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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF JANUARY 4,1996 PSA#1503

Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), Contracts Management Office (CMO), 3701 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203-1714

A -- DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF POWER SYSTEMS FOR LAND VECHICLES SOL BAA96-09 DUE 010396 POC John Gully, ARPA/TTO, fax (703)696-8401. Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), Contracts Management (CMO), 3701 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203-1714. A - DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF POWER SYSTEMS FOR LAND VEHICLES, SOL BAA 96-09, DUE 022196, POC: JOHN GULLY, ARPA/TTO, FAX (703) 696-8401. PROGRAM OBJECTIVES AND DESCRIPTION: The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is soliciting proposals for the design and analysis of hybrid electric power systems for advanced land combat vehicles. This effort is part of ARPA's Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD) Program to demonstrate the application of concurrent engineering on land vehicle design. ARPA is seeking innovative design and analysis concepts supporting hybrid electric power system architectures, including power system components and electric subsystem loads, applied to advanced scout vehicle platform configurations. BACKGROUND: The military is developing numerous electrically powered subsystems that will provide superior capability for ground forces in mobility, lethality, deployability, command and control, and survivability. Typically, a dedicated power supply has been developed for each of the subsystems. For this effort, a high degree of integration of the power system and the subsystems will be required to fit the equipment within the space and weight constraints of a combat vehicle. Through the use of Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD), it is postulated that electric power system architectures can be designed, modeled and simulated under various conditions, integration and performance constraints identified, manufacturing processes assessed, user utility evaluated, and critical technology selected for further development before hardware prototypes are fabricated. Ultimately, the time and cost for development of superior military capability will be reduced and the military will reap the benefits of superior performance at lower costs. PROGRAM SCOPE: ARPA has budgeted approximately $3.7 million for FY 1996 for the design and analysis of the power system architectures for advanced land vehicles. Proposals should not exceed 18 months in length. Multiple awards ae anticipated. Partial efforts that address individual critical issues will be considered, however, teaming of these efforts into a coherent program capable of meeting the objectives is encouraged. The offeror is required to have an existing approved capability (personnel and facility) to perform SECRET/NOFORN classified work. Development of hardware and software for the electric power system component technologies and laboratory demonstration of architectures may be a Government requirement in the future, however, such proposals are not within the scope of this BAA. Offerors are notified that designs and analyses of power system architectures for land vehicles resulting from this program will be assessed by government experts using an ARPA developed hybrid electric vehicle design and analysis tool. This assessment will occur at the completion of the awarded effort(s). The ARPA tool is currently under development and is a series hybrid vehicle model integrated in MATLAB/SIMULINK incorporating a library of electrical system configuration modules, military-specific subsystem modules, a transient engine module, an advanced vehicle dynamics module, road cycle modules, controller modules, and a Graphical User Interface. The tool will be made available to the contractor(s) before it is used to assess the architectures. GENERAL INFORMATION: Offerors must submit an original and seven (7) copies of proposals to the administrative address for this BAA on or before 4:00 PM (EST), February 21, 1996, in order to be considered. Offerors are required to obtain a pamphlet, BAA 96-09 Proposer Information, which provides further information on proposal format, the submission, evaluation and funding processes, technical scope, land vehicle definition, and other general information. Requests for this pamphlet, all administrative correspondence, and questions on this solicitation should be directed to one of the administrative addresses below, e-mail or fax is preferred. ARPA intends to use electronic mail and fax for correspondence regarding BAA 96-09. Proposals not meeting the format described in the pamphlet may not be reviewed. Facsimile transmissions or electronic media transmissions of the proposal will not be accepted, any so sent will be disregarded. It is the policy of ARPA to treat all proposals as competitive information and to disclose the contents only for the purposes of evaluation. The Governmentintends to use selected technical experts from System Planning Corporation and Maritime Applied Physics Corporation to read the proposals and provide advice on specific technical areas. These companies are restricted by their contract from disclosing any submitted information or using it for purposes other than performing the technical assessment. By submission of a proposal, the offeror agrees that its technical and management information may be disclosed to those selected technical experts for the limited purpose stated above. Nondisclosure notices notwithstanding, proposals will be handled for administrative purposes by a support contractor, System Planning Corporation. Selections under this BAA will be made only by Government evaluators. This CBD notice, in conjunction with the pamphlet BAA 96-09 Proposer Information, constitutes the Broad Agency Announcement as contemplated by FAR 6.102(d)(2). A formal RFP or other solicitation regarding this announcement will not be issued. Requests for same will be disregarded. Evaluation and selection of proposal(s) for award will be made to those offerors whose proposal is considered most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The Government reserves the right to select for award any, all, part, or none of the proposals received in response to this announcement. In addition, the Government reserves the right to award either contracts or assistance instruments. All responsible sources capable of satisfying the Government's needs may submit proposals which will be evaluated as received. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and Minority Institutions (MI) are encouraged to submit proposals and 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 or severable areas of research in the design and analysis of advanced power systems for land vehicles. EVALUATION CRITERIA: Evaluation of the proposals will be based on the following four criteria, which are listed in decreasing order of relative importance: (1) overall scientific and technical merit, (2) offeror's capabilities and related experience, (3) potential contribution and relevance to the ARPA mission, and (4) cost and cost realism. Note: cost realism will only be significant in proposals which have significantly under or over estimated the cost to cmplete their effort. The administrative addresses for this BAA are: Fax: (703) 696-8401 (Addressed to: ARPA/TTO, BAA 96-09) Electronic Mail: baa9609@arpa.mil Mail: ARPA/TTO, ATTN: BAA 96-09, 3701 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203-1714. (0002)

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