Special NoticePosted Jul 31, 2026·Responses due Aug 20, 2026

Party Bus Mission Development Operations (MDO) and Cyber Assessment Team (CAT) (Consolidation)

Air Force and Space Force · FA8307 AFLCMC HNCK HNC CYBER & NTR

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
541511
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
FA830726RB061
Set-aside
No Set aside used
PSC
DA01
Place
San Antonio, TX, USA
Contact
Contracting Officer: Jamail Walker, Maj, USAF (AFLCMC.HNCKP.PlatformOneCTR@us.af.mil)
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation FA830726RB061 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Jul 31, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Sep 25, 2026 to Jan 26, 2027, middle of the range Nov 6, 2026.
Measured from 253 past early notices at Dept of the Air Force that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Jul 31, 2026).

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What the notice says

This is a notice of intent to consolidate/bundling requirements IAW RFO 7.107-3 Notifications. The AFLCMC/HNCK Platform One (P1) contracting office plans to solicit an offer for a non-personnel services contract to provide Party Bus with technical, operational, and cybersecurity capabilities necessary to rapidly onboard, secure, deploy, and sustain mission applications across Department of War (DoW) environments for Party Bus� Mission Development Operations (MDO) and Cyber Assessment Team (CAT) capabilities. The contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, supplies, transportation, tools… (show all)

, materials, supervision, and other necessary items. The acquisition team is seeking a contractor to provide MDO/CAT capabilities that enable the rapid, secure onboarding, deployment, and sustainment of mission applications across Platform One Party Bus environments. This contract shall deliver standardized DevSecOps capabilities, Kubernetes platform engineering, CI/CD pipeline development, infrastructure operations, and cybersecurity assessments that accelerate software delivery while maintaining compliance with Department of War Risk Management Framework (RMF) requirements and Platform One security standards. The contractor shall support applications operating across DoD Impact Levels 2, 4, and 5 by providing infrastructure provisioning, platform engineering, shared data services, deployment enablement, and Continuous Authorization to Function (CtF) assessment support through the Path-to-CtF process. The contractor will collaborate with application teams, cybersecurity stakeholders, and Platform One leadership to reduce onboarding timelines, improve infrastructure reliability, automate security and compliance activities, and ensure secure, scalable, and repeatable software delivery. The contractor shall implement automation through Infrastructure as Code (IaC), GitOps, centralized monitoring, compliance validation, and enterprise platform engineering while sustaining existing Platform One capabilities and supporting future mission growth through resilient, secure-by-default operations The contracting office has conducted market research that demonstrates the consolidation of three (3) existing Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) orders to be necessary, justified and in the best interest of the government. The three (3) BOA orders that will be consolidated are: FA830723FB087 FA830723FB013 FA830723FB054 The government intends to solicit and negotiate with the vendor that provides the most technically capable solution under the current Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) on Platform One Solutions Marketplace (P1SM) in accordance with 10 U.S.C. 3458 and R-DFARS 212.70. The resultant contract could consist of a one- year base period and four (4) one-year option periods. If interested in the new requirement, ensure you have submitted a video solution submission on P1SM at https://p1.dso.mil/. Local Small Business Professional Ms. Zakiya U. Norris Small Business Professional AFLCMC/SB-Lackland Cryptologic and Cyber Systems Division zakiya.norris.2@us.af.mil

Who won similar work

3 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same office, same NAICS 541511.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
RAFT LLC1$6.8MOct 31, 2024
METRONOME, LLC1$6.6MNov 15, 2024
GREEN HILLS SOFTWARE LLC1$27KMay 15, 2026

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Competitive landscape

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  • 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
  • No corporate PAC money from them to the overseeing committees since 2024
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Policy around it

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  • 0 insider buys and 0 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
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