Air Force Research Lab opens proposal window for $10B vehicle

The Air Force Research Laboratory has given industry the green light to start working on and submitting proposals for a potential eight-year, $10 billion contract vehicle covering a wide range of science and technology initiatives.

AFRL has set up the multiple-award contract to be its central mechanism for acquiring unclassified research-and-development support on behalf of the entire Air Force. Space, air, cyberspace, electronic warfare and cross-cutting technology work are included in the contract’s scope.

Bids for the simply-and aptly-named AFRL Multiple Award Contract are due to the lab no later than 5 p.m. Eastern time on Feb. 27, the Air Force said in a Thursday notice to release the final solicitation.

AMAC will have two pools of awards, one being full-and-open pool and the other set-aside for small businesses. Evaluations for the master contract will not look at cost or price as that aspect will be determined at the task order level.

The lab has broken out the contract’s focus areas as follows:

• Basic and applied research
• Data science and analytics
• Technology development
• Digital architecture, via the model-based systems engineering approach
• Modeling and simulation
• Manufacturing and fabrication
• Experimentation and testbed development
• Integration and demonstration
• Technology transition to military capabilities

AMAC is a new requirement with no incumbent.