipient shall submit a corrected plan within 15 calendar days. The plan shall include: (1) GANTT chart for the total program including a bar for each subtask in the SORE (2) A curve of Planned Man-hours vs. Time for each major task. A narrative description of the technical work with responsibilities and planned man-hours defined for each team member (prime and subcontractor) for each subtask in the SORE. (3) A detailed description of known program risks, description of risk impacts, probability and consequence of each risk, and potential risk mitigation strategies. (4) Expenditure plan, including estimates of labor hours, labor hour costs, materials, other direct costs, and indirect costs by task, by month, and cumulative by Government Fiscal Year.� Contributions by Awardee shall be included and identified. 7.2 Bi-Monthly Cost Reports The Contractor shall submit its bi-monthly report 60 days after the effective date of the agreement. Subsequent reports shall be submitted every other month thereafter. The report shall provide summarized details of the resource status of this Agreement, including the status of the contributions by the participants. This report will include a bi-monthly accounting of current expenditures by task, and provide a comparison of these expenditures with the planned expenditures in the program plan. Any deviations of more than 10% in schedule, resources or technical approach will be explained along with discussions of the proposed adjustment actions in the Bi-Monthly Technical Performance and Progress Report.� 7.3 Bi-Monthly Technical Performance and Progress Reports The Contractor shall submit its first bi-monthly report 60 days after the effective date of the agreement. Subsequent reports shall be submitted every other month thereafter. The report shall detail technical progress to date and provide a detailed description of progress since the last reporting period, by task, compared to the work plan, including schedule status, and report on all problems, technical issues or major developments during the reporting period. �Each report shall include:� (1) An overview of the overall program status; (2) A statement of data/results/findings obtained and percentage of work completed to date, both by task and overall; (3) An explanation along with discussion of the adjustment action proposed for any deviations of more than 10% from the Program Management Plan in schedule, resources, or technical approach; (4) detailed information about all visits to Government and/or commercial entities made in connection with the Agreement and a brief summary of results and findings obtained there from; (5) an assessment of all data, findings, and conclusions as a result of each subtask effort (6) an assessment of program risks. Each report shall contain discussion of results and/or findings and conclusions for all opportunities, deficiencies, approaches, methodologies, techniques, practices, and design solutions developed, identified, selected, or refined within the scope of each task. Each report shall provide information regarding any technical barriers encountered and mitigation plans. Each report shall include discussion of relevant concepts, methods, models, trade studies, design approaches, and building block approaches, developed, modified, or refined as well as a discussion of any supporting spreadsheets, databases, or models. The technical status report will include plans for the next reporting period. 7.4 Test Plans All tests associated with the SORE/SOW items will not be conducted without a Government approved test plan.� At least 30 days before testing, the Contractor shall submit a test plan.� Within 10 days after receipt, the Government will provide review comments, and Recipient shall submit a corrected test plan within 10 days.� This does not preclude collaboration between the Contractor and Government in generating the test plan.� The test plan shall detail test objectives, procedures, success criteria, and expected results.� A summary of the results and overall conclusions from the testing should be included in the appropriate progress report while the detailed test report should be included as part of the Final Report. 7.5 �Final Report The Contractor shall submit a final report which shall provide detailed discussion of all technical work accomplished and information gained in performance of the award, pertinent observations, nature of problems, positive as well as negative results and design criteria established as applicable. The details of all technical work included shall be sufficient to permit full understanding of the techniques and procedures used in evolving the technology or processes developed, conclusions reached, and recommendations made.� The report shall also include the technology maturation and transition plan. The Contractor shall submit the draft final report within 60 days prior to the period of performance end date. Within 30 calendar days, the Government will provide any recommended changes/revisions.� The Contractor shall incorporate changes/revisions and submit to the Government within 30 calendar days one electronic copy in word processing software acceptable to the Government. 7.6 �Final Briefing at Ft. Eustis, Virginia Note: The Government will work with the respondent to organize a date for a one day out brief event as a capstone for the effort. Submission shall be furnished electronically in MS PowerPoint� or PDF format. The final presentation of findings shall summarize the key results of this effort.� The aircraft designs, design trades and sensitivities, and technology assessment, addressing those elements detailed in Section 2.0, shall be presented in sufficient detail to give valid support to the conclusions drawn, provide a detailed discussion of all technical work accomplished and information gained in performance of the Technical Effort, contain pertinent observations, nature of problems, and positive as well as negative results as applicable.� The details of all technical work included shall be sufficient to permit full understanding of the techniques and procedures used in evolving the technology or processes developed, conclusions reached, and recommendations made.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Fort Eustis, VA 23604-5577, USA
- Zip Code: 23604-5577
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 23604-5577
- Record
- SN06202326-F 20211223/211221230113 (samdaily.us)
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