A -- BAA 00-005 TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT FOR IMMUNE BUILDINGS

Notice Date

August 31, 2000

Contracting Office

Supply Department NAVSEA Indian Head, 101 Strauss Ave, Indian Head, MD 20640-5035

ZIP Code

20640-5035

E-Mail Address

BAA 00-005 (pricebl@ih.navy.mil)

Description

Technology Development for Immune Buildings: SOL BAA00-005, proposals due 20 November 2000 Technical POC: Dr. Amy E. Alving, Deputy Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Special Projects Office (SPO), 3701 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22203-1714. Facsimile: (703) 516-7360, email: IB_baa00_005@darpa.mil (email contact preferred). Contractual point of contact: Ms. Brenda Price, Contract Specialist, Code 1143B, NAVSEA Indian Head, Surface Warfare Center Division, 101 Strauss Avenue, Indian Head, Maryland 20740. 301-744-6570; Email: pricebl@ih.navy.mil OBJECTIVE: In support of the DARPA SPO Immune Building Program, NAVSEA Indian Head is soliciting proposals (technical and cost) from qualified corporations, research centers, universities, FFRDCs, and DoE laboratories under BAA00-005. This program seeks to make military buildings (such as barracks, office buildings, and Command and Control centers) far less attractive targets for attack by airborne/aerosolized chemical or biological warfare agents (CWA, BWA), by modifying and augmenting building infrastructure to greatly reduce the effectiveness of any such attack. The main DARPA focus is on the challenging problem of protection from internal releases. Infrastructure modifications/augmentations could include changes to the ordinary HVAC infrastructure -- such as real-time, active control of airflow patterns, and/or full-time, passive, highly efficient filtration -- in addition to whatever other modifications might be appropriate -- e.g. real-time neutralization of the aerosolized agent, networked surveillance systems self decontaminating coatings, or rapid ingress/egress airlocks. The program has three goals: to protect the human inhabitants of such buildings in the event of an attack; to restore the building to full function as quickly as possible after the attack; and to preserve forensic evidence for treatment and retaliation. Through this BAA, the Government solicits proposals to develop component technologies that hold the promise of significantly impacting our ability to implement such systems. Particular areas of interest include, but are not limited to, novel filtration, optimized air handling, neutralization, and decontamination technologies. (Through another BAA (NAVSEA Indian Head BAA00-006), the Government is soliciting proposals to design, develop, implement, optimize, and demonstrate complete systems architectures to achieve the three program goals.) ACQUISITION INFORMATION: It is anticipated that multiple awards will result from this BAA. Performance under this BAA will take place in two separate Phases. Phase I will last approximately 9 months and will be used to demonstrate and/or develop subsystems, components and technologies for possible evaluation at full scale in Phase II. It is anticipated that multiple Phase I contracts will be awarded. Performers will evaluate the threat; develop selected subsystems, components or technologies to mitigate the threat; perform adequate testing and analysis to demonstrate and assess the mitigation capability; and design full-scale systems for possible Phase II testing. Phase II is an approximately 15-30 month effort to develop prototype systems from successful Phase I efforts for full-scale implementation and testing in the facilities developed under BAA00-006 or in other facilities. All parties interested in participating in this BAA must register their interest by providing the following information for their organization: a principal point of contact, phone number, fax number, and email. This information should be emailed to IB_baa00_005@darpa.mil, with the subject line "REGISTER". Registration will allow access to a secure (password-protected) website for this solicitation. This website will include information regarding classified (SECRET) reports available to registered organizations with the appropriate security clearance. DARPA will host a Bidders' Conference in the Washington DC area on 20 September 2000; the location will be specified on the public solicitation website http://www.darpa.mil/baa/#spo. Each organization that plans to attend this meeting must indicate their intention by email to IB_baa00_005@darpa.mil, with the subject line, "BIDDERS' CONFERENCE". In addition, each organization must provide the names of all planned attendees (using the same email address) to assist in determining the number of attendees. If necessary due to space constraints, the number of attendees per organization may be limited. Organizations planning to attend the Bidders' Conference are encouraged to register their interest as soon as possible. Registration closes on 15 September 2000. Within the meaning of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) at 6.102 