[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 48, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 48CFR35.016]

[Page 707-708]
 
            TITLE 48--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM
 
                CHAPTER 1--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION
 
PART 35_RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CONTRACTING--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  35.016  Broad agency announcement.

    (a) General. This paragraph prescribes procedures for the use of the 
broad agency announcement (BAA) with Peer or Scientific Review (see 
6.102(d)(2)) for the acquisition of basic and applied research and that 
part of development not related to the development of a specific system 
or hardware procurement. BAA's may be used by agencies to fulfill their 
requirements for scientific study and experimentation directed toward 
advancing the state-of-the-art or increasing knowledge or understanding 
rather than focusing on a specific system or hardware solution. The BAA 
technique shall only be used when meaningful proposals with varying 
technical/scientific approaches can be reasonably anticipated.
    (b) The BAA, together with any supporting documents, shall--
    (1) Describe the agency's research interest, either for an 
individual program requirement or for broadly defined areas of interest 
covering the full range of the agency's requirements;
    (2) Describe the criteria for selecting the proposals, their 
relative importance and the method of evaluation;
    (3) Specify the period of time during which proposals submitted in 
response to the BAA will be accepted; and
    (4) Contain instructions for the preparation and submission of 
proposals.
    (c) The availability of the BAA must be publicized through the 
Governmentwide point of entry (GPE) and, if authorized pursuant to 
subpart 5.5, may also be published in noted scientific, technical, or 
engineering periodicals. The notice must be published no less frequently 
than annually.
    (d) Proposals received as a result of the BAA shall be evaluated in 
accordance with evaluation criteria specified therein through a peer or 
scientific review process. Written evaluation reports on individual 
proposals will be necessary but proposals need not be evaluated against 
each other since they are not submitted in accordance with a common work 
statement.

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    (e) The primary basis for selecting proposals for acceptance shall 
be technical, importance to agency programs, and fund availability. Cost 
realism and reasonableness shall also be considered to the extent 
appropriate.
    (f) Synopsis under subpart 5.2, Synopses of Proposed Contract 
Actions, of individual contract actions based upon proposals received 
under the BAA is not required. The notice published pursuant to 
subparagraph (c), of this section, fulfills the synopsis requirement.

[53 FR 27467, July 20, 1988, as amended at 66 FR 27414, May 16, 2001; 68 
FR 56679, Oct. 1, 2003]