Common Airborne Telemetry and Instrumentation Kit (CATIK) Enterprise Production Contract
Open Pre-Solicitation Posted
- Solicitation number
- FA8128-27-R-B00X
- Agency
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Nuclear Weapons Center
Air Force Materiel Command, Department of Defense
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 334511 Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing
- PSC
- 6610 Flight Instruments
- Place of performance
- Tinker AFB, Oklahoma 73145, United States
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Nuclear Weapons Center's Missile Sustainment Division (AFNWC/NDM) intends to award a sole-source production contract to The Boeing Company for the Common Airborne Telemetry and Instrumentation Kit (CATIK) Enterprise Production Contract, with the solicitation expected on or before November 16, 2026. No set-aside is used. Funds are not presently available, and no award will be made until they are. The Government reserves the right to not solicit the requirement or to cancel the solicitation before or after the closing date, with no reimbursement of offeror costs. The acquisition is a supply procurement covering procurement, assembly, testing, qualification, and delivery of CATIK shipsets, Line Replaceable Units (LRUs), Shop Replaceable Units (SRUs), and Flight Termination System (FTS) components. The CATIK is a universal kit for ALCM test flights that processes flight computer, engine, navigation, range safety, warhead, and instrumentation signals through a Common Core Unit (CCU) PCM MUX output routed to an embedded encryption device for secure PCM telemetry. The planned contract is a definitive Firm-Fixed-Price award for a base production lot of 15 each CATIKs, with contract options for 15 each Flight Termination Batteries and 15 each Instrumentation Batteries. Government Furnished Property is tracked within CAV-AF. The program is managed at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma.
Notice text
THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. The solicitation for this effort is expected to be available on or before 16 November 2026. THIS SYNOPSIS IS A PRE-SOLICITATION NOTIFICATION OF THE GOVERNMENTS INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT TO THE BOEING COMPANY, IAW MP 5332.7 Funds Availability "Notice to Offeror(s)/Suppliers(s): Funds are not presently available for this effort. No award will be made until funds are available. The Government reserves the right to not solicit this requirement or cancel the solicitation after issuance, either before or after the closing date. in the event the Government cancels the solicitation, the Government has no obligation to reimburse an offeror for any costs"
This acquisition is for a supply. This is a production contract for the Conventional Air Launched Cruise Missile (CALCM) / Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM) Test Instumentation Kit (CATIK); managed by the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center Missile Sustainment Division (AFNWC/NDM) at Tinker AFB Oklahoma. The CATIK is a universal kit used in ALCM test flights that processes multiple subsystem inputs-including flight computer, engine, navigation, range safety, warhead, and instrumentation signals utilizing a Common Core Unit (CCU) PCM MUX output routed to an embedded encryption device to provide secure PCM telemetry data. The scope of this effort encompasses the procurement, assembly, testing, qualification, and delivery of CATIK shipsets, Line Replaceable Units (LRUs), Shop Replaceable Units (SRUs), and FlightTermination System (FTS) components, utilizing Government Furnished Property (GFP) tracked within CAV-AF.
CONTRACT TYPE, PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE AND SMALL BUSINESS SUBCONTRACTING
The current acquisition strategy is to issue a definitive Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) contract for a base production lot if 15 each CATIKs, with contract options to purchase 15 each Flight Termination Batteries and 15 each Instrumentation Batteries. The Contract Line Item Number (CLIN) structure used for recurring production and engineering will be Firm Fixed Price. Delivery is expected to complete within 18 months after award.
The Government has determined that this effort will not be a small business set aside. The contractor will be required to meet all small business particitpation requirements included in the contract and fulfill all the requirements of the subcontracting plan included in the contract.
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