Contract Award: Center for Aircraft Structural Life Extension (CAStLE) Engineering Tasks and Research Activities for Aging Structures

Contract Award Description: The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) awarded an Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity contract, with a $90,000,000.00 Not-To-Exceed, to Sabreliner Corporation of St. Louis, MO on May 28, 2010. The contract included a one-year basic period of performance, with four, 1-year options and resulted from a small business set-aside. The contract scope of work includes engineering tasks and research activities for aging structures initiated by the USAF and the USAFA CAStLE. In general, the research and engineering activities performed by CAStLE cover a variety of tasks that follow aircraft and other structures through their life-cycle from cradle to grave. CAStLE efforts span a wide range of structure-related topics, including basic development and characterization of materials, mechanical testing of structure(s), material corrosion susceptibility and mitigation, computer modeling and finite element analysis, flight data acquisition, structural teardown and analysis, and analysis of damaged, failed and/or aged structure(s). The contractor may be required to perform efforts related to the above listed CAStLE activities, as well as research activities, engineering activities, structures teardown, non-destructive analysis, design analysis & development testing, full-scale testing, certification and force management development, force management execution, training/procedural support, written reports/briefings, and other related efforts. The scope of this effort may cover a variety of structures (from a micro-level up to aircraft, ships, tanks, ground support equipment, bridges, and other varieties of aging structures). In addition to supporting CAStLE, the government may add contract line item numbers (CLINS) to the contract in support of similar, within-scope efforts for the USAFA, the United States Air Force, the Department of Defense, and other Government entities. The Contracting Officer is the only official point of contact for this acquisition. Any correspondence pertaining to this acquisition shall be submitted through the Contracting Officer.