Sources Sought_Attachment 01 SOW.pdf

Sources Sought: N00173-20-RFI-ZL05 Attachment 01 - SOW

Statement of Work (SOW)

Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E) Support for

The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Center for Corrosion Science and Engineering (CCSE)

1.0 Introduction

The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Center for Corrosion Science and Engineering (CCSE), Code 6130 in the Chemistry Division seeks multi-disciplinary support of basic experimentation and marine engineered systems related to corrosion science.

1.1 Mission

The CCSE is responsible for a wide spectrum of Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E) programs in the areas of marine corrosion, marine engineering, materials, electrochemistry, coatings, biofouling remediation and environmental effects as related to the Navy surface ships, submarines, marine structures, aircraft, shore facilities and associated government use in general. As part of the mission, the CCSE performs basic and applied RDT&E programs in the laboratory with a number of at-sea and field-based engineering Science & Technology (S&T) demonstrations at command, shipyards, fleet regional maintenance centers and shipboard.

1.2 Background

At the basic science level, programs include the study of corrosion mechanisms, electrochemical systems, materials degradation and failure analysis, as related to marine physio-chemistry, protection and associated marine systems. At the applied levels, the CCSE performs detailed engineering design, development and evaluation of systems as related to bio-remediation, software design, cathodic protection, marine coatings, propulsion, materials performance and fuel cell technology. The emphasis revolves around the design and implementation of improved technology for legacy and next generation Naval platforms, but also closely explores the needs of life-cycle extension, improved service life, affordability, condition based maintenance and new technology development and implementation.

1.3 Scope

The basic scope of this Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) type contract is to conduct scientific, engineering, technical, and analytical Research and Development

(R&D) for a wide range of NRL research projects supporting the Navy’s corrosion mitigation, coatings, environmental and prevention programs, in the following areas:

Environmental Effects on Navy Materials

Marine Coatings Technology

Technology Transfer, Field Demonstration, and Engineering

The Contractor shall perform the R&D effort at the individual task order level, to accomplish the requirements at the laboratory, field and facility levels. This includes support for:

1) Scientific discovery and invention: Development of scientific and research oriented test plans, perform analyses, conduct basic/applied studies and conduct RDT&E projects to contribute to the overall objectives of the CCSE’S programs,

2) Applied Engineering: Perform engineering design, fabrication, installation and evaluation of equipment, techniques and platform based demonstrations as part of developmental programs, proof of concept and fleet technology transition goals, and

3) Logistical and Technical Program Support: Provide logistics, demonstration coordination, field activity support, facility development and experimental fabrication.

2.0 General Requirements

The Contractor shall have its support team in place and fully functioning within 30 days of contract award or exercise of a contract option. During this period the Contractor will transition all activities from the incumbent, as required. The Contractor must execute the scope of work in a manner that provides for high quality, timely deliverables while incorporating the proper mix and the most effective use of personnel.

This IDIQ contract will have an ordering period of 5 years from contract order. NRL anticipates issuing Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF - Term or Completion) and/or Firm Fixed Priced (FFP) task orders against this contract to support the functional areas set forth in the SOW.

Task Orders will issued to support specific set of tasks contained in the SOW which are to be performed in a given timeframe. These tasks will vary in scope and duration depending upon the complexity of the effort. Each task order will specify elements of work that are defined in Section 3 to be accomplished, and it is possible that not every task specified in Section 3 of this SOW will be required in a given contract period.

2.1 Non-Personal Services

The Government will neither supervise contractor employees nor control the method by which the Contractor performs the required tasks. The Government will not assign tasks to, or prepare work schedules for, individual contractor employees.

The Contractor shall be responsible for managing its employees and guarding against any actions that are of the nature of personal services, or give the perception of personal services as defined in FAR-Part 37, Service Contracting.

The Contractor shall notify the Contracting Officer (KO) if any Government requested actions constitute, or are perceived to constitute personal services.

2.2 Business Relations

The Contractor shall integrate and coordinate all activity needed to execute this contract and task orders.

2.3 Contract Administration and Management

The following subsections specify requirements for contract management and contractor personnel administration.

2.3.1 Contract Management

The Contractor shall establish clear organizational lines of authority and responsibility to ensure effective management of the resources assigned to this contract.

2.3.2 Personnel Administration

The Contractor shall assign a single point of contact, also known as the Program Manager (PM), who must work closely with the government Contracting Officer and Contracting Officers Representative (COR), as applicable.

The Contractor PM must ultimately be responsible for ensuring that the contractor’s performance meets all government contracting requirements within cost and schedule.

PM must have the requisite authority for full control over all company resources necessary for contract performance. As appropriate, the role of PM may be a full time management position, or a collateral duty assigned to a technical team member.

