Broad Agency Announcement Freshwater Oil Spill Preparedness, Response, and Science Research Part III

This announcement is being made to support the United States Coast Guard (USCG) Great Lakes Oil Spill Center of Expertise to open a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) 70Z02324RBAAGLCOE and will be funding with FY25 funds for a multi award service contract. This document supports a BAA as contemplated under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 35.016(d) and (e).

Contracts and/or Agreements based on responses to this BAA are the result of full and open competition and in full compliance with the provisions of Public Law (PL) 98-369, “The Competition in Contracting Act of 1984.” This announcement does not constitute a solicitation or a promise of a solicitation in the future. This announcement does not commit the Government to any contractual agreements or arrangements.

No entitlement or payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by the USCG will arise because of submission of responses to this announcement and USCG use of such information. USCG reserves the right to select for award and fund all, some, or none of the submissions received in response to this BAA. USCG will not provide funding or reimbursement for proposal development costs. Full submissions or any other material submitted in response to this BAA will not be returned. All submissions shall be unclassified.

USCG reserves the right to use this announcement and responses received as part of market research efforts and may appropriately use other FAR parts to procure services. This Broad agency announement consist of four themes with specific task. The reserach topics are listed within the Broad Agency Announcement document.

Eligible Offerors: This BAA is open to all responsible sources in accordance with FAR 2.101, which states, “Responsible prospective contractor means a contractor that meets the standards in 9.104.” To qualify for consideration for award, a proposal must provide a realistically achievable program approach for satisfying the requirements of USCG and should be appropriately scoped. The BAA reserves the government the right to select for award any, all, a part, or none of the proposals received in response to the BAA.

This is a full and open competition and all qualified offerors who meet the requirements of the BAA must submit a White Paper and a Technical Proposal. The cover page will be attached to this announcement. Please read all requirements within the Broad Agency Anoouncement and the Performance Work Statement. The white paper and technical proposal are two separate documents. The white paper is a summary of the technical proposal but cannot exceed 5 pages. All requirements for the technical proposal are listed in the BAA.