Request for White Paper_Hypersonics University Consortium

The Department of Defense Washington Headquarters Service seeks to establish a University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics through a competitive award of a five-year, $100 million other transaction agreement. Interested parties must submit a white paper by July 16, 2020 detailing their proposed management structure and approach for the consortium, membership expertise, cost proposal, nontraditional defense contractor participation, and security and regulatory compliance capabilities. White papers will be evaluated based on these factors, and the selected offeror will then be invited to submit a full proposal to manage the consortium.

There is no set-aside designation for this opportunity. The place of performance will be within the United States. Evaluation of submissions is due to be completed to support research projects under individual solicitations issued by the selected consortium manager. The manager will oversee membership, project solicitation and funding under the other transaction agreement across six hypersonics technology areas, and will be responsible for the security management and clearance sponsorship of members to enable access to controlled unclassified and classified information up to the secret level on funded projects.