C-5 Aircraft Bonded Honeycomb Panels 2016-2019

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Air Force Sustainment Center established this Master IDIQ on March 23, 2016, to procure consumable and Depot Level Reparable bonded honeycomb panels for C-5 aircraft, with a shared ceiling of $10 million. Ordering closed on March 22, 2021, and is no longer active.

This vehicle is effectively closed to new competition. The last task order awarded on March 16, 2021, and no orders may be placed against the vehicle after the March 2021 cutoff, now more than five years past.

The vehicle contracted exclusively for C-5 structural panels and spares, including honeycomb panels, wing fairings, and component repairs. Task orders ranged from approximately $4.8 thousand to $497.9 thousand, with most orders firm fixed price. Work focused on depot-level reparable components and consumable spares for sustained C-5 fleet operations.

Top Flight Aerostructures, Inc. dominated the vehicle, capturing 13 of 25 task orders worth $11.8 million in combined potential value. Honeycomb Company Of America, Inc. held 7 orders valued at $10.1 million combined, and Aero Components, LLC received 5 orders totaling $353 thousand. These three primes account for the entire awarded portfolio. The two largest primes together represent over 97% of combined potential value.

About 72% of task orders (18 of 25) carried Total Small Business set-asides, with the remainder unrestricted. The Air Force Sustainment Center placed 21 orders worth $21.7 million in combined potential value; the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation placed 4 orders worth $550 thousand.

The vehicle obligated only $2.3 million against a combined task-order potential value of $22.3 million—approximately 10% utilization. Activity peaked in 2020 with 4 orders, then dropped sharply with only 1 order in 2021 before the ordering period closed. The vehicle's five-year ordering window saw modest but steady consumption of available capacity, with no indication of crisis-driven surge demand.

DLA Aviation Warner Robins proposes joint opportunity contracts supporting DLA Aviation and the United States Air Force (USAF) to acquire consumable and Depot Level Reparable (DLRs) C-5 Aircraft Bonded Honeycomb Panels.