Air Force Telecommunications Services 2008-2018

The U.S. Air Force established the Air Force Telecommunications Services 2008-2018 Master IDIQ on December 8, 2008, with a final ordering deadline of February 28, 2018—now closed for over eight years. This vehicle is no longer active for new task-order placement.

The vehicle contracted local exchange telecommunications services and recurring charges for local dial tone across Air Force installations, Air National Guard facilities, and Air Force Reserve Command bases. All seven task orders, placed between January and May 2009, funded recurring telecommunications service agreements at specific geographic locations, including Kellogg Air National Guard Base, Michigan; Toledo Express Air Guard Station, Ohio; Zanesville Air Guard Base, Ohio; and Orange Airfield, Connecticut. Task orders carried firm fixed price or fixed price award fee structures with typical contract durations between two and five years.

The Department of the Air Force placed four of the seven orders, representing roughly 65 percent of combined potential value; Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve Command together accounted for the remainder. Six distinct carriers were awarded task orders: Southwestern Bell Telephone Company received the single largest order at $64 thousand potential value, followed by Bellsouth Telecommunications, LLC at $54 thousand, and Verizon Business Network Services LLC at $43 thousand. SBC Global Services, Inc. received two orders totaling $18 thousand. No orders carried set-aside designations; all were unrestricted competitive awards.

The combined potential value across all seven task orders was $209 thousand, with $104 thousand obligated as of the vehicle's closure, representing 50 percent utilization. Ordering activity concentrated in February and early May 2009, immediately following vehicle establishment, with no subsequent task-order awards documented after May 2009. The vehicle's modest scale and early completion of its active ordering period suggest it served a defined set of telecommunications requirements that were fulfilled within the first few months of the contract's life.