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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF JANUARY 9,1997 PSA#1758Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Contracts Management
Office (CMO), 3701 N. Fairfax Dr., Arlington VA 22203-1714 A -- INFORMATION ASSURANCE OF THE ISO ARCHITECTURE SOL BAA97-11 DUE
123197 POC Sami Saydjari, Teresa Lunt, fax 703-516-6065. The Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)/Information Systems Office
(ISO) seeks Information Assurance (IA) solutions for the Global Command
and Control Systems Leading Edge Services (GCCS LES) architecture. The
GCCS LES architecture, which will integrate technology incrementally
in phased releases over several years, offers critical new capabilities
to the Defense Department. However, these capabilities are of little
value if users are not confident that these enhanced capabilities can
adequately protect their information and be available even under
situations of high system stress or when the system is under attack.
The purpose of the Information Assurance program is to create the basis
of this confidence. Thus the Information Assurance program is a
critical enabling program for most of the other key technology programs
in ISO and consequently is urgent and of high priority. The IA
architecture must be capable of withstanding system stresses through
robust, adaptive, proactive protection and management of information
and information transport services. Proposals sought are of two types:
1) a systems architecture and integration effort and, 2) individual
efforts which will integrate existing and emerging state-of-the-art
technologies or develop new technologies which will fill in the gaps
between existing or state-of-the-art, and that meet required program
objectives as stated above. Proposed activity is further divided into
4 major divisions with twelve focus areas. The divisions and focus
areas are: Systems Architecture and Integration Division (Area 1.
Systems Architecture and Integration), Protection Division (Area 2.
Protection from malicious code, Area 3. Intrusion detection, and Area
4. Automatic response), Security and Integrity Division (Area 5.
Multilevel security and releasability, Area 6. Authentication, and Area
7. Access control), Systems Management Division (Area 8. Security
management, Area 9. Certificate management, Area 10. Interoperability,
Area 11. Command and Control (C2) schema extensions and Area 12.
Availability and reliability). It is essential that the integration
facilitate upgrading to newer, better solutions as they become
available and accommodate rapid advances in base computing and
networking technologies. Teaming is strongly encouraged between
security and survivability specialists and those familiar with the
architecture. GENERAL INFORMATION: Information in this announcement is
NOT complete. Offerors MUST also refer to the associated Proposer
Information Packet (PIP) before submitting a proposal. SCHEDULE: This
BAA will be open through 19 December 1997. An initial round of
evaluations will be conducted. In order to be considered in this
initial round of evaluations, proposals must be received prior to 1600
EST, 3 February 1997. For the initial round of evaluations only,
proposals will be evaluated as they are received. Accordingly, offerors
should be prepared to negotiate their proposals shortly after they are
received by DARPA or upon completion of technical discussions which
may be required for clarifications. It is anticipated that some award
announcements may be made as early as the end of the initial evaluation
period. However, no award announcements will be made prior to this date
and no information regarding the status of evaluations during this
period will be released. Proposals received after the close of the
initial evaluation period, but prior to the close of the BAA, will be
reviewed based on a schedule determined by program requirements and
funds availability. Proposals received after the close of this BAA will
be returned unopened. SUBMISSION: Offerors must submit an original and
ten (10) copies of their technical proposal and three (3) copies of
their cost proposal to the administrative address for this BAA in order
to be considered. Offerors MUST obtain the BAA97-11 Proposer's
Information Packet (PIP), which provides further information on the
content, preparation, format, submission and evaluation criteria of
proposals and other important information.This packet may be obtained
from the World Wide Web one working day after the CBD publication at
URL address http://www.darpa.mil/baa/. These documents may also be
requested in writing by sending correspondence by facsimile to
703-516-6065 addressed to ATTENTION Information Assurance or by surface
mail addressed to DARPA/ISO, ATTN: BAA97-11 INFORMATION, 3701 N.
Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203-1714. These requests must include
the name and phone number of a point of contact. FORMAT: Failure to
adhere to the format specified in the PIP is sufficient grounds for
proposals to be considered non-responsive. This Commerce Business Daily
notice, in conjunction with the BAA97-11 PIP, constitutes the entire
BAA. EVALUATION AND AWARD: Proposals will be selected through a
technical/scientific/peer review. Proposals submitted in a technical
area are evaluated only within that area, based on their own technical
merit. DARPA will evaluate proposals and make contract awards within
a reasonable period of time after receipt. Evaluations will be
performed using the following criteria: A. For Area 1: (1) System
Development and System Integration Capabilities (2) Understanding of
Operating Environment and Technical State of the Art (3) Access to
Domain Experience (4) Quality of Management Plan (5) Past Performance
(6) Personnel in primary and subcontractor organizations (7)
Defensibility of the overall estimated cost. Criteria (1) through (3)
are of the greatest importance and receive equal weight. Criteria (4)
and (5) are of next importance and are also equally weighted. Criteria
(6) and (7) are weighted below the preceding in descending order.
Note: Cost Defensibility will only be significant for proposals which
appear to have significantly over or under estimated the cost to
complete the research. B. For Areas 2 through 12: (1) Capability
provided (2) Impact on architecture (3) Innovation (4) Technical
Approach (5) Understanding of Operating Environment and Technical State
of the Art (6) Personnel in primary and subcontractor organizations (7)
Capabilities (8) Defensibility of the overall estimated cost. Criteria
(1) and (2) are of greatest weight and are weighted equally to each
other. The remaining criteria are in descending order of weight. Note:
Cost Defensibility will only be significant for proposals which appear
to have significantly over or under estimated the cost to complete the
research. Procurement Vehicles. For Area 1, DARPA is seeking
participation in this undertaking from the widest number of offerors.
Toward this end, DARPA is willing to consider all types of proposals
including, traditional FAR/DFARS type contracts, grants and "Other
Transactions". Please see Section VI of the PIP for additional
information. The Government reserves the right to select for award all,
some or none of the proposals received. All responsible sources capable
of satisfying the Government's needs may submit a proposal, which will
be considered by DARPA. 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 IA research
for exclusive competition among these entities. It is the policy of
DARPA to treat all proposals as competitive information and to disclose
the contents only for the purposes of evaluation. The Government
intends to use Litton/PRC and MITRE Corporation personnel as special
resources to assist with the logistics of administering proposal
evaluation and to provide advice on specific technical areas. Personnel
of these contractors are restricted by their contracts from disclosing
proposal information for any purpose other than these administrative
or advisory tasks. Contractor personnel are required to sign
Organizational Conflict of Interest Non-Disclosure Agreements
(OCI/NDA). By submission of its proposal, each offeror agrees that
proposal information may be disclosed to thoseselected contractors for
the limited purpose stated above. Any information not intended for
limited release to these contractors must be clearly marked and
segregated from other proposal material. SPECIAL NOTICE: Organizational
Conflict of Interest. Each cost proposal shall contain a section
satisfying the requirements of the following: Awards made under this
BAA are subject to the provisions of the Federal Acquisition Regulation
(FAR) Subpart 9.5, Organizational Conflict of Interest. All offerors
and proposed subcontractors must affirmatively state whether they are
supporting any DARPA technical office(s) through an active contract or
subcontract. All affirmations must state which office(s) the offeror
supports and identify the prime contract number. Affirmations shall be
furnished at the time of proposal submission. All facts relevant to
the existence or potential existence of organizational conflicts of
interest, as that term is defined in FAR 9.501, must be disclosed. This
disclosure shall include a description of the action the Contractor has
taken, or proposes to take, to avoid, neutralize or mitigate such
conflict. If the offeror believes that no such conflict exists, then it
shall so state in this section. ADMINISTRATIVE: All administrative
correspondence and questions on this solicitation must be directed to
one of the administrative addresses below. Email or fax is preferred.
DARPA intends to use electronic mail for most technical and
administrative correspondence regarding this BAA. Technical and
contractual questions should be directed to baa97-11@darpa.mil. Include
the originator's full name and return Email address in the text. These
questions will be answered directly by Email. All questions must be
submitted in writing. Administrative Addresses: The PIP and Frequently
Asked Questions (FAQ) are available at http://www.darpa.mil/baa/.
Written requests for these documents may be sent by facsimile to
703-516-6065 addressed to ATTENTION Information Assurance or by surface
mail addressed to DARPA/ISO, ATTN: BAA97-11 INFORMATION, 3701 N.
Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203-1714. These requests must include
the name and phone number of a point of contact. (0007) Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0006 19970109\A-0006.SOL)
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