Sources SoughtPosted Aug 27, 2026·Responses due Sep 11, 2026

AF Product Lifecycle Management

Air Force and Space Force · FA8770 AFLCMC GBK

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
541511
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
FA8770-26-R-B009-SS
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
DA10
Place
OH, USA
Contact
Scott Ashelman (scott.ashelman@us.af.mil)
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation FA8770-26-R-B009-SS in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Aug 27, 2026 · this notice
    Sources Sought
  • Sep 3, 2026
    Sources Sought
    Open
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Oct 22, 2026 to Feb 22, 2027, middle of the range Dec 3, 2026.
Measured from 253 past early notices at Dept of the Air Force that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Aug 27, 2026).

Next steps for this stage

Standard steps for the notice type; not advice about this buyer.

  • Answer the notice: this is when the requirement can still be shaped.
  • Contact the contracting officer named on the notice.
  • Check who won similar work; they are the likely bidders.

What the notice says

The United States Air Force (USAF) has implemented an Enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution to modernize the management of weapon systems throughout their lifecycle. This initiative aligns with the Air Force's broader strategic goals to integrate capabilities, revolutionize processes, and enable lifecycle digital materiel management. The current PLM implementation leverages Siemens Teamcenter, a Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) solution hosted within the Cloud One environment, to empower program offices with centralized, secure, and integrated tools for engineering, manufacturi… (show all)

ng, sustainment, and asset retirement activities. The USAF continues to face significant challenges in fully realizing seamless PLM integration across its enterprise. These challenges include fragmented legacy systems, disconnected data silos, and a lack of uniformity in processes, all of which contribute to inefficiencies, reduced data integrity, and delays in decision-making. Addressing these issues requires innovative solutions that ensure robust configuration management, streamline workflows, and foster enterprise-wide collaboration while adhering to stringent security and compliance standards. The purpose of this Request for Information (RFI) is to gather industry feedback on technical approaches, market capabilities, and innovative solutions to address these challenges. By engaging with vendors, the USAF seeks to achieve a better understanding of the current state of the market, identify potential pathways for enhancing the AF-PLM capability, and refine its requirements for prospective procurements. Vendor responses will play a critical role in shaping acquisition strategies, identifying feasible solutions, and ensuring that the evolving PLM environment aligns with the USAF's operational and strategic needs. This process supports the overarching goal of achieving an authoritative source of truth for product data and enhancing total lifecycle management for USAF weapon systems.

Who won similar work

5 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (FA8770 AFLCMC GBK), same NAICS 541511.

Single-winner award sizes (5): middle half $12.3M to $62.2M, median $21.2M; range $8.8M to $336.8M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
ACCENTURE FEDERAL SERVICES LLC · $ACN · $74.2B1$336.8MMar 25, 2025
BLUE YONDER DEFENSE SOLUTIONS, LLC1$62.2MApr 24, 2026
DEFINITIVE LOGIC CORPORATION1$21.2MFeb 4, 2025
INNOVATIVE MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS, INC1$12.3MMay 20, 2026
ROBBINS-GIOIA, LLC1$8.8MAug 29, 2025

Value counts single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling; that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's last annual revenue from its 10-K.

Investor context
  • $ACN reported $74.2B revenue (fiscal year ending Aug 31, 2026). The median single-winner award in these 5 past awards, $21.2M, is under 0.1% of that. SEC filing

One award's total value against one year of revenue; many awards are paid over several years.

Latest awards

Materiality: one award's value as a share of the winner's revenue over the latest 12 months in its SEC filings (or its last fiscal year, as noted when you point at it). Low under 1%, Medium 1 to 5%, High 5% or more. Many awards are paid over several years, so this overstates a single year's share.

Competitive landscape

For the 5 most frequent past winners above. Lobbying is matched by the company's exact name or exact ticker; agencies are as named on the filings.

  • 0 of these past winners lobbied Air Force, Dept of since 2024 (0 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Air Force, Dept of job
  • $7K from their corporate PACs since 2024 to members of House Committee on Appropriations, House Committee on Armed Services, Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senate Committee on Armed Services
  • 1 foreign-agent (FARA) registrations
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Policy around it

Bills the past winners named while lobbying this agency's issues, rules from the department, and executive orders that name the agency, last 12 months.

  • 0 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
  • 32 rules from the department in the last 12 months
  • 0 executive orders naming the agency in the last 12 months
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Market

For past winners matched exactly to a listed company. Insider trades are open-market buys and sells (Form 4) in the last 90 days, shown as facts; our own study found insiders do not reliably buy ahead of awards. A sale marked 10b5-1 was made under a trading plan set up in advance.

  • 1 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 3 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
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Sources: SAM.gov notices and award notices; Senate LDA lobbying filings; FEC filings; FARA; Federal Register; congress.gov; SEC Form 4. Every row above links to its record.

Companies are matched to tickers by exact name only. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.