US Army Materiel Command Acquisition Center, Army Research Laboratory Contracting Division, Attn: AMSSB-ACA-P, 2800 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi, Maryland 20783-1197

R -- TECHNICAL SUPPORT/ADVISORY AND ASSISTANCE SERVICES FOR ADVISORY GROUP ON ELECTRON DEVICES & THE DEFENSE S&T RELIANCE SOL DAAD17-00-R-0009 DUE 073100 POC Robin E. Stoltz, Contract Specialist, 301-394-3381; Patricia S. Silsby, Contracting Officer 301-394-3438 The Army Research Laboratory (ARL) plans to award a three-year basic effort with two one-year optional efforts for technical and administrative support services in support of AGED. The contractor shall provide technical (scientific and economic) assessments of government, industrial and academic programs; and management/administrative recommendations for efforts related to the specific field of electronics in support of the Department of Defense (DoD) Advisory Group on Electron Devices (AGED); the AGED Executive Director; the Defense S&T Reliance; the Defense Technology Area Plan (DTAP) Panels; the Technology Area Review and Assessment (TARA) Team for Electronics; and the related Technology Panel for Electron Devices (TPED). The function of AGED is to provide technical assessment and recommendations to assist DoD, the Military Departments, and NASA in planning and recommending adequate and economical electron device research and development programs. The AGED and its three working groups are composed of Government employees and DoD consultants from industry and academia. The Defense S&T Reliance coordinates and manages Tri-Service sponsored work in microelectronics, RF components, electro-optical devices, electronic materials and electronic integration technology. The Defense S&T Reliance requires close coordination with AGED. The contractor will be responsible for providing AGED with staffing services, facilities to perform assessments, functions and more specifically tasks associated with DoD Instruction 5129.39. This shall include but is not limited to the following: 1) Conduct technical studies and analyses concerning electron device research and development; 2) summarize and document recent published reports related to electron devices; 3) conduct and document special AGED surveys required by the AGED Executive Director; 4) review and prepare written summaries of Active DoD in-house programs that may include funded and unfunded, DoD workpackages on electron devices; 5) plan for and organize meetings, provide meeting sites, prepare agendas, administer and document meetings of the AGED; 6) provide cleared personnel with final secret clearances and the capability to generate, receive, handle, process, distribute and store classified information, both in paper and in electronic media, up to and including the SECRET level; 7) develop and maintain an internet web page for distribution and collection of information; 8) create and maintain a data base sufficient to permit evaluation of the Tri-Service electron device program in terms of content, emphasis, balance, and realism of goals by the AGED; 9) maintain a government owned data base of all information received by the AGED concerning relevant foreign research and development in electron devices; 10) support the maintenance of a corporate memory by maintaining a government owned existing database to perform historical analyses of DoD sponsored electron device programs; 11) maintain facilities within a 25-mile radius of Arlington VA, which are easily accessible by the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Public Transport System (Metro-subway). The contractor's management structure shall be capable of responding to the flexible nature of the requirements of DoD Instruction 5129.39. Contractor support personnel assigned to the AGED Main Group, to each of the AGED Working Groups, to the TPED Working Group; and to the Defense S&T Reliance must be familiar with electron device research and development programs in order to provide the required support services. The contractor is responsible for a wide range of documentation that comprises a normal part of the day-to-day functions of AGED and the Defense S&T Reliance. The contractor shall plan for meetings and support the topics to be discussed or presented at these meetings based on the input from the services and other government agencies. The contractor shall document the meetings of the AGED Working Groups, AGED Main Group, TPED and Defense S&T Reliance. The contractor will be required to hold a SECRETCLEARANCE in order to prepare and process agendas and reports, review and assess documents and conduct meetings. The contractor must be available to accomplish each of the tasks and to provide the degree of technical knowledge to respond to the changing nature of this program. The contractor will be required to plan meetings that will be held within 25 miles of Arlington, VA, and shall maintain facilities that are easily accessible via the metro. In the event that an issue arises that cannot suffer a delayed response, the contractor will be required to conduct a poll to coordinate participant comments/votes on specific program/problems. The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code for this acquisition is 7375 -- Information Retrieval Services. Interested parties are advised that there will be no paper copies of the solicitation issued. The solicitation will be made available on line at http://w3.arl.mil/contracts/opport.htm, and solicitation amendments, if any, will also be found at the same location. Offerors are responsible for checking the website to ensure they have the latest information available concerning this acquisition. This is a follow-on to contract F33615-97-C-1007 with Palisades Institute for Research Services, Inc., New York, NY 10014-4889 issued by USAF/AFMC/ASC, Wright Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7607. Posted 06/13/00 (W-SN464294). (0165)

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