Supply Department Indian Head Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, 101 Strauss Ave, Indian Head, MD 20640-5035

A -- BAA 98-006 GREEN ENERGETIC MATERIAL SOL BAA 98-006 POC Brenda Price, (301) 743-6570, Code 1143B E-MAIL: BAA 98-006 Synopsis, BrendaPrice@mail.ih.mavy.mil. The Indian Head Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center in collaboration with the Naval Sea Systems Command is soliciting pollution prevention technologies for application to insensitive munitions energetic materials/components. These low adverse environmental impact (or "green") technologies must also support the Navy's Insensitive Munitions requirements as defined by MIL-STD-2105B. Specific areas of interest include ingredients, formulations, synthesis, processing, solvent elimination, modeling, simulation, testing, recover/recycle/reuse technologies, and environmental impact assessment techniques for propellants/rocket motors, explosives/warheads, primers/igniter/detonators and pyrotechnics. Particular emphasis should be placed on the ability to reduce life cycle costs of the energetic materials by addressing environmental issues, increasing/maintaining performance, and elimination of the need for destructive disposal techniques for generated weapon system waste from manufacture and disposal. Technologies will need to be mature and commercially available to support fleet introduction within a three-year period. Offerors are requested to submit an abstract of their proposed effort prior to submitting a completed proposal to preclude unwarranted effort on the part of the offer. Any offeror whose abstract is found to be consistent with the intent of the BAA will be invited to submit a full technical proposal. Such an invitation does not assure subsequent contract award. Abstracts should conform to the following format: (a) title page -- include point-of-contact along with address, telephone and telefax numbers, e-mail address, and signature by an authorized officer; (b) summary section -- not to exceed three pages that includes an overview of the proposed technology, approach, impact (quantified in terms of waste reduction, cost (implementation & savings), insensitive munitions, performance, and regulatory), deliverables, estimated program cost and schedule. Proposals submitted within twelve months after BAA publication will be considered for award if funding is available. Proposed work should be structured to have a base period of performance of twelve months, but may include multiple years phased options that could extend beyond an initial twelve-month period. No award can be made without a proposal to perform a specific effort within an estimated cost and schedule. The Indian Head Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center anticipates that initial selections will be made during October/November 1998 timeframe. This announcement will remain open for 365 days from the date of publication. Offerors may submit separate proposals abstracts on any or all of the specific areas of interest. Proposals may be reviewed and acted on as they arrive. The Government reserves the right to select for award all, some, or none of the proposals received in response to this announcement. It is the policy of the Indian Head Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, to treat all proposals as competitive information and to disclose the contents only for the purpose of evaluation. Proposals shall conform to the stated format and include the following information. (a) title page -- include point-of-contact along with address, telephone and telefax numbers, e-mail address, and signature by an authorized officer; (b) summary of technology and deliverables; (c) impact section -- quantified in terms of waste reduction, cost (implementation & savings), insensitive munitions, performance, and regulatory; (d) statement of work -- clearly detail the scope and objectives of the effort, and specific contractor requirements -- if any portion of the effort is predicated upon use of government owned resources of any type, the contractor shall clearly identify the resource(s) required, the date the resource is required, the duration of the requirement, the sources from which the resource(s) may be acquired, if known; (e) schedule and milestones; (f) cost and fee summary -- detailed cost breakdown by fiscal year, by tasks or subtasks of labor hours by labor category, materials, travel, or other direct or indirect costs; (g) summary of proprietary claims to results, or systems developed in or supporting this proposal. Offeror's should submit proposal(s) (original and two hard copies) to Indian Head Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Attn: Code 1143B (Brenda Price), 101 Strauss Avenue, Indian Head Maryland 20640-5035. To be considered in the initial contract award period, proposals should be submitted by offerors within 30 days of notification that their abstract was found to be consistent with the BAA. Evaluation of proposals will be based on the following criteria (1) overall technical merit of the proposed effort to lower/eliminate the adverse environmental impact, meet insensitive munitions and performance requirements, and lower life cycle costs of energetic materials/components; (2) cost and schedule realism (included is the maturity of the technology to meet fleet transition within a three year period); (3) offeror's capabilities, related experience, facilities, techniques, and unique qualifications; (4) cost sharing or leveraged funding; (5) extent of application for technology (single system/Service versus multiple systems/Service). All proposals submitted to the Indian Head Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center shall be considered government property. This announcement solicits the participation of all offerors capable of satisfying government needs. The government will not cover any costs associated with proposal preparation, nor pay, as a direct expense preparation cost on awarded contracts. (0140)

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