Request for Information How to have industry share innovative ideas with the Government Introduction: The Program Executive Officer (PEO) for the Air Force (AF) Business and Enterprise Systems (BES) is responsible for 140+ Air Force business systems ranging from supply, transportation, and maintenance to contracting, finance, and personnel (HR) as well as many others. With this vast responsibility, PEO BES must address things like legacy system modernization, new system requirements, COTS CI/CD, microservice needs, module updates, etc. Our industry partners are critical to the AF business systems' future success in supporting the Warfighter. In order to better partner with industry, the BES Directorate seeks a better way to communicate our needs. We are looking for ideas, thoughts, and/or methods that will facilitate the sharing of innovative technologies, processes, etc. in an open forum with BES. BES desires an industry perspective on solving AF problems, meeting needs, and filling capability gaps facilitated by developing better solicitation and award processes. The desire is to improve competition and create better informed requests to industry that result in better solutions. Important Note: The Government will not pay for any information provided by the vendor. Any information that is proprietary to your firm, should be disclosed/marked as such. At no time should any information that is classified be disclosed. Scope/Requirement: This is a Request for Information (RFI) only. The responses should reflect ideas, thoughts, and methods by which industry can share its innovative ideas with BES. This is a request for ideas on methods and practices for sharing innovative ideas-not the actual ideas at this time. The result will be a forum, gathering, process, meeting, papers, etc., through which companies will share their ideas with the government. You are welcome to provide less conventional ideas as long as the ideas are provided within the one (1) page limit outlined below. How to deliver the answer: Deliver a one (1) page paper with 1-inch margins and 12-point font. Content and format are up to the vendor. Contacts: Contracting POC: Ms Rebecca Quint, rebecca.quint@us.af.mil; Technical POC: Mr John Hulsey, John.hulsey@us.af.mil, Timeframe for answering: Initial responses are due by 4:00 pm CT on 10 May 2019. Please submit all responses to the contracting POC with a copy furnished to the technical POC. How the answer will be used: All responses will be reviewed. The government will then decide the best approach(es)/idea(s) to facilitate industry interaction with the government on innovative ideas. One (1) or more approaches/ideas or a BES approach will be shared at the BES Vendor Industry Day (VID). Qualifications: All vendors are eligible to respond. Please, do not provide business development submissions-such submissions will not be reviewed. Terms for future solicitations: The processes developed will be used to help the Government create and deliver better solicitations to industry for proposal.