Estimated Release: 08/12
Solicitation #: BCR119925027
Estimated Value: $1.9 Billion
Update 03.14.12: The contracting office released updated milestone information today. A draft RFP is expected in Q3FY12, and the solicitation is expected in Q4FY12. Proposals are scheduled due in Q1 FY13, with Final Proposal Revisions due in Q2 FY13.
The Department of Defense, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), has a requirement to support the Weapons of Mass Destruction - Defeat Technology (WMD-DT), Arms Control, and Nuclear Technology Electromagnetic Research and Development (R&D)/Survivability and Infrastructure programs with the Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Research and Technology Development program. The mission of the DTRA Research and Development (RD) Enterprise is to reduce national defense and homeland security WMD threats by conducting innovative research and development supporting the nation's WMD-related counterforce, consequence assessment, defeat and arms control objectives. Potential WMD threats include Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and High Explosive (CBRNE) materials.
CWMD SYNOPSIS
History: The mission of the DTRA Research and Development (RD) Enterprise is to reduce national defense and homeland security WMD threats by conducting innovative research and development supporting the nation's WMD-related counterforce, consequence assessment, defeat and arms control objectives. Potential WMD threats include Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and High Explosive (CBRNE) materials. In support of this mission, the RD Enterprise is seeking a multiple-source capability for performing research, technology development; technical, scientific and program analyses; and systems integration efforts that will provide scientific and technological solutions to meet the Department of Defense’s nonproliferation, counter-proliferation, consequence management and warfighter mission objectives.
Department: Department of Defense
Agency: Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
Description: The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is seeking industry feedback regarding the possibility of awarding a single set of Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) Multiple Award Contracts (MACs) as a follow-on to three existing sets of ID/IQ MACs supporting the Weapons of Mass Destruction - Defeat Technology (WMD-DT), Arms Control, and Nuclear Technology Electromagnetic Research and Development (R&D)/Survivability and Infrastructure programs. For informational purposes, the three sets of existing ID/IQ MACs have awarded orders for an aggregate value of approximately $1,899,284,753.
The scope of the potential ID/IQ MACs in CWMD will include accomplishing research and technology development; technical, scientific, and program analyses; systems integration; and technology transfer tasks. It will provide for delivery of products encompassing theoretical and experimental research, test and evaluation, and prototype development and demonstration. In addition, it will provide for exercise development and execution that directly achieve objectives in those areas or provide supporting technology information analysis tools and/or infrastructure.
Lastly, it will provide subject-matter expertise for reach-back support to operational commanders addressing scientific and technical questions on counter-WMD threats and mission space.
Contract Type and Other Characteristics: Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) Multiple Award Contracts (MACs).
Goals and Objectives: The contractor shall conduct research and development resulting in delivery of data, hardware, software, equipment and documentation across the scope of activities. It is envisioned that sources provide a broad spectrum of capabilities by including access to performers that may include, but not be limited to, private industry, academia, not-for-profit/specially chartered corporations, public service institutes and government laboratories. Individual task/delivery orders will be used to further define the technical objectives, schedule and deliverables, including compliance with appropriate policies, standards, and commercial processes, to meet requirements in the following broad functional areas: Counter WMD Weapons and Targets; Hazard Assessment and Prediction; Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Integration and Architecture; Systems Engineering; Systems Survivability; WMD Physical Countermeasures; WMD Medical Countermeasures; Technical Nuclear Forensics (TNF); Nuclear Detection; Standoff Detection; Treaty and Verification Technologies; and Security Requirements
Areas of Technology:
- Engineering and scientific expertise and technology development addressing weapons effects for lethality and survivability applications and providing capabilities and systems countering CBRNE WMD systems and threats.
- Collateral damage and effects to include transport through the environment and protective measures for CBRNE weapons, accidents and incidents.
- M&S and software development, test and integration and the supporting architecture and infrastructure to provide products, services and operational capability.
- The capability to integrate diverse and emerging technologies to meet customer needs with a verified product via a systems engineering process.
- Assess, develop demonstrate, evaluate and transition approaches and technologies to enhance the survivability and/or extend period of mission effectiveness of personnel and systems subjected to the effects of WMD such as transient radiation effects on electronics, electromagnetic pulse, ionizing radiation, blast, shock, temperature, contamination, infection, etc.
- Assess, develop demonstrate, evaluate and transition approaches, capabilities, and technologies to mitigate and/or defeat WMD effects including, but not limited to, detection, identification, shielding, protection, avoidance, neutralization, decontamination and related functions.
- Assess, develop demonstrate, evaluate and transition approaches and technologies to mitigate and/or defeat WMD effects including, but not limited to, diagnostics, pre-treatments, therapeutics, and related functions.
- Assess, develop demonstrate, evaluate and transition approaches, capabilities, and technologies in support of DTRA’s TNF research and development program. Includes technologies and capabilities supporting post-detonation prompt diagnostics, debris collection (air, ground and maritime), laboratory analysis, and data evaluation.
- Assess, develop, demonstrate, evaluate and transition capabilities and technologies to improve the ability to detect nuclear and radiological threats including gamma and neutron detection, spectroscopy, and Compton imaging, Helium-3 replacement technologies, dosimetry, isotope identification algorithms, multi-modal detection, data fusion, and alternative signatures.
- Assess, develop, demonstrate, evaluate and transition capabilities and technologies to improve the ability to detect nuclear and radiological threats at standoff distances by way of active interrogation (e.g. bremsstrahlung, monoenergetic gammas, protons, etc) and alternative signature techniques.
- Assess, develop, demonstrate, evaluate and transition approaches and technologies to enhance current and emerging on-site inspection, monitoring and verification requirements and activities for arms control initiatives, agreements, understandings and treaties.
- Security requirements can range from Unclassified to Top Secret/SCI and will be specific to each task/delivery order.
Structure of the RFP: This is still in the pre-RFP stage.
Proposal Preparation Challenges: TBD
Resources of OCI can be beneficial:
Based on the Draft RFI, this will not be an easy proposal to develop. A competitive and compliant CWMD proposal will require forward and detailed planning.
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