System Planning Corp.

System Planning Corp., Arlington, Va., is being awarded a $100,972,040 cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) support for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The effort involves technical studies, assessments and documentation and will require the contractor to identify and develop new programmatic opportunities, identify pathways for successful technology transfer, define system architectures and supporting subsystem performance requirements and provide technical expertise for systems analyses and senior advisory panel studies. Work will be performed in Arlington, Va., and is expected to be completed by April 2006. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured and published in the Commerce Business Daily and posted to the SPAWAR e-Commerce web site. This is a multiple award, one of three contracts awarded to three firms that submitted offers in response to solicitation N66001-00-R-8084. All three awardees will compete for task orders during the five-year ordering period. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N66001-01-D-8030).