Policy, Engineering, Analysis, and Research Contract (PEARS III)

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is seeking responses for the Policy, Engineering, Analysis, and Research Contract (PEARS III), solicitation number 693KA9-25-R-00016. This contract procurement involves professional engineering services and technical support classified under NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services) and PSC R425 (Support-Professional: Engineering/Technical). The FAA has posted responses to vendor questions from the draft Statement of Objectives and Requirements (SIR) to clarify proposal requirements and contract expectations before the final solicitation is released. Proposals will be evaluated across five volumes: Technical (limited to 34 pages for Volume I), Management, Past Performance, Pricing, and Other Proposal Documentation. Key proposal requirements include submission of three past performance examples (with no more than one from a subcontractor), adherence to a 36-month recency requirement, and alignment of labor categories with the previous PEARS II contract. The FAA has confirmed that work will be performed at both contractor and government sites as specified in individual task orders.

This procurement is structured as a Total Small Business Set-Aside under NAICS 541330, with a $47 million size standard applicable to eligible small business concerns. The contract will span 36 months, with performance requirements detailed in task orders issued throughout the period. The FAA declined most vendor requests for increased flexibility, including requests to extend the page limit from 34 to 68 pages, expand the recency requirement from 36 to 60 months, and accept state/local government and commercial contracts as relevant past performance examples. Administrative clarifications from the FAA include confirmation that all submissions should be in PDF format rather than Microsoft Word, removal of estimated hour references in the final SIR, and revisions to security clearance language. No response is currently required from interested vendors, as this pre-solicitation notice serves only to provide the FAA's responses to draft SIR questions before the final solicitation document is released.