Director, USAMC Acquisition Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Attn: STEAA-AE, 4118 Susquehanna Ave., Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005-5002

A -- FY 1999-2000 USSOCOM BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT SOL DAAD05-99-T-1819 POC Shonn Moore, 410-278-5034 WEB: Click here to download a copy of the BAA package, http://www.sbccom.apgea.army.mil/srs/amcac/index.html. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the contracting officer., smoore@apg-emh1.apg.army.mil. The Army Materiel Command Acquisition Center (AMCAC), Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, is soliciting concepts for innovative research and development projects for the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), which represents the United States Department of Defense capability to train and equip Special Operations Forces (SOF). This announcement is intended to cover the broad spectrum of SOF objectives for new systems development. This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) contains five topic areas, as follows: Topic Area 1 Land, Sea and Air Mobility; Topic Area 2 Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence; Topic Area 3 SOF Weapons and Munitions; Topic Area 4 Sustainment and Soldier Systems; and Topic Area 5 Technology Opportunities for Special Operations Forces. The AMCAC is the procuring office for this BAA. The information in this announcement, along with the BAA package (that potential offerors must request from the AMCAC), constitutes a solicitation of concepts from those offerors capable of satisfying the government's needs. The government encourages non-profit organizations, educational institutions, small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses, government laboratories, and HBCU/MIs, as well as large businesses, to submit research concepts for consideration. The BAA selection process will depend on which topic area is being proposed under. For Topic Areas 1 through 4, full proposals, as described in the BAA package, shall be due 45 calendar days from the issuance date of the BAA package. For Topic Area 5, quad charts, as described in the BAA package, shall be due anytime up to one year from the issuance date of the BAA package. For Topic Area 5, should the government favorably evaluate the quad chart, those offerors will be invited to submit full proposals. The specific due dates are not identified in this announcement, because they are dates dependent on the release of the BAA package itself. Proposals received earlier than the due dates will be accepted. It is anticipated that the BAA package will be released around 30 September 1999. Offerors will not be able to review the BAA package until it is posted on the website identified below. The BAA package itself, DAAD05-99-T-1819, describes the full process for concept submission and government evaluation. This BAA package will be available no earlier than 15 days from the date of this announcement. BAA packages may be obtained over the internet at http://www.sbccom.apgea.army.mil/srs/amcac/index.html looking for the Solicitation DAAD05-99-T-1819 under RFQs and RFQ search via the army acquisition business website. Posted 09/13/99 (W-SN379269). (0256)

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