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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION (GSA)

ASSISTED ACQUISITION SERVICES (AAS) REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI)

TO

SAM.GOV

I. Introduction

General Services Administration (GSA), Assisted Acquisition Services (AAS) is releasing this Request for Information (RFI) on behalf of United States Marine Corps (USMC). The purpose of this RFI is to assist the Government in conducting market research focused on identifying interested parties for a potential solicitation and resulting contract. This information will be used for market research only. The Government is not obligated to release a future solicitation.

This RFI does NOT constitute a Request for Proposal and is not to be construed as a commitment, implied or otherwise, by the Government that a procurement action will be issued.

Response to this notice is not a request to be added to a bidders list or to receive a copy of a solicitation. No entitlement to payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by the Government will arise as a result of the submission of the requested information. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this announcement and any follow up information requests. Responses to this RFI may be considered in the future determination of an appropriate acquisition strategy for the program. The Government may not respond to any specific questions or comments submitted in response to this RFI or information provided as a result of this request. Any information submitted by respondents as a result of this notice is strictly voluntary.

II. Background

The contractor shall perform Contractor Maintenance Support (CMS) for the six Tactical Aircraft (TACAIR) Squadrons of Marine Aircraft Group 26 (MAG). MAG 26 is a United States Marine Corps aviation unit based at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) New River, North Carolina, that is composed of six TACAIR Marine Medium Tilt rotor Squadrons (VMM’s), one Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS) and one Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron (MALS).

The contractor shall not be subject to either by the contract's terms or by the manner of its administration, to the supervision and control usually prevailing in relationships between the Government and its employees.

The contractor shall perform Organizational and Intermediate, level maintenance on MV-22 aircraft onboard Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) New River, North Carolina (NC). The maintenance services provided by the contractor shall be within the skill classifications identified in the Draft Performance Work Statement (PWS).

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Contractor will perform Organizational and Intermediate, level (O/I-Level) scheduled and unscheduled maintenance to include documentation, troubleshooting, inspections, corrosion prevention/treatment, servicing, lubricating, adjusting and the removal and replacement of aeronautical components.

The Contractor shall participate in periodic quality assurance (QA) audits and periodic monitoring. Additionally, the Contractor shall participate in periodic Government Aviation Maintenance Management Team (AMMT) inspections, Aviation Logistics Management Assist Team (ALMAT) inspections, Maintenance Program Assist (MPA) visits, training assist visits (pre-MPA), Material Condition Inspections (MCIs), and Naval Safety Center surveys.

Flight line contractors shall perform all O-level maintenance on aircraft engines and auxiliary power units, fuel cells and fuel systems, propellers, and dynamic components and drive systems.

The contractor shall provide all labor, supervision, and technical support required to provide training and perform scheduled/unscheduled MV-22 maintenance.

III. Functional Areas

The personnel complement shall include an adequate mixture of the following labor categories;

airframe mechanics, flight-line mechanics, and electrical/avionics mechanics. The complement mixture shall be balanced in a manner to adequately support 103,680 man hours of O/I/D-Level scheduled and unscheduled maintenance to include documentation, troubleshooting, inspections, corrosion prevention/treatment, servicing, lubricating, adjusting and the removal and replacement of aeronautical components. Additional guidance and minimum qualifications are provided in Appendix 1 of the Draft PWS. The CMS personnel shall augment government maintenance personnel at the O/I/D-Level.

Contractor personnel are employees of the contractor and fall under their administrative control and supervision.

The contractor shall report all interim Intermediate Level (I-Level) repair requirements found during inspection/corrective action, to the designated squadron Maintenance Material Control Officer (MMCO).

The contractor team members shall be qualified to examine, inspect, investigate, repair, and provide recommendations to the local Maintenance Control and/or government agency as required. Contractor personnel will be highly qualified and technically competent in their assigned skill category, meeting the minimum qualifications identified in paragraph Appendix 1 of the Draft PWS.

The contractor shall ensure designated personnel as listed in Appendix 2 of the Draft PWS are qualified as Collateral Duty Inspector (CDI) or Collateral Duty Quality Assurance Representative (CDQAR) in accordance with the NAMP. All maintenance will be performed and inspected in accordance with the NAMP.

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The contractor electrical/avionics mechanics shall possess at minimum a SECRET clearance due to their access to cryptographic equipment/components and/or spaces in which they are handled.

IV. Government Estimate

The Government currently estimates the total amount of this requirement to be from $30,000,000.00 to $40,000,000.00 over a one-year base period and four, one-year, options.

