Amendment_0004_-_Updates_to_BAA_28_March_2016.pdf

AMENDMENT 0004 to BAA N00014-16-R-BA07

Communications and Interoperability of Integrated Fires (CIIF)

The purpose of this Amendment is to delay the date for Initial Full Proposals by one week and all subsequent events by approximately one week. This revises sections I.E [Response Dates], IV.A

[Application and Submission Process], and IV.C [Significant Dates and Times].

1. Section I is hereby amended as follows (excerpts with changes in bold):

E. Response Date –

Industry Day: 08 & 09 March 2016 (Separate Days for MiND and CaaS products)

Initial Full Proposals: 12 April 2016 (3:00 PM EDT)

Oral Presentations: (On or about) 25 April 2016

Notification of Oral (On or about) 03 May 2016

Presentation Evaluation:

(Final Revised) 17 May 2016 (3:00 PM EDT)

Full Proposals:

Notification of Final 24 May 2016

Proposal Selection:

2. Section IV is hereby amended as follows (excerpts with changes in bold)

A. Application and Submission Process - Industry Day, Oral Presentations, Full Proposals

Pre-proposal Conference/Industry Day: The ONR CIIF FNC Program intends to provide sensitive unclassified technical information to potential Offerors prior to the Pre-Proposal

Conference/Industry Day that will be held at a classified (SECRET) level. The additional information should be used to determine further interest. (Details on how to obtain the additional information can be found in the Addendum published with this BAA).

The ONR CIIF FNC Program will conduct classified industry day briefings (separate for MiND and CaaS) for potential Offerors on or about March 8 and 9, 2016 in the Maryland/Virginia area

(Details of location/time and visit clearance procedure can be found in the Addendum published with this BAA). The purpose of the meeting will be to provide potential Offerors with a better understanding of the scope of the Program and objectives of this BAA.

The process under this BAA shall include submission of Initial Full Proposals, Oral

Presentations (as applicable), and submission of subsequent Full Revised Proposal based on evaluation of oral presentations. "White Papers" are not desired for this solicitation.

Initial Full Proposals. The due date and time for receipt of Initial Full Proposals is April 12, 2016, at 3:00 PM (EDT). Each proposal should state that it is submitted in response to this announcement. Proposals shall be submitted directly to Dr. Santanu Das. Each proposal submitted must be targeted towards a specific product, MiND or CaaS. If an Offeror intends to submit a proposal for both of these products, these proposals need to be separated, not combined.

Each Initial Full Proposal will be evaluated by the Government to determine whether the technology advancement proposed appears to be of particular value to the Department of the

Navy. The submitters of proposals judged to be of "particular value" to the Navy will be so identified in the initial response provided by ONR and encouraged to make oral presentations of their proposals on a specific date. The submitters of any proposals not judged by the ONR reviewers as being of "particular value" to the Navy are ineligible to make an oral presentation or submit a full revised proposal under this solicitation.

Oral Presentations: ONR requests that Principal Investigators (PIs) provide expanded presentations of their selected Initial Full Proposals. These would be held on or about April 25, 2016. The purpose of the oral presentation is to provide additional information and address how the proposed technology will affect military applications. The time, location, and briefing format of the oral presentations, if requested, will be provided at a later date via email notification.

Oral Presentation Evaluation/Notification: Navy evaluations of the oral presentations will be issued via email notification on or about May 3, 2016. A Full Revised Proposal will be subsequently encouraged from those Offerors whose proposed technologies have been identified through the aforementioned email as still being of "particular value" to the Navy. Any Offeror whose oral presentation was not identified as being of "particular value" to the Navy is ineligible to submit a Full Revised Proposal under this BAA.

Any oral presenter's proposal subsequently judged to not be of "particular value" to the Navy is ineligible to submit a Full Revised Proposal under this solicitation. Any Full Revised Proposal submitted can range from a proposal modified per feedback from the Oral Evaluations to simply a timely email notifying the Government that the original proposal as submitted is reaffirmed.

Full Revised Proposals: The due date for receipt of (final revised) Full Proposals is 3:00 PM

(EDT) on May 17, 2016. PI's will be notified via email of their project's selection or non-selection for FY17 funding on May 24, 2016. Full proposals received after the published due date and time will not be considered for funding in FY17.

C. Significant Dates and Times -

Anticipated Schedule of Events

Event Date (MM/DD/YEAR) Time (Local

Eastern Time)

Pre-Proposal Conference/Industry Days

03/08/2016 & 03/09/2016

[Separate Days for MiND

& CaaS products]

TBD

Initial Full Proposals 04/12/2016 3:00 PM

Oral Presentations* 04/25/2016

Notification of Navy Evaluations of Oral

Presentations* 05/03/2016

Final Revised Full Proposal Due Date* 05/17/2016 3:00 PM

Notification of Selection for Award* 05/24/2016

Contract Awards* 11/01/2016

*These dates are estimates as of the date of this announcement.

3. All other terms and conditions remain unchanged.