SOF Support Services Contract II (SSSC II)

The Defense Contract Management Agency established SOF Support Services Contract II (SSSC II), a Master IDIQ for support services on a portfolio of Air Force special operations aircraft including AC-130H, AC-130U, MC-130E, MC-130H, MC-130P, C-141B/C-17 SOLL, MH-53J, MH-53M, HH-60G, HH-3F, UH-1N, CV-22, and associated subsystems and technical orders; ordering closed on August 30, 2013, and the vehicle is no longer active.

The vehicle was awarded on September 3, 2002, and issued 457 task orders through September 24, 2012. Ordering momentum remained steady during its final five years of availability, ranging from 35 to 57 orders annually. The vehicle has obligated $285.9 million against a combined task-order potential value of $80 million, meaning actual spending exceeded stated potential by 357 percent—a pattern typical of time-and-materials and cost-reimbursable work where task-order ceilings are low but performance often overruns them. Combined obligated dollars substantially exceed available potential value, indicating heavy reliance on modifications and contract adjustments to fund continued performance.

Vertex Aircraft Integration And Sustainment LLC dominates the competitive landscape, holding 364 of 457 orders (80 percent) and $53.3 million of combined potential value (67 percent). BAE Systems Science & Technology Inc. is the distant second prime with 67 orders and $23.9 million combined potential value. Innovative Technologies Corp and MTC Technologies Inc. account for the remaining 26 orders. Work is concentrated at Air Force logistics centers: Robins Air Force Base Lifecycle Management Center received 319 orders valued at $59.3 million combined potential, and Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex received 81 orders valued at $20.7 million combined potential.

About 83 percent of task orders carried partial small business set-asides; the remaining 17 percent were unrestricted. Task orders are priced across firm fixed price, time and materials, and cost-no-fee models. Representative recent orders for tech data integration, reliability and maintainability engineering, and TOMA (technical order maintenance analysis) services ranged from sub-thousand dollar FFP orders to six-figure time-and-materials ceiling values. Large engineering services and TOMA orders occasionally exceeded $1 million obligated amounts, though these represent outliers within the portfolio.

SSSC II is for the acquisiton of support services for the following weapon systems and subsystems: AC-130H, AC-130U, MC-130E, MC-130H, MC-130P, C-141B/C-17 SOLL, MH-53J, MH-53M, HH-60G, HH-3F, UH-1N, CV-22, associated technical orders, aircraft systems, subsystems, avionics and support equipment.