Radar Foam Repair RFI

The 162d Wing Contracting Office, located in Tucson, Arizona, on behalf of the Department of the Army Arizona Army National Guard, is seeking qualified sources for repair and overhaul of F-16 Radar Absorption Panels using approved materials and procedures in accordance with technical specifications and drawings. This is a Request for Information (RFI) and sources sought synopsis, which is a pre-solicitation notice only and does not constitute a solicitation for proposals or quotations. Key requirements include that interested contractors must be willing to undergo the F-16 System Program Office source approval process, which is managed by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. The primary objective of this RFI is to identify qualified sources and determine their business size classifications, including small business, HUBzone, and 8(a) designations. Prospective vendors must submit completed entity information to gregorie.vinueza_daly.3@us.af.mil and manuel.gutierrez_ayech@us.af.mil by the suspense date listed on SAM.gov, with no contract to be awarded from this request for information.

This RFI carries no set-aside designation and involves no named incumbent contractors or award value information. No reimbursement will be provided for costs incurred in responding to this request for information, nor for any subsequent exchanges of information. The applicable NAICS code is 336413 (Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing) with a small business size standard of 1,250 employees, and the Product Service Code is J016 (Maintenance/Repair/Rebuild of Equipment - Aircraft Components and Accessories). No specific quantity of panels, timeline for services, or budget range has been disclosed in this pre-solicitation notice. Interested parties should monitor SAM.gov for the official response deadline, as this RFI serves solely to establish a pool of qualified potential sources for future solicitation activity.