Vectrus Systems Corporation

Material Facts

• The Air Force solicited base operating services at Sheppard Air Force Base under a contract that included firm-fixed-price contract line items.
• The solicitation provided historical workload data for fiscal years 2013, 2014, and 2015 and referred bidders to a Technical Library containing fiscal year 2016 workload data.
• The contract incorporated the Technical Library.
• The solicitation and Technical Library described the buildings, components, equipment, preventative-maintenance tasks, and anticipated task durations.
• Vectrus cited its prior experience at Maxwell Air Force Base, where it represented that its enhanced preventative-maintenance program increased preventative-maintenance work and reduced repair work orders.
• Vectrus did not contend that the overall workload or the workload in individual cost centers increased; it analyzed work orders by cost center and priority level.
• Vectrus excluded fiscal year 2016 data from its claim methodology and sought additional compensation when option-year work orders exceeded a fiscal year 2013 through fiscal year 2015 average by more than ten percent.
• Total work orders and total work hours for all cost centers declined in both option years compared to the fiscal year 2013 through fiscal year 2015 averages.
• Under Vectrus, Urgent Structures work orders dropped sharply while Routine Structures work orders increased by more than 3,000 per year compared to fiscal year 2013 through fiscal year 2016.
• Vectrus performed plumbing and work previously included in SMART under other cost centers, including Structures.
• Vectrus’s preventative-maintenance work increased while repair work decreased in the cost centers discussed by the Board.

Parties

Appellant

Vectrus Systems Corporation

Respondent Agency

Air Force

Contracting Agency

Air Force

Contract Number

FA3002-18-C-0003