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A -- SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES INTEGRATION LABORATORY -- PART 3 OF 3 SOL PRDA No. 97-18-AAK POC Contact Alan Struckman, Contract Negotiator, 937-255-2902, or Vicki A. Fry, Contracting Officer, 937-255-2902 WEB: Click here to view the supplemental package, http://www.wl.wpafb.af.mil/contract/hp/htm. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contract Negotiator, struckac@aa.wpafb.af.mil. (7) Note to Foreign-Owned Firms: Such firms are asked to immediately notify the Air Force point cited below upon deciding to respond to this announcement. Foreign contractors should be aware that foreign participation is excluded at the prime contractor level. Foreign participation at the subcontractor level will be handled in accordance with the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR). D -- PROPOSAL PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS: (1) General Instructions: Offerors should apply the restrictive notice prescribed in the provision at FAR 52.215-12, Restriction on Disclosure and Use of Data, to trade secrets or privileged commercial and financial information contained in their proposals. Proposal questions should be directed to one of the points of contact listed elsewhere herein. Offerors should consider instructions contained in the "WL PRDA and BAA Guide for Industry" referenced in Section A of this announcement. Technical and cost proposals, submitted in separate volumes, are required and must bevalid for 270 days. Proposals must reference the above PRDA number. In an effort to move toward paperless contracting, you are encouraged to submit your cost and technical proposals via electronic means on computer disk. Please note that classified information shall NOT be submitted on disk. If proposals are not submitted on computer disk, they shall be submitted in an original and five copies. If proposals will be submitted by electronic means, they shall be submitted in two paper copies and two electronic copies. The disks shall be 3 1/2 inch high-density disks. Any technical and cost (spreadsheet calculations) proposals submitted electronically shall be readable by Microsoft Word 6.0 for Windows, Excel 5.0 for Windows, and/or Powerpoint 4.0 for Windows. Offerors must submit an approved DD Form 2345, Export-Controlled DOD Technical Data Agreement, with their proposal. P.L. 98-94 applies. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered against the criteria set forth herein. Offerors are advised that only contracting officers are legally authorized to contractually bind or otherwise commit the government. Adequate Price Competition is anticipated. Additional proposal preparation instructions are included in the supplemental package to this PRDA. (2) Preparation Cost: If selected for negotiations, qualifying offerors will be required to submit a subcontracting plan. This announcement does not commit the Government to pay for any proposal preparation cost. The cost of preparing proposals in response to this PRDA is not considered an allowable direct charge to any resulting or any other contract. However, it may be an allowable expense to the normal bid and proposal indirect cost as specified in FAR 31.205-18. E -- BASIS FOR AWARD: The Air Force anticipates awarding multiple ID/IQ contracts to include the award of one or more delivery orders. The Air Force reserves the right to award only one ID/IQ contract. Offerors are encouraged to team to meet the requirements of all STIL technology domains. The Air Force reserves the right to select for one or more awards of a contract, grant, or cooperative agreement any, all, part, or none of the proposals received. Award of a grant to universities or nonprofit institutions or cooperative agreement, in lieu of a contract, will be considered and will be subject to the mutual agreement of the parties. The Air Force, for example, reserves the right to award a one-time contract or grant (both without provisions for issuing subsequent delivery orders) based on a proposal in response to a Candidate Delivery Order. Award will be based on an evaluation of offerors' responses (both technical and cost area) to determine the overall merit of the proposal in response to the announcement. The technical area is of highest priority. Cost and/or price, is a substantial factor, but is ranked as the lowest order of priority. Separate evaluations will be conducted in each of the seven topic areas. The Air Force reserves the right to combine topic areas on award(s). The technical area will be evaluated through an assessment of the proposals on these two sections in descending order of importance: (a) the overall technical/management approach to the basic contract in response to Paragraph B above; and (b) the Candidate Delivery Orders. The overall contract technical/management approach will be evaluated based on the following criteria in descending order of importance: (a) offeror's strength of understanding of technical scope of topic areas; (b) strength of offeror's proposed team and technical/management approach. The Candidate Delivery Orders factor shall be evaluated based on the following criteria in descending order of importance: (a) newness and creativity of the proposed solutions; (b) the offeror's understanding of and technical approach to the scope of the problem domain; (c) the offeror's experience with the applicable technologies and availability of personnel; (d) organization, clarity, and thoroughness of the proposed SOW. Adequate price competition is anticipated. The evaluation of cost and/or price will include consideration of proposed budgets and funding profiles. The Government will evaluate proposed costs and fees, on an individual order basis, to ensure they are reasonable, realistic and complete for the effort proposed. No other evaluation criteria will be used. Offerors are advised that participants in the Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) program may participate in the evaluation of proposals received in response to Topic Areas 04, 05, and 07. The Intergovernmental Personnel Act of 1970 (PL 91-648) allows for temporary detail of employees from qualifying non-profit organizations to agencies of the Federal Government. The IPA employee remains an employee of his/her agency/university but performs work physically at a Government location under the supervision of the Government organization. IPA employees are given all the rights and limitations of permanent Government employees. They are allowed to participate in all Government activities within their assigned area, represent the Government, and accomplish jobs normally assigned to Government employees. IPA employees are subject to Conflict of Interest Laws and Standards of Conduct provisions, such as rules on disclosure of confidential information. F -- POINTS OF CONTACT: (1) Technical Contact Points: Points of Contact for technical issues are listed in the supplemental package to this PRDA. (2) Ombudsman: An Ombudsman has been appointed to hear concerns from offerors or potential offerors during the proposal development phase of this acquisition. The purpose of the Ombudsman is not to diminish the authority of the program director or Contracting Officer, but to communicate contractor concerns, issues, disagreements and recommendations to the appropriate government personnel. All potential offerors should use established channels to voice concerns before resorting to use of the Ombudsman. When requested, the Ombudsman shall maintain strict confidentiality as to the source of the concern. The Ombudsman doesnot participate in the evaluation of proposals or in the selection decisions. Interested parties are invited to contact Mr. Mike S. Coalson, ASC/SYI Bldg 52, Room 136, 2475 K St, Wright-Patterson AFB OH 45433-7642, E-Mail coalsoms@sy.wpafb.af.mil, phone (937)255-5535, Ext. 232. (3) Contracting Point of Contact: All routine communication concerning this acquisition should be directed to Mr. Struckman, Contract Negotiator, or Vicki A. Fry, Contracting Officer, WL/AAKR, Bldg 7, 2530 C Street, Wright-Patterson AFB OH 45433-7607, telephone (937) 255-2902, fax (937) 255-3985. See Note 26. END OF PART 3 (0295)

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