FA8650-17-S-6001-Call1.pdf

BAA FA8650-17-S-6001

Science and Technology for Autonomous Teammates

(STAT)

CALL 001

“Pilot-Directed Cooperative Control Surrogate Flight

Testing”

Overview Information

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Broad Agency Announcement Type: This is Call 001 entitled “Pilot-

Directed Cooperative Control Surrogate Flight Testing, under BAA FA8650-

17-S-6001. This is a one-step call. Please refer to BAA FA8650-17-S-

6001 for additional information.

Proposal Due Date and Time: 13 November 2017 –4:00 P.M. Local time. NOTE: Proposal receipt after the due date and time shall be governed by the provisions of FAR 52.215-1(c)(3). It should be noted that this installation observes strict security procedures to enter the facility. These security procedures are NOT considered an interruption of normal Government processes, and proposals received after the above stated date and time as a result of security delays will be considered

“late.” Furthermore, note that if offerors utilize commercial carriers in the delivery of proposals, they may not honor time-of-day delivery guarantees on military installations. Be advised, if the U.S. Postal Service is used, this building only receives U.S. Postal Mail twice a week and delivery by that means may not meet the proposal due date and time. Early proposal submission is encouraged.

Submission: Proposal must be submitted to the Contracting Point of

Contact: Ms Lori Shirdon, Contract Negotiator, Bldg 45, 2130 Eighth St, Wright-Patterson AFB OH 45433-7541, Solicitation Request: Air Force Research Laboratory, Aerospace

Systems Directorate, Aerospace Vehicles Division (AFRL/RQQ), Wright

Research Site is soliciting technical and cost proposals on the research effort described below.

Type of Contract/Instrument: The Air Force reserves the right to award the instrument best suited to the nature of research proposed.

Accordingly, the Government may award any appropriate contract under the FAR for this research. It is anticipated that the award under this call will be a Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF) contract. Note, cost reimbursement contracts require successful offerors to have an accounting system considered adequate for tracking costs applicable to the contract.

Estimated Program Cost For Call 001: $1,000,000.00 for basic effort and $300,000 for Option 1 to be incrementally funded over FYs 18 and 19 as follows:

FY18 FY19

Basic Effort $900K $100K

Option 1 $125K $175K

Anticipated Number of Awards: The Air Force anticipates awarding one

(1) contract; however, the Air Force reserves the right to award zero, one, or more contracts for all, some, or none of the solicited effort based on the offeror’s ability to perform desired work and funding fluctuations.

Brief Program Summary: AFRL will be conducting a series of flight tests to demonstrate the maturity and potential benefits of manned-unmanned teaming. The first demonstration will mature and integrate autonomous technologies for the unmanned concept and will include one manned aircraft acting as the Flight Lead and two manned aircraft acting as unmanned surrogates. The unmanned surrogate aircraft will be an aircraft that has at least one safety pilot onboard the aircraft that can take control at any time during the flight if necessary. During the majority of the flight, an autonomous system will control the aircraft. The goals of this demonstration are to develop, demonstrate and assess 1) hand-offs to and from the unmanned surrogate pilot to the manned Flight Lead, 2) pilot-directed maneuvers and formations, 3) cooperative control task allocation and path planning for the flight , and 4) the Lead pilot’s performance, situation awareness and workload associated with managing the manned-unmanned flight.

Communication Between Prospective Offerors and Government

Representatives: Prospective offerors shall submit questions in writing to either the AF points of contacts no later than 17 Oct 2017, 3:00 P.M.

local time. Submitted questions will be reviewed and consolidated and the

AF will post answers to these questions as an amendment to this BAA by

24 Oct 17. No proprietary or confidential information will be posted.

Discussions with either of the points of contact shall not constitute a commitment by the Government to subsequently fund or award any proposed effort. Only Contracting Officers are legally authorized to commit the Government.

Address technical questions to: Amy Burns, Bldg 146, 2210 8th St, WPAFB, OH 45433, (937) 938-4601, amy.burns.3@us.af.mil

Address contracting questions to: Lori Shirdon, Bldg. 45, 2130 Eighth

St, WPAFB, OH 45433-7541, (937) 713-9939, lori.shirdon@us.af.mil mailto:amy.burns.3@us.af.mil

Full Text Announcement

I. Program Description: Air Force Research Laboratory, Aerospace

Systems Directorate, Power and Control Division, is soliciting technical and cost proposals on the Pilot-Directed Cooperative Control Surrogate Flight

Testing program. THIS CALL FOLLOWS THE SEQUENTIAL

NUMBERING AS SET FORTH IN THE BASIC BAA FA8650-17-S-6001

– ITEMS CALLED OUT BELOW ARE SPECIFIC TO THIS CALL 001.

