AWARD
15 -- Presidential Aircraft Recapitalization Preliminary Design Activities
- Notice Date
- 9/13/2017
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- NAICS
- 336411
— Aircraft Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFLCMC/PK - WPAFB (includes PZ, WL, WW, WI, WN, WK, LP, WF, WK), 2275 D Street, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, 45433-7218, United States
- ZIP Code
- 45433-7218
- Archive Date
- 9/27/2017
- Point of Contact
- Mark D. Sauls, Phone: 9372551044, Tiffanie J. Gustin, Phone: 9376569300
- E-Mail Address
-
Mark.Sauls@us.af.mil, Tiffanie.Gustin@us.af.mil
(Mark.Sauls@us.af.mil, Tiffanie.Gustin@us.af.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Award Number
- FA8625-16-C-6599-P00011
- Award Date
- 9/12/2017
- Awardee
- The Boeing Company, 7755 E. Marginal Way S.<br />, Seattle, Washington 98108-4002, United States
- Award Amount
- $599,999,999
- Description
- This actual contract award number is FA8625-16-C-6599 P00011. The Boeing Company (Boeing) has been awarded a cost plus award fee contract modification for Presidential Aircraft Recapitalization (PAR) Program preliminary design activities. This contract action will allow Boeing to complete preliminary design work for the modification of two 747-8 aircraft to replace the two aging VC-25A (Boeing 747-200) Presidential support aircraft. The resultant modification to the aircraft (to be negotiated in a future contract modification) will include incorporating a mission communications system, electrical power upgrades, a medical facility, an executive interior, a self-defense system, and autonomous ground operations capabilities. This contract modification is being awarded on a sole-source basis. As the designer and manufacturer of the commercial 747-8 aircraft, Boeing has the unique capability to perform necessary tasks to provide a Presidential aircraft. Boeing is also uniquely-capable of satisfying all Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification requirements with the highest confidence to meet the established program operational need date. This unique capability is based on Boeing's exclusive private development of the aircraft and sole ownership of the 747-8 aircraft stress, loads, and aerodynamic design data. Boeing declined to sell or otherwise provide the United States Government, or other contractors, with the license rights needed to conduct an adequate competition, or to provide additional engineering services in lieu of data rights. Without access to Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) technical data and support, a non-OEM would face significant challenges in securing required FAA Supplemental Type Certificates when attempting the extensive modifications needed for Boeing 747-8 aircraft to meet PAR Program requirements. Without the OEM's technical data and support, a non-OEM would be responsible for generating and recreating basic aircraft technical design data. The FAA would require a significant amount of proof in terms of data development, compliance methodology, and reverse-engineering type design data needed to substantiate and certify the modifications required for the PAR Program. Non-OEM reverse engineering type design data introduces significant cost and schedule risk into this program, which would jeopardize achieving an initial operating capability by 2024.
- Web Link
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- Record
- SN04674901-W 20170915/170913231542-e8f0720096a2a83f232fc9a2ed1d68b7 (fbodaily.com)
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