R&D Contracting Directorate, 2530 C St, Wright-Patterson AFB, 45433- 7607

A -- INCREMENTAL UPGRADE OF LEGACY SYSTEMS (IULS) - PART 2 OF 2 SOL PRDA NO 96-13-11K POC Contact Danette Porter, Contract Negotiator, 513-255-2206 or Cynthia Hollingsworth, Contracting Officer, 513-255-2206. D--PROPOSAL PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS: (1) General Instructions: Offerors should apply the restrictive notice described in the provision of FAR 52.215-12, Restriction on Disclosure and Use of Data, to trade secrets or privileged commercial and financial information contained in their proposals. Proposal questions should be directed to one of the points of contact listed elsewhere herein. Offerors should consider instructions contained in the WL PRDA and BAA Guide for Industry referenced Section A of this announcement. Technical and cost proposals, submitted in separate volumes, are required and must be valid for 180 days. Proposals must reference the above PRDA number. Proposals shall be submitted in an original and five copies. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered against the criteria set forth herein. Offerors are advised that only contracting officers are legally authorized to contractually and or otherwise commit the government. (2) Cost Proposal: The accompanying cost proposal/price breakdown shall be supplied on an SF 1411, together with supporting schedules, and shall contain a person-hour breakdown per task. In addition, the cost proposal/price breakdown shall include a cost summary of all direct and indirect costs by each severable technical task proposed to be accomplished. Copies of the above-referenced forms may be obtained from the contracting office cited. (3) Technical Proposal: The technical proposal shall include the discussion of the nature and scope of the research and the technical approach. Responders must provide new or unique concepts, ideas, or approaches in order to qualify for evaluation and consideration for award. The technical proposal shall include a Statement of Work (SOW) detailing the technical tasks proposed to be accomplished under the proposed effort and suitable for contract incorporation. Offerors shall propose and clearly delineate VHDL model development plan and show prior experience in Virtual Prototyping with VHDL and top down development and implementation experience. Additional information on prior work in this area, descriptions of available equipment, data and facilities, and resumes of personnel that will be participating in this effort should also be included as attachments to the technical proposal and are not included in the page limit. Offerors should refer to the WL Guide referenced in Section A to assist in SOW preparation. Public Law (PL) 98-94, International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR) applies. Offerors must submit approved DD Form 2345, Export-Controlled DOD Technical Data Agreement with their proposal. Any questions concerning the technical proposal or SOW preparation shall be referred to the Technical Point of Contact cited in this announcement. (4) Page Limitations: The technical proposal shall be limited to 50 pages (at least size 12 font), double-spaced, single-sided, 8.5 by 11 inches. The page limitation includes all information, i.e. indexes, photographs, foldouts, appendices, attachments, etc. Pages in excess of this limitation will not be considered by the government. Offerors are requested and highly encouraged to submit an electronic copy of the technical and cost proposals as Microsoft Word For Windows V6.0 documents. Cost proposals have no limitations, however, offerors are requested to keep cost proposals to no more than 75 pages as a goal. (5) Preparation Cost: This announcement does not commit the government to pay for any response preparation cost. The cost of preparing proposals in response to this PRDA is not considered an allowable direct charge to any resulting or any other contract. However, it may be an allowable expense to the normal bid and proposal indirect cost as specified in FAR 31.205-18. E--BASIS FOR AWARD: The selection of one or more sources for award will be based on an evaluation of an offeror's response (both technical and cost aspects) to determine the overall merit of the proposal in response to the announcement. The technical aspect, which is ranked as the first order of priority, shall be evaluated based on the following criteria which are of equal importance: (a) new and creative solutions, (b) the offeror's understanding of the scope of the technical effort, (c) the soundness of the offeror's technical approach, (d) the competence and availability of technical personnel and their experience with avionics related hardware and software technologies, (e) the offeror's experience with the development and transition of avionics systems (hardware and software) and related technology, (f) the offeror's potential and capability for the transition of the proposed avionics technology developed under this effort to weapon system developers and users, and (g) the degree of both technical and schedule risk associated with the offeror's proposal. Cost, which includes consideration of proposed budgets, funding profiles and risk, is ranked as the second order of priority. No other evaluation criteria will be used. The technical and cost information will be evaluated at the same time. The Air Force reserves the right to select for award of a contract any, all, part, or none of the proposals received. Award of a grant to universities or nonprofit institutions or cooperative agreement, in lieu of a contract, will be considered and will be subject to the mutual agreement of the parties. F--POINTS OF CONTACT: (1) Technical Contact Point: Project Engineer, Marc Pitarys, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, (513) 255-6548, Email: pitarymj@aa.wpafb.af.mil. (2) Contracting/Cost Point of Contact: Questions related to the contract/cost issues should be directed to the Contract Negotiator identified in Part A. (0081)

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