Repair HICS Gates

The Department of the Air Force Global Strike Command seeks repair and replacement of HICS gates throughout Malmstrom Air Force Base's missile complex in Montana under a 5-year firm-fixed-price requirements contract with proposals due September 3, 2026. This procurement is a 100 percent Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business set-aside; offerors must be designated in SAM as SDVOSB certified by SBA.

Place of performance is Malmstrom AFB, MT. Work covers 15 flights of livestock gates within a 160-mile radius of Great Falls, with work sites grouped to maintain mobilization distances under 10 miles. Work runs Monday through Thursday, 6:45 a.m. to 5:15 p.m., with winter suspension from November 1 through April 15. Contractor personnel require AT Awareness Training within 30 days of NTP and base access authorization via Contractor Entry Authorization List, submitted minimum five business days prior to access.

The contract requires removal, replacement, and repair of designated gates; installation of fluorescent delineator coils on anchor posts; and transfer of government number tags to new posts. Materials include cedar, pine, or aspen wood posts (pressure-treated per AWPA standards), 2 7/8-inch steel pipe braces, 4-inch treated wood stays, 9-gauge metal fence stays, and Class 1 zinc-coated barbed wire. The NAICS code is 238990 with a $19,000,000 annual receipts size standard. Individual task orders have a minimum of $2,000 and maximum of $500,000. Performance and payment bonds are required within 10 calendar days of award; contractors must demonstrate bonding capability up to $2,000,000.

Proposals comprise two sections: Section I (Past Performance, maximum 40 pages) with three to five references from contracts completed within five years valued at $10,000 or greater; Section II (Price/Required Documentation) with SF 1442 forms, bid bond at 20 percent of bid price or $100,000 (whichever is less), and bid schedules with unit prices for all five years and contract line items. Evaluation uses best value with past performance significantly more important than price, applying a six-step compliance, ranking, and confidence rating process. A pre-proposal meeting is scheduled August 24 at 341 Contracting Squadron, Building 145, Great Falls. Questions close August 27 at 2:00 p.m. MDT. Amendment 1 (Q&A Responses) was posted August 28.