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A -- BEST BUY ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION (ATD), BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT, PART II SOL BAA NO. 96-019 POC POC: Technical Issues: David Siegel, Program Officer (703) 696-0554; Contracting Issues: Lee Ann Boyer, Contracting Officer (703) 696-4841 Regina Williams, Contract Negotiator (703) 696-2583. AWARDS AND CONTRACTS: Up to a total of $10.8M may be available to fund efforts in response to this announcement. A Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract is expected to be awarded as a result of this BAA. Offerors are required to submit multiple year, multi-phase proposals. ONR anticipates that award will be made during the first quarter FY97. This Broad Agency Announcement does not commit the Government to award of contracts. Program funding has not yet been released. This BAA provides no funding for technical abstract or proposal development. Unsuccessful offerors of abstracts and proposals will be acknowledged. Abstracts and proposals will not be returned. The Government reserves the right to select all, some, or none of the proposals received in response to this announcement. No portion of this BAA has been set aside for small business, small disadvantaged business, historically black college or university or minority university participants, however, their participation is encouraged. EVALUATION CRITERIA: Proposals may be reviewed and acted on as they arrive. It is the policy of ONR to treat all proposals and abstracts as competitive information and to disclose the contents only for the purposes of evaluation. The government may use selected support contractors as special resources for evaluation of the technical and management areas. These contractors are restricted by their contracts from disclosing the proposal information or using it for other than performing the technical assessment. Evaluation of proposals will be based on the following criteria in order of importance: (1) Potential to enhance military applications of Composite Projectile Technologies, (2) Innovative aspects and scientific merits, and feasibility of the approach and technical objectives, (3) Offerors capabilities, past performance and related experience, facilities, techniques, or unique combinations thereof that are integral factors for achieving the proposed objectives, (4) Qualifications, capabilities, and experience of the proposed personnel who are key to program success, (5) Rationale provided in defense of estimated costs and (6) Socioeconomic merits of the proposal including commitment in providing meaningful subcontracting opportunities for small business, small disadvantaged business, women owned small business concerns, and historically black colleges and universities and minority institutions. Offerors must also be able to certify that they have, or can obtain, a SECRET facility clearance if the proposed work requires access to classified material. The Standard Industrial Classification Code for this procurement is 8731. The small business size standard is for a number of employees not exceeding 500. ADMINISTRATION - Questions of a technical nature relating to this BAA shall be directed to: Office of Naval Research, Ballston Centre Tower One, Mr. David Siegel, Code 351, 800 North Quincy Street, Room 804, Arlington, Virginia 22217-5660, Telephone (703) 696-0554. Questions of a contractual nature relating to this BAA shall be directed to: Office of Naval Research, Ms. Lee Ann Boyer, Code 253, 800 North Quincy Street, Arlington, VA 22217-5660, Telephone (703) 696-4841. (0240)

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