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Test Pilot School Curriculum Development and Analysis Support   2

ID: 260903154159318824604 • Type: Synopsis Solicitation • Match:  95%
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Description

Background
The United States Air Force (USAF) Test Pilot School (TPS) is seeking Curriculum Development and Analysis Support through a non-personnel service contract. The goal is to enhance the educational environment for the professional flight test workforce by developing and executing a structured curriculum that generates over 48 new test pilots, navigators, and engineers annually. Each graduate receives extensive instruction and flight test sorties leading to a Master of Science in Flight Test Engineering degree.

Work Details
The contractor will provide comprehensive services necessary for curriculum development analysis and support at Edwards AFB, CA. This includes:
1. Development and presentation of classroom instruction in the flight sciences phase of the TPS curriculum.
2. Integration of simulator training into the curriculum.
3. Guidance for the development and implementation of the flying curriculum.
4. Support for branch research efforts and flight sciences Test Management Projects (TMP).
5. Expertise provision to the Commandant, Technical Director, and Chief Pilot on flight sciences issues.
6. All management, personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, transportation, tools, materials, supervision, and other items necessary to perform these tasks are to be provided by the contractor.

Period of Performance
The estimated delivery date is no later than 30 days after receipt of order (ARO).

Place of Performance
Edwards Air Force Base (AFB), California.

Bidder Requirements
Bidders must meet the following requirements:
1. Small Business Set Aside - Total (SBA).
2. Must be recognized as an expert in flight sciences with a minimum of 25 years of professional flight test experience in military aircraft.
3. An earned master's degree or equivalent in Aerospace Engineering or a related field from an accredited U.S. university.
4. Experience in developing flight envelope expansion instruction and variable-stability instruction.
5. Experience with AI controller integration into manned air platforms.
6. Demonstrated ability to work with students on flight test research and development programs.
7. Extensive experience teaching flight test academics at a formal level (professor rank or equivalent).

Incumbent Analysis (see Incumbents section for more detail)
This opportunity appears to have a confirmed incumbent and/or closely related prior contract based on prior USAF Test Pilot School curriculum development awards at Edwards AFB. Actualized Business Solutions was awarded FA930422D5004 (IDV) for $13,477,811 (09/30/22–09/29/27) to provide space test curriculum development and execution services for TPS, with a related task order FA930422D5004-FA930425F5014 for $3,686,674 (01/01/25–12/31/25) covering additional curriculum development and execution. The current requirement for flight sciences curriculum development and analysis support at Edwards AFB is consistent with these earlier TPS curriculum efforts, suggesting continuity in curriculum design, instruction support, and execution/sustainment activities.

The United States Air Force (USAF) Test Pilot School (TPS) requires Curriculum Development and Analysis Support. This is the official synopsis and solicitation for the Curriculum Development and Analysis Support. The USAF Test Pilot School is interested in a non-personnel service contract to be awarded with a Firm-Fixed Price (FFP) structure to the vendor who can meet all the needs of the Curriculum Development and Analysis Support.

Please see the attached Performance Work Statement (PWS) for more details.

Interested parties must be able to meet the following requirements:

(i) This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial products prepared in accordance with the format in R-FAR 6.102(b), as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested, and another solicitation will not be issued.

(ii) Solicitation Number: **Please provide the full solicitation number on all packages**

Interested parties who believe they can meet all the requirements for the products described in this synopsis are invited to submit, in writing, a complete quote.

Offerors are required to submit with their quote enough information for the Government to evaluate the requirements detailed in this combined synopsis/solicitation. Offerors shall submit quotes via email, please note the maximum file size is 10MB. Emails over this file size will not be received. Submit only written offers; oral offers will not be accepted.

Any anticipated awardee must be able to meet the specific flying qualifications and provide the following:

The Contractor should be considered a world-recognized expert in the field of flight sciences with a minimum of 25 years of professional flight test experience in military aircraft. The Contractor shall have an earned master's degree or equivalent in Aerospace Engineering or a related field from an accredited United States university. The Contractor shall have experience developing flight envelope expansion instruction and with envelope expansion flight instruction. The Contractor shall also have experience developing variable-stability instruction and instructing in variable-stability aircraft. The Contractor shall have experience with AI controller integration into manned air platforms. The Contractor shall have demonstrated the ability to work with students to plan, execute, analyze, and report on flight test research and development programs. The Contractor shall have extensive experience teaching flight test academics in a formal classroom, having achieved the full academic/faculty rank of professor (or equivalent) or higher.

The Contractor shall provide all management, personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, transportation, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services necessary to perform curriculum development analysis and support.

This solicitation is issued as a Request for Quote (RFQ).

(iii) This solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are in effect through R-Federal Acquisition Circular 2026-07 and R-DFARS Change 05/07/2026.

