HR001117S0040-Amendment-02.pdf

The purpose of this Amendment 2 to HR001117S0040, DSO Office-wide BAA, is to make the following changes to Section IX, Appendix: Disruptioneering, and to Attachment 6, Cost Volume Template. Except as referenced herein, no other changes have been made to HR001117S0040 or its attachments.

1. In Attachment 6 (Cost Volume Template) to BAA HR001117S0040, the first bullet in the instructional text on page 1 under “Disruption Opportunity (DO) Cost Volumes only” is hereby entirely replaced with the following text:

DO Cost Volumes must address the entire period of performance described in the applicable DO, broken down by phase (Phase 1: Feasibility Study and Phase 2: Proof of Concept).

2. In BAA HR001117S0040, Section IX.C, DO Proposal and Award Information is hereby entirely replaced with the following text:

A. Introduction The mission of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is to make strategic, early investments in science and technology that will have long-term positive impact on our nation’s national security. The Defense Sciences Office’s (DSO’s) role in this mission is to make high risk, high reward investments in science and technology that have the potential to disrupt current understanding and/or approaches. The pace of discovery in both science and technology is accelerating worldwide, resulting in new fields of study and the identification of scientific areas ripe for disruption. While DSO’s existing investment strategy continues to yield success, in order to capitalize on these new opportunities, its approach to investing must include faster responses with more small, targeted investments. This new approach is called Disruptioneering.

Disruptioneering will enable DSO to initiate a new investment in less than 90 days from idea inception.

B. Disruption Opportunities (DOs) Disruption Opportunities (DOs) will be announced via Special Notices requesting proposals under this DSO Office-wide BAA, HR001117S0040. These DOs will be open for at least 30 days from publication at https://www.fbo.gov/.1 DOs will describe rapid projects addressing two phases as described below. During these periods of performance, very high risk, high reward topics will be investigated with the goal of determining feasibility and clarifying whether the area is ready for increased investment. Proposals submitted in response to DOs will be evaluated and selected in accordance with Section V of this BAA.

C. DO Proposal and Award Information Proposals submitted in response to a Disruption Opportunity must be UNCLASSIFIED and must address two independent and sequential project phases (a Phase 1 Feasibility Study and a Phase 2 Proof of Concept). The periods of performance for these phases are specific to each DO (i.e., may vary slightly) but are anticipated to be approximately 3-6 months for Phase 1 and 12-15 months for Phase 2; combined Phase 1 and Phase 2 efforts for any DO is not anticipated to exceed 18 months.

For any proposal selected for award, the Government reserves the right to award only Phase 1 or a combined Phase 1 and 2 effort. In cases where only a Phase 1 award is made at the outset, the Government may award a follow-on effort for Phase 2 depending on the outcome of the Phase 1

1 Following publication on https://www.fbo.gov/, Disruption Opportunities will be posted on the DARPA/DSO Opportunities page at http://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/opportunities.

https://www.fbo.gov/ http://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/opportunities?tFilter=&oFilter=2&sort=name effort. Due to the potential for awarding follow-on Phase 2 efforts, DARPA is requesting a proposal validity period of 365 days.

Individual awards for Phase 1 (only) are limited to $150,000 or less. If the Government decides to limit an award to Phase 1, that award may be made as a firm-fixed price purchase order, procurement contract (either cost reimbursement or fixed price), grant, cooperative agreement, or other transaction. Phase 2 awards for follow-on efforts may be made as procurement contracts (either cost reimbursement or fixed price), grants, cooperative agreements, or other transactions.

The amount of individual Phase 2 awards will be based on the requested award instrument and is limited to $550,000 or less for procurement contracts and $850,000 or less for grants, cooperative agreements, and other transactions.

Combined Phase 1 and 2 efforts may be awarded as procurement contracts (either cost reimbursement or fixed price), grants, cooperative agreements, or other transactions. The amount of combined awards will be based on the requested award instrument and is limited to $700,000 or less for procurement contracts and $1,000,000 or less for grants, cooperative agreements, and other transactions. Regardless of requested award instrument, the Phase 1 portion of the combined award shall not exceed $150,000.

Proposers should view the following sample award instruments on the DARPA/DSO Opportunities website at http://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/opportunities.

Phase 1-only Purchase Order Combined Phase 1 and 2 Grant Combined Phase 1 and 2 Cooperative Agreements o Educational and non-profit organizations o For-profit organizations

Combined Phase 1 and 2 Procurement Contracts o Cost Reimbursement o Fixed Price

Combined Phase 1 and 2 Other Transactions o Technology Investment Agreement (Fixed Price) o Other Transaction For Prototypes (Fixed Price) http://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/opportunities?tFilter=&oFilter=2&sort=name