Block 45 Full Rate Production Group A Kit

The Air Force Materiel Command awarded this Master IDIQ on August 18, 2015, for development, fabrication, testing, packaging, and management to deliver up to 377 Block 45 Group A Production Kits that integrate and install Block 45 Group B Line Replaceable Units into C/KC-135 aircraft. Ordering under this vehicle closed on August 30, 2024, and is no longer accepting new orders.

The vehicle established 12 task orders over seven years, with activity concentrated in the initial award year and declining thereafter — one order per year from 2018 through 2022, with the most recent award in July 2022. Combined task-order potential value stands at $17.9 million, against which $18.4 million has been obligated, indicating full commitment and minor overages against stated potential. All task orders fund Air Force Materiel Command programs exclusively.

Phoenix Logistics, LLC dominates the competitive base, holding four orders valued at $7.8 million (44% of combined potential value). Westwind Technologies, Inc., Strata-G Solutions LLC, and Aircraft Engineering & Installation Services, Inc. each hold orders in the $2.5–$2.6 million range. A longer tail of smaller primes — Tfab Manufacturing, LLC and Richard Manufacturing Company — fills out the remaining activity across six distinct prime contractors. Individual task orders range from roughly $325 thousand to $2.6 million, all structured as firm fixed price. The vehicle reflects a 58% small-business set-aside mix by order count, with seven of twelve task orders designated Total Small Business and five unrestricted. Orders awarded in 2015 and 2016 predominantly carried small-business set-asides; unrestricted orders began appearing in 2018 and increased thereafter, suggesting a shift toward open competition as the production profile matured. The vehicle's ordering window has closed, eliminating new opportunity, though completion dates on some outstanding task orders extended into 2024.

The Government has awarded a Master IDIQ for Block 45 Full Rate Production Group A Kit acquisition. This vehicle primarily consists of the development, fabrication, testing, packaging and management to deliver up to 377 Block 45 Group A Production Kits. Contractors under this vehicle are required to construct a kit IAW drawings and technical data provided. The Block 45 Group A Production Kit is required to integrate and install Block 45 Group B Line Replaceable Units (LRUs) into the C/KC-135 aircraft.