Defense Supply Center Columbus, PO Box 16595, DSCC-PBAB, Columbus, OH 43216-6595

A -- CHEMICAL WARFARE/CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL DEFENSE INFORMATION ANALYSIS CENTER (CBIAC) SOL SP0700-99-R-0050 POC Kelly E. Kerr (614) 692-7122 DESC: This solicitation is for the establishment and operation of DOD Chemical Warfare/Chemical and Biological Defense Information Analyis Center (CBIAC) to be awarded for a three (3) year base period with options to extend for an additional four (4) year and three (3) year option period. Contractor shall be responsible for the collection, review, analysis, appraisal, and summary of the CBIAC info and data within the scope of the CBIAC. Primary users are scientists, engineers, and technicians engaged in scientific and engineering programs for DoD. Other users include other U.S. Gov't Agencies and their contractors and the Private Sector consistent with security and other limitations on the Center's Information. The CBIAC shall concern itself with the promotion of existing areas of CW/CBD Information in a manner consistent within current requirements of activities funded pursuant to the Defense Business Operating Funds (DBOF). The CBIAC focus will be on a variety of activities including the identification, access, analysis, processing and dissemination of Scientific and Technical Information (STI). The STI resulting from CBIAC efforts are intended to increase the productivity of the DoD Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT &E) and the DoD Acquisition communities' scientific and engineering functions through timely dissemination of STI in their respective fields of specialization. The contractor must have the capability to prepare authoritative technical reference works including technical handbooks, State-of-the-Art reports, critical reviews, technology assessments, and respond to technical and bibliographic inquiries. Sources must have capability of a full-service Information Analysis Center located in a research and development laboratory with immediate access on a part time as needed basis to scientific and engineering expertise in the range of subjects and disciplines within the Center's scope of work and whose experts' primary assignments are research and development in the required disciplines. Defense Supply Center Columbus (DSCC) intends to release a Request for Proposal (RFP) under solicitation number SP0700-99-R-0050 for the Chemical Warfare/Chemical Biological Defense Information Analysis Center in May, 1999 with a closing date approximately 30 days thereafter. This requirement will be satisfied using full and open competition procedures. Offers in response to the solicitation will be evaluated under Source Selection Procedures as outlined in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). A ONE STEP EVALUATED PROCUREMENT with use of ORAL PRESENTATIONS will be used to streamline the acquisition process. It is anticipated that CONTRACT AWARD WILL BE MADE WITHOUT DISCUSSIONS. Contract award decisions will be made after impartial evaluation of all factors. Contractors interested in receiving a copy of the RFP must request a copy in writing from DSCC-PLI, ATTN: Kelly Kerr, Bldg 20, 3990 E. Broad St., P O Box 16704, Columbus, OH 43216-5010, FAX: (614) 693-1532 or email kelly_kerr @dscc.dla.mil. Posted 04/01/99 (W-SN315164). (0091)

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