Defense Supply Service-Washington, 5200 Army Pentagon, Rm. 1D245, Washington, DC 20310-5200

A -- RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT SOL N00178-99-Q-1021 DUE 053199 POC Mr. Harry W. Shatto, Jr., (703) 614-4579 E-MAIL: dobeckj@hadq.army.mil, harry.shatto@hqda.army.mil. Amendment No. 1 to Solicitation No. N00178-99-Q-1021 ("Research and Development Broad Agency Announcement for Radio Frequency Devices and Asymmetric Threats") published in the CBD: Posted in CBDNet on March 25, 1999; Printed Issue Date, March 29, 1999. The following is hereby amended: 1. Change Contracting Address to: Department of the Army, Defense Supply Service -- Washington, Acquisition Directorate, 5200 Army Pentagon, Rm. 1C243, Washington, D.C 20310-5200. 2. Change Points of Contact to: Mr. Harry W. Shatto, Jr., Senior Contract Specialist, (703) 614-4579, E-mail -- harry.shatto@hqda.army.mil; Ms. Kathy J. Dobeck, Contracting Officer, (703) 695-2562, E-mail -- dobeckj@hqda.army.mil; Technical Questions: Mr. Richard J. Carter, Staff Specialist, (703) 614-3991, E-mail -- rcarter@dote.osd.mil. 3. Description -- Change the first sentence to read as follows: The Office of the Secretary of Defense, Operational Test and Evaluation, Live Fire Test and Evaluation (OSD/OT&E/LFT&E) is soliciting under this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) research and development proposals for the development, test, and evaluation of advanced technologies/cutting edge radio frequency (RF) devices and asymmetric threats. 4. Proposals (White Papers) shall be submitted in an Original and Four Copies to Mr. Richard J. Carter, Operational Test and Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1700 Defense Pentagon, Rm. 1C730, Washington, D.C. 20310-1700. 5. Offerors are encouraged to submit a one to five page "white paper" summarizing the proposed effort(s) and a rough order of magnitude of cost to obtain a preliminary indication of potential OSD/OT&E/LFT&E interest. Offerors will be requested to submit in-depth proposal(s) should OSD/OT&E/LFT&E deem the white paper of scientific and technical merit. 6. Questions regarding this BAA should be forwarded to Department of the Army, Defense Supply Service -- Washington using Internet addresses: Mr. Shatto -- harry.shatto@hqda.army.mil; Ms. Dobeck -- dobeckj@hqda.army.mil; via Facsimile at (703) 695-9746 or (703) 697-9440. 7. Any negotiations that may be necessary will be conducted between the offeror and the Contracting Officer at Defense Supply Service -- Washington. OSD/OT&E/LFT&E will evaluate all proposals received no later than 31 May 1999. The offerors may be asked to make a concise (30 minutes) presentation of their proposals, probably in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Principal investigators of the recommended offerors may attend. OSD/OT&E/LFT&E will provide specific guidance for this presentation, including date, time and location. 8. It is the policy of OSD/OT&E/LFT&E and DSS-W to treat all proposals received as competitive and proprietary information and to disclose the contents only for the purpose of evaluation. The Government may use selected support contractor personnel as special resources to assist in administering the evaluation of the proposals. These persons are restricted by theircontracts from disclosing the proposal information or using it for other than performing their assigned administrative tasks. 9. This notice constitutes a BAA for Defense Supply Service -- Washington as authorized by FAR 6.102(d)(2). Posted 04/02/99 (W-SN315864). (0092)

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