V. Questionnaires

Complete the questionnaire as outlined below:

a. Responses shall be submitted electronically by email only to Joe Loersch (AAS Contracting Officer) at joseph.loersch@gsa.gov and Drew Zimmerman (AAS Contract Specialist) at drew.zimmerman@gsa.gov. Use the attached questionnaire to provide the requested information (i.e., no substitutions, additions, or deletions).

b. All responses shall maintain one-inch margins, 12-point Times New Roman font, and are single spaced.

c. Table 1: Corporate Overview shall be no longer than two (2) pages in length.

d. Table 2: Prior and Current Corporate Experience shall be no longer than three (3) pages in length (no longer than one (1) page for each example of Corporate Experience). All Corporate Experience must be performed by the respondent as a Prime contractor.

e. Corporate Capabilities and Approaches shall be no longer than two (2) pages and is further limited below.

f. All information submitted shall be UNCLASSIFIED.

g. Responses shall be submitted no later than 11 a.m. Eastern Time on September 2, 2025.

h. Send questions to Joe Loersch (AAS Contracting Officer) at joseph.loersch@gsa.gov and

Drew Zimmerman (AAS Contract Specialist) at drew.zimmerman@gsa.gov.

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Table 1: Corporate Overview

Question Answer Name of Company Name of Business Unit Responding to the RFI (if applicable)

Unique Entity ID Number Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) Code

Corporate Address Total Number of Full Time Employees

Website URL Small Business under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code 488190

☐ YES

☐ NO

Type of Small Business, if applicable (e.g., Woman-Owned, Service Disabled Veteran Owned, 8(a), HUBZone)

Do you have a cost accounting system deemed adequate by a cognizant audit agency? (e.g., Defense Contract Audit Agency

(DCAA))

☐ YES

☐ NO

Do you have an approved Purchasing System?

☐ YES

☐ NO

One Point of Contact (POC) (Enter name, phone number, and email address)

Name:

Phone #:

Email:

Please identify which, if any, of the formal accreditations or certifications listed below are held by your firm (do not include any self-certifications):

International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001 Quality Management System (QMS)

☐ YES

☐ NO

Other, please specify ☐ YES

☐ NO

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How does your company integrate commercially available offerings to meet the needs of the stated mission requirements?

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Table 2: Prior and Current Corporate Experience

Please respond to the following inquiries (Note: If your company is divided into separate business units, responses shall be based upon the Corporate Experience of the business unit responding to the RFI):

Please complete the following table for prior Corporate Experiences performed in the last five years in which the contractor (serving as prime contractor) provided or currently provides services similar in size, complexity, and scope to the stated requirements and technical environment as listed in Sections III and IV. Use individual task order values for the table below, not the overall Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) or Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) ceiling value the task order may have been awarded from.

Contract Vehicle/Contract Number Contract/Project Name Value at Award Value at Completion/Current Value

Contract Type: check the type that represents the largest ($) for this contract

☐ Time-and-Materials (T&M)/Labor-Hour (LH) ☐ Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) ☐ Cost-Plus-Incentive-Fee (CPIF) ☐ Cost-Plus-Award-Fee (CPAF)

Client Department or Agency Project Description Client POC, Name, E-mail, Phone Percentage of Services Sub-contracted

Number of Users Average Monthly Service Contact Volume

Amount of Tools/Other Direct Costs (ODCs) Procured for Life of Task Order

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Corporate Capabilities and Approaches

a. Describe your corporate capabilities as they relate to the holistic and integrated Functional Areas listed above. Please include which contract types these experiences were with, making specific note of (insert type of contract, e.g., Cost-Plus-Award-Fee) task orders (limited to half a page).

b. Describe your company/business unit’s experience, if any, with providing innovative solutions in terms of technology, process, or automation to drive operational service delivery efficiencies (cost and performance) without disrupting current operations, leveraging investment through savings in automation, and integrated delivery (limited to half a page).

c. Describe your company/business unit’s capability, experience, and methodology for properly staffing a (insert applicable description of type of contract; e.g., worldwide Enterprise Service Delivery and Management contract), with the same size, scope, and complexity as referenced in Section II above. Additionally, please provide the methodology used to provide cleared personnel (specify level; e.g., with Minimum Background Investigation (MBI)) for (specify situation; e.g., touch labor, surge, and project implementations) so as not to burden cleared Government and contractor resources with escort duty (limited to half a page).

d. Describe your company/business unit’s experience and methodology for identifying and delivering meaningful, and real-time executive management dashboards views to your client in an Enterprise Service Delivery and Management contract (limited to half a page).