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A -- MOBILE OFFSHORE BASES - PART 1 OF 2 POC Mr. Gene Remmers, ONR 334 (703) 696-0814. Part 1 of 2 for BAA 96-010-The Office of Naval Research is soliciting proposals for Mobile Offshore Base (MOB) concepts and the development of critical technology for the feasibility and successful design of a MOB. This announcement constitutes a BAA as contemplated in the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) 6.102(d)2. This BAA does not commit the Government to award contracts. Funding designated for this Program has not been released. Contract awards will be based on proposal merit and funding availability. The ONR MOBs Program follows the ARPA MOBs Program which pursued risk reduction technologies while focusing on developing a feasible engineering solution for a full scale MOB. The ARPA MOBs Program was funded through FY95 and work is still on-going. MOBs are very large floating structures that have been proposed to perform a variety of missions including serving as a replacement for a variety of current land bases. MOBs have been proposed as bases for tactical, logistic, command and control, naval support for joint theater operations, continuous overseas presence, extend and maintain operational reach within a theater of operations, conduct pre-planned and crisis-generated operations, and stow, maintain, and deliver selective pre-positioned equipment, fuel, and water. A Mission Needs Statement (MNS) has been prepared and can be provided to prospective offerors. CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES-Areas where uncertainties and risk need to be removed or reduced to enable the successful design, construction, installation, and operation of a MOB include, but are not limited to: (a) Design Technology for these long and very flexible structures (175 to 200 meters wide and up to several kilometers long. Accurate determination of the hydrodynamic response, structural loads, and connector loads and the techniques for specifying the design environmental conditions are required, (b) Mooring in deep ocean locations and fuel efficient dynamic positioning systems for extended periods. A practical and economically viable system is required, (c) The connector system for large MOB modules. A system that can tolerate the hydrodynamically induced loads, maintains alignments suitable for air operations, and allows at-sea assembly and disassembly of the MOB modules is required, (d) Advanced structural materials that reduce cost and extend life, (e) Mitigation or management of the relative motion between the MOB and cargo vessels, amphibious ships or lighters in order to facilitate open ocean cargo transfer operations or at sea repair functions, and (f) MOB concepts that are suited to the myriad of capabilities listed in the Mission Needs Statement (MNS). New concepts as well as extensions of existing MOB concepts are encouraged. ABSTRACTS AND PROPOSALS-Proposals from all responsible sources will be considered. Offerors, either individually or teamed, are strongly encouraged to submit an abstract of their proposed work to reduce unwarranted effort, however, it is not a requirement for submission or selection of a proposal. Any offeror's abstract found to be consistent with the intent of this BAA and of interest to the program will be invited to submit a full technical and cost proposal. Such invitations do not assure subsequent contract award. The decision to initially submit or not submit a proposal is the responsibility of the Offeror. No award can be made without a proposal to perform a specific effort within an estimated cost and time framework. This solicitation will remain open for 365 days from the date of this announcement. Offerors may submit separate proposal abstracts on any or all of the specified areas of interest. To be considered in the initial contract award period, abstracts should be submitted by 14 June 96. ONR will attempt to respond to all proposal abstracts in 60 days of receipt. Abstracts will not be accepted after 365 days from the date of this announcement. The government reserves the right to select for award all, some, or none of the proposals received in this announcement. Abstracts shall be submitted in the following format: (A) Pages 8.5 x 11 inches, single or double spaced, in at least ten point type. (B) Title page - clearly labeled ''proposal abstract'', including this BAA number, Proposal Title, plus offeror's administrative and technical points of contact along with telephone and facsimile numbers, and signed by an authorized officer. (C) Summary (five single-sided pages maximum) to include: technical ideas proposed and their anticipated contribution to enhanced 'Mobile Offshore Base' technologies, anticipated deliverables, and total cost. Proposals Shall Consist of Two Volumes: Volume I shall provide the technical proposal and management approach and Volume II shall address cost. The proposal shall use the same page format as the abstracts. Margins shall not be less than one inch, with one-sided printing and pages numbered. Each technical and cost proposal shall address one subject area. Offerors wishing to combine more than one subject area in the same contract, in addition to submitting separate technical and cost proposals for each area, shall also submit commentary clearly identifying any cost and schedule benefits if their multi-area approach is selected. Volume I must be no longer than 20 single-sided pages. Total allowed page count includes figures with fold-out section counted as one page. This concludes Part 1 of 2 (0101)

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