Defense Production Act Title III

Program overview
This program is being managed by an open-ended Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) to solicit production technology proposals for the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III Program. It is being managed by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and executed by the DoD Executive Agent, Air Force Research Laboratory, Manufacturing Technology Division (AFRL/MLM) of the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate. This BAA is anticipated to remain open throughout the period that the Defense Production Procurement Act (50 USC App 2061 et seq.) is authorized by law (now 30 Sep 2008). Proposals will be requested via the issuance of Calls to this basic BAA. 

The overall objective of this program is to provide DPA Title III with a procurement vehicle for executing anticipated and unanticipated appropriations and urgent requirements for emerging technical areas of interest and relevance to OSD. Multiple contract awards and/or assistance instruments are anticipated with various values and with typically 18 to 60-month periods of performance. The DPA Title III Production Technology Partnership program is being initiated via release of this baseline BAA Nr. 04-08-PKM announcement. This baseline announcement describes the overall programming. Calls to the BAA/solicitation will be issued in the FedBizOps/EPS/Grants.gov/FIND to request proposals for specific Production Technology Partnership efforts as new topics are identified. BAA Calls will contain descriptions of production technology efforts to be addressed, anticipated period of performance, information peculiar to the specific production technology, and the expected dollar range for proposals received under the BAA Call. Once a BAA Call is issued in the FedBizOps/EPS/Grants.gov/FIND, offerors will have 30 to 45 calendar days (the actual period will be specified in the BAA Calls) from the announcement date of the FedBizOps/EPS/Grants.gov/FIND to submit proposals. Proposals received outside of the set forth proposal period (i.e. a BAA Call already issued and the proposal due date has passed, or a BAA Call has not yet been issued) will not be reviewed and will be returned to the offeror. Multiple BAA Calls are anticipated and may be announced sequentially or concurrently in the FedBizOps/EPS/Grants.gov/FIND. The Government reserves the right to re-issue a previously announced Production Technology Partnership (via BAA Call) with a subsequent proposal period. The Government also reserves the right to make no award (if proposal submissions warrant same) against any subsequent BAA Call for a Production Technology Partnership topic.

Program entry requirements
Any person or activity within or outside the DoD interested in participating can submit a response to the BAA

Data and supporting information requirements
Per BAA Instruction

Schedule
Per BAA Instructions
(Note: For general information about a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) click here)

Links

http://www.acq.osd.mil/ott/dpatitle3