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Advanced Microelectronics Technology Primary Sponsor: Department of Defense Deadline: 10/1/2001 KEYWORDS "The Department of Defense encourages the participation of Minority Institutions (MIs)." COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF NOVEMBER 1,2000 PSA#2718 SOL N66001-01-X-6004 POC Maureen Battern 619-553-4489 BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA): The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego (SPAWARSYSCEN) in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) is seeking proposals (technical and cost) for research and development in the following areas: (1) microelectronics, (2) micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), (3) opto-electronics and/or (4) of photonics technology. Also of interest are proposals for research and development of technologies for heterogeneous integration of electronics, photonics, MEMS, and other components. Proposed efforts should offer potential for significant impact on the current technology and national defense. MTO has identified electronics, photonics, and MEMS as core technologies. The current focus of MTO is on advancing aspects of the core technologies as well as advancing new technologies and approaches for chip-scale heterogeneous integration to produce new microsystem components and capabilities. Chem/Bio Chips for detection of chemical or biological threats are representative of this new era of heterogeneous integration. The tight coupling of lasers with highly integrated digital circuits for high bandwidth signal access to memory is another example. These heterogeneously integrated chips are expected to aid in MTO's current goals to develop and exploit micro-scale sense and action amplifiers for the war fighter, establish battle space information channels with greatest bandwidth possible, and provide degrees of connectivity not possible with present technologies. Additional information on the programs within MTO is available within the DARPA web site (http://www.darpa.mil). This announcement will be open through 1 October 2001. Awards may be made at any time throughout this period. Such awards will depend upon evaluations described below and availability of funds. The Government further reserves the right to issue contracts, grants, cooperative agreements or other transactions. Award decisions will be based on a competitive selection of proposals resulting from a peer and/or scientific review. The full set of evaluation criteria (listed in order of importance) are as follows: (1) Overall scientific or technical merits of the proposal; (2) potential transition to Department of Defense systems; (3) the Offeror's capabilities, related experience, plan of execution, and facilities; (4) realism of the proposed cost; (5) availability of funds; (6) the extent to which the cost effectiveness of the proposed research is diminished by expenditures for unproductive administrative and other overhead expenses; (7) Past performance; (8) For acquisitions with large businesses: the extent to which offerors identify and commit to small business and to small disadvantaged business subcontracting. An initial five-page synopsis is requested prior to full proposals. This should include a technical description of the effort, specification which area of interest your effort resides in ((1) microelectronics, (2) micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), (3) opto-electronics and/or (4) of photonics technology), a preliminary schedule, identification of risks, and a rough cost estimate. The initial submission (white paper or full proposal) will be evaluated using a reduced set of evaluation criteria from the full set of evaluation criteria: (1) Overall scientific or technical merits of the proposal; (2) potential transition to Department of Defense systems; and (5) availability of funds. Consequently the offeror will be notified as to possible interest by the government, upon notification the proposer will be requested to submit a complete proposal consisting of two separate volumes, technical and cost. Likewise the proposer will be notified if there is no interest in the proposed ideas represented in the synopsis at that time. A debrief will not be available for white papers. The technical volume of the proposal is limited to 50 pages (Eight and one-half by eleven inches), excluding resumes, and management/facilities information. This volume should also include a separate section of specific task/subtask statements of the proposed work so that these could be incorporated into a Government Statement of Work (SOW). It shall also provide a motivation of value and purpose (i.e. if this is successful what impact it would have to the commercial and/or military world?), a concise technical scope and or goal, a contractor statement of work, complete technical details, a schedule of anticipated milestones or checkpoints, discussions of risks, and discussion of related work so as to put this proposed work into context. The schedule should include the milestones and deliverables, both reports and hardware. This volume should also clearly illustrate any technical data or computer software, which will be supplied to the government with other than unlimited rights and should identify other funding agencies for which the proposal has been submitted. The cost volume should: 1) be a separate document which clearly shows the costs of each proposed task separately, by month;and 2) provide Contract Pricing proposal Cover Sheet IAW FAR Table 15-2 (located after FAR 15.408), supported by adequate breakout of cost elements and rates by month for the purpose of cost/price analysis. Proposed subcontractor costs should be proposed in a similar detail. Cost proposals should be valid for a period of six (6) months after the date of submission. An original plus four copies of the technical volume, plus three copies of the cost volume should be submitted to SPAWAR SYSCEN, Attn: Maureen Battern, Code D212, 53560 Hull St., San Diego, CA 92152-5001. Any other administrative questions may be addressed to Ms. Maureen Battern at (619) 553-4489, battern@spawar.navy.mil. Questions of a technical nature may be submitted, by email only, to Dr. Cynthia Hanson, email chanson@spawar.navy.mil. The answer to the two most frequency asked questions " Is this of interest?" or "Is this within scope of the BAA?" will be answered by, "An initial synopsis must be submitted in order to answer your question." Proposals may be submitted anytime during the open period of this announcement and should be unclassified. The Government reserves the right to select for award, all, some, or none of the proposals received in response to this announcement. The Government may also only select specific tasks within a proposal for award. This notice constitutes a BAA as contemplated in FAR 6.102(d)(2). No additional written information is available, nor will a formal request for proposal (RFP) or other solicitation regarding this announcement be issued. Interested parties are invited to respond to this synopsis. All responsible parties responses will be considered. WEB: Click here to download a copy of the BAA, http://e-commerce.spawar.navy.mil. Posted 10/30/00 (W-SN505517). (0304)