Broad Agency Announcement - Underground Mine Evacuation Technologies and Human Factors Research

The purpose of this modification is to post questions submitted by offerors and answers provided by the Government . See the attached document, "QA_BAA 75D301-20-R-67922".

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

BAA SynopsThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) issues Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) Number 75D301-20-R-67922 under the provisions of FAR 35.016 and FAR 6.102(d)(2) which provides for the competitive selection of research proposals.  Contracts that are awarded based on responses to this BAA are as a result of full and open competition and, therefore, in full compliance with the provisions of PL 98-369, “The Competition in Contracting Act of 1984”.  The BAA can be found as the attachment,  "Part II - BAA Announcement", to this synopsis.    

CDC contracts with educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, not for profit organizations, state and local government, and private industry for research and development (R&D) in those areas covered in Part II of this BAA.  The NAICS code for this BAA is 541715 - Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology) with a size standard of 1,000 employees. 

This BAA is open and in effect for 30 days from the date of release (March 30, 2020 through April 29, 2020).   THIS IS AN IMMEDIATE CALL FOR PROPOSALS for the program entitled, “Underground Mine Evacuation Technologies and Human Factors Research”.  A formal Request for Proposals (RFP), solicitation, and/or additional information regarding this announcement will not be issued. Full proposals must be submitted by 5pm EST, April 29, 2020 for funding consideration during fiscal year 2020.  The proposals must be submitted electronically to the following e-mail address: LKriel@cdc.gov. It is requested that the subject line of the email read “BAA 75D301-20-R-67922”. Please direct all inquires to Liubov Kriel, Contract Specialist at the following address: LKriel@cdc.gov. PHONE CALLS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

NIOSH will not issue paper copies of this announcement and reserves the right to select for award all, some, or none of the proposals in response to this announcement and further reserves the right to fund all, some or none of the proposals received under this BAA. NIOSH provides no funding for direct reimbursement of proposal development costs. Technical and cost proposals (or any other material) submitted in response to this BAA will not be returned. It is the policy of NIOSH to treat all proposals as sensitive competitive information and to disclose their contents only for the purposes of evaluation.