PLEASE REFERENCE BAA FA8650-17-S-6001 FOR ITEMS THAT HAVE

NOT BEEN CALLED OUT UNDER THIS CALL.

1. Statement of Objective/Needs: See attached Statement of

Objectives (SOO) (Call 001 Attachment 1)

3. Deliverable Items:

a. Data Items:

A001 Scientific and Technical Reports – Final Report

A002 Funds and Manhour Expenditure Report

A003 Contract Funds Status Report (CFSR)

A008 Status Report

A007 Presentation Material

A029 Software Requirements Specification (SRS)

A034 Computer Software Product – Source code –

Unmanned Surrogate Aircraft Model

A035 Interface Control Document (ICD)

A054 Test Plan – Flight and Taxi Test Plan

A058 Airworthiness Specification – Airworthiness

Certifications

A062 Scientific and Technical Reports – Flight Test Data

(See Call 001 Attachment 2)

4. Schedule: The total period of performance for this call will be 15 months. This will consist of 12 months of technical effort and 3 months for completion of the final report. Option 1 will be exercised no later than 5 months after contract award and will consist of 7 months of technical effort to be performed concurrently with the basic effort.

5. Other Requirements.

b. Program Security Classification. Unclassified.

e. Export Control. Information involved in this research effort will be subject to Export Control (International Traffic in Arms Regulation

(ITAR) 22 CFR 120-131, or Export Administration Regulations (EAR) 15

CFR 710-774). A Certified DD Form 2345, Militarily Critical Technical Data

Agreement, will be required to be submitted with proposal.

6. Other Information:

b. Base Support: Flight test location and base support will be either Edwards AFB CA or Tucson International Airport – Air National

Guard Air Force Reserve Test Center, AZ, which will be determined by

AFRL’s selection of the manned lead.

(a) The Contractor will require use of base support on a rent-free, non-interference basis to include Government-controlled working space, material, equipment, services (including automatic data processing), or other support (excluding use of the Defense Switched

Network (DSN)) which the Government determines can be made available at, or through, any Air Force installation where this contract shall be performed.

(b) Unless otherwise stipulated in the contract schedule, the

Contractor will use base support on a no-charge-for-use basis and the value shall be a part of the Government's contract consideration.

(c) The Contractor will immediately report (with a copy to the cognizant CAO) inadequacies, defective base support, or nonavailability of support stipulated by the contract schedule, together with a recommended plan for obtaining the required support. Facilities are not be purchased under this contract by the Contractor. Additionally, the Contractor (or authorized representative) will not purchase, or otherwise furnish any base support requirement provided by the SOW/PWS (or authorize others to do so), without prior written approval of the Contracting Officer regarding the price, terms, and conditions of the proposed purchase, or approval of other arrangements.

(d) Following are installations where base support will be provided: (determined at award).

(e) The base support to be furnished under this contract is

(to be determined at award). Because of the nature and location(s) of the work performed, the value of such support is undeterminable. The

Contractor is not authorized to incur any costs resulting from nonsupport prior to Contracting Officer direction.

c. Government Furnished Information (GFI). GFI for the basic effort, in the form of AFRL/s autonomy architecture and algorithms, along with required datalinks for the unmanned surrogates, will be provided by

July 2018. GFI for the option consists of AFRL’s pilot vehicle interface software and the required datalink for the manned flight lead.

II. Award Information:

1. Anticipated Award Date: 22 Jan 18

2. Anticipated funding for the program: $1,300,000.00 to be incrementally funded over FYs 18 and 19 as follows:

FY18 FY19

Basic Effort $900K $100K Option 1 $125K $175K

This funding profile is an estimate only and not a contractual obligation for funding. All funding is subject to change due to Government discretion and availability. Potential offerors should be aware that due to unanticipated budget fluctuations funding in any or all areas may change with little or no notice.

IV. BAA with Calls: This is a one-step proposal solicitation.

1.c. Proposal and Submission Information Instructions:

(1) General Instructions:

(a) Offerors should apply the restrictive notice prescribed in

FAR 52.215-1(e) Instructions to Offerors—Competitive Acquisition.

