FAA Acquisition Training Services

The Federal Aviation Administration Acquisition Career Management Group awarded a Master IDIQ for live instructor-led (classroom and virtual) and online acquisition training on June 19, 2019, with a shared ceiling of $8.1 million. Ordering closed on June 18, 2020—the vehicle is no longer active and new orders cannot be placed.

The vehicle is defunct in practical terms: the last task order was awarded July 21, 2023, nearly three years ago, and the ordering period expired over six years ago. The FAA contemplated awarding up to three contracts across three curriculum sets (contracting, financial management, and program management in the open competition pools; FAA Acquisition Management System, Systems Engineering, Test and Evaluation, and Enterprise Architecture in the small-business set-aside pool). However, the solicitation indicated the FAA reserved the right not to make any award, and only two primes were ultimately awarded under the vehicle.

The vehicle encompasses three curriculum sets. Set 1 covers contracting, COR, and financial management training (including cost estimating and purchase card). Set 2 addresses program management and real estate contracting representative functions. Set 3 (originally designated for small-business set-aside) covers FAA-specific AMS, systems engineering, test and evaluation, and enterprise architecture. The FAA required contractors to deliver commercial-off-the-shelf training with or without minimal customization, leverage existing COTS with FAA customization, or develop FAA-specific courses where contractor materials did not exist or were insufficient.

Competition is highly concentrated: Management Concepts, Inc. holds 18 of 26 task orders ($5.7 million combined potential value, 70% of vehicle activity), while Jlan Solutions LLC holds the remaining 8 orders ($2.5 million). All 26 task orders funded FAA Acquisition Career Management directly; no other agencies are customers. Notably, despite the small-business set-aside structure in the original solicitation, all awarded task orders are designated as unrestricted (no set-aside used).

Combined potential value is $8.2 million; $7.4 million (91%) is obligated. Task orders ranged from zero-dollar awards to approximately $1.38 million, with typical values in the $100,000–$400,000 range. Ordering velocity peaked in 2022 with 8 awards, then declined to 4 in 2023 before stopping. The vehicle delivered training support from June 2019 through June 2023, with most recent completion dates falling in 2023.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Acquisition Career Management (ACM) Group has awarded a Master IDIQ for live, instructor-led (both in a traditional classroom setting and virtual) and online training. The FAA requires Contractor support to: 1) Deliver contractor commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) training with or without minimal customization; 2) Leverage existing contractor COTS and customizing it to reflect FAA policies, guidance, procedures, case studies, etc.; and 3) Develop and maintain courses for the FAA when no contractor course materials exist (such as for AMS courses, FAA-specific Systems Engineering, Test and Evaluation, and Enterprise Architecture training), or if the contractor course materials do not sufficiently meet FAA needs.