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Strategic Integration Directorate 

Advisory and Assistance 

Services (A&AS) Industry Day

HDTRA1-22-R-XXXX

2 March 2022
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Disclaimer

• This Industry Day is for informational purposes 

only and is not binding upon Defense Threat 

Reduction Agency (DTRA) or the US 

Government

• Official requirements and instructions w ill be 

provided in the final released solicitation

• Questions that are not answ ered during this

event should be submitted in w riting to email 

inbox: dtra.belvoir.al.mbx.new-a-and-as-oi-sify22-23@mail.mil
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Agenda

• Purpose

• Introductions

• Strategic Integration Directorate Support 

Services Overview

• Business Approach

• Small Business

• Questions
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Purpose

• Notify industry of the upcoming requirement

• Solicit feedback, know ledge, and ideas regarding 

this requirement (market research)

• Encourage partnerships betw een firms and other 

businesses

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Introductions

• Strategic Integration Directorate (SI)

• Ms. Alean Buchanan, Program Manager/Contract Officer 

Representative (SI)

• Mr. Burton Post, Deputy Director, Strategic Integration Directorate

• Mr. Jay Klaus, Chief, Plans and Exercises Department (SI-PL)

• Mr. Robert Peters, Chief, Strategic Trends and Effects Department 

(SI-ST)

• Operations Branch (AL-ACB)

• Ms. Rorri Waters, Contracting Officer

• Ms. Brittany Jackson, Contract Specialist

• Small Business Advocate (AL-SB)

• Ms. Sharon Morrow , Small Business Director

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Three Integrated Lines of Effort

• Plans and Exercises – Enables DTRA’s capabilities to address combat support needs 

within the current operating environment; and enhance Agency's mission readiness

• Strategic Trends and Effects – Provides insights into effects DTRA may be able to 

generate against emerging threats; and, assesses the collective effects of DTRA 

Operations, Activities and Investments (OAIs) against the highest-priority threats and 

risks to national security objectives

• Comptroller – Strategic resourcing of DTRA’s OAIs to meet the demand signals of the 

warfighter within a dynamic fiscal and threat environment

Strategic Integration (SI) Directorate

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The Strategic Integration Directorate shapes DTRA’s response to the challenges and priorities set forth in the 

National Defense Strategy, focusing the Agency’s operations, activities and investments in a manner that 

maximizes their cumulative effect in support of our warfighting customers.
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SI Organization 

SI DIRECTOR

Mr. Hunter Lutinski, SES

Plans & Exercises Dept.

Chief, Mr. Jay Klaus

Strategic Trends + Effects 

Dept.

Chief, Mr. Robert Peters

Comptroller Dept.

Chief, Ms. Teresa Kless

(Agency Comptroller)

Deputy Director

Mr. Burton Post

Public Affairs Office

Chief, Ms. Melissa Tune

Combatant Command Plans 

Support Division

Chief, Ms. Kim Settelen

Strategic Analysis Plans 

Division

Chief, Mr. Tom Jaeger

Training & Exercises Division

Chief, Dr. Steve Mangino

Strategic Trends Division

Chief, Mr. Don Wenzlick

Strategic Effects Division

Chief, COL Mike West

Financial Operations Division

Chief, Ms. Jeannie Borden

Finance & Accounting 

Division

Chief, Ms. Bridgett Collins

Program Budget Division

Chief, Mr. Tamer McGuire

Chief of Staff

Mr. Norman Fuss

Primary Focus of

Acquisition 

Requirement
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Strategic Integration Virtuous Cycle

(ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES)

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National 

Defense Strategy

Director’s Planning

Guidance

Higher Echelon

Policies/Strategies

PLAN

PLEX Provide regional and global planning/exercise support to

maximize strategic alignment of DTRA Combat Support

Agency and Defense Agency capabilities. Provide CCMDs

with dynamic and adaptive planning, opportunity analysis,

and exercise support.

STED Generate timely, credible, actionable insights into

emerging threats within DTRA’s mission space. Enable

and guide warfighter understanding of the range of

military operations in an era of Great Power Competition.

Comptroller Develop Director’s Planning Guidance and other artifacts

to guide strategic investments necessary to realize

planning objectives and to improve the Agency’s posture

against changes in the threat environment

TRAIN

PLEX Develop, manage and execute the Agency’s Joint Training

Program and conduct collective staff training to prepare

DTRA organizations to successfully conduct operations in

support of the warfighter.

