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A -- TARGET EFFECTS ASSESSMENT (TEA) SOL PRDA 99-DE03 POC Contract Specialist, Shannon L. Mullinax, 505-846-4635, Contracting Officer, Steve Young, 505-846-4624 E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contract POC via e-mail, shannon.mullinax@plk.af.mil. PRDA 99-DE03 AMENDMENT A00001 Paragraph E of the subject PRDA announcement, published in the Commerce Business Daily (CBD) on 21 Sep 99 is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the paragraph below. No other changes or modifications are made to the announcement. E BASIS FOR AWARD: White Papers will be evaluated by a peer or scientific review process based upon innovative ideas, new technologies, and unique capabilities. Upon completion of White Paper reviews, firms whose approaches or unique capabilities are of further interest to the government will be furnished a model contract and an actual technical task and/or program management task in response to which they will provide a technical and cost proposal for the task, and a contractor prepared Statement of Work (CSOW) for the basic contract. The CSOW shall include, by reference, the requirements guidelines modified, if necessary, to incorporate any changes the offeror deems appropriate. Single or multiple awards can be anticipated and will be based on an evaluation of an offeror's response in accordance with the criteria below to determine the overall merit of the proposal and best value to the government in response to this announcement. Once proposals are categorized as described below, the government will downselect to those offerors having the best chance for award and enter into negotiations with them. The government does not contemplate downselecting to a predetermined number of proposals downselection is dependent on the number and quality of proposals received. Cost realism will be assessed for those offers selected for negotiation, and price reasonableness will be determined prior to making any award. Should the government decide to enter into 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. EVALUATION CRITERIA: Proposals will be evaluated using the following criteria; technical criteria (a) and (b) are the first order of priority; criterion (c) is a substantial factor, but is ranked as the second order of priority: (a) the overall scientific and/or technical merit of the proposal, including capabilities and related experience, facilities, innovative techniques or unique combinations of these integral factors for achieving proposal objectives; (b) the qualifications, capabilities and experience of the proposed key personnel who are critical to the achievement of the proposed objectives, to include teaming arrangements and subcontracting; (c) affordability of the proposed task cost, proposed budget and funding profiles. AFRL reserves the right to select any part or all of the proposal(s) selected for award in response to this announcement, subject to availability of funds. Once the cost and technical proposals are evaluated, all proposals will be sorted into categories as follows: (i) Category I: Well conceived, scientifically and technically sound proposals pertinent to program goals and objectives, and offered by a responsible contractor with the competent scientific and technical staff and supporting resources needed to ensure satisfactory program results. Proposals in Category I are recommended for acceptance and normally are displaced only by other Category I proposals; (ii) Category II: Scientifically or technically sound proposals requiring further development and are recommended for acceptance, but are at lower priority than Category I; (iii) Category III: Proposals that are not technically sound or do not meet agency needs. When requested, a debriefing will be provided in accordance with FAR 15.506. A copy of each final report of any resultant contract(s) will be available subject to national disclosure policy and regulations. Posted 11/08/99 (W-SN399083). (0312)

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