Sources Sought
76th SWEG - Tinker Air Force Base (Thunder CAMP)
Department of Defense · Department of the Air Force
AI summaryThe Air Force's 76th SWEG at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, wants to hear from businesses that can provide Microsoft Teams Direct Routing phone services in a GCC High cloud, for 101 to 500 users. This is a request for information (market research), not a request for offers. Responses are due November 9, 2026, 2:00 PM Central. More in the summary
Market research, not a bid. Replying is free and tells Department of the Air Force who could do this work. Send a short reply to the contracting contact; no price is needed. See the contact
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The Air Force's 76th SWEG at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, wants to hear from businesses that can provide Microsoft Teams Direct Routing phone services in a GCC High cloud, for 101 to 500 users. This is a request for information (market research), not a request for offers. Responses are due November 9, 2026, 2:00 PM Central.
Who can bid
- Ability to furnish the personnel, infrastructure, licenses/SKUs, configurations and technical support for certified Direct Routing for Microsoft Teams in a DoD / GCC High environment
How to submit: Email to the two Government points of contact named in the RFI (Burl Sellers and Adam Kwock). What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (4)
From the version posted Oct 23, 2026.
- Worth checking: Set-aside not decided. The Air Force is using the responses to choose between full and open competition and a small business set-aside; SAM.gov shows no set-aside, so reporting your size status matters.
- Worth checking: DoD cloud security level questions. The RFI asks whether your infrastructure meets DoD Impact Level 4/5 or DISA STIG requirements, which can be hard for a small firm without that cloud security record.
- Worth checking: Contractor-managed DoD-compliant SBCs. You must supply and manage session border controllers that meet DoD/DISA rules, which means owning or partnering for specialized telecom equipment.
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- Minor: Response limited to 10 pages. The response must fit in 10 pages, not counting standard company brochures and attachments, so answers need to be short.
Read from the notice and 1 attachment. Show which files.
- FA8101-27-RFI-0001.pdf (read)
Full summary
What they want
- Direct Routing access for 101 to 500 users in a Microsoft 365 GCC High tenant (the secure Microsoft cloud for defense work), including the required Direct Routing GCC High SKUs (Microsoft product codes)
- Contractor-managed, DoD/DISA-compliant session border controllers (SBCs: equipment that connects Teams to the phone network) certified for Teams GCC High Direct Routing
- United States direct inward dialing (DID) phone numbers for end users and system endpoints, with the ability to add more blocks of numbers
- Local audio conferencing dial-in numbers and North American toll-free numbers, with toll-free number administration (RespOrg)
- Calling bundles of 1,000 domestic minutes and 1,000 toll-free minutes, with metered rates for overages and metered calling plans
- Place of performance
- Tinker AFB, OK, USA
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Offers due
- November 9, 2026, 2:00 PM Central
- How to submit
- Email to the two Government points of contact named in the RFI (Burl Sellers and Adam Kwock)
- Page limits
- Response: not to exceed 10 pages, excluding standard company brochures and attachments
What to include when you submit
- Send a PDF or Microsoft Word file by email; oral submissions will not be accepted.
- Part I, Business Information: company name and address, point of contact, CAGE Code and Unique Entity Identifier (UEI), website, business size and socio-economic status, and whether the company is domestically or foreign owned.
- Include the same business information for any proposed teaming partners or subcontractors.
- Part II, Technical Capability: describe your experience implementing Direct Routing for Microsoft Teams GCC High, and whether your infrastructure meets DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide Impact Level 4/5 or DISA STIG guidelines.
- Describe how your carrier infrastructure, SBC routing and emergency calling (E911) work in a GCC High setup.
- Confirm you can furnish the SKUs for the 101 to 500 user tier, minute bundles and metered calling plans, and describe your process and timeline for number provisioning, DID porting and toll-free numbers.
- Provide up to three examples of contracts, subcontracts and technical complexity performed within the past three years for Government or commercial clients, with customer agency, contract type, dollar value and a brief description of the technical solution.
- If teaming, joint ventures or primary carrier agreements are needed, describe how work would be divided between prime and partner.
- Say whether you have a commercial price list or GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) catalog, whether the described pricing is consistent with commercial offerings, and note key differences from Government terms.
- Outline your standard service level agreement (SLA), including network uptime guarantees, mean time to restore and support desk availability.
- Mark any proprietary information clearly.
Not in the notice text
- Contract type, contract length, number of awards and estimated value are not stated.
- The specific per-minute overage rates the Government expects are not shown in the RFI text.
- Whether the later buy will be full and open or set aside for small business; the RFI says this is still being decided.
Eligibility and how to respond
- No set-aside. Any business can reply: this is market research, and no bid is being taken yet.
- To respond, send a short reply to the contracting contact near the top of this page. No price is needed.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 23, 2026
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Office
- FA8101 AFSC PZIOA, Tinker AFB, OK
- Product/service code
- DA01 · IT and Telecom – Business Application/Application Development Support Services (labor)
- Business type
- IT, software & telecom (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 541519)
- 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
Terms on this notice: Sources sought notice
Full notice text from SAM.gov
See the attached FA8101-27-RFI-0001
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