USAF RFI: Engineering, Professional, and Administrative Support Services (EPASS) supporting Mobility and Executive Airlift

Notice ID: FOPR77

This is a Request for Information (RFI) for Fair Opportunity Proposal Request (FOPR) 77 for A&AS Services supporting Mobility and Executive Airlift. The AFLCMC/AZS – EPASS Program Office is responsible for acquiring A&AS for AFLCMC.  In order to be eligible for EPASS task order awards, prospective prime offerors must be a GSA OASIS+ Small Business (SB) awardee.

The scope of this task order supports USAF and FMS to include cross-cutting and surge support.  This A&AS contract provides organizations with a broad range of professional acquisition, engineering, scientific, research, financial, security, and administrative capabilities to execute effective and responsive integrated program management of aircraft research, development, production, and lifecycle acquisition and sustainment activities.  The support to be provided includes a variety of products and analysis services in support of mission partner activities …

Surge support requirement is defined as short-term work to support mission activities in order to meet urgent customer needs.  Because of its nature, surge support requirements cannot be forecasted far into the future.  This type of support is typically required because of schedule changes, system requirements updates, adverse test results, and other unforeseen or unplanned events.  As such, surge support is usually needed “at the last minute.”  Oftentimes, the need for surge support is satisfied by allowing Contractor personnel to simply work more than the normal forty hours per week.  The Contractor must ensure they can provide this type of flexibility and support without the need to modify the existing performance work statement or contract.  In other words, surge support should not be considered a “new requirement” for a program that needs it.  Therefore, the Contractor shall use 2,000 hours per contractor staff member/position basis to support surge capability that could be available immediately without the requirement for contract modification. The Contractor shall continue to support the PMO at a standard 40-hour work week. However, if additional hours are required, the contractor shall request via letter to the PCO in accordance with (IAW) level of effort (LOE) implementation.

The available surge hours, per CME are calculated by subtracting annual CME hours from 2,000.  For instance, if a CME is calculated to be 1,860 hours, then there are an available 140 surge hours built into the requirement.  If the CME is calculated to be 1,920 hours, then there are 80 hours of surge built into the requirement, etc. The COR is authorized to approve surge hours up to 2,000 hours, as long as funding is available. It is anticipated that the Government will fund all CMEs to the full 2,000 hours, per year …

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