SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Radiation Decontamination Program
- Notice Date
- 2/28/2003
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Contracts Management Office, 3701 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA, 22203-1714
- ZIP Code
- 22203-1714
- Solicitation Number
- BAA03-13
- Response Due
- 4/21/2003
- Archive Date
- 4/21/2004
- Point of Contact
- Thomas McCreery, DARPA Program Manager, Phone 000+000-0000, Fax 703+516-7360, - Mark Bennington, Contracting Officer, Phone (703) 696-2411, Fax (703) 696-2208,
- E-Mail Address
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tmccreery@darpa.mil, mbennington@darpa.mil
- Description
- Radiation Decontamination Program: SOL BAA03-13, proposals due April 21, 2003, POC: Mr. Thomas McCreery, Program Manager, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Special Projects Office (SPO), 3701 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22203-1714. Facsimile: (703) 516-7360, E-mail: baa03-13@darpa.mil (e-mail contact preferred). Contractual point of contact: DARPA Contracts Management Office (CMO), Attn: Mr. Mark Bennington, 3701 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22203-1714. Facsimile: (703) 696-2208; E-mail: mbennington@darpa.mil (e-mail contact preferred). OBJECTIVE: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Special Projects Office (SPO) is soliciting proposals (technical and cost) from qualified corporations, research centers, universities, FFRDCs and DOE laboratories for the Radiation Decontamination (RD) program under BAA 03-13. The threat exists that a terrorist group will set off a Radiological Dispersal Device (RDD), a so-called dirty bomb, generating a cloud of radioactive particles on or upwind of a military installation. The overall goal of DARPA's Radiation Decontamination (RD) program is to develop a system of technologies that will allow for the detection, decontamination and controlled clean-up of radioactively contaminated buildings and military bases located downwind from an RDD event so that they can safely be reoccupied for military use. For this purpose the threshold of contamination that is considered safe corresponds to an absorbed radiation of 1 milliSievert/year at a distance 1 meter from the building surface. Offerors are free to team with any entity, including Federal and Department of Defense Laboratories. If an offeror intends to team with a federal entity, it should include a copy of the teaming arrangement or a signed commitment letter along with a description of the tasks the federal entity will perform and the costs associated with those tasks. ACQUISITION INFORMATION: DARPA requires that all parties interested in participating in this BAA register their organization by providing a principal point of contact, phone number, fax and email to baa03-13@darpa.mil with the SUBJECT LINE: Rad-Decon POC INFORMATION. DARPA will host a Pre-proposal Conference on 18 March 2003 at ANSER, 2900 South Quincy Street, Suite 800, Arlington, VA 22206. Each organization that plans to attend this meeting must indicate their intention by email to BAA03-13@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). Additional instructions will be provided to those who register. Registration to attend this meeting must be received no later than 14 March 2003. Within the meaning of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) at 6.102 and 35.016, this announcement and the Proposer Information Pamphlet (PIP) constitute DARPA's 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: a) Scientific and technical merit, b) Offeror qualifications, c) Cost realism. Specific criteria for each proposal category can be found in the PIP. Multiple awards are anticipated for the RD program. As a result of this BAA, DARPA 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: Proposers must obtain the BAA 03-13 Proposer Information Pamphlet (PIP) which provides further technical and administrative detail for this BAA including the technologies of interest, 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 and may be obtained via the World Wide Web (WWW) at http://www.darpa.mil/baa/#spo. Questions regarding this BAA or comments on the PIP may be sent via email to baa03-13@darpa.mil. A Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) compilation will be posted on-line and periodically updated. The FAQ will also be found at http://www.darpa.mil/baa/#spo. It is anticipated that contracts will be awarded beginning in May 2003. A table of important dates and milestones is provided 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 at http://www.darpa.mil/baa/#spo. ORGANIZATIONAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST: Each cost proposal shall contain a section satisfying 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 DARPA 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 providing 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. DARPA is seeking participation from the widest number of offerors. SPONSOR: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Contracts Management Office (CMO), 3701 N. Fairfax Dr., Arlington, VA 22203-1714. Original Point of Contact Tom McCreery, DARPA Program Manager, Phone 000-000-0000, Fax 703-516-7360, Email none - Mark Bennington, Contracting Officer, Phone (703) 696-2411, Fax (703) 696-2208, Email mbennington@darpa.mil
- Web Link
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Link to FedBizOpps document.
(http://www.eps.gov/spg/ODA/DARPA/CMO/BAA03-13/listing.html)
- Record
- SN00267290-F 20030302/030301141255 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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