(iv) The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) number for this acquisition is 541519 Other Computer Related Services with a size standard of 34,000,000 dollars.

(v) Delivery and Period of Performance: Delivery Date is estimated no later than 30 Days ARO.

(vi) The provision at R-FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors Commercial Products and Commercial Services (Deviation Date), applies to this acquisition. Provisions and clauses can be viewed via internet at Acquisition.gov, https://www.acquisition.gov/.

Offerors shall prepare their quotations in accordance with R-FAR 52.212-1. In addition, the following information shall be included:

PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING CONTRACTOR INFORMATION WITHIN YOUR QUOTE:

1. SAM UEI:

2. EFT indicator (if applicable):

3. CAGE Code:

4. Contractor Name:

5.Contractor Address

6. Payment Terms (NET 30) or Discount:

7. Point of Contact Name and Phone Number:

8. Email address:

9. Warranty:

10. Date Offer Expires:

11. FOB Destination:

12. Estimated Delivery Lead Time:

(vii) The provision at R-FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation Commercial Products and Commercial Services (Deviation Date) applies to this acquisition.

***Please read the evaluation criteria closely. If vendor does not provide a full response, it will be found unresponsive***

The solicitation provides that quotations will be evaluated using the Best Value Curriculum. The technical acceptability factor contains one subfactors: (1) Ability to provide the requested products. The agency will first rank quotations according to best value, from highest to lowest, and will evaluate the highest ranked value quotation as either technically acceptable or unacceptable, reserving the right to evaluate additional quotations for technical acceptability if deemed to be in the best interest of the government. The second subfactor is that the contractor meets the flying qualification of having at least 25 years of experience; and the contractor must have earned a Master's degree or equivalent in in Aerospace Engineering or a related field from an accredited university from the United States.

Evaluation Factors:

  1. Technically Acceptability
  2. Flying Qualification

The Government will award a delivery order resulting from the RFQ to the responsible offeror whose quote is responsive to the RFQ and considered to be the awardee based on LTPA.

(viii) Offerors shall include completed copies of applicable provisions, which are included in the SF1449. Offers will be considered incomplete if these are not included with the quote.

(iv) The clause at R-FAR 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions Commercial Products and Commercial Services (Deviation Date), applies to this acquisition.

(x) Additional Contract Requirement or Terms and Conditions: Please find a contemplated list of additional provisions/clauses in the attachments; the final list of clauses is dependent upon actual dollar value of the contract award and may change from those provided in the attachment.

Full text for the clauses and provisions can be accessed via https://www.acquisition.gov/

(xi) Defense Priorities and Allocation System (DPAS): N/A

(xii) Quote Submission Information:

It is the government's intent to award without discussions. Therefore, each initial quote should contain the offeror's best terms from a price and technical standpoint. However, the government reserves the right to conduct discussions if the Contracting Officer (CO) determines that discussions are necessary.

Offers are due by 18 September 2026 at 11:59 PM, Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).

Offers must be sent via email to both Brianna Vicsotka (brianna.vicsotka.1@us.af.mil) AND Jenny Meadlin (jenny.meadlin@us.af.mil) No late submissions will be accepted.

(xiv) For additional information regarding this solicitation contact:

Primary Point of Contact:

Contract Specialist / Brianna Vicsotka

Alternate Point of Contact:

Contract Officer / Jenny Meadlin

Overview

Response Deadline
Due in 3 Days
Posted
Set Aside
Small Business (SBA)
Place of Performance
Edwards, CA 93536 United States
Source

Current SBA Size Standard
$34 Million
Pricing
Fixed Price
Evaluation Criteria
Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA)
Est. Level of Competition
Low
Est. Value Range
Experimental
$150,000 - $450,000 (AI estimate)
Signs of Shaping
The solicitation is open for 3 days, below average for the Air Force Test Center. 71% of obligations for similar contracts within the Department of the Air Force were awarded full & open.
On 9/15/26 Air Force Test Center issued Synopsis Solicitation 260903154159318824604 for Test Pilot School Curriculum Development and Analysis Support due 9/19/26. The opportunity was issued with a Small Business (SBA) set aside with NAICS 611512 (SBA Size Standard $34 Million) and PSC U009.
Primary Contact
Name
Brianna Vicsotka   Profile
Phone
None

Secondary Contact

Name
Jenny L. Meadlin   Profile
Phone
None

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Additional Details

Source Agency Hierarchy
DEPT OF DEFENSE > DEPT OF THE AIR FORCE > AFMC > AIR FORCE TEST CENTER > FA9304 AFTC PZIEC
FPDS Organization Code
5700-FA9304
Source Organization Code
500020347
Last Updated
Last Updated By
jenny.meadlin@us.af.mil
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