Offerors should consider proposal instructions contained in the Broad

Agency Announcement (BAA) Guide for Industry, which can be accessed on line at http://www.wpafb.af.mil/Portals/60/documents/afrl/AFRL-broad-agency-announcement-guide.pdf?

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This guide is specifically designed to assist the offeror in understanding the BAA proposal process.

(b) Technical/management and cost/business volumes should be submitted in separate volumes and must be valid for 180 days.

(c) Proposals must reference the announcement number

FA8650-17-S-6002, Call 001.

(d) Offerors must submit one-original and one (1) hard copy of their proposals to the Contracting POC.

(e) Offerors must include one (1) CD in Microsoft Office or Adobe format containing all electronic versions of required submittals. All electronic versions must match the hard copies.

(f) The cost file(s) spreadsheets must be in Microsoft Excel and include the formulas for calculating cost element bases (i.e., G&A, O/H, etc.)

(g) The CDs should be labeled with the company name and proposal title.

(h) Offerors are advised that only Contracting Officers are legally authorized to contractually bind or otherwise commit the Government.

(i) The cost of preparing proposals in response to this BAA is not considered an allowable direct charge to any resulting or any other contract; however, it may be an allowable expense to the normal bid and proposal indirect cost as specified in FAR 31.205-18.

(j) No classified technical proposals or cost volumes are expected. Offerors are encouraged to keep all elements of the proposal package unclassified. In the rare case where an offeror has a need to submit a classified appendix, please contact the technical POC for delivery instructions.

(2) Technical/Management Proposal:

(a) Page Limitations: The following describes proposal page limitations:

(i) Technical/Management Proposal shall be limited to 15 pages. Technical/Management proposals and Statements of Work must be provided in Microsoft Word. Signed pages may be submitted in Adobe.

(ii) Font shall be standard 10-point business font Arial.

Character spacing must be “normal,” not condensed in any manner.

(iii) Pages shall be double-spaced (must use standard double-space function in Microsoft Word), double sided (each side counts as one page), 8.5 by 11 inches, with at least one-inch margins on both sides, top and bottom.

(iv) All text, including text in tables and charts, must adhere to all font size and line spacing requirements listed herein. Font and line spacing requirements do not have to be followed for illustrations, flowcharts, drawings, and diagrams. These exceptions shall not be used to circumvent formatting requirements and page count limitations by including lengthy narratives in such items.

(v) Pages shall be numbered starting with the cover page being Page 1, and the last page being no greater than Page 15. The page limitation covers all information including indices, photographs, foldouts (counted as 1 page for each 8.5 by 11 portion) tables, charts, appendices, attachments, resumes, etc.

(vi) The proposal page limit does not include the offeror’s proposed Statement of Work (SOW); however, the same formatting rules apply to the SOW, which is limited to five (5) pages.

(vii) Please Note: The Government will check the proposal and SOW for conformance to the stated requirements.

Any pages in excess of the stated page limitation after the format check will not be considered for review purposes.

(b) The Technical/Management proposal(s) shall include a discussion of the nature and scope of the research and the technical approach. Additional information on prior work in this area, descriptions of available equipment, use of base support (if desired), data and facilities and resumes of personnel who will be participating in this effort should also be included as attachments to the technical proposal. (This/These) volume(s) shall/ include a SOW(s) detailing the technical tasks proposed to be accomplished under the proposed effort and suitable for contract incorporation. Do not include any proprietary information in the

SOW. Refer to the BAA Guide for Industry referenced above to assist in SOW preparation. In addition to the contractor proposed SOW, a

Government generated SOW attachment containing additional contracting requirements will be included in any resulting contracts. The SOW attachment is included as Attachment 4 to BAA FA8650-17-S-6001

(c) Any questions concerning the technical proposal or SOW preparation shall be referred to the Technical or Contracting (pick one)

POC.

1.d. Cost/Business Proposal:

1) Separate the proposal into a business section and cost section.

Adequate price competition is anticipated

a) See Attachment 3 of basic BAA for the Model Contract.

Note that the document awarded may include contract line items (CLINs)

/clauses/articles in addition to those in the model(s), and/or some of the

CLIN/ clauses/articles in the model(s) may be deleted, depending on the specific circumstances of the individual award. Any additions or deletions will be negotiated with the offeror prior to award.

b) The business section should contain all business aspects to the proposed contract, such as type of contract, any exceptions to terms and conditions of the announcement including the model contract, any information not technically related, etc. Provide rationale for exceptions.

c) Identify any technical data that will be delivered with less than unlimited rights.

d) Subcontracting Plans: For efforts to exceed $700,000, Subcontracting Plans shall be submitted in the cost/business proposal.

