2020 ERDC Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)   18

**Note: Amendment 002 is being issued on 3/29/20 to make changes to the submittal location of the proposals and questions for CRREL.

**Note: Amendment 001 is being issued on 2/24/20 to make changes to the submittal location of the proposals and questions for CHL and CRREL. The topics for the Environmental Laboratory have also been revised.

The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) has issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for various research and development topic areas. The ERDC consists of the Coastal and Hydraulics Lab (CHL), the Geotechnical and Structures Lab (GSL), the Reachback Operations Center (UROC), the Environmental Lab (EL) and the Information Technology Lab (ITL) in Vicksburg, Mississippi, the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab (CRREL) in Hanover, New Hampshire, the Construction Engineering Research Lab (CERL) in Champaign, Illinois, and the Geospatial Research Laboratory (GRL) in Alexandria, Virginia. The ERDC is responsible for conducting research in the broad fields of hydraulics, dredging, coastal engineering, instrumentation, oceanography, remote sensing, geotechnical engineering, earthquake engineering, soil effects, vehicle mobility, self-contained munitions, military engineering, geophysics, pavements, protective structures, aquatic plants, water quality, dredged material, treatment of hazardous waste, wetlands, physical/mechanical/ chemical properties of snow and other frozen precipitation, infrastructure and environmental issues for installations, computer science, telecommunications management, energy, facilities maintenance, materials and structures, engineering processes, environmental processes, land and heritage conservation, and ecological processes. The BAA is available as an attachment to this posting and is also available at http://erdc.usace.army.mil.

The BAA is open until superseded by another announcement. Proposals may be accepted at any time.

ERDC prefers to receive pre-proposals and full proposals electronically. Pre-proposals and full proposals for CHL, EL, GRL, GSL, ITL and UROC regarding this BAA should be submitted via email to ERDC-BAA@usace.army.mil. For inquiries regarding proposals to CHL, CRREL, EL, GRL, GSL, ITL, and UROC, please contact either or both of the following: Ms. Deberay Carmichael at 601-634-5337, Mr. Reginald J. Bryant at 601-634-7166, or both at ERDC-BAA@usace.army.mil.

Pre-proposals and full proposals for CERL shall be submitted via email to CERL-CT-Quotes@usace.army.mil. For inquiries regarding proposals to CERL please contact Ms. Andrea Thomas via email at CERL-CT-Quotes@usace.army.mil or phone at 217-373-6746.

Pre-proposals and full proposals for CRREL shall be submitted via email to CRREL-BAA@usace.army.mil. For inquiries regarding proposals for CRREL please contact Ms. Melodie Fisher via email at CRREL-BAA@usace.army.mil or phone at 601-634-4687.

Contact the technical personnel listed at the end of each topic area for questions concerning the topic areas themselves.

The following information must be included in the body of the e-mail when submitting the proposal electronically:

1. Laboratory Name and Topic number

(Spell out the complete name of the laboratory. Do not use the acronym.)

2. Vendor name and Address

3. Proposal Title

4. Total Dollar Amount

Please note: Proposals should not be submitted to the technical personnel listed at the end of each topic area. Proposals shall be submitted as stated at Section 2, Paragraph C of the announcement.