Defense Supply Center Richmond, 8000 Jefferson Davis Highway, Richmond, VA 23297-5000

99 -- DLA VIRTUAL PRIME VENDOR PROGRAM POC Mikal L. Brown, Program Manager, 804/279-4915, FAX 804/279-5695, Cora R. Pennell, Contracting Officer, 804/279-3957. Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) serves within the Department of Defense (DOD) as a wholesale level industrial distributor of spare parts, maintenance, repair and operating supplies for the military services worldwide. DLA is interested in demonstrating unique and innovative approaches for providing logistics support to the military services that will maintain the highest state of weapon systems readiness, to include surge capability, by improving the logistics support provided to the military service's maintenance facilities. These facilities perform the major repair and/or rebuild of weapon systems and major components. To facilitate performing to the expected objectives of the program, new strategies are required utilizing advanced manufacturing, distribution, and materials management techniques to improve repair turn around time, and the ability of the industrial base to respond to changes in customer demand and effectively reduce the overall cost to the government. This requires integration of commercial and military supply and distribution systems, electronic data interchange, management of demand based customer inventory and direct vendor delivery. The desired level of performance is broadly categorized in terms of improving order fulfillment cycle-time, product quality, total cost, and the capability to deliver other information and/or technical support services. The private sector provider of this service will act as an extension of DLA and will be expected to establish an intelligent partnership between the maintenance customer, DLA and other supply sources; and to use innovative, state of the art methodologies to reorganize, synchronize, supplement and otherwise improve the effectiveness of the support provided by the existing DOD supply chain processes and systems. The purpose of this BAA is to announce that DLA is soliciting proposals for this effort under the Virtual Prime Vendor (VPV) Program. Proposals can be either narrowly directed at improving the supply support for the maintenance, repair and rebuild of a specific weapon system or major component (e.g., aircraft propulsion systems; airframes, avionics, thrust producing assemblies and associated components, etc.), or be more broad. A key goal is to develop a process which can be exported from a single demonstration site to other DOD locations and/or will serve as an example for expansion to other weapon systems programs. Initial site will be located at Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. The successful VPV contractor(s) will be expected to provide and/or coordinate the supply support effort for the full range of parts and components consumed in the operation and repair of the weapon system and/or its major components. Initially the use of the existing DLA inventory of parts and/or long term contracts is encouraged to avoid unnecessary materials and/or operational expenses for DOD. Once the DLA pipeline is exhausted, it will be incumbent on the VPV contractor to determine the best method of support to meet the performance criteria of the program. PROGRAM SCOPE: Proposals for individual efforts should not exceed three years in length, but should address option periods that, if used, would last until extinction of the weapon system. Technologies which have a significant impact on key logistics metrics, such as customer wait time, backorders, customer complaints, cost of quality, inventory reduction, administrative procurement lead-time, combat readiness, will be given highest priority. Proposals are to include cost data, as well as proposer's preferred type of contract. Contract award(s) are expected to be made during the last quarter of fiscal year 1996. Awards may be made under FAR 6.302-3. Progress will be assessed monthly and action items will be determined to ensure timely completion of the project and to capitalize on findings. GENERAL INFORMATION: Internet email is the preferred mode of communication. Numerous commercial services are now available to provide perspective offerors with access to the Internet. This BAA will remain open for 36 months. Proposals received on or before May 31, 1996, will be considered for initial contract award(s). Proposals received subsequent to that date will be considered for award at later dates. In order to minimize unnecessary effort in proposal preparation and review, proposers are encouraged to submit brief proposal abstracts in advance of full proposals. An original and four (4) copies of the proposal abstract must be submitted to: Defense Supply Center Richmond, DSCR-X, Attn: Mikal Brown, 8000 Jefferson Davis Highway, Richmond, VA 23297-5000 on or before 4:00 PM, May 1, 1996, to receive an answer prior to the initial submission date for full proposals. Upon review, DLA will provide written feedback within 15 days of receipt on the likelihood of a full proposal being considered. Proposers must submit an original and four (4) copies of full proposals by 4:00 PM May 31, 1996, in order to be evaluated in the initial round. The cut-off date for receipt of administrative correspondence and questions is 4:00 PM, May 24, 1996. Proposers must obtain a document, BAA VPV 96-01, Proposer Information Package (PIP), which provides further information on areas of interest, the submission, evaluation, funding processes, proposal and proposal abstract formats. This document may be obtained by electronic mail as discussed above, or fax. Requests by US Mail to the administrative mailing address given below will be honored, but with a slower response. Proposals not meeting the format described in the pamphlet may not be reviewed. This notice, in conjunction with the document BAA VPV 96-01, Proposer Information Package, constitutes the total BAA. No additional information is available, nor will a formal RFP or other solicitation regarding this announcement be issued. Requests for same will be disregarded. The Government reserves the right to select to award all, some or none of the proposals received. All responsible sources capable of satisfying the Government's requirements may submit a proposal which will be considered by DLA. Teaming arrangements between developers and systems integrators, universities, research institutes, or other collaborators, are encouraged, and single proposers should anticipate the possibility of being expected to work collaboratively with other organizations if they receive an award. Further details on individual topic areas are available in the BAA VPP 96-01 Proposer Information Pamphlet. Evaluation of proposals will be accomplished through a technical review and evaluation of each proposal using the following criteria, which is listed in descending order of relative importance: (1) potential contribution and relevance to DOD's and DLA's mission, including key performance metrics to be impacted (2) plans and capabilities to accomplish logistic support solicited and demonstrable execution of a logistics program of this magnitude (3) technical merit of logistic support methodologies proposed (4) corporate capability, experience and qualifications of personnel in related experiences (5) realism of the proposed cost. Note Cost realism will only be significant in proposals which have significantly under or over estimated the cost to provide the required support. An industry conference will be held the latter part of April. Details will be provided upon request. All administrative correspondence and questions on this solicitation, including requests for information on how to submit a proposal abstract or proposal to this BAA, must be directed to one of the administrative addresses below, electronic mail is preferred. DLA intends to use electronic mail and fax for correspondence regarding this BAA, VPV 96-01. Proposals and proposal abstracts may not be submitted by fax; any so sent will be disregarded. The Technical POC is Mikal L. Brown. The Contracting Officer is Cora R. Pennell. The administrative addresses for this BAA are: Fax: 804-279--5695, Address to: VPV Program, Attn: Mikal Brown Electronic Mail: Mikal L. Brown, mbrown@dscr.dla.mil Electronic Mail: Cecelia Johnson, cljohnson@dscr.dla.mil Electronic Mail: Cora R. Pennell, cpennell@dscr.dla.mil Address: Defense Supply Center Richmond, DSCR-X, Attn: Mikal Brown, 8000 Jefferson Davis Highway, Richmond, VA 23297-5000. SEE NOTES 13 & 26. (089)

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