Reference FAR 19.704, DFARS 219.704, and AFFARS 5319.704(a)(1) for subcontracting plan requirements. Small business concerns are exempt from this requirement.

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e) Limitations on Pass-Through Charges: As prescribed in

FAR 15.408(n)(1) & 15.408(n)(2), provisions 52.215-22, “Limitations on

Pass Through Charges- Identification of Subcontract Effort (Oct 2009),” apply.

f) Completed Certifications and Representations (Section K) are due with the proposal. Certifications and Representations (Section K) can be found at Atch 5 to BAA FA8650-17-S-6001. Offerors may also be required to submit updated or supplemental Certifications and

Representations based on the specifics of their proposal.

g) If an offeror proposes the use of Government Furnished

Property (GFP), other than GFP identified in the BAA, the offer must specifically identify each piece of GFP in the Cost/Business Proposal and propose and substantiate a rental cost for evaluation proposes in accordance with FAR 45.202. Include the following information in the proposal:

i) A list describing all Government property that the offeror or its subcontractors propose to use on a rent-free basis. The list shall identify the accountable contract under which the property is held and the authorization for its use (from the contracting officer having cognizance of the property);

ii) The dates during which the property will be used and, for any property that will be used concurrently in performing two or more contracts, the amounts of the respective uses in sufficient detail to support prorating the rent;

iii) The amount of rent that would otherwise be charged in accordance with FAR 52.245-9, Use and Charges; and

iv) The voluntary consensus standard or industry leading practices and standards to be used in the management of

Government property, or existing property management plans, methods, practices, or procedures for accounting for property.

2) Cost Element Breakdown: Clear, concise, and accurate cost proposals reflect the offeror's financial plan for accomplishing the effort contained in the technical proposal. As a part of its cost proposal, the offeror shall submit the information outlined below, together with supporting breakdowns. All direct costs (labor, material, travel, computer, etc.) as well as labor and overhead rates should be provided by contractor fiscal year (CFY). Detailed cost element breakdowns by Government Fiscal

Year or calendar year are not required. The supporting schedules may include summary level estimating rationale used to generate the proposed costs. The offeror shall price the basic effort separately from the option effort. The cost element breakdown(s) should include the following if applicable.

a) Direct Labor: Direct labor should be detailed by number of labor hours by category of labor.

b) Labor and Overhead Rates: Direct labor hours, with their applicable rates, must be broken out and the bases used clearly identified.

The source of labor and overhead rates and all pricing factors should be identified. For instance, if a Forward Pricing Rate Agreement (FPRA) is in existence, that should be noted, along with the Administrative Contracting

Officer’s (ACO's) name and telephone number. If the rates are based on current experience in your organization, provide the historical base used and clearly identify all escalation, by year, applied to derive the proposed rates. If computer usage is determined by a rate, identify the basis used and rationale used to derive the rate.

c) Material/Equipment: List all material/equipment items by type and kind with associated costs and advise if the costs are based on vendor quotes, data and/or engineering estimates; provide copies of vendor quotes and/or catalog pricing data.

d) Subcontractor Costs: Submit all subcontractor proposals and analyses with your cost proposal (See FAR 15.404-3(b)). If the subcontractor will not submit cost and pricing information to the offeror, this information must be submitted directly to the Government for analysis. On all subcontracts and interdivisional transfers, provide the method of selection used to determine the subcontractor and the proposed contract type of each subcontract. An explanation shall be provided if the offeror proposes a different amount than that quoted by the subcontractor.

The offeror’s proposal must:

i) Identify principal items/services to be subcontracted.

ii) Identify prospective subcontractors and the basis on which they were selected. If non-competitive, provide selected source justification

iii) Identify the type of contractual business arrangement contemplated for the subcontract and provide rationale.

iv) Identify the basis for the subcontract costs (e.g., firm quote or engineering estimate, etc).

v) Identify the cost or pricing data submitted by the subcontractor.

vi) Provide an analysis of the proposed subcontract in accordance with FAR 15.404-3(b). Provide an analysis concerning the reasonableness, realism and completeness of each subcontractor’s proposal. If the analysis is based on comparison with prior prices, identify the basis on which the prior prices were determined to be reasonable. The analysis should include, but not be limited to, an analysis of: materials, labor, travel, other direct costs and proposed profit or fee rates.

