Presolicitation
Advanced Aerospace Systems Technology Research
Dept of Defense · Dept of the Air Force · Sol. FA8650-22-S-2501
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The Air Force Research Laboratory (Aerospace Systems Directorate, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio) is giving advance notice of a planned Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the Advanced Aerospace Systems Technology Research (AASTR) program. The program would fund research to develop and transition new aerospace vehicle technologies, through multiple IDIQ contracts worth about $400 million in total over seven years. Nothing can be submitted yet; the actual one-step BAA will be posted later.
Things to watch
- Notice only, not a request for proposals. Nothing can be submitted yet and anything sent will not be evaluated, so a small business should watch for the actual BAA on SAM.gov.
DO NOT SUBMIT ANY DOCUMENTATION AT THIS TIME.
- Research-focused cost-type awards. Awards are expected to be cost-type or cost-share research contracts, which usually need accounting systems and technical research capability that many small businesses do not have.
Cost-Plus Fixed Fee, Cost Reimbursement, and Cost Share.
- Funding not guaranteed. The $400 million figure is only an estimate and each task order's value and length will vary, so actual work for any one awardee is uncertain.
This amount is an estimate only and is NOT a promise of funding
Full brief
What they want
- Research toward development, demonstration, integration and transition of new aerospace vehicle technologies, designs and integrated systems
- Core areas: Aerospace Vehicles, Control Sciences, High Speed Systems, Turbine Engines, Systems Integration and Flight Test
- Technology that applies across current and emerging Air Force aerospace systems
- Contract type
- Multiple-award IDIQ contracts (Cost-Plus Fixed Fee, Cost Reimbursement, and Cost Share anticipated), each with one initial task order, awarded with fair opportunity (MAFO)
- Period of performance
- Program runs seven years (FY23-FY29); the initial task order is expected to be 9 months (6 months technical, 3 months reporting)
- Estimated value
- $400,000,000 total program over seven years (estimate only, not a promise of funding); initial task order expected at $100,000
- Contract vehicle
- New multiple-award IDIQ under a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA FA8650-22-S-2501)
What to include when you submit
- Do not submit anything now; the notice says anything received will not be evaluated
- A One-Step BAA will be posted on SAM.gov in the near future
Current contractor
The notice says this is similar to earlier programs, the ASAPTR program (BAA FA8650-17-S-2003) and the AVIATR program (BAA-08-05-PKV). No incumbent is named.
Not in the notice text
- When the BAA will be posted and its due date
- How proposals will be evaluated and scored
- Submission method, format and page limits
- Set-aside or small business participation requirements
- Place of performance
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Key facts
- Posted
- Feb 15, 2022
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Solicitation
- FA8650-22-S-2501
- Agency
- Dept of Defense · Dept of the Air Force
- Office
- FA8650 USAF AFMC Afrl PZL Afrl/PZL
- NAICS
- 541715
- Product/service code
- AC12
- Business type
- Engineering, architecture & research
- Contracting contact
- Susan J. Leesusan.lee.1@us.af.mil937-713-9945
What similar contracts paid
1,750 contracts at this agency for the same NAICS and product/service codes had activity in the last 5 years, according to USAspending.gov. Small businesses won 25% of the dollars in this market over the last 3 fiscal years.
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