| Location: | Massachusetts |
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| Posted: | May 9, 2025 |
| Due: | Jun 13, 2025 |
| Agency: | DEPT OF DEFENSE |
| Type of Government: | Federal |
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| Solicitation No: | A043808-1 |
| Publication URL: | To access bid details, please log in. |
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This is a Request for Information (RFI) notice. Any information submitted by respondents to this request is strictly voluntary. All information received from this RFI will be used for planning and market research purposes only. The United States (U.S). Government will treat your response to this RFI as information. The information provided may be used by the Air Force to develop an acquisition strategy, statement of work, statement of objectives, and performance work statement and associated specifications. Respondents are advised that the U.S. Government will not pay for any information or administrative costs incurred in response to this RFI; all costs associated with responding to this RFI will be solely at the interested parties’ expense. All submissions become Government property and will not be returned.
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1.0 Introduction
The Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Branch (AFLCMC/HBAN) is seeking information regarding the acquisition of replacement runway and airfield lighting systems at Beni Suef Air Base (AB), Egypt.
1.1 Vision
A new airfield lighting system will replace the existing system including all runways, taxiways and ramps. Work will include the replacement of airfield ground lighting (AGL), Backup Generator and Automatic Transfer Switch (ATS), Constant Current Regulator (CCR) equipment, Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) system, Airfield Lighting Control & Monitoring System (ALCMS), control displays, runway and airfield lights and possibly all associated cabling. If the existing buried infrastructure cables and CCR building are serviceable, they will be reused, otherwise replaced.
1.2 Purpose
HBAN’s aim is to improve Beni Suef AB’s ability to operate at night and in low light conditions.
1.3 Goals & Objectives
A Request for Proposal (RFP) may be released sometime after Request for Information (RFI) responses are reviewed. The period of performance for any potential contract effort as a result of this RFI will be dependent on the offered solutions. The Contractor will be required to provide all required equipment, along with spares, and make all necessary changes, to include civil works, to provide a complete airfield lighting system at Beni Suef AB.
2.0 Questions
2.1 For any yes/no questions, please describe, to the extent possible, how you perform the activity and/or service in question.
2.2 In delineating previous experience, identify the complexity, scope, dollar value, start and end dates of the effort, customer point of contact. Relate scope to the requirements identified above and describe breath of experience in delivering similar systems.
2.3 In addition to detailing how the proposed solution meets all performance requirements, please provide a response to the following questions:
a. What is the estimated cost of the proposed solution?
3.0 Responses
Please submit responses to this RFI via e-mail to the Contracting Officer and Program Manager below, no later than on 13 June 2025. Responses shall not exceed ten 8.5.x11 inch, single spaced, single sided pages in length, and shall be an UNCLASSIFIED PDF. The font shall be 12pt Times New Roman.
Ms. Kelsey Ribeiro, Contracting Officer, Email: Kelsey.Ribeiro@us.af.mil
Mr. Brendan Pacelli, Program Manager, Email: Brendan.Pacelli.2@us.af.mil
The information shall also include the following business contact information on a cover letter:
Please refer any questions regarding this RFI to the Contract Specialist and Contracting Officer.
This RFI is issued solely for informational purposes. It does not constitute an RFP or a promise to issue an RFP in the future. This RFI does not commit the Government to contract for any supply or service in any manner. Respondents are advised that the Government will not pay for any information or administrative costs incurred in response to this RFI; all costs associated with responding to this RFI will be solely at the interested parties’ expense. Not responding to this RFI does not preclude participation in any future RFP, if any is issued.

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