PreSolicitation_Notice.docx

Pre-Solicitation Notice

NAICS/Size: 541712-a – Professional, Scientific and Technical Services – Aircraft.

The Small Business size standard is 1,500 employees.

Anticipated Request for Proposal Release Date: 1st Quarter Calendar Year 2013

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 Defense Systems Technical Area Tasks (DS TATs). The DS TATs IDIQ contracts will include requirements spanning the focus areas of Advanced Materials; Directed Energy; Survivability and Vulnerability; Reliability, Maintainability, Quality, Supportability, and Interoperability (RMQSI); Weapons Systems; Military Sensing; Energetics; Autonomous Systems; and Non-Lethal Weapons. Specific DS TATs projects will be acquired under separately funded task orders. The DS TATs 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 $3B over the life of the contracts.

2. The Government intends to make multiple awards under this solicitation using both an unrestricted Full and Open (F&O) competition pool and two partial Small Business (SB) set-aside competition pools. For the F&O competition pool the Government seeks to award a target number of six IDIQ contracts. For the SB competition pool the Government seeks to award a target number of four SB IDIQ contracts for the Advanced Materials focus area and four SB IDIQ contracts for the Directed Energy focus area. Small businesses may participate in one or both of the partial SB set-aside competition pools and/or elect to participate in the F&O competition pool. 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 DS 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 DS TATs contracts will be competed using Fair Opportunity rules cited in FAR 16. For the SB competition pools for the Advanced Materials and Directed Energy focus areas, wherein competition for TATs may be limited to SBs only, FAR 52.219-14 - Limitations of Subcontracting will apply. For SBs competing in the F&O Competition Pool, FAR 52.219-14 will not apply.

4. Organizational Conflict of Information Restriction: As previously posted, an OCI would exist if the Prime contractor from the Defense Systems Information Analysis Center Basic Center Operation ((DSIAC 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 DS TATs award (IDIQ contract and/or order levels). The DSIAC BCO acquisition is a 100% small business set-aside. The Government is completely avoiding this OCI risk by precluding the DSIAC BCO Prime contractor from being a Prime or Subcontractor under a DS TATs award. Further information regarding the DSIAC BCO acquisition can currently be found on FBO under solicitation number FA8075-12-R-0004.

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 .