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B -- BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT DUE 011598 POC Point of Contact -- William D. Niewood, Contract Specialist, 215-697-9653, Contracting Officer, Mario J. Cesarone, 215-697-9653 E-MAIL: click here to contact SUP43 via e-mail, thomas_p_pate@navsup.navy.mil. Alternative Methods of Providing Personnel Services for Afloat Navy Sailors. BACKGROUND: The United States Navy uses traditional methods to provide a number of personal services to afloat sailors. Ship's Servicemen provide laundry service to the crew using commercial washers, dryers, dry cleaning plants and presses; hair cutting services for the crew using barbershops and individual barbers; and various food, sodas and assorted personal commodities using afloat retail ship's stores and vending machines. Although the services provided are essential for quality of life aboard deployed war-ships, the Navy is interested in exploring alternate means of providing these services via non-traditional methods that might offer potential cost and personnel savings. The cost of providing these services ranges from a few thousand dollars per year on small ships to several million dollars on larger platforms. Total cost to the Navy of providing these services to afloat sailors is estimated as high as $200 Million peryear. Requirements: The Navy is interested in finding lower cost alternatives for providing ship's store material, hair cuts and laundry service to the crews of Navy vessels. Alternatives to be explored should involve less paperwork and fewer personnel. Any Concept papers for providing some or all of these services are solicited. The primary goal of these Concept papers is to reduce the number of sailors afloat assigned to provide these services for the crew. This is a solicitation of ideas to be implemented on a prototype platform to verify the feasibility and measure crew satisfaction with the proposed new methods of providing the desired services. (1) Concept papers will be constrained by the requirement to maintain an acceptable quality of life for shipboard sailors. Significant reductions in services are not desired and a primary metric for determining success of the implemented proposal must be crew satisfaction surveys with the quality of shipboard services. (2) Concept papers must address sustainability issues. Contracting out for some services in port may provide a partial solution. However, the services must still be available to the crew for extended periods of at sea time. Stowage space limitations will provide a constraint on some options for providing services. Concept papers which require substantially more stowage space and might limit the sustainability of a war ship will not be considered. Surface combatants are frequently replenished at sea to maintain longer time on station. Any replenishment supplies or equipment must be packaged for transport on Navy replenishment ships and potential movement between ships via Navy Underway Replenishment (UNREP) procedures. (3) Concept papers will provide a detailed plan describing the alternative service methodology, man-power requirements, estimated costs, potential stowage requirements, and resupply options for afloat units. CRITERIA: Concept papers will be evaluated based on technical merit, scope of potential applicability, and cost. Note Items 1 through 3 are in descending order of importance. No particular sequence of importance is implied by the ordering of elements within items 1, 2 and 3. 1.Technical: Proposed mechanism to provide standard shipboard services to an afloat crew within the broad constraints of available technology. No Research and Development for new technology is desired. Concept papers should include only new applications of existing and proven technology. Proposed mechanism to convert afloat service operations from existing equipment, work spaces and personnel to the new method of providing the required services. Background and corporate experience in the areas of retail sales, laundry or barbershop management. 2.Scope: Potential for reduction in number of sailors currently providing this function. Potential for supporting Navy desire to standardize business practices and services provided across as many platforms as possible. Some unique difficulties are anticipated with application of any new methods to small units. However, priority will be given to those ideas with the widest possible potential for further expansion. 3.Cost: Proposal should include complete estimated cost for prototypes on a number of different sized platforms, ranging from small combatants to aircraft carriers. Concept papers should include estimated costs for expansion of the new methodologies beyond the prototype ships to all potential platforms. The purpose of this Broad Agency Announcement is to solicit Concept papers which will embody the above objectives for the Naval Supply Systems Command. Industry Associations as well as individual firms are encouraged to submit Concepts for consideration. Concept Papers can be submitted at any time but not later than COB 15 January 1998. The Navy reserves the right to select for award any or none of the responses received as well as the right to award to other than the lowest offeror. Contract award, if any, for concept development is expected to be made during the first quarter of calendar year 1998. Funding up to $250,000 may be available for this effort. The BAA is an expression of interest only and does not commit the government to pay any proposal preparation costs for responding to this BAA. Responses should be forwarded at no cost to the government. The cost of preparing Concept papers in response to this announcement is not considered an allowable direct charge to any resultant contract or any other contract. It is however, an allowable expense to normal bid and proposal indirect cost specified in FAR 31.205-18. All responsible sources may submit a concept paper which shall be considered by the Navy. All correspondence and offers are to be submitted by e-mail to: thomas_p_pate@navsup.navy.mil Or by mail to: Commander, Naval Supply Systems Command, Attn. SUP 43, 5450 Carlisle Pike, P O Box 2050, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 (0310)

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