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A -- MICROELECTRONICS, OPTO-ELECTRONICS AND/OR PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY SOL 99-X-6904 POC Maureen Battern (619) 553-4489 e-mail battern@spawar.navy.mil E-MAIL: BAA Administrator, battern@spawar.navy.mil. BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA): The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego (SPAWARSYSCEN) in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) is seeking proposals (technical and cost) for research and development of microelectronics, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), opto-electronics and/or photonics technology. Also of interest are proposals for research and development of technologies for heterogeneous integration of electronics, photonics, MEMS, and other components. Proposed efforts should offer potential for significant impact on the current technology and national defense. MTO has identified electronics, photonics, and MEMS as core technologies. The current focus of MTO is on advancing aspects of the core technologies as well as advancing new technologies and approaches for chip-scale heterogeneous integration to produce new microsystem components and capabilities. Chem/Bio Chips for detection of chemical or biological threatsare representative of this new era of heterogeneous integration. The tight coupling of lasers with highly integrated digital circuits for high bandwidth signal access to memory is another example. These heterogeneously integrated chips are expected to aid in MTO's current goals to develop and exploit micro-scale sense and action amplifiers for the warfighter, establish battlespace information channels with greatest bandwidth possible, and provide degrees of connectivity not possible with present technologies. Additional information on the programs within MTO is available within the DARPA web site (http://www.darpa.mil). This announcement will be open through 15 September, 2000. 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, 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 with large businesses: the extent to which offerors identify and commit to small business and to small disadvantaged business subcontracting. To save preparation costs and effort, Offerors are strongly encouraged to submit an initial five-page synopsis 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, upon notification the proposer will be requested to submit a complete proposal consisting of two separate volumes, technical and cost. The technical volume of the proposal is limited to 50 pages (Eight and one-half by eleven inches), excluding resumes, and management/facilities information. This 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). It 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. This volume should also clearly illustrate any technical data or computer software, which will be supplied to the government with other than unlimited rights and should identify other funding agencies for which the proposal has been submitted. The cost volume should: 1) be a separate document which clearly shows the costs of each proposed task separately, by month; and 2) provide Contract Pricing proposal Cover Sheet IAW FAR 15.406-2,supported by adequate breakout of cost elements and rates by month for the purpose of cost/price analysis. **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 four copies of the technical volume, plus three copies of the cost volume should be submitted to SPAWAR SYSCEN, 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, 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 also only 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 08/23/99 (W-SN371199). (0235)

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