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A -- INTEGRATED HIGH PAYOFF ROCKET PROPULSION TECHNOLOGY II (IHPRPT) PART 1 OF 2 SOL PRDA 96-01-PKAE (PART 1 OF 2) DUE 071596 POC Barbara Barcelona, Contract Negotiator, (805) 277-3900, ext. 2214 Amy Williams, Contract Specialist, (805) 277-3900, ext. 2233 P.J. Barnhill, Contracting Officer, (805) 277-3900, ext.2235. INTRODUCTION: Integrated High Payoff Rocket Propulsion Technology II. This announcement is in two parts. The Phillips Laboratory, Propulsion Directorate (OL-AC PL/RK), Edwards AFB, CA, is seeking firms interested in participating in this PRDA for the acquisition of projects supporting the Integrated High Payoff Rocket Propulsion Technology (IHPRPT) program. This is an unrestricted solicitation. Responses from all responsible sources will be considered. However, foreign owned or influenced firms and foreign governments are advised they will not be allowed to participate as prime contractors. Although not mandatory, it is highly recommended that a prospective offeror have either a government coordinated Advance Rocket Propulsion Plan (ARPP), or develop an ARPP prior to or in conjunction with abstract submittal, or have a documented working relationship with a company possessing a government coordinated ARPP to ensure IHPRPT relevance of any proposed technology. Information regarding the IHPRPT program in general and the ARPP process is available at the Phillips Laboratory, Edwards AFB, CA. The Standard Industry Code (SIC) applicable to this acquisition is 8731 with 1000 employees. Small Businesses are encouraged to propose on all or any part of this solicitation. In addition, teaming arrangements between universities and private industry or within private industry are encouraged. A supplemental package for this PRDA has been prepared which contains technical and abstract/proposal preparation information necessary to respond to this announcement. It can be requested by contacting the contracting points of contact. The IHPRPT program is a DoD/NASA/Industry coordinated program. Therefore, any DoD or NASA agency/facility is authorized to award contracts based on the responses received. REQUIREMENTS: Responses to this announcement are sought to develop an advanced technology base for rocket propulsion concepts and components aimed at supporting the IHPRPT program. The IHPRPT program is the DoD/NASA/Industry coordinated effort to develop revolutionary and innovative technologies by the year 2010 that will permit a doubling of rocket propulsion capabilities over 1993 state-of-the-art technology. Capability infers the full spectrum of technological needs, such as performance, affordability, operability, reliability, and maintainability. The IHPRPT program is structured in three phases to achieve pre-determined measurable increases in all rocket technology capabilities by the years 2000, 2005 and 2010 respectively. The IHPRPT program is organized along three mission application areas: Boost/Orbit Transfer Propulsion, Spacecraft Propulsion, and Tactical Propulsion. Within each of the mission application areas, there are five identical technology areas that specify the particular technologies being advanced to meet the goals of IHPRPT. The following projects/topics represent the immediate exploratory development and advanced development challenges for the IHPRPT program. (An asterisk by the title denotes an advanced development project.) They are organized in accordance with the 5 IHPRPT technology areas. A sixth area titled Materials supports the other 5 technology areas. Each topic has a primary Government sponsor. This entity is noted in parentheses following each topic name. All interested firms are highly encouraged to request the supplemental package as it contains descriptions of the individual projects including projected funding by fiscal year and a technical POC. The topics of interest by technology area are: A. TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATORS - 1. Liquid Oxygen/Liquid Hydrogen (LOX/LH2) Upper Stage Demonstration* (Air Force -AF), and, 2. Solar Thermal Propulsion Balloon Demonstration* (AF). B. COMBUSTION AND ENERGY CONVERSION DEVICES - 1. Hydrocarbon Cooling Technology (AF), 2. Light Weight Thrust Chamber Assembly (AF), 3. Non-Toxic Bi-Propellant Propulsion System (NASA), 4. High Performance Hall System* (AF/NASA), and, 5. Advanced Tactical Nozzle Technology (Navy). C. PROPELLANT MANAGEMENT DEVICES - 1. High Performance Case Assembly Technologies (AF), and, 2. Light Weight, Low Cost, Composite Technologies for Control Thrusters (Navy). D. CONTROLS - 1. Moveable Nozzle Roll Control (Navy), and, 2. On-Command Pintle (Navy). E. PROPELLANTS - 1. New Propellant Ingredients (Navy), and, 2. Tactical Propellants for Air-Launched Missiles (Navy). F. MATERIALS - 1. Advanced Metallics for Increased Rocket Performance (AF), 2. Ceramics for Rocket Engines (AF), and, 3. Non-Metallic Rocket Engine Components (AF). INSTRUCTIONS: This PRDA consists of two separate steps. Step 1 requires the submission of a proposal abstract. Abstracts will be evaluated and ranked