and 35.016, this announcement and the Proposer Information Pamphlet (PIP) shall constitute the solicitation for this BAA. Evaluations of all proposals will be accomplished through a scientific review of each proposal considering the following general criteria, which are listed in descending order of relative importance: (1) overall scientific merit and technical approach; (2) offeror qualifications, including past performance; and (3) cost realism. Specific criteria for each proposal category can be found in the PIP. Multiple awards are anticipated for this BAA program. As a result of this BAA, Indian Head may award traditional FAR/DFARS type contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, and/or Other Transaction Agreements. No portion of the BAA will be set aside for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) or minority institution (MI) participation due to the impracticality of reserving discrete or severable areas of research for exclusive competition among the entries. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION/GUIDANCE: Proposals must describe in detail what technology the offerors propose to develop, the maturity of the proposed technology, the plans to develop and test the technology, and the cost to perform this work. The Proposer Information Pamphlet (PIP) provides further technical and administrative detail for this BAA including elaboration of the anticipated technical challenges, evaluation criteria, funding processes, and formats of abstracts and proposals. Proposals not meeting the specified format described in the PIP will not be considered for award. The PIP is not classified. It will be released by the time of the Bidder's Conference and will be available via the World Wide Web (WWW) at http://www.darpa.mil/baa/#spo. Questions regarding this solicitation or the PIP may be sent to IB_baa00_005@darpa.mil. A Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) compilation will be posted on the solicitation's secure website, which can be reached through a link on http://www.darpa.mil/baa/#spo. It is anticipated that contracts will be awarded beginning in the first quarter of the Government fiscal year 2001. A table of important dates and milestones is provided in the PIP. Issues regarding the awardee's ability to share their technical data information with other awardees, third parties, and other government entities may become critical in the future. Pertinent intellectual property information details are contained in the PIP. The Government shall not be liable for the cost of proposal preparation and submission. Proposals shall be submitted in accordance with this announcement and the PIP. There will be no other solicitation issued in regard to this requirement. Offerors should be alert for any BAA amendments that may be published in the Commerce Business Daily (CBD); for the convenience of proposers, indications of any changes will be posted on the solicitation website after being published in the CBD. ORGANIZATIONAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST: Each cost proposal shall contain a section demonstrating that the proposal satisfies the following requirements: Awards made under this BAA are subject to the provisions of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 9.5, Organizational Conflict of Interest. All offerors and proposed subcontractors must affirmatively state whether they are supporting any DARPA technical office(s) through an active contract or subcontract. All affirmations must state which office(s) the offeror supports and identify the prime contract number. Affirmations shall be furnished at the time of proposal submission and the existence or potential existence of organizational conflicts of interest, as that term is defined in FAR 9.501, must be disclosed. This disclosure shall include a description of the action the offeror has taken, or proposes to take to avoid, neutralize or mitigate such conflict. If the offeror believes that no such conflict exists, then it shall so state in this section. It is the policy of the Government to treat all proposals as competitive information, and to disclose the contents only for the purposes of evaluation. The Government intends to use non-Government personnel as special resources to assist with the logistics of administering the proposal evaluation and to provide selected technical assistance related to proposal evaluation. Support personnel are restricted by their contracts from disclosing proposal information for any purpose. Contractor personnel are required to sign Organizational Conflict of Interest Non-Disclosure Agreements. By submission of its proposal, each offeror agrees that proposal information may be disclosed to those selected contractors for the limited purpose stated above. Any information not intended for limited release to support contractors must be clearly marked and segregated from other submitted proposal material. The Government is seeking participation from the widest number of offerors.

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