DOW-UAP-D111, AAWSAP Solicitation and Original Order, September 2008
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This document is an administrative or programmatic record related to the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP), a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)-administered program active from 2008 to 2012.
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Short overview
The original award document for the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP): a 59-page “Solicitation/Contract/Order for Commercial Items” (Standard Form 1449) with which the Virginia Contracting Activity at Bolling AFB, Washington, D.C., awarded contract HHM402-08-C-0072 to Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) of Las Vegas on September 22, 2008.
Why this is interesting
The form puts the total award at $21,948,810 as a firm-fixed-price contract and incorporates the BAASS proposal of September 3, 2008 by reference; the solicitation had been issued on September 1 with offers due on September 10. The base year is split into six priced line items: twelve monthly status reports ($2,887,000), project management plans for the twelve technical tasks 3.a.1–3.a.12 ($3,600,000), research reports on the same tasks ($2,100,000), a comprehensive integrated threat assessment ($240,000), travel ($50,000) and other direct costs ($1,123,000); an option year repeats these items at different prices. What the twelve tasks actually are is not stated here — they appear only by number, and the substance lies in the Statement of Objectives (DOW-UAP-D110), while later changes such as the modification DOW-UAP-D114 build on this contract. From page 6 onward the file consists of a table of contents and standard federal procurement clauses, among them a “Rights in Data—Special Works” clause that gives the government unlimited rights in all data delivered under the contract and forbids the contractor to publish such data without written permission of the contracting officer. The names of the contracting officer and of the government’s representative for the contract are redacted.
Selected passages
- “Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, Inc (BAASS) proposal dated 9/3/2008 is incorporated by reference.”
Background
This document is an administrative or programmatic record related to the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP), a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)-administered program active from 2008 to 2012. AAWSAP’s official scope of work identified 12 technical research areas relating to potential aerospace threats over a time horizon of more than 40 years. As an administrative record, the file documents how AAWSAP was scoped, organized, tasked, funded, or described at a particular point in time. This September 2008 solicitation/contract/order document serves as the original contract award instrument for AAWSAP work performed by Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, Inc. (BAASS), incorporating the contractor’s proposal by reference and translating the earlier Statement of Objectives (DOW-UAP-D110) into priced contract line items. The file breaks the base year into specific deliverable categories, including monthly status reports, program management plans for the 12 technical areas, research reports, a comprehensive integrated threat assessment, travel, and other direct costs, and corresponding option-year line items for follow-on performance.