Incorporating Test and Evaluation into DoD Acquisition Contracts

This guide is designed to help the Department of Defense (DoD) and industry test and evaluation (T&E) professionals identify T&E items to consider for inclusion when drafting a statement of objectives (SOO), a statement of work (SOW), and a request for proposal (RFP), and during solicitation and contract execution. 

This guide presumes the reader has an understanding of T&E and the DoD systems acquisition processes as described in DoD Instruction 5000.02 (DoDI 5000.02) (Reference (a)) and the Defense Acquisition Guidebook (DAG) (Reference (b)), particularly, DAG Chapter 9, Integrated Test and Evaluation. This guide follows some of the content of the DoD Guide for Integrating Systems Engineering into DoD Acquisition Contracts (Reference (c)) and T&E topics and issues. This guide is for information purposes only.