Solicitation
RWP - Test Site 2 (TS2) Improvements & Modernization, Aerospace Vehicle Survivability Facility (AVSF)
Department of Defense · Department of the Air Force
AI summaryThe Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) asks for whitepapers (short written proposals) to modernize Test Site 2 at the Aerospace Vehicle Survivability Facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. It is addressed to AEDC Velocity Alliance Consortium performers and industry partners and uses Other Transaction Authority (OTA, a way to buy outside the usual contract rules). The response due date is November 16, 2026, 2:00 PM Central. More in the summary
A newer version of this notice was posted Oct 18, 2026. See the latest version.
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The Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) asks for whitepapers (short written proposals) to modernize Test Site 2 at the Aerospace Vehicle Survivability Facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. It is addressed to AEDC Velocity Alliance Consortium performers and industry partners and uses Other Transaction Authority (OTA, a way to buy outside the usual contract rules). The response due date is November 16, 2026, 2:00 PM Central.
Things to watch (4)
- Serious: Addressed to consortium performers and partners. The text doesn't say whether firms outside the AEDC Velocity Alliance Consortium may send whitepapers; ask the contracting office.
- Worth checking: Details are in attachments not yet in the text. The request for whitepapers (RWP) and statement of objectives (SOO) hold the full details, and the notice lists them as to be posted.
- Minor: Buying under Other Transaction Authority. An other transaction agreement is not a standard federal contract, so its terms and clauses can differ from what you know.
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- Minor: Notice type differs from the text. SAM.gov lists the notice type as Solicitation, but the text is a request for whitepapers, not a request for quotes or proposals.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Send a whitepaper to modernize Test Site 2 (TS2) at the Aerospace Vehicle Survivability Facility (AVSF).
- Give the Air Force a state-of-the-art test facility for Live Fire Test and Evaluation (LFT&E) on current and future aerospace systems.
- The facility must test safely and efficiently against an expanded range of advanced kinetic threats.
- Contract type
- Request for whitepapers under Other Transaction Authority (OTA)
- Place of performance
- Wright Patterson AFB, OH, USA
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Contract vehicle
- AEDC Velocity Alliance Consortium (the notice is addressed to its performers and industry partners)
- Offers due
- November 16, 2026, 2:00 PM Central (from the version posted Oct 17, 2026; amended since)
Not in the notice text
- The request for whitepapers (RWP) and statement of objectives (SOO) are not in the text; they hold the full details, including how to submit, page limits and evaluation.
- Who may submit: the text is addressed to consortium performers and industry partners and doesn't say whether others can.
- Whether there is a site visit and which wage rule applies (such as a Davis-Bacon wage determination: federal pay rates for construction workers) aren't stated.
- Set-aside, contract size and schedule aren't stated.
Eligibility and how to respond
- No set-aside: any business, large or small, can bid unless the notice says otherwise.
- How and where to submit is in the notice text and its attachments on SAM.gov.
- Construction contracts over $2,000 pay at least the local Davis-Bacon wage rates, from the wage determination in the solicitation. Price your labor from it: How to price a government contract, and how Davis-Bacon differs from the Service Contract Act.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 17, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Office
- FA9101 Aedc PKP Procrmnt BR, Arnold AFB, TN
- Product/service code
- Y1JZ · Construction of Miscellaneous Buildings
- Business type
- Construction & renovation (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 236220)
- Versions
2 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 18, 2026 · Amendment 0001Due Nov 16, 2026
- Oct 17, 2026 · Solicitation (this version)Due Nov 16, 2026
- Attachments
Past awards and competition
Who has won work like this before, the likely incumbent, and what similar contracts paid, from USAspending.gov.
Before you respond
- How to respond to a solicitation (8 steps)
- How to read a government solicitation
- How to price a government contract
Terms on this notice: Solicitation
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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