SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- BAA for Detector Systems for Radiological and Nuclear Countermeasures
- Notice Date
- 1/9/2004
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- DHS - Direct Reports, Office of the Chief Procurement Officer, Office of Procurement Operations, Office of the Chief Procurement Officer, Washington, DC, 20528
- ZIP Code
- 20528
- Solicitation Number
- HS-OPO-HSARPA-010
- Archive Date
- 2/15/2004
- Point of Contact
- Mickey Jones, Director, Phone 202296920140, Fax 202297729230, - Carolyn Smith, Contracting Officer, Phone 2022054515, Fax 2027729729,
- E-Mail Address
-
mickey.jones@dhs.gov, carolyn.smith@dhs.gov
- Description
- The Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) invests in programs offering the potential for revolutionary changes in technologies that promote homeland security and accelerates the prototyping and deployment of technologies that reduce homeland vulnerabilities. HSARPA is the external funding arm for the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate. HSARPA performs these functions in part by awarding procurement contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, or other transactions for research or prototypes to public or private entities, businesses, federally funded research and development centers and universities. A critical area of focus for DHS is the development of radiological and nuclear countermeasure systems that improve our capability to address the threat of a radiological dispersal device (RDD), an improvised nuclear device (IND), or a nuclear weapon being used by terrorists within the US. DHS S&T is implementing a comprehensive systems approach that emphasizes early detection and effective intervention capabilities at the Federal, state, and local levels, as well as post-event capabilities for remediation. Under the Detector Systems for Radiological and Nuclear Countermeasures (DSRNC) program Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), which will follow from this Draft Statement of Work for Comment (DSWC), HSARPA plans to solicit detector systems that will contribute to an overall system of countermeasures. These detector systems must provide a high confidence in detection of nuclear material - even when shielded - while maintaining a low rate of false alarms. The attributes desired for these detection systems include the following. ? Ability to detect shielded Special Nuclear Material (SNM) ? High probability of detection of threat materials with a minimum of nuisance alarms and a systematic approach to handle nuisance alarms properly ? Total cost of ownership low enough to allow systems to be proliferated around points of entry and at critical nodes The goals of the DSRNC program are to perform the underlying research and development (R&D) to improve existing deployed technologies, and to develop new and enhanced technologies for the detection of nuclear and radiological materials. To achieve these goals, the BAA will be organized into six separate Technical Topic Areas (TTAs). Each TTA will solicit a specific type of detector system. Each TTA will be structured into three parts. Part A will address the goal of enhancing capabilities in the near-term by either improving existing deployed systems or rapidly prototyping mature technologies. Parts B and C will address the goal of developing next generation capabilities. Part B solicits complete system solutions and Part C solicits enabling component technologies. For additional information, please see the attached Draft Statement of Work for Comment
- Place of Performance
- Address: TBD
- Record
- SN00501060-W 20040111/040109211518 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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