STED Design and execute table top exercises to support

decision making on future threat topics and battlespace

requirements. Conduct workshops and symposia to

inform the Agency and warfighter of the changing nature

of the threat environment.

Comptroller Conduct staff training on systems, tools and processes to

prepare DTRA to meet department goals for financial

execution, audit readiness, remediation, sustainment, risk

management and internal controls.

ASSESS

PLEX Leverage the Adaptive Planning and Execution (APEX)

process to identify and close NDS gaps and seems within

supported CCMD plans through supported planning efforts

and exercises.

STED Provide Agency-leadership with a holistic assessment of

progress toward achieving Agency objectives and provide

recommendations to inform planning, execution, resource

allocation, and measures of effectiveness.

Comptroller Assess financial impacts of resource rebalancing against

DoD guidance and provide financial analytics to enable

data-driven decisions. Manage the Agency’s Enterprise

Risk Management Program.

EXECUTE

PLEX Deploy fully integrated planning teams in support of

contingency operations and exercises. Provide training

and education to U.S. and partner organizations through

the Joint Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD)

Planners Course.

STED Fund research and multi-national strategic dialogues that

are of direct relevance to the Agency and the warfighter,

focusing on the production of actionable, and operationally

relevant recommendations for Agency senior leaders.

Comptroller Dynamically resource programs during execution to meet

the demand signals of the warfighter. Adjust funding

profiles to reflect changes in the operating environment,

Agency objectives, assessments, or external fiscal

guidance.
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Strategic Integration Directorate 

Support Overview

• Plans and Exercise Department (PLEX) (SI-PL) Mission: Provide 

regional and global planning/exercise support to maximize 

strategic alignment of DTRA Combat Support Agency and 

Defense Agency capabilities against the needs of the current 

operating environment in planning, exercises, doctrine, 

strategy, and opportunity analysis for the Agency, Combatant 

Commands (CCMD), and other DoD components, in 

coordination w ith interagency and international partners, w hile 

enhancing mission readiness through collective staff training.

• Strategic Trends and Effects Department (STED) (SI-ST) 

Mission: Provide insights into effects DTRA may be able to 

generate against emerging threats. STED is also assessing the 

collective effects of DTRA' s OAI’s w ithin the operating 

environment.

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Overall Scope of Requirement

Support to the SI Directorate in the daily performance and 

execution support of its mission. Specifically, provide A&AS 

support services for the follow ing requirements and functions:

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• Agency Requirements Management 

and Analysis

• Joint Operational and Strategic 

Planning

• Risk and Opportunity Analysis • Training and Exercise Support, 

Doctrine Review

• Tabletop Exercises (Development and 

Administration)

• Research and w riting of CWMDfocused articles and occasional papers

• Program Assessment and Evaluation • Operations Research and Analysis

• Coordination and evaluation of 

strategic CWMD research

• Data Visualization and Graphics Design

• Digital content design and delivery 

(web, mobile, mixed-media, etc...)

• Technical Writing, Original Content 

Review, and Copy Editing

• Administrative Support (Conference 

and Event Planning)

• Administrative Support (Office 

Management)
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Plans and Exercises Department 

(PLEX) Overview (SI-PL) 

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PLEX DEPARTMENT

Strategic Analysis Plans 

Division

Campaign 

Integration Branch

Contingency Plans 

Branch

Opportunity Analysis 

Branch

Requirements Branch

Training & Exercises 

Division

Strategic Planning & 

Assessment Branch

Combatant Command 

Plans Support 

Division

Doctrine & Training 

Branch

Exercises Branch
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Plans and Exercises Department 

(PLEX) Overview (SI-PL) (cont.) 

