VIRTUAL PRIME VENDOR Part 2 OF 2 1. Enterprise Linked Logistics (Concept): The traditional supply chain is often a sequential pipeline between manufacturers, distributors, the DoD logistics system and a core group of customers. The activities that support the pipeline are equally sequential, and repeated for every member of the supply chain. In this mode each function in the supply chain is operating as an independent entity, buying and selling to the others and out of step with the actual customer requirements. Innovative approaches that establish virtual enterprises to respond to specific business needs are sought. Proposals should at a minimum address the vision of linking all the logistics processes with high performance technology and innovative business practices to achieve seamless automated processing of all supply chain management transactions. Results of any strategy should at a minimum assure that the following are addressed and optimized to the greatest extent possible: * focus on a depot maintenance facility or weapons system program * supply chain processes -- enterprise linked logistics -- from point of origin to point of consumption * business process modeling and configuability * best industry business practices * fewer boundaries, less organizational structuring * facilitate expansion to new business areas. These new strategies and visions will consistently fill requirements by the required delivery date, provide accurate forecasts of requirements, prevent work stoppages due to lack of material, improve maintenance cycle times, reduce inventory investment, provide for surge and sustainment during contingency operations, and utilize best industry practices to support the warfighter. 2. Information Technology: Driven by business needs, information technology has also undergone a rapid transformation over the same period, moving from transaction oriented mainframe applications to client/server distributed applications. Proposals should at a minimum address the vision of using internet and intranet infrastructures, using the worldwide web, using point and click browser clients which enable geometric growth in information access and the technology to be used to link the individual portions/subsystems of the entire logistics process. A fully integrated object-oriented engineering and management information system consisting of product definition, performance, distribution, and restoration objects coupled with an object-oriented enterprise model and a flexible information analysis tool to enhance the partnership's ability to effectively manage the logistics processes will be given the highest consideration. Once in place, this system could be extended to include an object-oriented modeling system that could further enhance the partnership's capability to demonstrate workload management and cost controls. 3. Management Plan: The government will evaluate your organizational controls and managerial approach over its workforce, suppliers, subcontractors, teaming arrangements, distribution and quality systems. The Government will evaluate criteria and plan for selecting and monitoring performance of all of the above to ensure receipt of parts and material consistent with distribution needs and quality standards. Therefore, the concept paper should include information regarding your organizational and management plans. 4. Industrial Readiness: The government will evaluate the concept to ensure that supplies and supply chain management will be sustained in case of national emergency and will achieve industrial mobilization in time of war, international turmoil, and any anticipated surges in requirements. Therefore, the concept should describe the approach to supporting this initiative and the manner in which the offeror will possess the: (1) Ability to forecast and react to surge requirements (2) Ability to rapidly escalate the operating tempo to support surge requirements and maintain level of sustainment. 5. Competition Goals: The government will evaluate the offeror's contractual alliances with suppliers, subcontractors and other supply chain components to ensure there is robust competition at the supplier level. The Government will evaluate the concept paper to ensure that such alliances or contractual relationships exist with the offeror and how this is ultimately beneficial to the Government in terms of cost effectiveness, availability, and quality. Therefore the concept paper should address the offerors contractual relationships, how the offeror employs these relationships to ensure competition at the supplier level, for cost effectiveness, availability, and quality. 6. Small Disadvantaged Business: The Government will evaluate both large and small business offers to determine what portion of their proposal will be subcontracted to Small Business (SB), Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB), and Women Owned Business (WOB) concerns in terms of percentages and dollars. The offeror should submit a plan for providing real business opportunity for SB, SDB, and WOB including specific socioeconomic objectives for each year of the contract. 7. DLA Mentoring Business Agreements: The government will evaluate the offeror s plans to develop maximum opportunity for small business and small disadvantaged businesses by participating in the DLA Mentoring Business Agreements (MBA) program. The DLA MBA Program ensures that small and small disadvantaged business concerns fully participate in the VPV Program. A plan should be submitted that addresses how the offer has or will obtain one or more agreements between itself and a SB or SDB. General Information. This BAA will remain open for 60 months. This notice in conjunction with the document BAA SP0410-97-V-0004, Proposer Information Packet (PIP), constitutes the total BAA. The PIP provides further information on the following: areas of interest, general expectations, submission process, evaluation process, evaluation criteria, concept abstract format, and concept paper format. The PIP is required, and may be obtained by electronic mail or fax. A formal RFP or other solicitation regarding this announcement will not be issued. The Government reserves the right to select all, some, or none of the concept papers received. All responsible sources capable of satisfying the Government s requirements may submit a concept paper which will be considered by DLA. In order to minimize unnecessary effort in concept paper preparation and review, offerors are encouraged to submit a brief concept abstract in advance of a full concept paper. An original and four copies of the concept abstract must be submitted on or before Oct 17, 1997, to receive an answer prior to the submission date for full concept papers. Upon review, DLA will provide written feedback on the likelihood of a full concept paper being considered. The cut-off date for receipt of administrative correspondence and questions is 4:00 PM, Nov 17, 1997. Concept papers, received on or before that date will be considered for initial contract awards. Concept papers received subsequent to that date will be considered for award at a later date. Offerors must submit an original and four copies of full concept papers by 4:00 PM Dec 12, 1997, in order to be evaluated. Concept papers not meeting the format described in the PIP may not be reviewed. Concept papers must be sent by mail, facsimile copies will not be accepted, any so sent will be disregarded. All administrative correspondence and questions to this BAA, including requests for information on how to submit a concept abstract or concept paper to this BAA, shall be directed to one of the administrative addresses below, e-mail is preferred. Administrative Addresses Mailing: Rita Chappell or Sherrill King Defense Supply Center Richmond 8000 Jefferson Davis Highway Richmond, VA 23237 E-mail rchappell@dscr.dla.mil gpp5330@dscr.dla.mil Phone Rita Chappell (804) 279-4504 Sherrill King (804) 279-5127 Fax (804) 279-3715

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