SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT BAA-04-02: SUBMARINE ESCAPE, RESCUE, AND DIVER SAFETY EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
- Notice Date
- 2/6/2004
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- Contracting Office
- NSWC Panama City, Code XPS1, 110 Vernon Ave Panama City, FL
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- DON-SNOTE-040206-001
- Archive Date
- 2/20/2006
- Description
- The Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City (NSWCPC) is soliciting pre-proposals and proposals for applied biomedical research focusing on Submarine Escape and Rescue, and Diving Safety and Effectiveness. The goals of this program are presented in more detail below. It is the intent that this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) be open for a period of two years from the date of this publication (or until 2/06/2006). However, specified dates are given in paragraph (2) below for submission of pre-proposals and proposals to be awarded within FY 2004 and FY 2005. (1) Primary Interests This program?s objective is to focus on Submarine Escape, Rescue, and Diver Safety Effectiveness research that can be rapidly transitioned to fleet capabilities by improving procedures or increasing levels of safety and survivability. The typical project will be two years or less although three y ear projects are considered. The areas of primary interest in submarine escape and rescue are: (1) extending the capability for rescue under pressure to 5 ATA through novel means to accelerate or eliminate saturation decompression of survivors; including, but not limited to oxygen and perfluorocarbon administration; (2) evaluation aboard an operational submarine of the adequacy and effectiveness of present stores, guidance and procedures to assure survivability in a disabled submarine for seven days; (3) improving understanding and guidance for thermal stress in a disabled submarine; (4) improving understanding and guidance for surface interval risk after saturation dropout or aborted decompression, including mitigation with various periods of oxygen breathing; (5) develop guidance and procedures for medical screening of pressurized escape trainees for pulmonary over-inf lation syndrome risk; (6) extending the capability for escape to depths deeper than 600 feet through improved escape procedures and equipment; (7) improved senior survivor decision tools; (8) improving critical care of escape and rescue casualties within the U.S. Navy Submarine Rescue Diving and Recompression System. The areas of primary interest in diving safety and effectiveness are: (1) development of new decompression models that improve safety, reduce decompression time, and track nitrogen and helium simultaneously; such models should allow integration across the full spectrum of diving including single and multilevel dives, repetitive dives, and surface-decompression dives; (2) improved equipment and procedures for contaminated water diving, development of field-deployable screening tests for biologic and chemical contamination, improved laboratory assays for contam inants in salt and brackish water and development of decontamination techniques, including rapid decontamination techniques that will allow employment of surface decompression tables, and improved risk assessment and management techniques; current contaminated water scenarios of greatest interest are fuel oils, human remains, Polychlorinated Biphenyls, and heavy metals; (3) improved understanding of short and long term oxygen toxicity associated with prolonged and repeated exposure to increased partial pressure of oxygen, including pulmonary oxygen toxicity and myopia; (4) improved active and/or passive diver thermal protection for free swimming divers, to extend effective dive duration and operational performance through improved suit and insulating materials; (5) develop and/or refine noise protection exposure limits, monitoring and protection across the spectrum of underwat er sound, including underwater blast and impulse noise; (6) develop improved procedures for shallow nitrogen-oxygen saturation diving including downward excursion dive capability on helium-nitrogen-oxygen mixtures and accelerated nitrogen-oxygen saturation decompression; (7) develop no-decompression curves for no-stop downward excursion dives on helium-oxygen from helium-oxygen saturation storage depths of 300 feet of seawater and less; (8) assessment of the long term health of divers; including but not limited to hearing, dysbaric osteonecrosis, neuropsychological disorders and neuropathies; (9) improved diagnosis of decompression illness through utilization of algorithms; (10) electronic recording and archiving of operational dive profiles to develop an operational dive data base; (11) improved understanding of the relationship between patent foramen ovale and decompression s ickness and cerebral arterial gas embolism; (12) develop guidance for hydration to decrease or eliminate over-hydration associated immersion pulmonary edema; (13) refine the understanding of hypercapnia in divers through direct measurement of arterial carbon dioxide tension under immersed hyperbaric conditions, and development of predictive equations relating end-tidal carbon dioxide tension to arterial tension as a means to estimate arterial carbon dioxide tension accurately and non-invasively. (2) Instructions for Preparation of Pre-proposal and Proposals For FY04, the deadline for submission of pre-proposals is 3:00 PM CST, 26 March 2004 for the funding cycle that began 1 October 2004, and the deadline for submission of full technical proposals is 3:00 PM CST, 7 June 2004. For FY05, the deadline for submission of pre-proposals is 3:00 PM CST, 25 March 2005 for the funding cycle that begins 1 October 2005, and the deadline for submission of full technical proposals is 3:00 PM CST, 8 June 2005. Proposals received after the due date will be considered only if funds remain available. The format for pre-proposals and proposals may be obtained from the Program Assistant, Lisa Williams at 850-230-3205 or E-mail: lisa.m.williams@navy.mil. The Pre-proposal should be three five pages of text and should include an estimate of overall