Cornerstone Initiative Request -Reliability Test Vehicle Prototype CS-20-1301

U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command - Chemical Biological Center (CCDC CBC), Rock Island, IL, on behalf of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Policy via its Manufacturing Resiliency and Assurance Office, and Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment Program (10 U.S.C. - 2508), in conjunction with Army Contracting Command - Rock Island (ACC-RI), manages the Cornerstone Other Transaction Agreement (OTA), in accordance with 10 U.S.C. - 2371b. Cornerstone was architected to create a broad-based, flexible and enduring public-private consortium focused on strategic strengthening of the U.S. Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base and provide a strong complement to the mandates in Presidential Executive Order 13806. ACC-RI, on behalf of CCDC CBC and Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, intends to issue a competitive Cornerstone Initiative Request (CIR) for Reliability Test Vehicle for Six Inch Molded Wafer Prototype on or after 06 April 2020, with an estimated closing date of 30 calendar days after issuance. The CIR for Reliability Test Vehicle for Six Inch Molded Wafer Prototype is restricted to Cornerstone consortium members. The CIR will solicit proposals for one (1) firm-fixed-price OTA with incremental payments made upon completion of specific milestones. Period of performance will be 12 months. A non-competitive follow-on production OT will not be awarded following a successful prototype. The objective of this effort is to establish a plan that identifies the processes and equipment necessary to build up and successfully validate a Reliability Test Vehicle, and to execute the plan which results in the successful validation of the Reliability Test Vehicle using contractor produced six inch wafers. Successful validation helps enable the technology transition to production which will ultimately establish increased U.S. based capability for critical program information protection for new Navy systems. The CIR for Reliability Test Vehicle for Six Inch Molded Wafer Prototype will be communicated to the Cornerstone consortium and companies with pending applications via email. Entities are required to have begun the membership process for their proposal to be reviewed. Entities must be members of the Cornerstone consortium, with a signed Cornerstone Consortium Management Agreement, to be awarded this OTA task. Contractors may obtain Cornerstone registration information by visiting the Cornerstone website: http://ibasp-public.ria.army.mil/cornerstone/ Interested parties should stay alert for any changes that may be published to this beta.sam.gov posting. Please email all questions and responses to the following mailbox: contact@example.gov This Special Notice is for planning purposes only and does not constitute a CIR or an obligation on behalf of the U.S. Government. Issuance of this Special Notice is not a guarantee of a future CIR or an award and is not a commitment of any kind by the Government.