A -- BAA IN SUPPORT OF DARPA MICROSYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY OFFICE IN THESE TECHNOLOGY AREAS: (1) MICROELECTRONICS, (2) MICRO-ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS (MEMS), (3) OPTO-ELECTRONICS AND/OR (4) OF PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY. ALSO OF INTEREST ARE PROPOSALS FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGIES FOR HETEROGENE

Notice Date

August 17, 2001

Contracting Office

Bid Office, SPAWARSYSCEN, Code D21B, 53570 Silvergate Avenue, Bldg. A33, Room 0061, San Diego, CA 92152-5112

ZIP Code

92152-5112

Solicitation Number

N66001-01-X-6039

Response Due

October 1, 2002

Point of Contact

POC Esther Christianson, 619-553-4333; Contracting Officer L. Joye Socha

E-Mail Address

Click here to contact the contract specialist responsible (echristi@spawar.navy.mil)

Description

BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA): The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, (SPAWARSYSCEN) San Diego in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) is seeking proposals (technical and cost) for research and development in the following areas: (1) microelectronics, (2) micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), (3) opto-electronics and/or (4) of photonics technology. Also of interest are proposals for research and development of technologies for heterogeneous integration of electronics, photonics, MEMS, and other components. Proposed efforts should offer potential for significant impact on the current technology and national defense. MTO has identified electronics, photonics, and MEMS as core technologies. The current focus of MTO is on advancing aspects of the core technologies as well as advancing new technologies and approaches for chip-scale heterogeneous integration to produce new microsystem components and capabilities. Chem/Bio Chips for detection of chemical or biological threats are representative of this new era of heterogeneous integration. The tight coupling of lasers with highly integrated digital circuits for high bandwidth signal access to memory is another example. These heterogeneously integrated chips are expected to aid in MTO's current goals to develop and exploit micro-scale sense and action amplifiers for the war fighter, establish battle space information channels with greatest bandwidth possible, and provide degrees of connectivity not possible with present technologies. Additional information on the programs within MTO is available within the DARPA web site (http://www.darpa.mil). This announcement will be open through 1 October 2002. Awards may be made at any time throughout this period. Such awards will depend upon evaluations described below and availability of funds. The Government further reserves the right to issue contracts, grants, cooperative agreements or other transactions. Award decisions will be based on a competitive selection of proposals resulting from a peer and/or scientific review. The full set of evaluation criteria (listed in order of importance) are as follows: (1) Overall scientific or technical merits of the proposal; (2) potential transition to Department of Defense systems; (3) availability of funds; (4) the Offeror's capabilities, past performance, plan of execution, and facilities; (5) realism of the proposed cost. Proposers are strongly encouraged to submit an initial synopsis/white paper, up to seven pages, inclusive of cover page, as the initial submission. A cover sheet is to be included as the front page with the following information included (1) BAA number; (2) Technical area (microelectronics, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), opto-electronics and/or photonics technology), (3) Lead Organization Submitting Proposal; (4) Type of business, selected among the following categories: "LARGE BUSINESS," "SMALL DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS," "OTHER SMALL BUSINESS," HBCU," "MI," OTHER EDUCATIONAL," or "OTHER NONPROFIT" (5) Contractor's reference number (if any); (6) Other team members (if applicable) and type of business for each; (7) Proposal title; (8) Technical point of contact to include salutation, last name, street address, city, state, zip code, telephone, fax (if available,), electronic mail (if available); (9) Administrative point of contact to include: salutation, last name, first name, street address, city, state, zip code, telephone, fax (if available), electronic mail (if available), total funds requested, and the amount of cost-share (if any); and Date proposal was prepared. The body of the synopsis should include a technical description of the effort, a preliminary schedule, identification of risks, and a rough cost estimate. The initial submission (white paper or full proposal) will be evaluated using a reduced set of evaluation criteria from