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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF JANUARY 15,1997 PSA#1762Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Contracts Management
Office (CMO), 3701 N. Fairfax Dr., Arlington VA 22203-1714 A -- DUAL USE APPLICATIONS PROGRAM SOL PA97-12 DUE 031897 POC
1-800-DUAL USE(8:00AM through 6:00PM, EDT, Monday-Friday). The Dual-Use
Applications Program (DUAP) has released a solicitation for the
Commercial Operations and Support (O&S) Savings Initiative (COSSI).
COSSI's mission is to develop and test a method for reducing Department
of Defense (DoD) O&S costs by inserting commercial products and
processes into fielded military systems. A fielded military system is
one that has some current operational capability. The insertion of
commercial products and processes is expected to reduce O&S cost by
reducing the costs of parts and maintenance, reducing need for
specialized equipment, increasing reliability, and increasing the
efficiency of subsystems. This program seeks proposals submitted by
firms or teams that include at least one for-profit firm. Proposals
must also have the written support of a "military customer." Selected
proposers will develop, manufacture and deliver prototype "kits" to the
military for installation into a fielded DoD system. Each kit will
consist of a commercial product or process that has been adapted,
qualification-tested and readied for insertion. Proposers may also
choose to offer maintenance service agreements for their kits to assure
their performance and reliability. In Stage I of each selected project,
DUAP and the chosen proposer will share the costs of developing and
testing the kit. In Stage II, provided Stage I has been successful, the
military customer may purchase reasonable production quantities of the
kit and payment for their insertion into the fielded system will be
the responsibility of the military customer. Proposals must include
target prices for kits and_if you choose to propose them_the
maintenance service agreements. It will be the service's goal to
purchase the selected kits and, if applicable, maintenance agreements
in Stage II: without recompetition, at a fair and reasonable price
based on an analysis of the value of the kits to the Service (for O&S
savings), and without requiring proposers to provide detailed cost and
pricing data. To reduce the traditional administrative burden and
oversight of government contracts, we plan to use during Stage I an
innovative type of agreement _one not generally subject to the normal
Federal procurement laws and regulations_known as an "Other
Transaction." This type of agreement allows a great deal more
flexibility and has far fewer regulatory requirements than a typical
Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) contract. In particular, this
initiative will not generally require government cost accounting
standards nor government cost audits. Furthermore, intellectual
property provisions may be negotiated that differ from those usually
found in procurement contracts. $100M has been appropriated for this
program. Proposals are due by 4:00 PM, March 18, 1997. Complete program
information is included in a document entitled, "The Commercial
Operations & Support (O&S) Savings Initiative, Dual Use Applications
Program, Solicitation No. 97-12," dated January 15, 1997. You may
download this document from the INTERNET
(www.jdupo.darpa.mil/jdupo/index.html) or request this document by
phone: 1-800-DUAL-USE (1-800-382-5873), Monday through Friday from 8:00
AM to 6:00 PM, Eastern Time, fax (703) 807-0678, addressed to: Dual Use
Applications Program, PA #97-12, electronic mail: INTERNET address:
Dual-Use@arpa.mil. (0013) Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0005 19970115\A-0005.SOL)
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