Amendment 18

Ground Vehicle Systems Center Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) Amendment 18

PURPOSE OF REVISION: The purpose of Amendment 18 is to:

In Section 1.1, Authority:
Add “White Papers/Proposed Solutions that may meet needs of other Federal Agencies may be shared, as appropriate.” In Section 6.1, Open AoIs:
Remove the “Soft Kill System Development, Integration, and Demonstration” Area of Interest Add a closing date of 15 May 2026 to the “Government-Off-the-Shelf (GOTS) Common Operating System” Area of Interest and change the Technical Point of Contact to Andrew Yee Change the Technical Point of Contact for the “Embedded Software Maintenance” AoI in Section 6.1 to Andrew Yee Add “Software & Hardware Integration and Fielding Support for Ground Vehicle Platforms - Data Integration for Ground Systems (DIGS) & Digital Logbook (DLB)”, “Diagnostic Software (DS) for Vehicle Maintenance”, “Software Configuration Management (SCM)”, “CI/CD Pipelines”, “Artificial Intelligence in Software Engineering and Development”, “Simulated/Emulated Hardware Targets for Automated Testing and Digital Twins”, “Multi-Tenant Cloud Solutions for Embedded Software Development”, “Adoption and Use of Containerization in Embedded Systems”, “Software Test Automation”, “Software Safety”, “Digital Distribution”, “Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)”, and “Hardware Line Replaceable Unit (LRU) Simulation” Areas of Interest

General Information

Authority

The 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) established innovation as a central line of effort in the national defense strategy of the United States. The decisive military advantage of the United States over its adversaries and peer competitors is steadily eroding. Consequently, under 10 U.S.C. 3458, Contracting Officers may acquire innovative commercial items, technologies, or services using a competitive procedure called a Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO). Under a CSO, the Department of Defense may competitively select proposals received in response to a general solicitation, similar to a broad agency announcement, based on a review of proposals by scientific, technological, or other subject-matter expert peers. Use of a CSO in accordance with DFARS Subpart 212.70 is considered to be a competitive procedure for the purposes of 10 U.S.C. 221 and FAR 6.102. Finally, Contracting Officers shall treat items, technologies, and services acquired using a CSO as commercial products and commercial services. Contracts or agreements under this authority shall be fixed-price, including fixed-price incentive fee contracts. White Papers/Proposed Solutions that may meet needs of other Federal Agencies may be shared, as appropriate.