How a Contract Grew by a Third Before Anyone Recompeted It

NAVFAC Marianas put its Guam custodial work back on the street Thursday and amended it at 4:31 Monday morning UTC. Solicitation N4019226R9150, NAICS 561720, proposals due September 18.

The scope line is long enough to need its own paragraph: custodial services at all Naval Base Guam activities, Andersen Air Force Base activities, Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz activities, the Naval Hospital medical treatment facilities, tenant commands, and other US military or federal activities throughout Guam, the Marianas, the CNMI, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau.

Now compare that to what the incumbent vehicle says it covers. N40192-22-D-9101, awarded to Advance Management in December 2021, reads "all U.S. naval activities and tenants, U.S. Naval Hospital (medical treatment facilities), Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz, and other federal agencies, Guam."

Andersen is new to the paperwork. The work has been on the vehicle since option year two.

"How much bigger is the thing being recompeted than the thing that was competed?"

The answer is in the task orders.

What Actually Grew

Sixteen child orders hang off N40192-22-D-9101, obligating $17,082,840.41 across the base period and four option years. Pull out four one-off actions (a COVID buy, a restroom line, six MCICOM buildings, Typhoon Mawar recovery) and the recurring spine is clean.

Base year: one order, Naval Base Guam, $2,777,184.52.

Camp Blaz money starts in option year one. Andersen money starts in option year two.

By option year four the vehicle carries three parallel recurring orders totaling $3,778,699.14 (chart below). That is +36.1% over the base year, or $1,001,514.62 of additional annual work, and none of it went through a competition.

Naval Base Guam by itself grew 13.3%. The rest arrived as new sites, priced by modification against a proposal written in 2021.

So the requirement on the street this month is a third larger than the one four bidders priced five years ago. Anyone building a price-to-win off the incumbent's award value is pricing the wrong contract.