COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF AUGUST 7,2000 PSA#2658 A -- BAA 00-004 GREEN ENERGETIC MATERIALS The NAVSEA Indian Head
Surface Warfare Center Division in collaboration with the Naval Sea
Systems Command is soliciting environmentally safe energetic material
technologies for application to insensitive munitions energetic
materials/components. These low adverse environmental impact (or
"green") technologies must also support the Navy's Insensitive
Munitions requirements as defined by MIL-STD-2105B. In addition, those
efforts which address reducing the cost of implementing these
technologies will be considered. Specific areas of interest include:
ingredients, formulations, synthesis, processing, solvent elimination,
modeling, simulation, testing, recover/recycle/reuse technologies and
environmental impact assessment techniques for propellants/rocket
motors, explosives/warheads, primers/igniter/detonators, and
pyrotechnics. Particular emphasis will be placed on the ability to
reduce life cycle costs of the energetic materials by addressing
environmental issues, increasing/maintaining performance, and
elimination of the need for destructive disposal techniques for
generated weapon system waste from manufacture and disposal.
Technologies will need to be mature and commercially available to
support fleet introduction within a three-year period. Offerors are
requested to submit an abstract of their proposed effort prior to
submitting a completed proposal to preclude unwarranted effort on the
part of the offeror. Any offeror whose abstract is found to be
consistent with the intent of the BAA will be invited to submit a full
technical proposal. Such an invitation does not assure subsequent
contract award. Format of Abstracts: Abstracts shall conform to the
following format: (a) title page -- include point-of-contact along with
address, telephone and telefax numbers, e-mail address, and signature
by an authorized officer; (b) summary section -- not to exceed three
pages that includes: an overview of the proposed technology, approach,
impact (quantified in terms of waste reduction, cost (implementation
& savings), insensitive munitions, performance, and regulatory),
deliverables including proposed report schedule, estimated program
cost, and schedule. The NAVSEA Indian Head, Surface Warfare Center
Division anticipates that initial selections will be made during
October/November 2000 timeframe. This announcement will remain open for
365 days from the date of publication. Offerors may submit separate
proposal abstracts on any or all of the specific areas of interest.
Abstracts may be reviewed and acted on as they arrive. The Government
reserves the right to select all, some, or none of the abstracts
received in response to this announcement. Format of Proposals: (If
notified to submit a formal proposal) It is the policy of the NAVSEA
Indian Head Surface Warfare Center Division, to treat all proposals as
competitive information and to disclose the contents only for the
purpose of evaluation. Proposals shall conform to the stated format and
include the following information: (a) title page -- include
point-of-contact along with address, telephone and telefax numbers,
e-mail address, and signature by an authorized officer; (b) summary of
technology and deliverables (c) impact section -- quantified in terms
of waste reduction, cost (implementation & savings), insensitive
munitions, performance, and regulatory; (d) statement of work --
clearly detail the scope and objectives of the effort, and specific
contractor requirements. If any portion of the effort is predicated
upon use of government owned resources of any type, the contractor
shall clearly identify the resource(s) required, the date the resource
is required, the duration of the requirement, the sources from which
the resource(s) may be acquired, if known; (e) schedule and milestones
-- milestones must include bimonthly status reports detailing
technical progress and status of funds. The desired format for these
status reports will be provided by the Government upon contract award.
At the conclusion of the contract effort, a detailed final report is
required. The desired format for this report also will be provided by
the Government; (f) cost and fee summary -- detailed cost breakdown by
fiscal year, by tasks or subtasks of labor hours by labor category,
materials, travel, or other direct or indirect costs; (g) summary of
proprietary claims to results, or systems developed in or supporting
this proposal. Offerors shall submit proposal(s) (original and two hard
copies) to NAVSEA Indian Head, Surface Warfare Center Division, Attn:
Code 1143B (Brenda Price), 101 Strauss Avenue, Indian Head, Maryland,
20640-5035. To be considered in the initial contract award period,
proposals shall be submitted by offerors within 30 days of notification
that their abstract was found to be consistent with the BAA. Evaluation
of proposals will be based on the following criteria: (1) overall
technical merit of the proposed effort to lower/eliminate the adverse
environmental impact, meet insensitive munitions and performance
requirements, and lower life cycle costs of energetic
materials/components; (2) cost and schedule realism (included is the
maturity of the technology to meet fleet transition within a three year
period); (3) offeror's capabilities, related experience, facilities,
techniques, and unique qualifications; (4) cost sharing or leveraged
funding; (5) extent of application for technology (single
system/service versus multiple systems/services). All proposals
submitted to the Indian Head Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center
shall be considered government property. This announcement solicits the
participation of all offerors capable of satisfying government needs.
The government will not cover any costs associated with proposal
preparation, nor pay as a direct expense, preparation cost on awarded
contracts. E-MAIL: BAA 00-004 Green Energetic Materials -- Synopsis,
pricebl@ih.navy.mil. Posted 08/03/00 (W-SN481656). Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0490 20000807\SP-0001.MSC)
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