Terms and Conditions

Contract Use

• Basic and applied RDT&E activities carried out by Department of Defense (DoD) components, other U.S. government agencies and departments and their contractors, state and local governments, as well as international organizations in which the U.S. government is a member or participant
• Military or similarly related operations conducted by DoD components and other U.S. government agencies and departments or international organizations to which the United States belongs or foreign governments with which the United States has international agreements for military or related operations
• Development of doctrine, tactics or plans by DoD components, other government agencies and departments, and foreign military organizations to which the Department of Defense provides military assistance and sales
• Basic and applied research carried out by industry, academia, and other institutions where the results of such research are expected to provide benefits to the U.S. government in the future

RDT&E Services
RDT&E services may constitute applied research and/or development efforts for the primary purpose of advancing scientific and technical knowledge or applying that knowledge to the extent necessary to achieve agency and national goals.

A&AS Services
Advisory and assistance services (A&AS) shall be focused on enhancing the productivity of the Defense Research and Engineering community in performing their mission of ensuring that warfighters today and tomorrow have superior and affordable technology to support their missions and to give them revolutionary war-winning capabilities.

A&AS services as related to R&D focus areas may be applicable to one or more of the following categories:

• Management and professional support services — Contractual services that provide assistance, advice or training for the efficient and effective management and operation of organizations, activities (including management and support services for R&D activities), or systems. These services are normally closely related to the basic responsibilities and mission of the agency originating the requirement for the acquisition of services by contract. Included are efforts that support or contribute to improved organization of program management, logistics management, project monitoring and reporting, data collection, budgeting, accounting, performance auditing, and administrative technical support for conferences and training programs.
• Studies, analyses and evaluations — Contracted services that provide organized analytical assessments/evaluations in support of policy development, decision-making, management, or administration. Included are studies in support of R&D activities. Also included are acquisitions of models, methodologies, and related software supporting studies, analyses or evaluations.
• Engineering and technical services — Contractual services used to support the program office during the acquisition cycle by providing such services as systems engineering and technical direction to ensure the effective operation and maintenance of a weapon system or major system as defined in Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular No.A-109 or to provide direct support of a weapon system that is essential to research, development, production, operation or maintenance of the system.

Scope

The broad technical scope described herein includes all information assurance, software data and analysis, modeling and simulation, knowledge management, and/or other IT-related RDT&E and R&D-related A&AS services. These services may support all aspects of identified or potential military, national security-related, and dual use applications of information technologies, as well as the development of tools and techniques that enhance the mission of the DoD research and engineering community. IT is defined as any equipment, or interconnected system or subsystem of equipment that is used in the automatic acquisition, storage, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception of data or information.

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