CUI Justification for Other Than Full and Open Competition

This document is a Department of the Air Force justification for restricting competition on a procurement, submitted in May 2026. The Air Force Material Command (AFMC) at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma seeks to establish a five-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with the 76 Aircraft Maintenance Group (AMXG) to purchase Graco brand electrostatic paint guns and carts. The total estimated price is redacted, based on the highest Rough Order of Magnitude received during market research, with funding from Working Capital Funds.

The justification restricts competition to Graco brand equipment, specifically Graco Pro Xp85 (Model H85T10) guns and President 30:1 pump configurations, citing essential compatibility with the existing infrastructure of 3,000 psi Graco pressure pot systems across six active aircraft paint docks. The rationale emphasizes that standardization enables depot artisans to interchange components during equipment failures, and that alternative brands would require extensive retraining, duplicated inventory costs, and create safety and operational risks under OSHA standards and strict hazardous location safety requirements. Market research included a Request for Information to fourteen GSA schedule holders (zero responses), direct outreach to fourteen vendors (yielding one viable response from Americore Systems), and identification of seven small business vendors capable of providing the equipment. The document lists M.N. Gumbert Corp/SurfacePrep as the previous spray gun contractor and identifies multiple potential small business and women-owned small business sources. The government plans to continue market research and publicize the acquisition to generate additional competition.