[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 48, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 48CFR35.016]



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            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]