Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), Contracts Management Office (CMO), 3701 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203-1714

A -- LIMITED EFFECTS TECHNOLOGIES (LET) SOL BAA 95-28 DUE 071095 POC LTC ROBERT W. KOCHER, ARPA/ASTO, FAX (703) 696-2206. The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is soliciting innovative proposals for development and demonstration of Limited Effects Technologies (LET). These technologies must meet military and law enforcement needs. LET should minimize injury, or unintended damage. They will be environmentally benign, and socially and legally acceptable. LET provide military and law enforcement personnel an alternative to employment of weapons that have a high potential of lethality, such as handguns. This program seeks to develop and demonstrate innovative, affordable LET technologies that effectively provide one or more of the following capabilities: 1) Stopping a moving vehicle in a manner posing minimal potential for injury to occupants or to bystanders, or damage to property. At a minimum, proposed technologies must function at check-points and roadblocks where vehicles are slowed or at a stop. An ability to stop a vehicle or multiple vehicles, on the move, at speed, is also desired. 2) Stopping an individual fleeing on foot in a manner posing minimal potential for injury to the fleeing individual or to bystanders, or damage to property. At a minimum, proposed technologies must function in scenarios with few or no bystanders, such as in an alley. An ability to stop multiple fleeing individuals in a crowd is also desired. 3) Containing hostile crowds, mobs, and rioters, in urban environments, in a manner posing minimal potential for injury to belligerents or bystanders, or damage to property. At a minimum, these technologies must rapidly separate or divert crowds, mobs, and rioters from protected sites, such as, buildings and downed aircraft, and groups of people, such as police officers, military patrols, innocent bystanders, etc., that require protection. An ability to control smaller groups to protect, for example, a police officer from assault by one or two individuals, is also of interest. An ability to incapacitate crowds, mobs, and rioters is also desired. Cost is a key consideration in determining the effectiveness of LET technologies. If a technology is not affordable, it will not be supported. A briefing to industry, addressing operational situations and precepts for the areas of interest, will be held at Fort Belvoir, VA, Building 319 (Motion Picture Laboratory), on May 10, 1995, at 1:00 PM. Interested parties are requested to limit their attendance to two representatives. This is envisioned as a nominally 36 month, two-phased effort, where Phase II is an option. The duration indicated for both phases are guidelines only. Quarterly technical reviews will be conducted. Technologies capable of a more timely demonstration of the fieldable brassboard are desirable. The objective of Phase I, anticipated to be of 12 months duration, is concept refinement, design, and demonstration of a technology breadboard. It will culminate in a government run proof-of-concept test of that breadboard, supported by the contractor and conducted at a government facility. Offerors must address this test support in their proposals. On the basis of demonstrated performance and anticipated payoff, determined during Phase I, and available funding, the Government will determine which Phase II options to exercise. The objective of Phase II, anticipated to be of 24 months duration, is design, fabrication, and demonstration of one or more technology brassboards, suitable for employment in a quasi-field environment, by military and law enforcement (user) personnel, for purposes of operational evaluation. A brassboard suitable for employment in a real field environment is desired. This is seen as an iterative process, with two to three iterations. At the conclusion of each iteration a brassboard will be evaluated by user personnel, during a one to four week test. Results from this test will be provided to the contractor for incorporation into the next iteration brassboard. Offerors must address training of user personnel and support of these tests in their proposals.PROPOSAL INFORMATION: Offerors are invited to submit concept papers (five copies) outlining their technical approach, statement of work, management concept, key researchers, relevant experience, schedule and cost, before submitting a formal proposal. Papers received will be reviewed to determine if proposed efforts are within the scope and interest of this solicitation. This initial screening will save offerors the time and expense of developing a formal proposal with little chance of award. Multiple papers may be submitted. Each should, however, address only one concept. Each paper should clearly indicate the areas of interest being addressed, for example stopping moving vehicles. Papers will be limited to eight (8) pages (excluding the cover page). As with the formal proposal, this page count includes all figures, graphics, fold-outs, and text, but not a one page cover letter forwarding the document. Extraneous attachments to the concept paper or formal proposal, such as brochures, disks, etc., will not be accepted. Papers and formal proposals must be typed, with type not smaller than 12 pitch. Papers and proposals will be single sided on 8.5 by 11-inch paper. Margins will be a minimum of 1.25-inches. Standard single spacing (6 lines per inch) will be employed. Formal proposals must address both phases of this effort. They will consist of separate technical and cost volumes as described below. The technical volume shall not exceed forty-five (45) pages. It will contain: 1) a Cover Page (including BAA number, area of interest addressed, proposal title, technical and administrative points of contact and their addresses, with, if applicable, telephone, FAX, and electronic mail address), 2) Abstract, 3) Table of Contents, 4) Executive Summary, 5) Technical Approach, 6) Statement of Work (including deliverables), 7) Expected GFI/GFM, 8) Schedule and Milestone Chart, 9) Facilities and Equipment Descriptions, 