Bid Office, SPAWARSYSCEN, Code D21B, 53570 Silvergate Avenue, Bldg. A33, Room 0061, San Diego, CA 92152-5112

A -- MICROELECTRONICS, OPTO-ELECTRONICS AND/OR PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY SOL N66001-98-X-6904 DUE 063099 POC Contract Specialist, Ms. Maureen Battern, Code D212, (619)553-4489. Contracting Officer, Ms. Faye Esaias, (619)553-4537. BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA): The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego (SPAWARSYSCEN) in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking proposals (technical and cost) for research and development of microelectronics, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), opto-electronics and/or photonics technology. The proposed efforts should offer potential for significant impact on the current technology and the national defense. Proposed efforts are being sought which are aligned with the Electronics Technology Office (ETO) of DARPA, or other Government Agencies. The current focus of ETO is with research of engineered microsystems to perceive and control the physical world. ETO's missions and thrusts are sense and action amplifiers for the warfighter, battlespace information channels and connectivity, large-scale integration of multi-technology systems, exploratory device and fabrication technologies. Additional information on the programs within ETO is available at http://www.darpa.mil. This notice constitutes a SPAWARSYSCEN San Diego Broad Agency Announcement as contemplated in FAR 6.102(d)(2). This announcement will be open through June 30, 1999. Proposals may be submitted any time during this period. Awards may be made at any time throughout this period. Such awards will depend upon evaluations described below and availability of funds. The Government further reserves the right to issue contracts, grants, cooperative agreements or other transactions. Award decisions will be based on a competitive selection of proposals resulting from a peer and/or scientific review. Evaluations will be conducted using the following evaluation criteria (listed in order of importance): (1) Overall scientific or technical merits of the proposal; (2) potential transition to Department of Defense Systems; (3) the Offeror's capabilities, related experience, plan of execution, past performance, and facilities; (4) realism of the proposed cost; (5) availability of funds; (6) the extent to which the cost effectiveness of the proposed research is diminished by expenditures for unproductive administrative and other overhead expenses; (7) Past performance; (8) For acquisitions other than those based only on cost or price competition, the contracting officer shall evaluate the extend to which offerors identify and commit to small business and to small disadvantaged business (this applies to contract awards only with large business). To save preparation costs and effort, Offerors are invited to submit an initial five-page synopsis of their proposal with technical description of the effort, a preliminary schedule, identification of risks, and a rough cost estimate. The synopsis will be evaluated as to potential, and the Offeror notified as to possible interest by the government. At the government's notification of interest, the proposer may then submit a complete proposal consisting of two separate volumes in accordance with the following: The technical volume of the proposal is limited to 50 pages (Eight and one-half by eleven inches), excluding resumes, and management/facilities information. The technical volume should also include a separate section of specific task/subtask statements of the proposed work so that these could be incorporated into a Government Statement of Work (SOW). Technical proposal shall also provide complete technical details, a contractor statement of work, a schedule, discussions of risks, and discussions of value and purpose. The schedule should include the milestones and deliverables, both reports and hardware. The technical volume should also clearly illustrate any technical data or computer software, which will be supplied to the government with other than unlimited rights. The cost volume should: 1) be a separate document which clearly shows the costs of each proposed task separately; and 2) provide a Standard Form 1411, Contract Pricing proposal Cover Sheet, if contract award is pending (not required for other types of award as specified in paragraph 1 of this BAA), supported by adequate breakout of cost elements and rates by month for the purpose of cost/price analysis. Each task should be separately costed. **Proposed subcontractor costs should be proposed in a similar detail. Cost proposals should be valid for a period of six (6) months after the date of submission. An original plus for copies of the technical volume, plus three copies of the cost volume should be submitted to SPAWARSYSCEN, Attn: Contracting Officer, Code D212, 53560 Hull St., San Diego, CA 92152-5001. Any other administrative questions may be addressed to Ms. Maureen Battern at (619)553-4489 or (619)553-7503, battern@spawar.navy.mil. Questions of a technical nature may be submitted, by email only, to Dr. Cynthia Hanson, email chanson@spawar.navy.mil. Proposals may be submitted anytime during the open period of this announcement and should be unclassified. The Government reserves the right to select for award, all, some, or none of the proposals received in response to this announcement. The Government may alsoonly select specific tasks within a proposal for award. This notice constitutes a BAA as contemplated in FAR 6.102(d)(2). No additional written information is available, nor will a formal request for proposal (RFP) or other solicitation regarding this announcement be issued. Interested parties are invited to respond to this synopsis. All responsible parties' responses will be considered. Posted 07/14/98 (W-SN222993). (0195)

Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0003 19980716\A-0003.SOL)