from highest merit to lowest merit within each topic. Step 2 invites the offerors of selected abstracts to submit full proposals. Abstracts will be selected for each topic in order, starting with the highest merit. The number of abstracts selected to participate in Step 2 will depend on the quality of the abstracts received and the amount of available funding for a particular topic. Full proposals will be evaluated and categorized as Category I, II, or III. Only proposals receiving a rating of Category I or II will be eligible for selection for award. Within each topic all category I proposals will be awarded before a category II is selected. If there are no category I proposals for a specific topic, a category II proposal may be selected for award. Abstracts and subsequent proposals shall be prepared in accordance with this announcement and the companion Supplemental Package. Proposed projects should significantly contribute towards achieving the IHPRPT technology area objectives provided in the Supplemental Package. Responses to this announcement should be unclassified. Proposal abstracts may be submitted on all or part(s) of the PRDA. Offerors are encouraged to submit multiple abstracts against one or more topics, however, each abstract shall address only one solution to one topic. Each abstract shall include a technical discussion, a brief overview of capability, a schedule, and a Rough Order of Magnitude of price including major cost drivers and shall not exceed 10 pages plus cover in length. Complete instructions for preparing an abstract can be found in the Supplemental Package. The original and two copies of each abstract shall be submitted by 1600 hours Pacific Daylight Time, 15 Jul 1996 to AFFTC/PKAE, Directorate of Contracting, Attn: Barbara Barcelona, Bldg. 2800, 5 South Wolfe Avenue, Edwards AFB, CA 93524-1185. Copies of each abstract shall also be submitted to the facility(ies) listed in each topic description as instructed in the Supplemental Package. Abstract evaluations will consist of a scientific and engineering assessment in accordance with the evaluation criteria described below. This evaluation should take approximately 2 weeks and will result in invitations to those offerors whose abstracts are selected to participate in step 2, the preparation and submittal of a full proposal. The Government reserves the right to select for further consideration any, all, part or none of the abstracts received. Offerors, whose abstracts are not selected for participation in the second step, will be so notified. However, any offeror not selected to submit a full proposal may still do so, if he/she wishes. It is anticipated that proposals will be requested at different times for different topics. Also, if additional funding is allocated to this effort, a second round of invitations to submit full proposals for a specific topic may be issued. All offerors invited to participate in Step 2 will be given 30 days to prepare and submit a full proposal. Proposal due dates will be identified in the invitations to submit full proposals. The original and 2 copies of each proposal shall be submitted to Directorate of Contracting, ATTN: Ms. Barbara Barcelona, AFFTC/PKAE, 5 S. Wolfe Ave., Edwards AFB, CA 93524-1185. Copies of each proposal shall also be submitted to the facility(ies) listed in each topic description as instructed in the Supplemental Package. The full proposal shall include a written Statement of Work, a schedule, an oral technical presentation, cost data, alternate data items, if any, key personnel resumes, and past performance data. The oral technical presentation will be solicited in lieu of a written technical proposal and will be mandatory. A pre-proposal conference will be held at Edwards AFB, CA, on or about 07 Aug 96 for the sole purpose of clarifying the oral presentation process and the PRDA process in general. No technical information on the topics will be discussed. Details for this meeting will be included in the notification every offeror will receive with the results of the abstract evaluations. Instructions for the preparation of all submittals including the oral presentation are contained in the Supplemental Package for this announcement, which is available upon request. Offerors are advised that representatives from DoD and NASA, as well as employees of Aerospace Corporation, SPARTA, Inc., Sverdrup, Inc., and, General Physics Corporation may assist the Government as advisors in performing technical evaluations of abstracts/proposals submitted under this announcement. These advisors will be authorized access to only those portions of the technical proposal data and discussions that are necessary to enable them to provide specific technical advice on specific matters, or on particular problems. Non DoD and non NASA advisors will be expressly prohibited from participating in any cost or pricing evaluations and negotiations, nor will they be allowed access to such data. Therefore, responses must separate technical and cost submittals. (End of Part 1) (0177)

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