The Contractor shall maintain the adequacy of their employees by providing initial and refresher training to meet the SOW requirements.

The Contractor shall make necessary travel arrangements for employees.

2.3.3 Contract Administration

The Contractor shall establish processes and assign appropriate resources to effectively administer this contract and its task orders. The Contractor shall respond to Government requests for contractual actions within five work days.

2.3.4 Contractor's Management Plan (CMP)

The Contractor must adhere to the Contractor's Management Plan (CMP) defining the contractor's approach to implementing the contract as accepted by the Government during the time of award. The CMP provides the Government insight to the systems, processes, and structure within which the contractor operates. The CMP should include, as applicable and if not defined in a separate plan: quality control, risk management, systems engineering, software development, configuration management, earned value management, and subcontract management.

The Contractor shall receive the contracting officer’s acceptance in writing of any proposed change to his management plan once the CMP has been accepted by the Government.

2.4 Government Property: Government furnished property and/or information, if required, will be specified in each Task Order. To the extent that Government Property as defined by FAR Part 45 will be provided, the appropriate FAR clauses will be placed into a Task Order based on the nature and type of work to be performed.

2.5 Contractor Acquired Property (CAP): Equipment and unexpended materials and supplies purchased by the contractor under this contract and task orders become the property of the Government at the end of the performance period, including all options.

The Contractor shall provide supplies for contractor personnel.

The Contractor shall provide any other equipment, material, and supplies, not furnished by the Government, but required to perform the work defined under Section 3, Performance Requirements, below.

The Contractor shall be responsible for any subcontract management necessary for performing efforts described in Section 3, Performance Requirements, below.

2.6 Location and Hours of Work

Accomplishment of the results contained in this SOW requires work at the NRL Washington, DC site and the NRL Corrosion facility located in Key West, FL. Where economical and appropriate from a type of work perspective for NRL-DC activities (e.g.

primarily desk work), researchers may be located offsite. Contributing support to S&T programs may also be at Navy sites including, but not limited to: DoD labs, San Diego, CA; Norfolk, VA; Puget Sound, WA; and Pearl Harbor, HI.

Normal workdays for NRL are Monday through Friday except US federal holidays. NRL Workers typically work eight (8) hours per day, forty (40) hours per week. All employees are expected to be available during core hours. Core hours of work are from 1000 to 1100 and 1300 to 1400 daily. In the event of severe weather conditions, the contractor should refer to the top banner of the NRL website (www.nrl.navy.mil) for the NRL-DC operating status or refer to the Office of Personnel Management website (www.opm.gov) for the operating status of the U.S. Government offices in Washington, DC, area and for additional information.

2.7 Travel / Temporary Duty (TDY)

Travel to other government facilities or contractor facilities, as mentioned above, may be required for conduct of experimental research or attendance at Government reviews or scientific meetings and seminars. The Contractor shall maintain the capability to arrange the travel of contractor personnel to locations in CONUS/OCONUS often on short notice. Contractor personnel will be subject to all travel regulations in effect at the time of the anticipated travel.

3.0 Performance Requirements

The following section specifies the performance objectives and requirements for the contract. The Contractor shall provide support IAW the individual task order SOW.

Requirements in each Task Order shall be within the scope of the basic requirements of this SOW. The objective of this Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract and its task orders is to support the tasks listed in this section.

3.1 Environmental Effects on Navy Materials

Deliverables A001 Hardware/Prototype Technical Drawings A002 Software; Software Documentation A003 Formal Technical Reports A004 Monthly Technical Progress Report A005 Final Technical Report A006 Meeting/Briefing Minutes and Reports A007 Monthly Funds Status A008 Monthly Contractor On-Site Labor Report A009 Travel Reports A010 GFP/CAP Report

3.1.1 The Contractor shall conduct fundamental and applied studies to determine the effect of natural environmental exposure on the performance, operation and degradation of Navy centric materials, including metallic alloys, composites, polymers and organic/inorganic coatings materials.

3.1.2 The Contractor shall identify, assess, and mitigate Navy materials corrosion problems in the laboratory, in the field, and aboard ship.

3.1.2.1 The Contractor shall determine and measure corrosion mechanisms, corrosion performance, durability, physio-chemical properties, and degradation.

Methods may include electrochemical polarizations, chemical analyses, metallographic investigations and other analytical tests.

3.1.3 The Contractor shall perform experiments and provide measurements on the relationship of Navy materials to changes in the physical chemistry of seawater and related Navy operational and environmental effects.

3.1.3.1 The Contractor shall determine materials properties, calcareous deposits, hydrogen effects, corrosion behavior, degradation mechanisms, prognostics, mitigation recommendations and mechanical properties.

