US Army, CECOM Acquisition Center, Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey 07703-5008

A -- CECOM NIGHT VISION PROGRAM MANAGEMENT OFFICE BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT SOL DAAB07-98-R-J051 DUE 011298 POC Point of Contact -- Laura Paskman-Syms, Contract Specialist, 732-532-5455. Contracting Officer -- Deborah J. Gilligan, 732-532-5454. E-MAIL: CECOM Acquisition Center, paskman@doim6.monmouth.army.mil. This Broad Agency Announcement(BAA) is issued by the US Army Communications-Electronics Command Acquisition Center (CAC), Fort Monmouth, NJ for the Night Vision Reconnaissance, Suveillance and Target Acquisition (PM NV/RSTA) located at Fort Belvoir, VA. This BAA will be open through 23 January 1998. The initial comments shall be submitted by electronic mail to Laura Paskman-Syms at paskman@doim6.monmouth.army.mil no later than 12 January 1998. To be considered for award, the full proposal must be received by 23 January 1998. All interested parties wanting to do business with CECOM are invited to access and receive data from the CECOM Business Opportunities Web page, http://acbop.momouth.army.mil. This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) is for trade off studies for a product improvement to the AN/TQM-41 Meterorological Measuring Set (MMS). The system improvement will be known as Profiler, and will consist of a suite of meterorological (met) sensors and associated software/models which will provide the field artillery with current and expected weather conditions along the trajectory and in the target area. The objective of the BAA is to determine the design trade-offs between performance, cost, risk and schedule and develop design concepts, which will meet ORD requirements. Since Profiler development will be executed as a Warfighter Rapid Acquisition Program (WRAP) with a 2 and 1/2 year EMD, all trade-off analysis should assume a highly accelerated program. Preliminary program strategy calls for EMD award 4QFY98 and FUE in FY02/03. Critical design issues are given in the Key Interests subparagraph. It is the intent of the Government to award two or more Firm Fixed Price (FFP) contracts not to exceed $200,000 each for this study effort. The BAA will examine requirements for modernized and enhanced data collection and automated analysis of current weather conditions, as specified in the Operational Requirements Document(ORD) for profiler, dated May 1996 (unclassified). The study will identify protential cost and performance tradeoffs, identify significant technical issued and risks, and develop a system performance specification and statement of work to be used in preparation for subsequent Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD). The technical areas that will be considered in theis BAA are found on the above Web page address. Proposals that involve either basic research of final product development beyond the stage of product prototype or feasiility demonstration are outside the scope of the competition and will not be acceptable. Readers should note that this is an announcement to declare PM NV/RSTA's BAA as contemplated by FAR 6.102(d)(2). Small businesses are encouraged to participate. In any case in which the evaluation shows two or more proposals to be substantially equal, preference for award will be given to those proposals which include small businesses over those which do not. Any interested company or institution may submit a technical white paper for solutions related to this requirement. The white pater should not exceed five (5) pages and can be submitted anytime during but no later than 15 January 1998. White papers will contain a synopsis of the Profiler system proposal including cost estimate. The white paper must be delivered to the office identifird in paragraph 4 above. Those submitting white papers are encouraged to also submit a full proposal. It is expected that the PM NV/RSTA technical review will be complete within 2 weeks of the white paper receipt. Following the technical review, the Profiler Project Leader (Major Wood) will contact the white paper submitter on or about 30 January 1998, and provide feedback on the Army's level of interest in the proposed project; or any interested offeror should send (5) copies of its technical and cost proposal to US Army Communications-Electronics Command, ATTN: AMSEL-AC-CC-A-CB (Laura Paskman-Syms), Building 1208 West, Fort Monmouth, NJ 07703-5000. To be considered for award, the full proposal must be received by 1:30 PM 23 January 1998. The period of performance of the BAA is 60 days from the date of contract award for formal proposals. (0356)

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