Phillips Laboratory, Directorate of Contracting, 2251 Maxwell Avenue SE, Kirtland AFB, NM 87117-5773

A -- DIRECTED ENERGY EFFECTS RESEARCH (DEER) SOL PRDA-99-DE04 POC Ms Louise G. McDonough, Contracting Officer, Det 8 AFRL/PKDL, 2251 Maxwell Avenue SE, Bldg 499, Room 121, Kirtland AFB, NM 87117-5773, 505/846-9691, fax 505/846-1546 E-MAIL: Louise McDonough, mcdonoul@plk.af.mil. DIRECTED ENERGY EFFECTS RESEARCH (DEER), PRDA NO. 99-DE04. Section C BASIS FOR AWARD and Section D EVALUATION CRITERIA modified as follows: C-BASIS FOR AWARD: This is a two-step process. Step 1: White papers will be evaluated by a peer or scientific review process. Government evaluators may contact offerors prior to completion of initial evaluation of white papers as deemed necessary to gain additional information to complete evaluations. Such dialogue will most likely be conducted telephonically, but may be done in writing or face to face as required. To reduce contractor expense, the government will keep such interchange to the minimum time necessary. Step 2: Upon completion of white paper evaluations, offerors whose approaches or unique capabilities are of further interest to the government will be invited to submit the balance of their technical proposal. Notification of selection for further consideration will be in writing. At that time, offerors will be provided a technical description document (TDD, which is essentially a model statement of work) and the requirements for the initial task orders contemplated for award. Offerors shall respond with a contractor statement of work (CSOW) covering all task areas to be included in the basic IDIQ award, and a task order (TO) proposal consisting of a TO CSOW and a cost proposal. Offerors should consider the TDD when drafting their CSOW and may use it as a basis for their CSOW, modified as necessary to reflect their proposal. The TDD is merely a tool and its use will not reflect favorably or unfavorably on an offeror's evaluation. Any offeror who submits a white paper may submit the balance of the proposal, but offerors not expressly invited to do so are discouraged from so doing. Full proposals will not be accepted from firms that did not initially submit white papers for consideration. TO cost proposals will be evaluated for affordability as part of the categorization process. Categorization of proposals will occur as described in Section D below. The government does not contemplate downselecting to a predetermined number of proposals downselection is dependent on the number and quality of proposals received and the availability of funds. Offerors are advised that in the event the government makes two or more awards, subsequent task orders may be competed. After categorization of proposals, the government will enter into negotiations with those offerors selected for award. Model contracts will be forwarded at that time. Cost realism will be assessed for those offers selected for award and price reasonableness will be determined prior to making any award. Should the government enter negotiations with an offeror and be unable to reach a meeting of the minds, that proposal may be displaced by a lower rated proposal and the government may at that time enter into negotiations with an offeror not originally contacted for negotiations. D-EVALUATION CRITERIA: Proposals will be evaluated in accordance with the following evaluation criteria which are in descending orderof importance: (1) The overall scientific and/or technical merits of the proposal, including capabilities and related experience, facilities, innovative techniques or unique combinations of these which are integral factors for achieving proposal objectives; and (2) the potential contributions of the effort to AFRL/DEPE's mission and the extent to which the research effort will contribute to balancing the overall mission program; and (3) affordability. Posted 10/28/99 (W-SN396057). (0301)

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