US Army Fires Center of Excellence Support Services (USAFCOEFS)

The Department of the Army Forces Command established a Master IDIQ for US Army Fires Center of Excellence Support Services on March 4, 2010, with a shared ceiling of $41.6 million, but ordering closed on March 3, 2015 and is no longer active. This vehicle has expired for new task-order placement and represents a historical procurement that is not a pursuit opportunity.

The vehicle funded training development, doctrine writing, simulation support, and instructor labor for the US Army Fires Center of Excellence at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Task orders contracted resident and mobile training teams, course instructors across multiple field-artillery specialties, manual development, and doctrine production. The portfolio reflects heavy reliance on instructor-labor task orders—courses such as the Joint Fires Observer Course, Captains Career Course, electronic warfare training, and precision fires instruction dominate the awarded work.

Potawatomi Training LLC and Fscx Inc. were the largest awardees, holding $47.8 million and $41.4 million in combined potential value respectively across 13 and 17 orders. Together with Snap Inc., Techwise LLC, and Ignite Fueling Innovation Inc., these five firms captured 97 percent of the vehicle's combined potential value of $124.6 million. The remaining two awardees held negligible shares. The Army Training and Doctrine Command placed 40 of 61 orders, accounting for $54.8 million in potential value and representing the dominant customer by order count and dollar volume.

Eighty-seven percent of task orders carried a total small-business set-aside; the remainder were unrestricted. Task orders ranged from $100 thousand guaranteed minimums to ceiling values exceeding $14 million, with most labor-intensive orders in the $1 million to $10 million range. By May 2016, the vehicle had obligated $113.2 million against its $124.6 million combined potential value—91 percent fully obligated. Ordering momentum peaked in 2012 with nine awards, then declined to two awards in 2016 before the vehicle expired.

The Mission and Installation Contracting Command (MICC) Center at Fort Eustis, Virginia has awarded a Master IDIQ in support of the United States Army Fires Center of Excellence (USAFCOEFS) at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. This action supports the USAFCOEFS mission to provide long-range training concepts and strategies, doctrine, training development and support products for USAFCOEFS forces. USAFCOEFS function in this area is to serve as the user representative in the development of training methodologies and products, concepts, doctrine, organizational and materiel requirements for each functional area. The purpose of this contract is for the USAFCOEFS to support the Department of the Army (DA) and Department of Defense (DOD) Agencies initiatives for the Fires Force in development, assessment, analysis, staffing, integration and documenting concepts, doctrine development, organization requirements, simulation requirements and production of training and doctrine products.