costs (including indirect) for each year of the proposed effort. A curriculum vitae of the principal investigator(s) should be appended together with any supporting information, such as reprints or preprints, which will assist in the evaluation of the pre-proposal. Offerors submitting the most promising pre-proposals will be invited to submit a full technical and cost proposal on all or part of their pre-proposal su bmission. However, any such invitation does not assure a subsequent award. Any offeror may submit a full technical proposal even if its pre-proposal was not identified as promising or if no pre-proposal is submitted; however any full proposal submission would be made without the benefit of feedback prior to full proposal submission. A completed animal use protocol with supporting documentation is required when animals are employed. Any proposal that involves the experimental use of human subjects must include a separate evaluation of proposed technical approaches and associated risks by the contractor?s committee for protection of human subjects. This evaluation must conform with current Department of the Navy instructions relating to the use of human subjects. Offerors must state in their pre-proposals and full proposals that it is submitted in response to this BAA. This BAA provides no funding for pre-proposals or subsequent proposal development purposes. All pre-proposals will be acknowledged. Proposals will not be returned after evaluation. (3) Criteria for Selecting Proposals, their Relative Importance, and the Method of Evaluation Pre-proposal and full technical proposal submissions will be evaluated on (1) the overall basis of innovation and scientific merit; (2) the relevance to submarine escape, rescue, and diving; (3) the overall value and affordability of the proposal; and (4) the offeror?s capabilities, strengths and weaknesses or unique combinations of these that are integral factors for achieving the proposal objectives. The Government reserves the right to select for funding any, all, part or none of the responses received. For efforts funded as contracts, evaluation of the socio-economic merits will include the extent of commitment in providing meaningful subcontracting opportunities for small business, small disadvantaged business, woman-owned small business concerns, and historically black colleges and universities. This is to notify potential offerors that each contract that may be placed under this announcement, or solicitation to an institution of higher education must include the following clause: ?As a condition for receipt of funds available to the Department of Defense (DoD) under this award, the recipient agrees that it is not an institution that has a policy of denying, and that it is not an institution that effectively prevents the Secretary of Defense from obtaining for military recruiting purposes: (A) an entry to campuses or access to students on campuses; or (B) access to directory information pertaining to students. If the recipient is determined, using procedures establ ished by the Secretary of Defense to implement Section 558 of Public Law 103-337 (1994), to be such an institution during the period of performance of this agreement, and therefore to be in breach of this clause, the Government will cease all payments of DoD funds under this agreement and all other DoD grants and cooperative payments unilaterally for material failure to comply with the terms and conditions of award.? If your institution has been identified under the procedures established by the Secretary of Defense to implement Section 558, then: (1) no funds available to DoD may be provided to your institution through any contract, including any existing contract, (2) as a matter of policy, this restriction also applies to any cooperative agreement, and (3) your institution is not eligible to receive a contract or cooperative agreement in response to this solicitation." See instructions above for pre-proposals and proposals. The Government?s preference is to award definitive contracts under this BAA. However, an award can be made via grant at the sole discretion of the Government. All responsive sources may submit proposals that will be considered by NSWCPC. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and Minority Institutions (MI) are encouraged to submit proposals or join others in submitting proposals; however, no portion of this BAA will be set aside for HBCU and MI participation due to the impracticality of reserving discrete and severable areas of submarine escape, rescue, and diving for exclusive competition among these entities. This announcement constitutes a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) as contemplated in FAR 6.102(d) (2) (i). The Government reserves the right to select for award all, some, or none of the proposals receive d in response to this announcement. Questions regarding this announcement should be directed to the Contract Specialist identified herein. Technical content questions should be addressed to CAPT John Murray, Deep Submergence Biomedical Development Program Manager, (202) 781-4361. Interested parties are invited to respond to this synopsis. All responsible parties will be considered. POC and address to mail pre-proposals and proposals: NSWCPC, Naval Experimental Diving Unit, 321 Bullfinch Rd., Panama City, FL 32407-7015, Attn: Lisa Williams, Code 02. or E-mail: lisa.m.williams@navy.mil. The following additional information is provided: (1) proposals may be submitted by any commercial firm, or institution of higher education (there is no longer a requirement that the entity be U.S. in origin), (2) not withstanding the dates specified in this BAA, proposals may be submitted an y time prior to expiration of the BAA, (3) the following e-mail point of contact is provided for information regarding technical programs/technologies of interest within the two areas identified: CAPT John Murray (MurrayJW@NAVSEA.NAVY.MIL), and (4) the following e-mail points of contact are provided for information regarding contractual issues: Primary POC - Ms. Mary Hines (mary.f.hines@navy.mil). Backup POC - Ms. Carol Dreger (carol.a.dreger@navy.mil)
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