BAA-RQKH-2015-0001-Amd4.pdf

BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT TITLE: Methods and Technologies for Personalized Learning, Modeling and Assessment

BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT TYPE: This is Amendment 4 to the Broad Agency Announcement

BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT NUMBER: BAA-RQKH-2015-0001

THIS IS AN ANNUAL NOTICE OF AN OPEN BAA AS REQUIRED BY FAR 35.016.

White Papers are still being accepted against this BAA. Please see the initial BAA Announcement for specific details on submitting your white papers.

This Amendment also updates the original Broad Agency Announcement with the following changes:

1. Page 1, the NAICS Code is changed from 541712 to 541715.

2. Overview Information: In the Solicitation Request paragraph, the NAICS code is changed from 541712, Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology), to 541715 (Research and Technology in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology), and the small business size standard is 1,000 employees.

3. Overview Information: The Address contracting questions to paragraph is amended as follows:

From:

Gerema Randall, 2130 8th Street, Bldg 45, Wright-Patterson AFB OH 45433, 937-713-9848, gerema.randall@us.af.mil.

To:

Colleen S. McDonald, 2130 8th Street, Bldg 45, Wright-Patterson AFB OH 45433, 937-713-9843, colleen.mcdonald@us.af.mil.

4. Section I, Paragraph 5.a.i: This paragraph has been updated to reflect that basic clause FAR 52.245-1 Government Property has been updated as of (JAN 2017) (changed from APR 2012). FAR 52.245-1, Alt II (APR 2012) remains unchanged.

5. Section I, Paragraph 5.b: The following text has been removed:

Wright-Patterson AFB is participating in and is pursuing recognition under the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Voluntary Protection Program (VPP), VPP is a systems approach to identify, evaluate, prevent, and control occupational hazards to prevent injuries/illnesses by promoting effective worksite safety and health protection. VPP is required for applicable contractors defined as “contractors working on an Air Force Installation for more than 1,000 hours per quarter to include construction and services contracts.” Contractors are responsible for managing their own safety and health program (Public Law 91-596). Contractors are advised to become familiar with VPP and how their performance is linked to the installations pursuit of VPP recognition at the OSHA website, http://www.osha.gov/dcsp/vpp/index.html. Applicable contractors are required to submit three years of Total Case Incidence Rate (TCIR)/Day Away, Restricted and/or Transfer Case Rate (DART) data with their proposal for the government’s evaluation. The TCIR and DART are the number of recordable injuries and illness cases per 100 fulltime employees resulting in days away from work, restricted work activity, and/or job transfer that a site has experienced in a given timeframe. Instructions for computing the TCIR and DART data can be found at the OSHA website. Contractors must also provide a copy of their Safety and Health Plan and corresponding site checklist with their proposal which must be accepted by the installation safety officer prior to contract performance. The contractor’s plan shall include appropriate measures to ensure the contractor reacts promptly to investigate, correct and track alleged safety and health violations and/or uncontrolled hazards in contractor work area. Additionally, installation specific references and policies may be included/attached. The plan shall:

(i) Demonstrate management commitment to employee safety and health;

(ii) Identify the application of the safety and health plan to subcontractor;

(iii) Identify the roles and responsibilities of the following individuals: Management, Supervisors, Employees, and Safety Coordinator;

(iv) Identify applicable safety rules and regulations;

(v) Include a worksite hazard analysis to include base-line hazard identification and required control measures;

(vi) Identify a job site analysis to include hazards of tasks required to control measures;

(vii) Identify employee safety and health training requirements and the documentation process;

(viii) Include a workplace inspection frequency, to include identifying the individual conducting the inspections;

(ix) Include employee hazard reporting procedures;

(x) Identify individual(s) responsible for corrective actions hazards;

(xi) Identify first aid/injury procedures;

(xii) Identify procedures for accident investigation and reporting;

(xiii) Identify emergency response procedures; and

(xiv) Identify the process for tracking controlled hazards in contractor work areas.

An applicable contractor is responsible for establishing these requirements for all subcontractors who qualify as applicable contractors under the resulting contract. In addition, applicable contractors will be required to submit their TCIR and DART rates and OSHA Form 300A annually to the contracting office for consolidation and submission as part of the installation’s annual VPP Safety and Health Management report. TCIR and DART rates are due by the 15th of January of each year.

