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NAICS CODE: 541715
FEDERAL AGENCY NAME: Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFRL - Rome Research Site, AFRL/Information Directorate, 26 Electronic Parkway, Rome, NY, 13441-4514
BAA ANNOUNCEMENT TYPE: Initial announcement
BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA) TITLE: Composable Collaborative Planning
BAA NUMBER: FA8750-21-S-7003
PART I – OVERVIEW INFORMATION
This announcement is for an Open, 2 Step BAA which is open and effective until 28 Feb 2026. Only white papers will be accepted as initial submissions; formal proposals will be accepted by invitation only. While white papers will be considered if received prior to 4 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST) on 28 Feb 2026, the following submission dates are suggested to best align with projected funding:
FY21 by 22 MAR 2021 (8 AM EST)
All potential Offerors are requested to wait to submit white papers for future fiscal years (FYs) until the BAA announcement is updated with specific dates. The BAA will be amended to include new and updated in-scope technology requirements in FYs 22-25.
Offerors should monitor the Contract Opportunities on the Beta SAM website at https://beta.SAM.gov in the event this announcement is amended.
A virtual Industry Day on this topic was held on 18 Feb 2021. Details regarding format and attendee access can be found in Beta SAM under a special announcement with the same BAA title.
CONCISE SUMMARY OF TECHNOLOGY REQUIREMENT: Seeking innovative research to develop a Composable Collaborative Planning to overcome the serial and time-intensive nature of existing planning techniques and to enable parallel planning to be performed at the operational level. This research will focus on addressing the Force Flow planning problem for Operation Plan (OPLAN) development to address critical planning needs. This research will rethink how dependencies and conflicts are discovered, tracked, and managed in order to reduce the overall planning time.. Specifically, this research seeks to: 1) Overcome global complexity problem through the investigation of dependency & assumption tracking techniques and 2) Develop a composable and collaborative planning framework to enable parallel planning across the diverse set of highly specialized teams. A key idea is to share the resources and context of the other planning stages to all other stages to allow the respective planning teams to have context of the dependencies and plan requirements both upstream and downstream.
BAA ESTIMATED FUNDING: Total funding for this BAA is approximately $24.5M. Individual awards will not normally exceed 24 months with dollar amounts normally ranging from $500,000 to $2,000,000 per Technical Area. There is also the potential to make awards up to any dollar value as long as the value does not exceed the available BAA ceiling amount. While the initial funding for this BAA will come from the Shared Context Planning (SCP) program, it is anticipated that there will be follow on programs that will complement the work started by SCP that align with the original scope of this BAA.
ANTICIPATED INDIVIDUAL AWARDS: Multiple Awards are anticipated.
TYPE OF INSTRUMENTS THAT MAY BE AWARDED:
Procurement contracts, grants, cooperative agreements or other transactions (OT) depending upon the nature of the work proposed. In the event that an Other Transaction for Prototype agreement is awarded as a result of this competitive BAA, and the prototype project is successfully completed, there is the potential for a prototype project to transition to award of a follow-on production contract or transaction. The Other Transaction for Prototype agreement itself will also contain a similar notice of a potential follow-on production contract or agreement.
AGENCY CONTACT INFORMATION: All white paper submissions and any questions of a technical nature shall be directed to the cognizant Technical Point of Contact (TPOC) as specified below (unless otherwise specified in the technical area):
BAA MANAGER:
Aaron McVay
AFRL/RISB
525 Brook Rd
Rome, NY 13441-4505
Telephone: (315) 330-4780
Email: [email protected]
Questions of a contractual/business nature shall be directed to the cognizant Contracting Officer, as specified below (email requests are preferred):
Amber Buckley
Telephone (315) 330-3605
Email: [email protected]
Emails must reference the solicitation (BAA) number and title of the acquisition.
Pre-Proposal Communication between Prospective Offerors and Government Representatives: Dialogue between prospective offerors and Government representatives is encouraged. Technical and contracting questions can be resolved in writing or through open discussions. Discussions with any of the points of contact shall not constitute a commitment by the Government to subsequently fund or award any proposed effort. Only Contracting Officers are legally authorized to commit the Government.
Offerors are cautioned that evaluation ratings may be lowered and/or proposal rejected if proposal preparation (Proposal format, content, etc.) and/or submittal instructions are not followed.
SEE ATTACHMENT FOR FULL ANNOUCEMENT DETAILS.
AMENDMENT 1 to BAA FA8750-21-S-7003
The purpose of this modification is to republish the original announcement, incorporating any previous amendments, pursuant to FAR 35.016(c).
This republishing also includes the following changes:
No other changes are made.
SEE ATTACHMENT FOR FULL AMENDMENT DETAILS.