the full set of evaluation criteria: (1) Overall scientific or technical merits of the proposal; (2) potential transition to Department of Defense systems; (3) availability of funds The white paper is to be submitted electronically. The URL for the SPAWAR E-Commerce Central is https://e-commerce.spawar.navy.mil. (Note that this does not include a "www" prefix). White papers shall not contain classified data. The requirements for the offeror's e-proposal (white paper) are: 1) Adobe Acrobat version 4.01 or greater shall be used to create the "PDF" files and 2) The white paper submission files may be compressed (zipped) into one, self-extracting file entitled "PROPOSAL.EXE" using WinZip version 6.3 or greater. Consequently, the Offeror will be notified as to possible interest by the government. Upon notification, the proposer will be requested to submit a full proposal. Likewise the proposer will be notified if there is no interest in the proposed ideas represented in the white paper at that time. A debrief will not be available for white papers. If requested to submit a full proposal, this also will be submitted electronically. For the full proposal, the technical volume of the proposal is limited to 50 pages (Eight and one-half by eleven inches), excluding resumes, and management/facilities information. This volume should also include a separate section of specific task/subtask statements of the proposed work so that these could be incorporated into a Government Statement of Work (SOW). It shall also provide a motivation of value and purpose (i.e. if this is successful what impact it would have to the commercial and/or military world?), a concise technical scope and or goal, a contractor statement of work, complete technical details, a schedule of anticipated milestones or checkpoints, discussions of risks, and discussion of related work so as to put this proposed work into context. The schedule should include the milestones and deliverables, both reports and hardware. This volume should also clearly illustrate any technical data or computer software, which will be supplied to the government with other than unlimited rights and should identify other funding agencies for which the proposal has been submitted. The cost volume should: 1) be a separate document which clearly shows the costs of each proposed task separately, by month; and 2) provide Contract Pricing proposal Cover Sheet IAW FAR Table 15-2 (located after FAR 15.408), supported by adequate breakout of cost elements and rates by month for the purpose of cost/price analysis. Proposed subcontractor costs should be proposed in a similar detail. Cost proposals should be valid for a period of six (6) months after the date of submission. The URL for the SPAWAR E-Commerce Central is https://e-commerce.spawar.navy.mil. (Note that this does not include a "www" prefix). Proposal shall not contain classified data. The requirements for the offeror's e-proposal are: 1) Adobe Acrobat version 4.01 or greater shall be used to create the "PDF" files; 2) The proposal submission files may be compressed (zipped) into one, self-extracting file entitled "PROPOSAL.EXE" using WinZip version 6.3 or greater; and 3) Cost or Pricing Type Data: All information relating to cost and pricing type data shall be included only in the section of the proposal designated by the Contracting Officer as the Cost Proposal. Under no circumstances shall cost and pricing type data be included elsewhere in the proposal. Any administrative questions may be addressed to Ms. Esther Christianson at (619) 553-4443 or e-mail at echristi@spawar.navy.mil or mailed SPAWARSYSCEN, Attn: Esther Christianson, Code D212, 53560 Hull St., San Diego, CA 92152-5001. Questions of a technical nature may be submitted, by email only, to Dr. Cynthia Hanson, email chanson@spawar.navy.mil. The answer to the two most frequently asked questions, " Is this of interest?" or "Is this within scope of the BAA?" will be answered by, "An initial synopsis must be submitted in order to answer your question." Proposals may be submitted anytime during the open period of this announcement and should be unclassified. The Government reserves the right to select for award, all, some, or none of the proposals received in response to this announcement. The Government may also only select specific tasks within a proposal for award. This notice constitutes a BAA as contemplated in FAR 6.102(d)(2). No additional written information is available, nor will a formal request for proposal (RFP) or other solicitation regarding this announcement be issued. Interested parties are invited to respond to this synopsis. All responsible parties' responses will be considered.

Web Link

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Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010821/ASOL005.HTM (W-229 SN50V322)