7) Management Plan, 8) Proprietary Claims (a less than one (1) page summary of any Proprietary Claims expected to result), 9) Related Work, 10) Resumes of Key Researchers, and 11) Bibliography. If subcontracting is anticipated, provide name, qualifications, and level of effort to be subcontracted, and a Subcontract Management Plan. The cost volume, which has no page limit, shall contain a complete cost breakdown, including any expected cost sharing. The cost proposal shall be prepared in accordance with FAR 15.804-6 and shall include a Standard Form 1411, Contracting Pricing Proposal Cover Sheet, with all supporting data in order to allow for a complete review by the government. When cost of money is proposed the offeror is required to complete DD Form 1861. All details, broken down by cost element, should be prepared for each major task in the proposed Statement of Work, and include all supporting rationale. All cost details shall be broken down to coincide with the offeror's accounting periods, as related to the specific period of performance indicated in its proposed milestones. Prime contractors are responsible for insuring that all proposed subcontracts, in excess of $100,000, are supported by and executed SF 1411. All proprietary material should be clearly marked and will be held in the strictest confidence. Restrictive notices notwithstanding, proposals may be handled, for administrative purposes only, by an ARPA support contractor. This contractor is prohibited from competition in ARPA technical research and is bound by appropriate nondisclosure requirements. Upon receipt of the concept paper, ARPA will assign a control number that should be used in all further correspondence regarding the paper and the formal proposal. ARPA will acknowledge receipt of concept papers, and formal proposals, within seven (7) business days of receiving them. The address and name of the offeror's point of contact, to which this acknowledgment should be sent, must be clearly and prominently identified in concept papers and formal proposals. All correspondence must identify BAA 95-28. Concept papers and formal proposals not conforming to the described format may not be reviewed. Offerors will be notified on completion of the source selection process of their selection or non-selection. Selected proposals will be considered for funding, non-selected proposals will be destroyed. One file copy of non-selected proposals may, however, be retained for file purposes. Not all selected proposals will be funded, depending on available funding. PROPOSAL EVALUATION: Proposal evaluations, by government experts, will be based solely on their general merit, and compliance with program objectives and other factors listed below, in descending order of relative importance. 1) Contribution to Relevant Military and Law Enforcement Operations, including: a) effectiveness, not only the ability to achieve a desired effect, but doing so in a manner that is environmentally benign, and socially and legally acceptable, b) ease of employment, training, and use, c) flexibility, the ability of a technology to be employed in more than one application, under varying circumstances, and d) unit cost (in small quantity buys). 2) Overall Scientific and Technical Merit, including: a) demonstrated understanding of the problem, b) innovation and uniqueness of the approach, and its potential contribution to advancing the state-of-the-art, and c) soundness of the plan to accomplish that approach, to include management of technical risk and schedule. 3) Offeror's Ability to Perform the Proposed Work, including: a) staff, b) facilities and equipment, and c) demonstrated performance. 4) Cost Realism of the Proposed Effort, which is not weighted. While Cost Realism is not weighted, reasonableness and realism of proposed costs and fees, if any, are important in the evaluation process.OTHER INFORMATION: This notice constitutes a BAA as authorized by FAR 6.102(d) (2)(i). It is the only information ARPA intends to provide with regard to BAA-95-28. No additional information is available, nor will a formal RFP or other solicitation regarding this announcement be issued. Requests for the same will be disregarded. The government reserves the right to select for award, all, some, or none of the proposals received in response to this announcement. The number of proposal funded will depend on the overall merit of the proposals and available funding. Anticipated funding for this effort is anticipated to be at least $3.2 million dollars. Multiple awards are anticipated. Proposals may be considered for funding for a period of up to one year. Issuance of the BAA does not obligate the government to pay any proposal costs. All responsible sources capable of satisfying the Government's needs may submit a proposal that shall be considered by ARPA. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and Minority Institutions (MI) are encouraged to submit proposals and 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 or severable areas of research in LET technologies. Concept papers will be accepted no later than 4 PM (EST) June 2, 1995. Offerors will be notified as to whether their concepts have, or have not been favorably considered by June 9, 1995. Notification of a favorable review will include a request to submit an original and four (4) copies of a formal proposal. Favorable review does not guarantee selection, and may not be construed as a binding commitment by the government to fund the proposed effort. The last opportunity for submitting formal proposals (after favorable concept paper consideration) is 4 PM (EST) July 10, 1995. All proposals meeting the above criteria received by the appropriate due date will be fully evaluated. Contract awards are anticipated to occur in the September 1995 time frame, pending availability of funds. Offerors should submit concept papers and full proposals to ARPA/ASTO, ATTN: BAA 95-28/LTC Robert Kocher, 3701 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203-1714. Facsimile transmission or electronic media transmissions of concept papers and full proposals will not be accepted. (0118)

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