Broad
Agency Announcement (BAA) Development
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Purpose
To encourage contract proposals using
creative and innovative approaches in research areas identified by the
government.
Procedure
Project Officers
Working on a broad
agency announcement (BAA) follows similar procedures to a request
for proposals (RFP), with a few exceptions. BAAs differ from standard
RFPs in the following ways:
- Instead of a statement
of work, the government provides
research and technical objectives in the BAA solicitation that describe the
research areas the government is interested in.
- The offeror, not the government, develops and defines a statement of
work, including work requirements and performance specifications.
- At the end of peer
review, the government establishes an order of merit ranking
instead of a competitive
range. At that point, the contracting
officer, assisted by the project
officer, chooses the awardees.
- The government negotiates with offerors. During negotiations,
an offeror can work with a contracting officer to refine the statement
of work to incorporate peer reviewer and program comments.
Contact your contract specialist if you have any questions about working
with BAAs.
Contract Specialists
Contacts
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Links
NIH
Manual Issuance 6035, Broad Agency Announcements
FAR
35.016, Broad Agency Announcement
FAR
6.102, Use of Competitive Procedures |
