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Request for White Papers for the Industrial Base Policy Consortium.

The Washington Headquarters Services Acquisition Directorate is pursuing the award of a consortium managed Other Transaction Agreement under 10 United States Code 4021 (Research projects), and 10 United States Code 4022 (Prototype projects), to include the ability to pursue follow-on production transactions when appropriate per the statute, on behalf of the Office of the Manufacturing, Capability Expansion, and Investment Prioritization Directorate, which falls under the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment's Defense Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Resilience and the Assistant Secretary of Defense Industrial Base Policy.

Led by the efforts of the Consortium Manager, this Agreement will accelerate Department's access to technologies typically reserved for commercial development. The consortium managed Agreement will enhance Manufacturing, Capability Expansion, and Investment Prioritization Directorate's mission of addressing defense supply chain issues, developing the industrial workforce, sustaining critical production, commercializing research and development efforts, and rapidly scaling emerging technologies to build a robust, resilient Defense Industrial Base.

Also, please note, as a precurser to the Request for Prototype Proposal, the DRAFT terms and conditions, DRAFT performance work statement template, DRAFT data assertions template, and DRAFT business status certification template, are included as attachments with this Request for White Papers. These precurser attachments will be provided in their final form during Phase II, with the Request for Prototype Proposal, if invited, and are not required to be submitted with a response to this Request for White Paper.