Scientific, Engineering, Technical, Professional, Financial, and Admin Support

The purpose of this notice is to issue an amendment to make changes and provide responses to questions received for the Request for Proposal for the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for Scientific, Engineering, Technical, Professional, Financial, and Administrative Support Services.

Additional questions concerning this solicitation must be submitted to ARPA-E.SETA.RFP@hq.doe.gov, ten business days before the established due date to allow a reply to reach all prospective offerors before the submission of their proposals.

The purpose of this notice is to issue the Request for Proposal for the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for Scientific, Engineering, Technical, Professional, Financial, and Administrative Support Services to assist ARPA-E in meeting its mission. The mission of ARPA-E is to develop transformational technologies that reduce Americas dependence on foreign energy imports; reduce U.S. energy related emissions (including greenhouse gasses); improve energy efficiency across all sectors of the U.S. economy and ensure that the U.S. maintains its leadership in developing and deploying advanced energy technologies. Additional information about ARPA-E can be found at: http://arpa-e.energy.gov/.

This requirement will be solicited for full and open competition, and all responsible sources may propose. Proposals must be received through the FedConnect website no later than 4:00 p.m. EST on January 31, 2012. Questions concerning this solicitation must be submitted to ARPA-E.SETA.RFP@hq.doe.gov, ten business days before the established due date to allow a reply to reach all prospective offerors before the submission of their proposals.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), an agency within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), plans to issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) DE-SOL-0003228 for scientific, engineering, technical, financial, and administrative support services. The objective of this acquisition is to assist ARPA-E in its mission to enhance U.S. energy and economic security and maintain U.S. technological leadership in developing and deploying advanced energy technologies. For more information on ARPA-E see the website at (http://arpa-e.energy.gov/). ARPA-E will impose organizational and personnel conflict of interest restrictions on the selected offeror. Among these restrictions will be a prohibition against the selected offeror ? including its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, successors in interest, and subcontractors ? from participating (in any capacity) in any ARPA-E procurements or financial assistance programs or projects, other than as support to ARPA-E. It is ant icipated that the RFP will be issued in October 2011. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this solicitation is 541690 - Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services. This requirement will be solicited for full and open competition, and all responsible sources may propose. The period of performance for this requirement is estimated to be 5 years, subject to the availability of funds. It is anticipated that a cost plus fixed fee contract will be awarded. The Federal funding for this effort over the past year was about $10 million. The current incumbent contractor performing these services is Booz Allen Hamilton, located in McLean, Virgina. Firms are required to register with FedConnect in order to submit proposals. Please refer to https://www.fedconnect.net/Fedconnect/ for registration instructions.