DRAFT RFP - Global Unified Airbase Readiness and Defense (GUARD) IDIQ - Force Protection Division
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The Global Unified Airbase Readiness and Defense (GUARD) IDIQ is a multiple-award vehicle managed by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) for the acquisition, integration, upgrade, and sustainment of Integrated Base Defense Security Systems (IBDSS). The program is designed to protect U.S. Government and Foreign Military Sales assets globally across nuclear and non-nuclear sites. The scope encompasses Fixed Site Electronic Security Systems, including intrusion detection, video management, and access control, as well as rapidly deployable Tactical Systems. Key requirements include comprehensive Contractor Logistics Support, cybersecurity compliance via CMMC and RMF, and the provision of highly qualified personnel such as systems and senior engineers. The contract has a total ceiling value of 1.98 billion dollars, featuring a two-year base period with options to extend up to ten years. The government intends to award contracts to the ten highest technically rated offerors with fair and reasonable pricing through a two-phase evaluation process focusing on relevant experience and technical solutions. While the overall IDIQ provides the framework, specific prices, delivery schedules, and CLIN values are established at the individual task order level. Administration is handled through the Wide Area WorkFlow system, and the program includes specific small business participation goals for SDVOSB and HUBZone concerns.
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Place of Performance
0, MA, 01731, USASet-Aside
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Full Description
AFLCMC/ESSK is issuing this Draft RFP as an RFI to improve understanding of market landscape and engage with industry to ensure our acquisition strategy and formal RFP, upon release, are understandable and actionable.
The GUARD IDIQ provides for the acquisition and sustainment of Integrated Base Defense Security Systems (IBDSS) tailored to the Air Force Security Forces community, ensuring the warfighter is equipped with a means to deter, anticipate, deny, detect, report, delay, assess, and track hostile forces and targets for the protection of resources and personnel.
**Draft SOW, PWS, and Relevant Experience Self-Scoring matrix updated shortly after publication due to access issues. No material changes made. Updated Introduction and Instructions uploaded 28 Sept 2026 to clarify page limit language.
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THIS REQUEST FOR INFORMATION IS SOLELY FOR INFORMATIONAL AND PLANNING PURPOSES AND DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A SOLICITATION.
IAW RFO 15.101(c)(2), requests to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract, nor do they affect a potential offeror’s ability to respond to a future synopsis/solicitation, which may or may not follow or restrict the Goverenment’s eventual acquisition approach. The Government will not provide reimbursement for any information that may be submitted in response to this notice, and no basis for a claim against the Government shall arise from a response to this notice or Government use of any information provided. Respondents are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this RFI.**
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