Defense Supply Center Columbus, PO Box 16595, DSCC-PBAB, Columbus, OH 43216-6595

A -- MILITARY SENSING INFORMATION ANALYSIS CENTER (SENSIAC) SOL SP070000R1100 DUE 103000 POC For information only Johanna Moore (614)692-7115 CBD Note 26 applies. This solicitation is for the establishment and operation of the Military Sensing Information Analysis Center (SENSIAC)to be awarded for a three (3) year base period with one four (4) year option period and one three (3) year option period. The mission of SENSIAC is to perform the functions of a DoD Information Analysis Center (IAC) as described in DoD Instruction 3200.14. The Scientific and Technical Information (STI) products and services resulting from SENSIAC efforts are intended to increase the productivity of the DoD Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) community's scientific and engineering functions through timely dissemination of authoritative, accurate, and high quality STI in military sensing technology (MST) fields. Accordingly, SENSIAC shall continually monitor information sources and extract MST-related STI from worldwide engineering, technical and scientific information sources, including documents, databases, electronic, paper, and other information media sources. The contractor shall ensure maximum use of the resources of other DoD IACs. SENSIAC information collection, analysis, and dissemination efforts should facilitate use of existing STI, while reducing unnecessary duplication of research, information collection, analysis, and dissemination efforts. The contractor shall develop, maintain, and market IAC products and services to STI users in Government, industry, and academia, as well as decision and policy makers in the acquisition community. The SENSIAC contractor shall identify and seek out opportunities to provide military sensing technology information to DoD components, other U.S. Government agencies and departments, their contractors, and other authorized recipients of SENSIAC information. The SENSIAC shall provide the DoD and user community with timely and authoritative information relative to key R&D concepts, results, and trends; applications and processes; and assessment of international R&D technology. MST areas within the scopeof the SENSIAC are sensors, sensor subcomponents and materials technology; countermeasures and counter-countermeasures; directed energy/active systems; target, background and atmospheric phenomenology; and manned and automated target acquisition/discrimination techniques. Sensor types within the scope of this IAC are the following: Electro-magnetic (EM), Electro-optical (EO), Infrared (IR), Radar, Acoustic, Seismic, Magnetic, Fused sensor combinations and novel sensors such as 2D and 3D sensors. Spectral bands of EM sensors of interest include all wavelengths from the UV through Radar. The contractor must have the capability to prepare authoritative technical reference works including software, databases, handbooks, state-of-the-art reports, critical reviews, technology assessments, research directories, abstracts, and indexes. Sources must have the capability of a full-service Information Analysis Center, with immediate access on a part-time, as needed, basis to scientific and engineering expertise in the range of subjects and disciplines within the Center's scope of work and whose experts' primary assignments are research and development in the required disciplines. The SENSIAC contractor shall also provide support for the Military Sensing Symposia (MSS) (formerly Infrared Information Symposia (IRIS) as a unique basic-services function partially funded by the MSS community. The Defense Supply Center Columbus (DSCC)intends to release a Request for Proposal (RFP) under solicitation number SP0700-00-R-1100 for the SENSIAC on or about September 15, 2000 with a closing date approximately 45 days thereafter. This requirement will be satisfied using full and open competition procedures. Offers in response to the solicitation will be evaluated under Source Selection Procedures as outlined in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). ORAL PRESENTATIONS will be used to streamline the acquisition process. It is anticipated that CONTRACT AWARD WILL BE MADE WITHOUT DISCUSSIONS. Contract award decisions will be made after an impartial assessment of all evaluation factors. Contractors interested in receiving a copy of the RFP may download the solicitation from the following web site: http://www.dscc.dla.mil/Offices/IAC/. Posted 08/17/00 (W-SN487232). (0230)

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