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• Key Mission Elements:

• Develop and support joint Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) 

mission strategy, plans, policy and doctrine 

• Provide CCMDs w ith adaptive planning support to counter and deter WMD 

threats 

• Manage the Agency’s requirement process to identify, analyze, adjudicate, 

and document requirements 

• Conduct Opportunity Analysis (OA) in support of CCMD strategic issues & 

objectives, and identify, develop & sequence cross-government and partner 

OAIs

• Enable the Agency’s Strategic Resourcing Process to identify Risk-Mediated 

Objectives and perform Gap Analysis Prioritization analysis to inform a 

Strategic alignment of the Agency’s Strategic programs and activities 

• Deploy fully integrated planning teams ISO contingency operations and 

exercises 

• Provide CWMD training and education to both US and Partner organizations

• Develop, manage and execute DTRA’s Joint Training Program (JTP)
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Combatant Command Plans Division 

– Role and Responsibilities 

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Campaign 

Integration Branch

Contingency Plans 

Branch

Combatant Command 

Plans Support 

Division

Division Roles/Functions Overview

• Operational-level campaign and contingency planning –

Regional focus

• Planning time horizon – 0-5 years

• Support Combatant Command (CCMD)* Counter WMD 

/ Emerging WMD Threat planning

• Enable Agency’s Strategic Resourcing Process leading 

DTRA’s integration into CCMD Campaign plans including 

development of CWMD Annexes or base plan language 

• Agency lead for JPEC/APEX coordination of CONPLANS

• Lead SI-PL cross-agency integration planning and 

provide primary plans development support to 

Operations and Integration Directorate, Operations 

Department (OI-OP) Crisis Operational Response Team 

(CORT) 

• Lead SI-PL coordination w ith Building Partner Capacity 

Integration Cell (BPCIC) 

• Coordinate and support development of Agency plan 

orders, assessments and estimates

* CCMD may include service and functional components, sub • Support CCMD’s w ith Deployable Planning Teams -unified commands, joint task forces, etc.
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Strategic Analysis Plans Division –

Role and Responsibilities

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Strategic Analysis Plans 

Division

Opportunity Analysis 

Branch

Requirements Branch

Strategic Planning & 

Assessment Branch

Division Roles/Functions Overview

• Strategic-level planning – Global focus

• Planning time horizon – 0-5 years

• Support Joint Staff Counter WMD/ Emerging Threat 

planning

• Coordinates w ith and supports STED on Agency Strategy 

and assessments

• Coordinate CWMD support plans and strategies

• Lead and mange the Agency’s requirement process to 

identify, analyze, adjudicate, and document requirements 

• Conduct Threat Characterization/Risk Prioritization 

(TC/RP) to risk-focus Agency Programs and drive the 

Adaptive Planning Strategies

• Identify, create, and sequence CCMD / interagency 

opportunities to influence change in the strategic 

environment and drive strategy

• Identify, assess and prioritize gaps to align strategy and 

activities to risk

• Support CCMD’s w ith Deployable Planning Teams
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Training and Exercise Division – Role 

and Responsibilities 

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Training & Exercises 

Division

Doctrine & Training 

Branch

Exercises Branch

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Division Roles/Functions Overview

• Manage the development, execution, and 

assessment of the Agency Joint Training Plan (JTP) 

and serve as the Agency Office of Primary 

Responsibility (OPR) all four phases of the CJCS 

Joint Training System (JTS) 

• Manage the Agency’s Joint Training and Readiness 

Systems

• Oversee the Exercise Integration Working Group 

(EIWG) and Joint Exercise and Training Working 

Group (JETWG) to support cross Directorate JTP 

exercise planning, execution and assessment

• Support to DoD Doctrine Process and JS Lessons 

Learned/Corrective Actions Program

• Support DTRA’s development of Joint Mission 

Essential Task List (JMETL), standards, and 

conditions

• Oversee and manage the Agency’s Joint CWMD 

Planning Course (JCPC)
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Strategic Trends and Effects Department 

(STED) Overview (SI-ST)

Chief, Strategic Trends and 

Effects Department (STED)

Strategic Trends Division 

(STT)

Trends Analysis 

Branch

Research 

Coordination 

Branch

Events & 

Integration Branch

Exercise Branch

Strategic Effects Division 

(STE)

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Strategic Trends and Effects Department 

(STED) Overview (SI-ST) (cont.)