e) Special Tooling or Test Equipment: When special tooling, and/or test equipment is proposed, attach a brief description of items and indicate if they are solely for the performance of this particular contract or project and if they are or are not already available in the offeror's existing facilities. Indicate quantities, unit prices, whether items are to be purchased or fabricated, whether items are of a severable nature and the basis of the price. These items may be included under Direct Material in the summary format.

f) Consultants: When consultants are proposed to be used in the performance of the contract, indicate the specific project or area in which such services are to be used. Identify each consultant, number of hours or days to be used and the consultant's rate per hour or day. State the basis of said rate and give your analysis of the acceptability of the consultant's rate.

g) Travel: Travel costs must be justified and related to the needs of the project. Identify the number of trips, the destination and purpose.

Travel costs should be broken out by trip with number of travelers, airfare, per diem, lodging, etc.

h) Computer Use: Detail the amount and kind of computer usage, the cost, and how the costs were derived.

i) Facilities Capital Cost of Money: If Facilities Capital Cost of

Money is proposed, a properly executed DD Form 1861 is required.

j) Project Funding Profile: Offerors should include a project funding profile by Government Fiscal Year (GFY) (1 Oct through 30 Sept) for budgetary purposes. This will enable the Government to easily identify program funding needs by GFY.

k) If an offeror takes exceptions to the requirements called out in the announcement (e.g., base support, Government-furnished property

(GFP), CDRLs), the exceptions should be clearly stated in the cost proposal.

l) Forward Pricing Rate Agreements: Offerors who have forward pricing rate agreements (FPRA’s) and forward pricing rate recommendations (FPRR’s) should submit them with their proposal.

m) Cost/Business proposals have no page limitations.

3. Proposal Content Summary: You may be ineligible for award if all requirements of this solicitation are not met on the proposal due date.

2. Proposal Review & Selection Information

a. Proposal Evaluation Criteria: Proposals will be evaluated against the criteria listed below. The technical aspect, which is ranked as the first order of priority, shall be evaluated based on the following criteria that are of equal order of importance:

1) Technical:

a). Unique and innovative approach proposed to accomplish the technical objectives. New and creative solutions and/or advances in knowledge, understanding, technology, and the state of the art.

b) The offeror’s understanding of the scope of the technical effort.

c) Soundness of the offeror’s technical approach.

d) Availability of qualified technical personnel and their experience with the applicable technologies.

e) Availability, from any source, of necessary research, test, laboratory, or shop facilities.

f) The potential for AFRL to transition the research and development deliverables to future Government needs. Any proposed restriction on technical data or computer software will be considered.

2) Cost/Price: The cost evaluation includes the realism of the proposed cost. Cost/Price is a substantial factor, but ranked as the second order of priority. (If an offeror proposes the use of GFP other than any GFP identified in this BAA, and that proposed GFP provides the offeror an unfair competitive advantage, then FAR 45.202 requires rental equivalent be applied to the Cost Factor for evaluation purposes only)

b. Proposal Review and Selection Process

1) Categories: Based on the evaluation, proposals will be categorized as Highly Recommended, Selectable, or Not Selectable (see definitions below). The selection of one or more sources for award will be based on the evaluation, as well as importance to agency programs and funding availability.

a) Highly Recommended: Proposals are recommended for acceptance if sufficient funding is available, and normally are displaced only by other Highly Recommended proposals.

b) Selectable: Proposals are recommended for acceptance if sufficient funding is available, but at a lower priority than Highly

Recommended Proposals. May require additional development. To ensure a diversity of approaches, a Selectable proposal may be prioritized over a

Highly Recommended proposal if the Selectable proposal presents a unique approach unlike any of the Highly Recommended proposals.

c) Not Selectable: Even if sufficient funding existed, the proposal should not be funded.

Note: The government reserves the right to award some, all, or none of the proposals. When the government elects to award only a part of a proposal, the selected part may be categorized as Highly Recommended or

Selectable, though the proposal as a whole may not merit such a categorization.

2) No other evaluation criteria will be used.

3) Prior to award of a potentially successful offer, the contracting

Officer will make a determination regarding price reasonableness.

3. Award Administration Information:

Award Notices: Offerors will be notified whether their proposal is recommended for award, by letter or e-mail, on or about 4 Dec 17. The notification is not to be construed to mean the award of a contract is assured, as availability of funds and successful negotiations are prerequisites to any award.

Attachments

List of Attachments:

1. Statement of Objectives

2. Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL), DD Form 1423-1 (A062)