FY26 Basic and Qualification Broad Agency Announcement Amendment 1

NATIONAL DEFENSE STOCKPILE (NDS) RESEARCH AND QUALIFICATION

Source Selection Information—See FAR 2.101 and 3.104.

Broad Agency Announcement BAA

National Defense Stockpile (NDS)
Research and Qualification

DLA STRATEGIC MATERIALS SP8000-26-B-BAA0

AMENDMENT 001

NATIONAL DEFENSE STOCKPILE (NDS) RESEARCH AND QUALIFICATION

Source Selection Information—See FAR 2.101 and 3.104.

8. SMALL BUSINESS/SMALL DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS SUBCONTRACTING PLAN 8

NATIONAL DEFENSE STOCKPILE (NDS) RESEARCH AND QUALIFICATION

Source Selection Information—See FAR 2.101 and 3.104.

BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA)

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY (DLA) STRATEGIC MATERIALS

NDS RESEARCH AND QUALIFICATION

POINT OF CONTACT (POC):

Cecilia Arrington,
Contract Specialist DCSO-C3
Andrew T. McNamara Building
8725 John J. Kingman Road
Fort Belvoir, VA 22060-6221
[email protected]

SP8000-26-B-BAA0

Notice Type: AMENDMENT One (001) is to revise and update the following sections of the Broad Agency Announcement (BAA):
Number 2: Added – (4) Supply Chain Assessments
Number 6: Added - (2) Project Scoping
Exhibit A: NDS Strategic and Critical Materials List - Chart updated

1. BACKGROUND

DLA Strategic Materials is charged with acquiring and retaining stocks of strategic and critical materials, as well as encouraging the conservation and development of domestic sources of such materials, to decrease and preclude a dangerous and costly dependence by the United States upon unreliable foreign sources or a single point of failure for supplies of such materials during a National Emergency.
As part of our efforts to encourage conservation and development of domestic sources of strategic and critical materials, DLA Strategic Materials sponsors materials research and development, pursuant to section 98g of title 50, United States Code (U.S.C.). Additionally, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 98h-6(a)(3), DLA Strategic Materials has the authority to qualify existing domestic facilities and domestically produced strategic and critical materials to meet defense and essential civilian requirements when existing domestic sources of supply are insufficient or vulnerable to a single point of failure.
DLA Strategic Materials’ need for this BAA stems from emerging and rapidly expanding requirements to restore and stabilize domestic strategic and critical materials supply chains that have been compromised by decreased or abandoned domestic mining and refining activities or lack of domestic reserves within the United States. Most of these requirements are in the form of research