Sources Sought for the Establishment of a Center of Excellence for Energetics

The Army Contracting Command-Rock Island (ACC-RI), on behalf of the Office of Project Lead Joint Services (PL JS), is seeking information and feedback from domestic industry sources on the potential for design, development, construction, commissioning, and operation of a comprehensive, modern, and efficient "Center of Excellence" (CoE) for scale-up and production of current and emerging explosives to be located at Blue Grass Army Depot, KY. The Army is interested in rapid acceleration of this capability with completion prior to 2031. Refer to the Sources Sought Attachment 0001 for more details. Update 26 March 2026: The attachments section has been updated to include Attachment 0002 – BGAD Capabilities Brief. The Government is offering a site survey visit at Blue Grass Army Depot on 8 April 2026 for interested vendors. The tentative schedule for the site survey is: 8:45 EDT: Arrival and sign in at security 9:15 EDT: Capabilities brief 10:00 EDT: BGAD Tour 11:30 EDT: Departure To facilitate onsite visits, each individual attendee shall complete Attachment 0003 - BGAD National Crime Information Center (NCIC) Form attached to this announcement. Attendees shall note, the number of people per interested vendor is limited to a maximum of four attendees. The Government staff at BGAD will vet all attendees accessing the facility using the National Crime Information Center. Each individual attending must present a REAL ID-compliant state-issued identification or other acceptable ID to enter the federal facility. For this site survey, foreign nationals will not be able to attend due to limited time to vet attendees but there may be additional opportunities for site visits in the future. To request a site survey visit, contact Contract Specialist: Lindsey Arguello at lindsey.j.arguello.civ@army.mil, Contracting Officer: SFC Pramod Khanal at pramod.khanal.mil@army.mil, and BGAD Business Development Officer: Thomas Viney at thomas.m.viney.civ@army.mil. Requests must be submitted no later than 1 April 2026 at 5:00 PM CDT. Please submit all completed NCIC Forms along with the request for a site survey visit.