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• Key Mission Elements:

• Generate timely, credible, actionable insights into emerging threats 

w ithin DTRA’s mission space

• Enable and guide w arfighter understanding of the range of military 

operations in an era of Great Pow er Competition (GPC) 

• Provide Agency-leadership w ith a holistic assessment of progress 

tow ard achieving Agency objectives and provide recommendations to 

inform planning, execution, resource allocation, and measures of 

effectiveness 

• Design and execute table-top exercises to support decision making on 

future threat topics and battlespace requirements

• Conduct w orkshops and symposia to inform the Agency and w arfighter 

of the changing nature of the threat environment

• Fund research and multi-national strategic dialogues that are of direct 

relevance to the Agency and the w arfighter, focusing on the production 

of actionable, and operationally relevant recommendations for Agency 

senior leaders 
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Strategic Trends Division - Roles and 

Responsibilities

• Generate timely, credible, actionable insights into 

strategic threat trends and emerging S&T issues

w ithin the counter-WMD and emerging threat 

mission spaces to enable/ guide w arfighter 

understanding of the range of military operations in 

strategic competition and conflict

• Characterize the emerging operational environment 

(aka battlespace): 5-10 years beyond current FY; 

competition above the threshold of armed conflict; 

acute competition directly below the threshold of 

armed conflict; conflict involving CBRN

• Examine implications of emerging (disruptive) science 

& technology on motivations, R&D, and use of CBRN

• Design, develop, deliver table top exercises

• Sponsor international dialogues, strategic studies, 

and TTXs w ith community partners

• Host CWMD community events

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Strategic Trends Division 

(STT)

Trends Analysis 

Branch

Research 

Coordination 

Branch

Events & 

Integration Branch

Exercise Branch

Division Roles/Functions Overview
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Strategic Effects Division – Roles and 

Responsibilities

• Provide DTRA leadership w ith independent 

analysis and evaluation of Agency 

capabilities to maximize strategic effects 

and mitigate risks

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Strategic Effects Division 

(STE)

Division Roles/Functions Overview
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Business Approach

Ms. Brittany Jackson, Contract Specialist, ALACB

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Current Acquisition Landscape

Strategic Integration Directorate Advisory and Assistance 

Services (A&AS) are being provided by the follow ing Indefinite 

Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract.

• Contract Number: HDTRA1-16-D-0004 is a single aw ard IDIQ 

aw arded to CENTRA Technology, Inc. (Cage 1EL81). The 

ceiling amount is $70M and it expires on 17 Feb 2023.

• Task Order 1: HDTRA1-16-D-0004-0001 expired 17 Aug 2021

• Task Order 2: HDTRA1-16-D-0004-0002 expires 18 Mar 2022

• Task Order 3: HDTRA1-17-F-0038 expired 31 Aug 2020

• Task Order 4: HDTRA1-21-F-0053 expires 17 Feb 2023 (This 

task order includes some w ork from TO1 and TO2)

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Current Acquisition Landscape (cont.)

• Task Order 1: HDTRA1-16-D-0004-0001

• NAICS: 541990 PSC: R408 Cost: $21,119,510.90

• Task Order 2: HDTRA1-16-D-0004-0002

• NAICS: 541990 PSC: R408 Cost: $9,728,311.05

• Task Order 3: HDTRA1-17-F-0038

• NAICS: 541990 PSC: R408 Cost: $5,845,083.78

• Task Order 4: HDTRA1-21-F-0053

• NAICS: 541990 PSC: R408 Cost: $13,641,359.00

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Current Acquisition Landscape (cont.)

• Task Order 1: PLEX Support

• Description: A&AS support to the division/offices for Planning Support; Training, 

Doctrine, and Exercise Support; Requirements Cell Support, and Opportunity Analysis

• FTEs = 34

• Task Order 2: STED Support 

• Description: A&AS support to the division/offices for the Strategic Trends and Effects 

Department, such as DTRA’s Strategy and Planning Guidance

• FTEs = 18

• Task Order 3: Standing Joint Forces Support (Expired)

• Task Order 4: SI A&AS Support

• Description: A&AS support to the Directorate and its departments (PL, SI), Chief of 

Staff, and the Operations and Integration Directorate (OI)

• FTEs = 56

• NAICS Definition: 541990 - All Other Professional, Scientific, and 

Technical Services 

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Business Approach

Performance Parameters: Due to the dynamic nature of the SI 

requirements, successful and effective execution of these 

efforts requires: 

• Smooth transition period

• Planning and executing mission objectives follow ing specific, 

repeatable standards 

• Coordination/integration betw een and among internal and 

external customers 

• Expeditious execution of short notice tasking’s and scope 

revisions driven by external direction, real w orld events, and 

mission expansion 

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Business Approach (cont.)

