Gila_Bend_Fuels_Pre_Walk_2016.pdf

Fly, Fight, & Win

Cave Tonitrum

Operation and Maintenance of the Barry M. Goldwater Range

(BMGR) and Gila Bend Air Force Auxiliary Field (GBAFAF)

Pre-Proposal Conference

17 Feb 2016

SPE600-16-R-0501

Welcome to Gila Bend AFAF

Overview

• Welcome to Gila Bend Air Force Auxiliary Field

• Introductions

• GBAFAF/BMGR facts

• Fuels Specifics

Source Selection Authority – Defense Logistics Agency Energy

Procuring Contracting Officer – Vicki Hahn

Director 56th Range Management Office – Charles “Chas” Buchanan

Administrative Contracting Officer – Roderick Estrada

Acting Chief Contracting Officer Representative – Timothy Sizemore

Introductions

• GBAFAF: government owned—contractor operated

• 2001 acre facility: A-76 contract since October 1994

• All equipment, vehicles, parts, materials provided by the contractor…unless in Section III of PWS

• Contractor responsible for facility sustainment and

O&M of airfield

– Government identified repairs outside scope of contract will make repairs as funds become available

GBAFAF

• One of the largest tracts of withdrawn land for military use split between the USAF and USMC

• BMGR—East (USAF) 1,052,121 Acres

• Range primary use: air-to-ground employment

• Subdivided into 3 tactical ~ 4 numbered ranges

• Maintain road and target infrastructure on ranges

– Approximately 645 miles of roads

– 90 target groups

BMGR—East

GBAFAF

Fuels Facilities

• Primary emergency divert; routinely supports FOB operations

• Primary users: fighter type aircraft

– On average 18,000 sortie count annually

• Currently two assigned R11 refuelers from Luke AFB

– periodically rotated every 90 days for truck utilization unless maintenance dictates otherwise

– Memorandum Of Understanding established with 56 LRS/POL

– Fill rate 300 gpm

• Diesel M49 supports 10 BMGR geographically separated range sites and 15 on base sites (Org tanks)

– has 1200 gallon tank capacity with fill rate of 45 GPM. Unit takes average 30 minutes to fill.

Gila Bend Fuels Specifics

• Accounting and inventory paperwork is processed daily by Luke POL FSC.

– All flightline fuels ops are completed and FAS logged into FMD.

• Jet A resupply is coordinated (ordered/delivered) within 24 hours by Davis Monthan AFB Contracting/POL FSC.

– Jet A tank truck receipts take 45 minutes to unload into storage tanks

– Ground products resupply is coordinated by Luke AFB POL FSC

– MOGAS/DS@ tank truck receipts take 1 hour 45 minutes to drop into storage tanks

• Contractors sample/test fuel from inventory contained in both storage tanks and mobile refuelers.

– All samples are tested at Luke AFB POL Lab.

– Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) is complete and validated annually with 56 LRS/POL

Gila Bend Fuels Specifics Cont.

Nominal Distance for reference:

Range Miles Support Type 1 Gate 36 Childs Mtn/H2O Well 2 Gate 22 Tower Generator 3 Gate 11 Generator/Moving Target 4 Gate 30 Flank Tower Generator

NTAC 45 UMTE

STAC 45 UMTE

ETAC 12 NATO Hill/UMTE

Vehicle Wash

Jet-A Fuel Storage

MOGAS/DS2