AFNWC Recruitment Exhibit Displays Support

The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center (AFNWC), under the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command, is soliciting comprehensive recruitment exhibit display support services for managing, storing, transporting, installing, and dismantling a custom 20' x 20' Visionary Designs Island Kit recruitment exhibit at multiple tradeshow events across the United States. The contractor must demonstrate capability to provide all personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, and transportation necessary to maintain secure, climate-controlled storage and execute setup within 24 hours before events and teardown within 24 hours after event conclusion, while maintaining 95 percent of exhibit components in excellent operational and aesthetic condition. Award evaluation will be based on three primary factors: exhibit transfer and readiness capability, adequacy of the storage facility meeting minimum environmental and security standards, and acknowledgement of performance requirements including potential surge support for up to two additional events annually. The question submission deadline is January 25, 2026, and quotations are due by January 29, 2026, both at 11:59 p.m. Mountain Time, with a single firm-fixed-price award anticipated to the lowest-priced offeror with an acceptable technical proposal.

This is a total small business set-aside under NAICS code 238390 (Other Building Finishing Contractors) with a $19 million size standard, with the contracting point of contact being Margaret Peterson at margaret.peterson.4@us.af.mil. The contract period consists of one 12-month base year running from February 13, 2026 through February 12, 2027, with two optional 12-month extension years, and includes three initially identified annual events: the Air & Space Forces Association Warfare Symposium in Aurora, Colorado (February 23-25, 2026), Warriors Over the Wasatch Hill Air Show in Layton, Utah (June 27-28, 2026), and AFA National Convention in National Harbor, Maryland (September 14-16, 2026). The contractor must facilitate phase-in from the incumbent contractor within five calendar days of award and phase-out to a successor contractor at contract conclusion, with all costs inclusive of travel, lodging, transportation, shipping, storage, and transition activities. Primary place of performance is identified as Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the contractor must establish and maintain the secure storage facility, with work also performed at various event locations across the continental United States as specified in the Performance Work Statement.