How 58 Barracks Became a Prototype
Fort Campbell is buying five years of barracks maintenance under the prototype authority in Title 10, single award, no set-aside, with a follow-on sustainment path that never has to be competed. Proposals are due September 25. The Army's own condition data puts $287.9 million of restoration work behind a $5 million annual ceiling.
At 18:06 Zulu on Saturday evening, a contracting office at Fort Campbell posted the seventh version of solicitation W91248-26-R-0040. It had posted the sixth version nine minutes earlier.
The work is exactly what the title says. Fifty-eight unaccompanied housing buildings, demand maintenance orders and preventive maintenance, plumbing and HVAC and interior repair across 9,898 bed spaces and 3.7 million square feet.
NAICS 56121, PSC S216. Facilities support services, the most ordinary line of business on any installation.
The authority is 10 U.S.C. § 4022, the prototype authority.
"When does barracks maintenance become a prototype?"
What the Army Is Actually Buying
Read the Statement of Objectives and the answer to that question turns out to be written down. Section 4022(e)(5) defines a prototype project to include "a proof of concept, model, or process, including a business process." Fort Campbell is prototyping a business process: an enterprise asset management platform bolted to cross-trained zone technicians, smart lockers for parts, QR-code request intake, and an interface into GFEBS so work orders stop getting hand-jammed into the financial system.
Underneath the software, the scope is the physical work. The Directorate of Public Works confirmed it in the Q&A: the winner provides "maintenance technicians and skilled labor to respond and resolve all Demand Maintenance Orders (DMOs) and Preventative Maintenance Orders (PMOs) in the 58 selected buildings," and DPW "will not be providing labor or technicians to execute repairs or work in any of the 58 buildings."
Who does that work today? Also in the Q&A, answer 123: "The maintenance operations for the 58 barracks are currently conducted by government workforce solely."
So the intent, stated in answer 18, is "to replace the current DPW barracks maintenance execution model." Answer 171 says "no government employees are being displaced due to this OTA action."
Both are the Army's words, in the same document. Reconciling them is the agency's job rather than ours.
What matters for your capture plan is the shape. A function performed by federal civilians moves to a single commercial agreement holder, for up to five years, on an instrument that sits outside the FAR.
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