REQUEST FOR INFORMATION - Spares-Repairs-Bonded Stock Forecasting.pdf

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI)

FA8528-25-Q-B002

U-2 Airframe Support and Sustainment

CAUTION:

The Government is conducting market research to identify potential sources that possess the ability to forecast spares, repairable, and bonded stock parts. The U-2 Airframe team has roughly 9,500 higher assembly parts specific to the airframe and a total of 27,000 including subcomponents it manages. The team is looking to automate the spares, repairs, and bonded stock cloud-based forecasting system using a Artificial Intelligence tools to make timely and informed decisions.

Contractor shall furnish all material, support equipment, tools, test equipment, and services. The contractor is responsible for providing, maintaining, and calibrating all support equipment required at their facility or a subcontractor’s facility. Contractor furnished material or parts used for replacement shall equal or exceed the quality of the original material or parts.

Contractors/Institutions responding to this market research are placed on notice that participation in this survey may not ensure participation in future solicitations or contract awards.

This Request for Information (RFI) is for planning purposes only and is not a Request for Quotations or Proposals. No solicitation document exists, and a formal solicitation may or may not be issued by the Government as a result of the responses to this RFI. The Government will not be liable for payment of any response preparation expenses, nor does the Government intend to pay for the information submitted in response to this posting. Contractors/Institutions responding to this market research are placed on notice that participation in this survey may not ensure participation in future solicitations or contract awards. Interested parties are responsible for adequately marking proprietary or completion sensitive information contained in their response.

52.215-3 – Request for Information or Solicitation for Planning Purposes

As prescribed in 15.209(c), insert the following provision:

Request for Information or Solicitation for Planning Purposes (Oct 1997)

(a) The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this solicitation or to otherwise pay for the information solicited except as an allowable cost under other contracts as provided in subsection 31.205-18, Bid and proposal costs, of the Federal Acquisition Regulation.

(b) Although “proposal” and “offeror” are used in this Request for Information, your response will be treated as information only. It shall not be used as a proposal.

(c) This solicitation is issued for the purpose of market research in an attempt to overcome barriers to competition.

(End of Provision)

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. The document(s) below contains a description of the U-2 Airframe Support and Sustainment requirement and a Contractor Capability Survey. The Survey allows Contractors to provide their company’s capability.

2. If, after reviewing these documents, you desire to participate in the market research, you should provide documentation that supports your company’s capability in meeting these requirements. Failure to provide documentation may result in the government being unable to adequately assess your capabilities. If you lack sufficient experience in a particular area, please provide details explaining how you would overcome the lack of experience/capabilities in order to perform that portion of the requirement (i.e., teaming, subcontracting, etc.)

a. Identify any areas of work that your organization believes should be broken out exclusively for Small Business.

3. Both large and small businesses are encouraged to participate in this Market Research.

Joint ventures or teaming arrangements are encouraged.

4. Questions relative to this market survey should be addressed to the PCO.

U-2 Airframe Support and Sustainment

PURPOSE/DESCRIPTION

The Government is conducting market research to identify potential sources that possess the expertise, capabilities, and experience to meet qualification requirements to provide services required to support the U-2 Airframe’s spares, repairs, and bonded stock forecasting needs.

• This product needs to be a cloud-based service able to connect to other Government supply systems to develop near-real time information

• The product needs to have a Chat-bot function that allows questions/prompts to be asked and provide responses based on those prompts.

• Creation of dashboards that have visual metrics of the supply posture of the U-2 Airframe program.

• Develop an AI language model that can evaluate large amounts of data and provide real-time forecasting analysis

• Utilizing the model's predictive analytics tool, have the following features:

o Determine the CLIFF Date for when Spare parts reach zero stock o Create recommendations for when Spares/Repairs/Bonded Stock parts should be placed on order o Evaluate previous trends of like parts to determine reasonable lead times o Evaluate previous trends of like parts to determine reasonable cost data o Develop trend lines for parts Repair Cycle Time and highlight parts regressing o Evaluate previous Phase Data information to determine trends between parts requiring to be changed

• The model should be able to differentiate between critical spares, time-change items, and remaining parts.

CONTRACTOR CAPABILITY SURVEY

U-2 SYERS 2-C Support and Sustainment

Part I. Business Information

Please provide the following business information for your company/institution and for any teaming or joint venture partners:

• Company/Institute Name:

• Address:

• Point of Contact:

• CAGE Code:

• Phone Number:

• E-mail Address:

• Web Page URL:

• Government Proposed North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code:

Based on the Government proposed NAICS Code, state whether your company is:

• Small Business (Yes / No)

• Woman Owned Small Business (Yes / No)

• Small Disadvantaged Business (Yes / No)

• 8(a) Certified (Yes / No)

• HUBZone Certified (Yes / No)

• Veteran Owned Small Business (Yes / No)

• Service-Disabled Veteran Small Business (Yes / No)

• System for Award Management (SAM) (Yes / No)

• A statement as to whether your company is domestically or foreign owned (if foreign, please indicate the country of ownership).

Responses to the Capability Survey Part I and Part II must be received no later than close of business on 22 Aug 2025 5:00PM EST. Please ensure data is in a readable electronic format that can be received through a firewall. Attachments shall not exceed 10 MB per email.

Multiple emails are acceptable. Responses must be sent via email to the following:

• Tad Williams (Contracting Officer); tad.williams.1@us.af.mil

• William Larsen (Contracting Specialist); william.larsen.7@us.af.mil

Questions relative to this market research should be addressed to the PCO.

mailto:tad.williams.1@us.af.mil mailto:william.larsen.7@us.af.mil

Part II. Capability Survey Questions A. General Capability Questions:

1. Describe your company's past experience on previous projects similar in complexity to this requirement. Include contract numbers, a brief description of the work performed, period of performance, agency/organization supported, and individual point of contact (Contracting Officer or Program Manager).

2. Describe your company’s experience in forecasting supply related efforts.

3. Describe your company’s experience with using Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning tools.

4. Provide details whether the service will require licenses once operational and where would the system reside (Government system or other)?

5. How much data would your proposed system be able to ingest?

6. When can a fully operational system be completed by?

7. When can a Minimally Viable Product be completed by?

8. Other additional information your company would like to provide.

9. History working with Lockheed Martin (Prime contractor for U-2), in case collaboration is required.