- Proposals are due Dec. 3 for the multiple-award contingency support vehicle
- Ordering will run from June 2028 through May 2036
- Primes must partner with organizations that could perform 20 percent or more of the work
The Air Force has issued the solicitation for the sixth iteration of its Contract Augmentation Program, or AFCAP, the vehicle that supplies rapid contingency planning, logistics and emergency construction worldwide, with proposals due Dec. 3.
The 772nd Enterprise Sourcing Squadron at Tyndall Air Force Base published the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity solicitation on SAM.gov on Nov. 9, noting that the contract has a maximum single-order limit of $15 billion. Ordering will begin June 1, 2028, and run through May 31, 2036, across a two-year base period and three two-year options, with deliveries permitted through May 2039.
AFCAP supports the Air Force, other Department of War components and federal agencies in various activities, including major theater war, small-scale contingencies, irregular warfare, counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations, foreign and humanitarian assistance, peacekeeping, disaster response, and infrastructure design, construction and demolition. Work spans the continental U.S. and overseas.
What Does the AFCAP VI Solicitation Require?
Task orders will be issued as firm-fixed-price, fixed-price incentive, cost-plus-fixed-fee or cost-plus-incentive-fee, with the contracting officer selecting the type for each requirement. Each awardee receives an initial $4,000 fixed-price order. A program manager and a security manager are required to attend a post-award contractor school at Tyndall within 90 days.
Primes must execute exclusive teaming arrangements with any partner that could perform at least 20 percent of the anticipated contract value. Those partners cannot subcontract to any other AFCAP VI prime for the life of the vehicle.
The vehicle carries on-ramp and off-ramp provisions. The Air Force may reopen competition at its discretion without requiring existing holders to recompete. New awardees may be included without raising the overall ceiling. Contractors could face off-ramping for failing to obtain a secret facility clearance within 120 days of award, for dormancy — defined as missing proposals on four of five consecutive solicitations or going six months without submitting one —or for declining an urgent requirement.
How Will Urgent Requirements Be Assigned?
When a need is too urgent for fair opportunity competition, the Air Force will issue a sole-source undefinitized contract action following a rotational order established by random drawing among awardees, with all awardees present. Each urgent order moves to the next contractor in sequence.
Contractors lacking the licenses to operate at an urgent location are skipped without penalty. The solicitation lists anticipated locations, including Afghanistan, Djibouti, Germany, Guam, Honduras, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Niger, Oman, Palau, the Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Ascension Island, Wake Island, Tinian and the Northern Mariana Islands.
Which Companies Hold AFCAP V?
Amentum, ECC International, Fluor, KBR, Readiness Management Support and V2X hold positions on AFCAP V. The Air Force raised that vehicle’s ceiling from $6.4 billion to $15 billion in April 2024, a move it said would carry the program through to a competitive follow-on before May 2028.