6. Section I, Paragraph 5.b: The following clause has been removed:

VOLUNTARY PROTECTION PROGRAM AND INCORPORATION OF SAFETY AND

HEALTH PLAN (JAN 2010)

1. The contractor accepted Safety and Health Plan dated XXX_ is hereby incorporated by reference.

2. Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) applies only to contractors whose employees work more than 1,000 hours per quarter on a government installation. VPP requires that contractors provide their employees safety and health protection equal in quality to that provided to Air Force employees.

Contractors are responsible for managing their safety and health program ensuring that the safety and health rules of the installation are followed, and flowing down VPP requirements to all subcontractors whose employees work for more than 1,000 hours per quarter on a government installation under their agreement.

3. Contractors shall provide their Total Case Incidence Rate (TCIR) and Day Away, Restricted, and or Transfer Case Rate (DART) data and OSHA Form 300A annually by the 15th of January to the Contracting Officer to inclusion in the installation’s annual VPP Safety and Health Management Report.

7. Section IV, Paragraph 1 and Paragraph 3.a.ii: The online address for the

Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) Guide for Industry is updated to:

http://www.wpafb.af.mil/Portals/60/documents/afrl/AFRL-broad-agency-announcement-guide.pdf.

8. Section IV, Paragraph 4.4.ii: The online address for the Grants.gov electronic submission process is updated to:

https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/applicants.html.

9. Section IV, Paragraph 7 and Section VII, Paragraph 2 are amended as follows:

From:

Gerema Randall, 2130 8th Street, Bldg 45, Wright-Patterson AFB OH 45433, 937-713-9848, gerema.randall@us.af.mil.

To:

Colleen S. McDonald, 2130 8th Street, Bldg 45, Wright-Patterson AFB OH 45433, 937-713-9843, colleen.mcdonald@us.af.mil.

10. Section IV, Paragraph 7: The online address for OFCCP’s National Preaward Registry is updated to: https://ofccp.dol-esa.gov/preaward/pa_reg.html.

11. Section IV, Paragraph 13: The contract value for which FAR 52.204-10, Reporting executive Compensation and First-Tier Subcontract Awards (OCT 2016) applies has been updated from $25,000 to $30,000.

12. Section IV, Paragraph 14: Updated to indicate that FAR 52.209-9 Updates of Publicly Available Information Regarding Responsibility Matters (JUL 2013) shall be included in any contracts or assistance award that exceeds $550,000.00 (updated from $500,000.00); and when an offeror checked “has” in paragraph (b) of the provision 52.209-7.

13. Section VIII, Paragraph 16: The following language has been added to this paragraph:

DFARS 252.204-7012 requires contractors to implement National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication (SP) 800-171, "Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Information Systems and Organizations" to safeguard covered defense information that is processed or stored on their internal information system or network. Contractors, who self-attest to meeting these requirements, have until December 31, 2017, to implement NIST SP 800-171. The solicitation provision DFARS 252.204-7008, “Compliance with Safeguarding Covered Defense Information Controls,” provides that by submitting the offer the contractor is representing its compliance (and provides a procedure for the contractor to request the DoD Chief Information Officer (CIO) to authorize a variance from any of those requirements as being non-applicable, or because the contractor has a different but equally effective security measure).

14. Section VIII, Paragraph 17: The date of AFFARS 5352.201-9101, Ombudsman, is amended as follows:

From:

The Ombudsman clause, 5352.201-9101 Ombudsman (APR 2014) will be contained in any contracts or agreements resulting from this Solicitation. The AFRL Ombudsman is Barbara G. Gehrs, Director of Contracting, AFRL/PK, (937) 904-4407, email: Barbara.Gehrs@us.af.mil.

To:

The Ombudsman clause, 5352.201-9101 Ombudsman (JUN 2016) will be contained in any contracts or agreements resulting from this Solicitation. The AFRL Ombudsman is Ms Lisette K. LeDuc, 1864 Fourth Street, Wright-Patterson AFB OH 45433-7130, (937) 904-4407, email: lisette.leduc@us.af.mil and Alternate Ombudsman is Ms Kimberly L. Yoder, 1864 Fourth Street, Wright-Patterson AFB OH 45433-7130, (937) 255-4967, email: kimberly.yoder@us.af.mil.