The Acquisition Strategy is to be determined

• Procurement method: 

• Single aw ard, Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) 

• Potential contract type:

• Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) 

• Firm-Fixed Price (FFP)

• Period of Performance:

• Base Year, Plus Four (1) Year Options

• Anticipated Ceiling:

• $84M

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We received your suggestions on the Acquisition Strategy in response to 

the 2nd RFI. 
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Business Approach (cont.)

Anticipated Evaluation Factors

• Factor 1 – Mission Capability 

• Sub-factor A: Overall Management Approach 

• TO1, TO2, TO3

• Sub-factor B: Technical Approach and Staffing Plan 

• TO1, TO2, TO3

• Factor 2 – Relevant Present And Past Performance 

• Factor 3 – Small Business Utilization

• Factor 4 – Cost 

Expect to aw ard approximately 3 Task Orders, at the same time 

the Single Aw ard IDIQ w ill be aw arded. 

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Business Approach (cont.)

Anticipated Task Orders that w ill be included in the pending 

Request for Proposals (RFP) for Evaluation: 

• TO 1 – Strategic Research and Trends Analysis (SI-ST)

• TO 2 – Effects Assessments (SI-ST)

• TO 3 – Plans and Exercise (SI-PL)

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Business Approach (cont.)

Current Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI):

• Precludes A&AS contractor from w orking as a performer on 

any contract(s) for Strategic Integration Directorate.

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Business Approach (cont.)

Facility, Security, etc: 

• Primary place of performance w ill be located at DTRA 

Headquarters, Fort Belvoir, VA. Contractor must be able to 

provide classified support from a Secret High cleared offsite 

facility 

• Contractors w ill be permitted to telew ork offsite

• Government-provided office space is expected to be available on 

a limited basis to Contractor personnel 

• All contractors must possess a Secret, Top Secret or Top 

Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) to perform 

on this effort, depending on the requirement of the position

• The contractor shall comply w ith all terms in the DoD Security 

Agreement (DD254)

• Government w ill provide all government furnished property (GFP) 

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Business Approach (cont.)

Event Anticipated Dates

Deadline for Industry 

Day questions submitted to 

dtra.belvoir.al.mbx.new-a-and-as-oi-si-fy22-

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March 2, 2022 (no later than close of 

business/5:00pm)

List of Industry Day Attendees (Will be posted 

on https://w w w.dtra.mil/Business/Office-of-SmallBusiness/)

March 9, 2022

Answers to Industry Day questions (Will be 

posted 

on https://w w w.dtra.mil/Business/Office-ofSmall-Business/)

March 14, 2022 (no later than close of 

business/5:00pm)

Synopsis Release July 22, 2022

Solicitation Issued August 8, 2022

Proposal Due Date September 8, 2022

Contract Award February 2, 2023

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Acquisition Timeline 
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Business Approach (cont.)

Information and Communication

• Official solicitations w ill be posted on either of the follow ing 

w ebsites:

• Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) 

Solicitation Portal https://piee.eb.mil/ or SAM.gov

• Please do not directly contact any DTRA points of contact regarding 

this requirement. Communication w ill only be responded to if 

received at the below email address. Email address: 

dtra.belvoir.al.mbx.new -a-and-as-oi-si-fy22-23@mail.mil

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Small Business

Ms. Sharon Morrow , Small Business Director, AL-SB

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Small Business

• We are in the early stages of Market Research and are still 

determining small business capability. A decision has NOT 

been made to set this aside for small business; nor has 

one been made to compete this requirement full and open. 

• If this action is competed unrestricted, DTRA w ill have a 

socioeconomic commitment evaluation factor w ith the 

follow ing goals, based upon total contract value (TCV). 

• 10% Small Business (SB) 

• 10% Veteran Ow ned Small Business (VOSB) 

• 10% Service Disabled Veteran Ow ned Small Business 

(SDVOSB)

• 1% Women-Ow ned Small Business (WOSB), including 

Economically Disadvantaged WOSB 

• 5% Small Disadvantage Business (SDB), including 8(a)

• 1% Historically Underutilized Small Businesses (HUBZone)
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Questions

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Thank You