3.1.4 The Contractor shall employ multi-purpose techniques and equipment.

Initial expectation is for all equipment to be government furnished, though the Contractor may propose opportunities to utilize contractor furnished equipment when applicable.

3.1.5 The Contractor shall perform microscopic, macroscopic and failure analysis studies on materials bulk properties, surface effects, processes, corroded specimens, enhancements, environmental effects, and performance related properties.

The techniques employed may include, but are not limited to: Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Energy Dispersive X-Ray Analysis (EDAX), X-ray diffraction, X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF), Infrared Spectroscopy, Gas Chromatograph (GC)/Mass Spectroscope (MS), Differential Scanning Calorimetry, High intensity X-ray synchrotron (4.5-35 KeV), topography, metallography, crystallography, potentiostat/galvanostat, impedance spectroscopy, Fourier RAMAN/IR Spectroscopy, coulter counter, Pulsed Amplitude Modulated (PAM) Fluorometer, Epi-fluorescent Microscope/image analysis, Flow-CAM Flow Cytometer and spectrum analyzer/oscilloscope.

3.1.6 The Contractor shall measure, monitor and quantify the corrosion state of materials. Materials may include metals, composites, polymers, organic/inorganic coatings and subject to processes such as chlorination and calcareous deposits. In performance of these tasks, the contractor shall utilize corrosion sensors, datalogging equipment, spectrum analyzers, electrochemical isolation equipment, potentiostat/galvanostats, impressed current cathodic protection equipment, chlorination/dechlorination equipment, and other necessary equipment.

3.1.7 The Contractor shall design Impressed Current Cathodic Protection systems.

3.1.7.1 The Contractor shall design and produce scale ship/submarine physical models.

3.1.8 The Contractor shall study corrosion assessment/prognostics and cathodic protection behavior/underwater electromagnetic properties. This may involve boundary element, finite element analysis and computational modeling techniques.

3.1.8.1 The Contractor shall perform fundamental and applied experiments on acoustic and electromagnetic behavior of materials and coatings.

3.1.8.2 The Contractor shall design, evaluate and prototype corrosion assessment, mitigation instrumentation, sensors and associated software, such as: corrosion sensors, datalogging/monitoring instrumentation, tank inspection systems, electrical isolation, underwater Impressed Current Cathodic Protection (ICCP) systems/components, control systems/software, and wireless devices.

3.1.9 The Contractor shall determine the effect of structural materials selection, fabrication technique, heat treatment, welding, and mechanical processes on the performance, operation and degradation of Navy centric systems.

This includes metallic alloys, composites, polymers, and organic/inorganic coatings materials as they relate to Navy components, such as: hull, pumps, piping, heat exchangers/condensers, propulsion systems, control surfaces, Autonomus Underwater Vehicles (AUV), Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV), towed devices, power plants/fuel cell/battery, Main Seawater (MSW) and Auxiliary (ASW) systems, weapons, and operation.

3.1.10 The Contractor shall carry out studies to determine associated physio-mechanical effects on performance and degradation related to bonding, fastening, adhesives, surface modification/enhancement, heat affected areas, wear, environmental effects, stress/strain effects, inhibitors/additives, and crevice geometry.

In support of this effort, the contractor may utilize Instron mechanical testing instrumentation, Slow Strain Rate, and Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) techniques.

3.2 Marine Coatings Technology

Deliverables A003 Formal Technical Reports

A004 Monthly Technical Progress Report A005 Final Technical Report A006 Meeting/Briefing Minutes and Reports A007 Monthly Funds Status A008 Monthly Contractor On-Site Labor Report A009 Travel Reports A010 GFP/CAP Report

3.2.1 The Contractor shall formulate and synthesize resins, pigments and coatings systems for use in underwater hull, topside, non-skid, bilge, rudder, tanks/voids and other Navy applicable systems.

3.2.2 The Contractor shall develop and /or provide new techniques, equipment and processes for surface preparation, coatings application, coatings inspection, and coatings removal.

3.2.3 The Contractor shall develop multi-functional coatings, such as surface tolerant, antifouling, rapid cure, solvent free, self- inspecting, high performance/durability, and low solar absorbance coatings.

3.2.4 The Contractor shall design and test coatings/components to conform to applicable standards.

3.2.5 The Contractor shall test and evaluate coatings, systems and product physical properties/performance under natural seawater exposure, atmospheric conditions, environmental test chambers, Navy velocity regimes (0-70 kt), environmental extremes of temperature, humidity and solar exposure, and under unique Navy conditions for acoustic damping, coefficient of friction, wear, durability and exposure.

