Air Force Strategic Transformation Support (AFSTS) Synopsis

This announcement is the Synopsis Only for Air Force Strategic Transformation Support (AFSTS).  The anticipated RFP release date is approximately 9 March 2020.  There are no items due at this time.  The due date listed is a requirement for SAM.GOV.  

This requirement is a competitive partial small business set-aside acquisition. The Government intends to award an Advisory & Assistance, multi-award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract with the ability to award Firm Fixed Price and Firm Fixed Price Level of Effort task orders with a five year ordering period.

AFSTS will consist of two (2) Tiers.  Within the multi-award IDIQ structure for AFSTS, the Government intends to award to each and all Technically Acceptable vendors that submit a proposal in Tier 1 and each and all Technically Acceptable vendors that submit a proposal in Tier 2.

Two of the Tier 2 IDIQ awards are set-aside for Small Businesses (SB) only.  If no Small Business Offeror’s are considered Technically Acceptable, the Small Business set aside portion in Tier 2 will automatically dissolve IAW FAR 19.507.

The requirement is to provide Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) to support the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Office of Business Transformation (SAF/MG) and Deputy Chief Management Officer (DCMO) in managing and improving Strategic Transformation Initiatives at the enterprise level.   

Tier Definitions.  AFSTS consists of two (2) tiers covering differing levels of qualifications for each; separated by level of complexity value, structure and definition of problems for the applicable mission partner.  Offerors cannot propose as Prime and/or Sub in the both tiers.  Offerors cannot perform as Prime and/or Sub in both tiers. Once an Offeror declares in one tier, it cannot change tiers.  If a Sub submits with multiple primes in more than one tier, that sub will be disqualified from future task orders. Subcontractors cannot perform as subcontractors to multiple prime contractors within the same tier. This does not apply to Non-Traditional Small Businesses. 

Tier 1 - Corporate experience successfully performing studies, research and analysis and developing transformational strategies for Fortune 1-100 companies and experience advising C-suite executives and large organizations through highly complex, undefined, and unstructured problems and;

Corporate experience successfully assisting the Air Force (or other federal entity of similar scope and complexity) and advising senior leaders through developing transformational strategies; translating and incorporating commercial best practices through highly complex, undefined, and unstructured problems

For the purpose of Tier 1, the term “highly complex, undefined, and unstructured problems” means the problems faced in this tier of effort are usually large in scale with little context or definition provided.  The challenges are applicable to the Air Force and usually to the Department of Defense (DoD) enterprise, if not the federal Government as a whole (e.g. Category Management).  The request comes from senior levels of the Air Force, require engagement across multiple stakeholder communities (internal and external to the Air Force and/or DoD), and usually have political or statutory impacts.    There are (potentially) no existing best practices in Government to leverage.

Tier 2 - Corporate experience successfully performing studies, research and analysis and developing transformational strategies and implementation plans for Fortune 1-300 companies and experience advising C-suite executives and large organizations through moderate to complex problems and;

Corporate experience successfully assisting the AF (or other federal entity of similar scope and complexity) and advising senior leaders through developing transformational strategies and implementation plans; translating and incorporating commercial best practices through moderate to complex problems

For the purpose of Tier 2, the term “moderate to complex problems” means the requirements of this tier are complex, but are usually understood with a goal defined.  The scope may involve stakeholders internal and external to the Air Force but are usually limited to the requiring organization being within the Air Force.   The challenges are usually not political and have usually have no statutory impact.    The coordination and collaboration effort needed to resolve the challenging problem requires more time to complete.