Pre-Solicitation_Notice.docx

Pre-Solicitation Notice

NAICS/Size: 541712 – Professional, Scientific and Technical Services – Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering and Life Sciences (except biotechnology).

The Small Business size standard is 500 employees.

Anticipated Request for Proposal Release Date: Fall 2012

Acquisition Details:

1. The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) has a requirement to establish a multiple award indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract structure for Homeland Defense (HD) and Security Technical Area Tasks (TATs). The HD TATs IDIQ contracts will include requirements spanning the focus areas of Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense; Weapons of Mass Destruction; Critical Infrastructure Protection; Homeland Defense and Security; Biometrics; Medical; Cultural Studies; and Alternative Energy. Specific HD TAT projects will be acquired under separately funded task orders. The HD TAT task orders may include Research & Development (R&D) and/or incidental Advisory & Assistance Services related to R&D efforts for complex, scientific and technical requirements. TAT projects will originate from evolving/emerging Government requirements, will usually necessitate a rapid response, and will often integrate the expertise of a diverse cadre of professionals from across various disciplines. The total value of all TATs issued shall not exceed $900M over the life of the contracts.

2. The Government will seek to award approximately 10 multiple award IDIQ HD TATs contracts. Approximately 4 of these IDIQ contract awards will be reserved for small businesses (SBs). The Government will establish a SB competition pool wherein competition for TATs may be limited to SBs only, in which FAR 52.219-14, Limitations of Subcontracting applies. For SBs competing in the F&O Competition Pool, 52.219-14 will not apply. The remaining 6 IDIQ contract awards will be in the Full & Open (F&O) Competition pool. This F&O Competition Pool is unrestricted and open to both large and small businesses. The Government reserves the right to award more or fewer contracts in total or in a different mix of SBs and full and open awards if the Source Selection Authority (SSA) determines it is in the Government's best interest. The SSA will consider the Government's expected volume of work, available funding, adequate competition, and the availability of best-value proposals. Each contract will have a total five year ordering period, constructed of a base and option periods. The HD TATs acquisition (IDIQ contract(s)) will be conducted using a trade-off source selection approach, in which a tradeoff may occur between past performance and price. Technical, price, and past performance criteria will be identical for all business types (large and small).

3. Individual task orders issued under resultant HD TATs contracts will be competed using Fair Opportunity rules cited in FAR 16. If there are two or more SBs that can perform the tasks at fair market prices (FAR 19.5) task order level SB set-asides would apply first.

4. Organizational Conflict of Information Restriction: As previously posted, an OCI would exist if the Prime contractor from the Homeland Defense and Security Information Analysis Center (HDIAC) Basic Center Operation (BCO) acquisition, responsible for searching/disseminating data from the repository of STI or initially assisting a potential TAT customer via an inquiry, was also a Prime or Subcontractor competing for any HD TAT award (IDIQ contract and/or order levels). The HDIAC BCO acquisition is a 100% small business set-aside. The Government is completely avoiding this OCI risk by precluding the HDIAC BCO Prime contractor from being a Prime or Subcontractor under a HD TAT award. Further information regarding the HDIAC BCO acquisition can currently be found on FBO under solicitation number FA8075-12-R-0001.

5. No responses are requested at this time. Interested parties should continue to watch Federal Business Opportunities as the government will post documents as they are developed. Visit http://iac.dtic.mil/ for additional details on the DTIC Information Analysis Center Program. Department of Defense Instruction 3200.14, Principles and Operational Parameters of the DoD Scientific and Technical Information Program can be found at http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/pdf/customer/STINFOdata/DoDI_320014.pdf .