3.3 Technology Transfer, Field Demonstration, and Engineering

Deliverables A001 Hardware/Prototype Technical Drawings A002 Software; Software Documentation A003 Formal Technical Reports A004 Monthly Technical Progress Report A005 Final Technical Report A006 Meeting/Briefing Minutes and Reports A007 Monthly Funds Status A008 Monthly Contractor On-Site Labor Report A009 Travel Reports A010 GFP/CAP Report

3.3.1 The contractor shall support NRL programs in technology development, proof-of concept S&T, and fleet demonstration.

This includes programs such as Aquatic Nuisance Species Test & Evaluation, Maintenance Free Ship Concepts, Submarine Propulsion System and Bearing Testing, Advanced Impressed Current Cathodic Protection and Signature Control Systems, Corrosion Resistant Marine Fasteners, Sacrificial and ICCP Anode/reference cell development, advanced shaft grounding systems, ship water/sewage treatment systems and advanced Naval power systems/components.

3.3.1.1 The Contractor shall execute planning for technology demonstrations of marine coatings, corrosion sensors, and optical inspection systems.

This may include NAVSEA CCAT ship paint teams/tool crib trailers, non-skid coefficient of friction study (COF), Ballast Water Treatment, ONR Future Naval Concepts (FNC), ONR Innovative Naval Prototypes (INP), NAVSEA Coatings Center of Excellence, ONR Maintenance Free Ship and OSD corrosion initiatives.

3.3.2 The Contractor shall perform site work, installation, and operations in support of experimentation and system concept evaluation. Experiments typically require platforms, machinery, piping systems, mockups, and/or simulated environments.

3.3.3 The contractor shall design and fabricate experimental test beds, components and parts.

3.3.3.1 The Contractor shall provide personnel trained in machining, welding, material handling equipment, CPR, and gas free engineering as per program requirements.

The use of appropriate machine shop tools, milling machine, lathe, water jet cutter, shears/brake, welding equipment, and shop equipment may be needed. Utilization of forklift, truck and related industrial equipment in support of these tasks may also be needed.

3.3.4 The Contractor shall perform systems engineering in support of corrosion control projects. The focus of systems engineering will be in the program office and shipyard/waterfront disciplines.

3.3.4.1 The contractor shall perform assessments and inspections in the fleet, shipyard, and field.

3.3.4.2 The Contractor shall develop SHIPALT and TEMPALT for corrosion control projects.

3.3.4.3 The Contractor shall provide logistics, training, and fleet support.

3.3.4.4 The Contractor shall provide subject matter experts to support policy development.

3.3.5 The Contractor shall perform software engineering in the development of corrosion control sensors, test platforms, and analytical tools.

The CCSE does not engage in large scale software development, but does occasionally require the custom development of minor applications, algorithms, and code as part of its projects.

4.0 Special Requirements

This section describes the special requirements for this effort. The following sub-sections provide details of various considerations on this effort.

4.1 Security and Safety

Contractor personnel performing work under this contract must have the appropriate security clearance for the work assigned, up to SECRET, at time of the proposal submission, and must maintain the level of security required for the life of the contract. The security requirements are in accordance with the subsections below.

4.1.1 DD Forms 254

The Contractor will be granted access to classified information necessary for performance of this contract upon contract award as specified in the basic DD Form

254. All Contractor personnel with access to unclassified information systems, including e-mail, require at a minimum a favorable National Agency Check (NAC).

4.2 Deliverables

The Contractor shall provide deliverables with the schedule and format as described in section 3.0 of this contract and outlined in the CDRL's listed below. Each task order will identify the required deliverables.

Identifier Name Description

A001 Hardware/Prototype Technical Drawings

Provides drawing in hard copy and electronic format for prototypes or hardware, as required.

A002 Software; Software Documentation For software developed or modified, the Contractor shall provide a functional executable and complete source code, as required.

A003 Formal Technical Reports Consistent with NRL reports or professional society standard, upon completion of a technical project

A004 Monthly Technical Progress Report

Provides report of all technical work accomplished during the quarter.

A005 Final Technical Report Provides report summarizing all technical work accomplished over the full contract execution.

A006 Meeting/Briefing Minutes and Reports as required

A007 Monthly Funds Status Report Indicates the progress of the contractor's work on assigned tasks, and the status of the program.

Reports costs for the current month. Forecasts costs for the next 12 months or when the task ends, whichever is shorter.

Informs of existing or potential problem areas.

A008 Monthly Contractor On-site Labor Report

Reports labors hours for the current month. Forecasts labor for the next 12 months or when the tasks ends, whichever is shorter.

Informs of existing or potential problem areas.

A009 Travel Reports ( Prime and Subcontractor)

Reports provide traveler name, location, dates, cost, and purpose for travel for prime contractors as well as subcontractors.

A010 GFP/CAP Report shall include listing of all GFP and CAP in the Contractor’s possession.