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A -- BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT FOR SHORT TERM CONCEPT STUDIES RELATING TO ADVANCED, STATE-OF-THE-ART ELECTRONIC WARFARE (EW) SYSTEMS SOL N00024-95-R-5429 POC 02544C LCDR (Sel) Kim Beeson Fulca, (703) 602-7900, Contract Specialist. A BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA) FOR SHORT TERM CONCEPT STUDIES RELATING TO ADVANCED, STATE-OF-THE-ART ELECTRONIC WARFARE (EW) SYSTEMS FOR SURFACE COMBATANTS Sol Number N00024-95-R-5429. POC LCDR (Sel) Kim Fulca, Contracting Officer, 703 602-7900, Fax. 703 602-4770. The Program Executive Office for Theater Air Defense, Integrated Ship Defense System, (ISDS) PEO(TAD)-D, is seeking proposals (technical and cost) for short term concept studies relating to advanced, state-of-the-art EW systems for potential use on new construction and backfit on selected surface combatants. Potential offerors will be provided a Technical Guidance Package (TGP) that outlines the NAVY's general surface EW requirements. Potential offerors will be provided access to documentation related to the Advanced Integrated Electronic Warfare System (AIEWS) including the Mission Need Statement (MNS), a Draft Operational Requirements Document (ORD), a synopsis of the Cost and Operational Effectiveness Analysis (COEA), Threat Assessment Document NTIC TA #14-94, and several Navy laboratory studies/reports on related issues (such as advanced Electronic Support (ES) and Electronic Attack (EA) subsystem requirements, combat system doctrine, and integration requirements for AIEWS and combat systems). Potential offerors must possess a Secret security clearance in order to obtain access to these document as discussed below. The objectives of this study effort are to define the critical characteristics and capabilities of a shipboard EW system consisting of ES, EA, and Control and Processing subsystems that support ISDS and other surface combatant requirements, to identify the most promising system/subsystem concepts, to demonstrate that the technologies critical to the most promising system/subsystem concepts pose minimal cost, performance and schedule risk, and to provide information to assist the Navy in defining a low risk, cost-effective, phased development plan for the most promising system concept that would introduce sub-system improvements to backfit and forward fit surface combatant platforms. Tasks to be performed under any contract awarded pursuant to this BAA include, but are not limited to: (1)analyze critical threat requirements, combat system requirements, and environmental factors that drive system performance; (2) analyze system/subsystem performance capabilities that would be gained (or foregone) by pursuing any of a proposed set of alternative approaches; (3) analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the alternative approaches relative to the current and projected threat environment; (4) conduct cost, schedule and performance trade-off studies, and provide life-cycle cost estimates for the most promising system concept; (5) conduct risk mitigation that may include critical contractor experiments or demonstrations of NDI components, modules, or portions of sub-systems; (6) provide a recommended approach for complying with Secretary of Defense and the ASN(RD&A) policy on specifications and standards reform; (7) provide a recommended approach for conducting logistics support, reliability, maintainability, and training; (8) provide a recommended approach for developing software, including proposed higher order languages, supportability, and metrics for estimating size of software development efforts; (9) recommend areas in which Navy/industry cooperation would benefit; and (10) examine innovative engineering and manufacturing processes that should be considered, including any associated risk areas. Deliverables under the effort shall include a draft system specification of the most promising system concept, risk and cost analyses reports, documentation of any test results, and a final report summarizing all findings and recommendations. The Security Level of the contract deliverables will be Secret. Proposals will be evaluated and selected for award based on a Technical/Cost trade-off analysis in accordance with the following evaluation criteria which are listed in descending order of importance. When combined, the Technical criteria becomes significantly more important than cost. (1) Overall technical merit of the proposed approach. (2) Clarity of definition of the performance, schedule, and cost risks, and proposed risk mitigation plans. (3) The qualifications and experience of the offeror and the proposed study team in EW systems/subsystems and Combat systems technology. (4) The quality of the Management Plan. (5) Effective use of innovative concepts and techniques for improved reliability, maintainability, and training. (6) Effective implementation of specifications and standards reform. The Technical Proposal, exclusive of resumes, shall be no more than one hundred (100) pages and will be evaluated only on one hundred pages. The Technical Proposal may be incorporated by reference into any resultant contract, and may serve as the basis for the work to be accomplished. Each task description shall be written to facilitate evaluation and acceptance without the need for major rewrites if incorporated into the resultant contract. The Technical Proposal shall include a program milestone chart that includes a detailed list of tasks and subtasks and the duration of same. The Cost Proposal shall accurately reflect the financial plan for accomplishing the proposed technical effort. Cost data shall be broken down to show all costs expected to be incurred under the contract. Provide three (3) hard copies and one (1) electronic copy in WordPerfect 5.1 of the Technical and Cost Proposals to Naval Sea Systems Command, Attn: LCDR (Sel) Kim Fulca, Code 02544C, Naval Sea Systems Command, 2531 Jefferson Davis Hwy, Arlington, VA 22242-5160 by 1400, 19 July 1995. Organizations wishing to participate in this program must respond to the POC in writing by 9 June 1995 requesting the TGP. The Navy Acquisition Research and Development Information Center (NARDIC) in Crystal City will provide the TGP to potential offerors after verification of secret facility clearance. Contact Louise Rice 703 602-9057 during normal working hours to make arrangements for pick-up of the TGP. Clearances will be verified before release of any documentation. A reading room has been established at the Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Ave., S.W., Washington D.C. 20375-5339, that contains background documentation that may be useful in understanding ongoing Navy EW developmental efforts. The reading room will be available during normal working hours until 12 May 1995. Access to the reading room will be by appointment only to representatives of organizations that have requested the TGP and provided security clearances. Contact for scheduling and clearances at NRL is: Mr. George Weissbach, Code 5747, 202 767- 5937, Fax. 202 404-7690. Documentation in the reading room will be provided as GFI to the successful offeror(s). No copies of this material will be provided to offerors during proposal preparation. Successful/unsuccessful offerors will be notified within 90 days of proposal submission. The Government intends to award multiple contracts not in excess of $750,000 per award and an anticipated period of performance of nine months. All material submitted to PEO(TAD)-D resulting from contracts awarded under this announcement shall be considered Government property, and the Government requires unlimited data rights to this material. Specific deliverables, delivery schedule, and contract type will be negotiated with the successful offerors. There will be no formal request for proposal (RFP) or other solicitation request for this BAA. The Government expects to award contracts under this BAA during the fourth quarter of FY 95. This constitutes a BAA in accordance with FAR 6.102(d)(2)(i). All responsible sources may submit an offer which will be considered. Technical and contracting questions regarding this announcement should be directed in writing to LCDR (Sel) Kim Fulca. (0130)

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