Broad Agency Announcement Development

This SOP has internal roles only.

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 RFP 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

• When preparing a BAA RFP, use Specification Package -- Template with Instructions for Broad Agency Announcement.

Contacts

Staff Only Contact

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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