CECOM Acquisition Center Southwest Operations Office, Attn: AMSEL-AC-CC-E-CB, Building 61801, Room 3210, Fort Huachuca, AZ 85613-6000

U -- PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING TRAINING AND SHORT COURSES DUE 031400 POC Gay R. Moss, Contract Specialist (520) 538-7453 E-MAIL: LopezR@hqisec.army.mil, MossG@hqisec.army.mil. The Communications-Electronic Command Acquisition Center Southwest Operations Office, Fort Huachuca, AZ, Ronnie Lopez, Contracting Officer, (520) 533-2254, is soliciting white papers from Educational Institutions in support of the following services to the U.S. Army Information Systems Engineering Command at Fort Huachuca, AZ. This is an open-ended announcement for both market survey purposes and informational in nature. It is not a request for proposal. The following services are needed: 1. ACADEMIC a) Broker for Professional Engineering Training and Registration b) Short Courses (approx. 1 week) c) Special Topic Seminars (2-3 days) d) Access to Video Campus, NTU, Extended University Programs and e) Upgrade the One Way Video System to Full Duplex. 2. RESEARCH a) Task Order for Each Research Project b) Interface to Industry for Commercial-Off-the-Shelf Products c) Work with industry developers of network communications products and modeling and simulation tools to validate new commercial network components in hardware and software d) develop methods and technique for distributed modeling and simulation of complex communications systems using networks of workstations e) develop seamless hardware and software interfaces need to emulate and simulate COTS products using theoretical modeling tools. Offerors are required to submit three (3) copies of a five (5) page or less white paper with a cover letter (include softcopy on 3.5 disk/in Microsoft Word). The white paper must be formatted as follows: Section A: Title, Period of Performance, Cost of Task, Name of Company; Section B: Task Objective; and Section C: Technical Summary. All responses must be address to Mr. Ronnie Lopez, CECOM Acquisition Center, Southwest Operations Office CAC-S, Attn: AMSEL-AC-CC-S-RT-D, Fort Huachuca, AZ 85613, (520) 533-2254. Each Offeror may submit multiple white papers within the purview of this announcement. The purpose of the white paper is to preclude unwarranted effort on the part of an Offeror whose proposed work is not of interest to the Government. Successful white papers may cause the government to delve into future interests for proposals and setting up a basic ordering agreement. All white papers submitted will be reviewed and those found to be consistent with the intent of the BOA may be invited to submit a technical and cost proposal. Such invitation does not assure that the submitting organization will be awarded the contract. Complete instructions for proposal preparation will be forwarded with the invitation for proposal. Evaluation of proposals will be performed using the following criteria: 1) innovation of the approach based on the overall goal and/or technical areas described above; 2) soundness and applicability of approach; and 3) reasonableness and realism of proposed costs and fees (if any). In addition, the Government may consider other factors such as: 1) offeror's capabilities, related experience, facilities, techniques, or a unique combination of these which are integral factors for achieving program objectives; 2) offeror's qualifications, capabilities and experience of proposed principal investigator, team leader, and other key personnel who are critical to achieving proposal objectives; and 3) offeror's record of present and past performance. No further evaluation criteria will be used in selecting the proposals. The technical criteria will also be used to determine whether white papers submitted are consistent with the intent of the BOA and of interest to the Government. Only Contracting Officers are legally authorized to commit the Government See Numbered Note 22. Posted 02/24/00 (W-SN428221). (0055)

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