Solicitation
Flight Test, Telemetry and Termination (FT3) Flight Test Kit Production
Dept of Defense · Dept of the Air Force · Sol. FA821426RB004
The agency plans to award to one named company. Others can only submit a capability statement to challenge it.
AI summary Beta
The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center (Hill AFB, UT) plans to buy 25 flight test kits for the Minuteman III ICBM test launch program, and says it will negotiate with only Boeing. Other firms may still send a capability statement, but the notice says a written solicitation goes only to Boeing. The program is estimated at about $955M through September 2035.
Watch out for
- Sole source to Boeing. The Air Force says only Boeing has the technical data and facilities, so a small business is unlikely to win this award.
a written solicitation will be issued directly to The Boeing Company
- Cost and delay of switching sources. The government states that using another source would cost about $80M in duplication and add at least three years, a strong argument against competition.
Award to any other source would result in an estimated minimum duplication of $80M in costs
- Competition decision is discretionary. Even if you respond, the government can decide not to compete at all.
A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.
Read from the notice text only.
Full brief
What they want
- Produce and deliver 25 FT3 flight test kits (replenishment spares) for the Minuteman III test launch program
- Just-in-time delivery to Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA, 120 days before scheduled test launches
- Contract type
- Firm-Fixed-Price (anticipated), sole source
- Period of performance
- October 2027 through September 2035
- Place of performance
- Delivery to Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA; contracting office at Hill AFB, UT
- Estimated value
- Approximately $955M total estimated program value (including potential future procurements under an approved Class J&A)
- Offers due
- 2027-02-18T17:00:00-07:00 (response deadline field)
- How to submit
- Electronically to the Points of Contact listed in the notice
What to include when you submit
- Other sources may submit a capability statement, proposal or quotation
You must have
- Only Boeing (CAGE 0B0D7) is being solicited
The Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source: The Boeing Company (CAGE: 0B0D7)
Current contractor
The Boeing Company (CAGE 0B0D7, Layton, UT) is named as the only source; the notice references a prior sources sought notice FA8214-25S-FT3PD and a pre-solicitation notice FA821426RB004-PRESOL.
Not in the notice text
- Points of contact (the notice refers to a list not shown in the text)
- Technical specifications and data requirements
- Price per kit
- What a competing firm would need to show to be considered
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Key facts
- Response due
- Feb 19, 2027, 12:00 AM UTC
- Posted
- Aug 26, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Solicitation
- FA821426RB004
- Agency
- Dept of Defense · Dept of the Air Force
- Office
- FA8214 Afnwc PZBB
- Set-aside
- No Set aside used
- NAICS
- 336419
- Product/service code
- 1427
- Business type
- Aircraft, ship & vehicle parts
- Place of performance
- UT, 84041
- Contracting contact
- Brad Vargobradley.vargo.1@us.af.mil8017753700
- Versions
- 2 (amended since first posted)
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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