SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Advisory and Assistance Services to Support the Mission of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency
- Notice Date
- 5/21/2003
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, DTRA Annex 8725 John J. Kingman Road, MSC 6201, Fort Belvoir, VA, 22060-6201
- ZIP Code
- 22060-6201
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-DTRA-TD-SS-AAS-MAY03
- Response Due
- 6/1/2003
- Archive Date
- 6/16/2003
- Point of Contact
- Edward Hale, Contract Specialist, Phone (703) 767-7943, Fax (703) 767-4691, - Donald Shires, Contracting Officer, Phone (703) 325-6684, Fax (703) 325-9294,
- E-Mail Address
-
edward.hale@dtra.mil, donald.shires@dtra.mil
- Description
- Sources Sought Synopsis announcements are issued to assist the Agency in performing market research, to determine industry interest and capability. This is not a request for proposals. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is seeking interested sources capable of providing Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) to support the mission of the Agency. DTRA's mission is to safeguard America's interests from weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high explosives) by controlling and reducing the threat and providing quality tools and services for the warfighter. The objective of the future solicitation is to acquire technical and operational advisory and assistance services for DTRA and its operational elements, in support of research, planning, designing, developing, implementing, integrating, testing, applying, and evaluating emerging and mature technologies. In addition, the contractor must provide operational assistance and support to DTRA's mission needs. Potential sources must have demonstrated expertise in all the following areas:  Research Development Technology and Evaluation Program Management and Project integration support;  Program planning, coordination and general support;  Strategic planning, programs, cost benefit analysis and process improvement  Capability to apply structural business methods to large, complex high-risk programs  Accelerating delivery of Special Operational Forces Counterproliferation technologies;  Developing special weapons and planning tools to support Combatant Commands? needs for rapid, responsive systems to reduce Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) threats;  Providing attack planning and assessing post-attack effects of weapons on tunnel infrastructures;  Providing real-time operational support using DTRA?s suite of consequence assessment tools for protection and security;  Nuclear Stockpile Support in the area of technology development  Nuclear Stockpile Support operations  Homeland Defense Technology and Operational Support  Support military and civil defense (combating terrorism and homeland defense) against and response to WMD use;  Operations Center Support--Assessment and Analysis Reachback Support;  Threat Reduction Advisory Committee (TRAC) support;  Arms control technology support;  Information technology strategic and architecture planning;  Blast mitigation technology support;  Chemical Biological Defense support (non-medical/medical/technology transition)  Congressional, Financial/Budget Support;  In-depth scientific expertise at the advanced degree level in chemical and biological science including microbiology, toxicology, immunology, public health, biological and chemical sensing, identification and characterization.  Identification of technology shortfalls in detecting, mitigating, remediating and protecting from the effects of chemical and biological agents including toxic industrial chemicals and materials.  Analysis and evaluation of emerging technologies to address DTRA mission requirement to support Combatant Commands.  Identification and evaluation of alternative research approaches and investment strategies  Performance validation and standards  Technology readiness and transition  Sufficiently broad 'risk assessment' capability  Visiting Scientists Program  Ability to research and access previously unidentified deficiencies in expertise for forward looking studies. DTRA requests that potentially interested sources respond to any or all of the following: 1) In the past, the Agency had one contractor provide integrated A&AS support for the majority of the Directorates. The Agency is considering obtaining A&AS services under a single contractual instrument. In your opinion, is such an approach feasible and is it effective? What are the advantages and disadvantages of such an approach? If you do not consider a single contract/contractor to be viable, please provide your recommendations as to how the requirements should be grouped. 2) What type of contract is most appropriate for a requirement of this nature? Is an IDIQ type of arrangement appropriate? What are the advantages of disadvantages of such a contract? 3) If an IDIQ arrangement is utilized, will a single or multiple awards be most effective? Please provide rationale. 4) In acquiring A&AS services, the avoidance and mitigation of conflicts of interest is of significant concern. Please suggest strategies we may use to effectively protect against conflicts of interest, while promoting competition and optimum performance. If we use a strategy which precludes the A&AS prime contractor from pursing any other business with the Agency, would it impact your decision to submit an offer? Please send responses to any or all of these questions, and any other feedback, to Mr. Edward B. Hale, Jr., Contracting Officer, via facsimile at (703) 325-9294 or e-mail (edward.hale@dtra.mil) by close of business on 1 June 2003. Please limit your response to five pages.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Defense Threat Reduction Agency, 8725 John J. Kingman Road, MS 6201, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060-6201
- Zip Code: 22060-6201
- Country: US
- Zip Code: 22060-6201
- Record
- SN00330156-W 20030523/030521214059 (fbodaily.com)
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