AFRL Rapid Infrastructure for Science and Experimentation (RISE)

The Air Force Research Laboratory issued an umbrella Special Notice for the AFRL Rapid Infrastructure for Science and Experimentation (RISE) program, which will conduct facility construction and repair transactions as Other Transaction (OT) agreements under the authority of 10 U.S.C. 2808a, effective immediately with no defined end date for issuance of Areas of Interest.

This is a parent announcement only; no solutions are requested against it. AFRL will publish specific Areas of Interest (AOIs) periodically under this umbrella to solicit facility construction and repair solutions, including owner's advisor models, progressive design-build, accelerated design-build, design-build to budget, industrialized construction, and advanced and emergent technologies such as 3D printing and automated civil engineering systems. Submissions must respond to active, published AOIs using either Open Aperture (broad AOIs with rolling assessments) or Closed Signal (targeted AOIs with single response dates) pathways. Acceptable formats include white papers, briefs, pitches, video presentations, and proposals.

Respondents must register in SAM and applicable government electronic invoicing systems. Awards will be structured as OT agreements with flexible pricing arrangements including Firm-Fixed-Price, Fixed-Price Incentive, Guaranteed Maximum Price, Cost-Reimbursable, Hybrid Milestone Structures, or commercial practices proposed by performers. Follow-on transactions may be awarded non-competitively to original participants if competitive procedures were used for initial selection and participants successfully completed a complete and useable facility or facility improvement. Labor standards and prevailing wage requirements will be specified in individual AOIs. General inquiries should be directed to AFRL.2808a.Inbox@us.af.mil.