Marine Corps Prepositioning Program (MCPP) II RFP Notification M6700426R0007

SECTION C.1 MCPP PROGRAM REQUIREMENT OVERVIEW Statement of Work Attachments are included in RFP Attachment J-9 SOW Attachments. 1.1 Background 1.1.1 The Maritime Prepositioning Ships (MPS) program was initiated by the Secretary of Defense in August 1979 creating a new option for increasing the responsiveness of Marine Corps operating forces requiring immediate and rapid deployment. The program, subsequently termed the Maritime Prepositioning Force (MPF) program, requires the prepositioning of equipment and supplies aboard nine Navy owned ships strategically located around the world. Seven of the ships are located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans and two ships are located in the Continental United States (CONUS). MPF is a term utilized to describe the combat capability derived when combining a Marine operating force and associated fly-in echelon (FIE) with the assets loaded aboard the MPSs. Combined, these ships carry equipment and supplies to support approximately 18,000 Marines and Sailors for up to 30 days of sustained combat. Equipment and supplies include, but are not limited to; trucks, trailers, generators, watercraft, radios, ordnance equipment, tool kits, crew-served weapons, ammunition, rations, medical supplies, fuel, and water. Smaller prepositioned sets of equipment and supplies (E/S) are maintained in six caves in central Norway as part of the Marine Corps Prepositioning Program – Norway (MCPP-N). Additionally, new ashore prepositioning sites have been approved for the Philippines, Australia, and Palau, and are in various stages of operational capability. The most mature of these new sites is the Marine Corps Prepositioning Program – Philippines (MCPP-PHIL), which consists of humanitarian assistance/disaster relief (HA/DR) equipment.MCPP-PHIL contains specific USMC designed equipment and supplies to provide operating forces with equipment required to conduct various training exercises and contingency operations. CONUS based support for the entire prepositioning program is conducted at Marine Corps Support Facility Blount Island (MCSF-BI) in Jacksonville, Florida. 1.1.2 The breadth and depth of the E/S prepositioned - over 11,000 national stock numbered items totaling more than 36 million pieces - provides significant capability and flexibility, enabling the combatant commander to conduct numerous crisis response missions. The concept of combining the speed of strategic airlift with the storage capacity of prepositioned sealift has greatly reduced force closure times in response to contingency scenarios. Under the MPF concept, the ships will be staged, in advance, near the vicinity of a possible crisis area. If deployment is ordered, the ships would move to a rendezvous point to link up with Marine Corps personnel flown to the area by the U. S. Air Force’s Air Mobility Command. The equipment would be quickly downloaded and assigned to combat and support units which then would proceed to the objective area. On 12 March 1983, the Commandant of the Marine Corps (CMC) directed the Marine Corps Support Base, Atlantic, hereinafter referred to in its present name, the Marine Corps Logistics Command (MARCORLOGCOM), to contract for logistics services in support of prepositioned assets. Therefore, a contracted civilian maintenance crew living aboard the ships and at a CONUS industrial facility would be responsible for performing a wide range of logistics functions such as preventative and intermediate level corrective maintenance, limited depot level repair (up to 4th echelon depot-level maintenance), equipment modifications, stock rotation, calibration, inventory management, management of support systems, supply support, asset visibility and transportation management to include in-transit visibility. In 2022 DON and HQMC made the decision to reduce the number of Full Operating Status (FOS) ships from twelve to the current seven ships, with two additional ships in a Reduced Operating Status (ROS) in CONUS. As a result, five ships were rotated back to BICmd where their stocks were downloaded and either utilized for ashore prepositioning requirements, held for potential future prepositioning requirements, or redistributed to other units or locations. The MPF program requires logistics efforts to be accomplished aboard ship, in port areas around the world, and at MCSF-BI during the MPF Maintenance Cycle (MMC). 1.1.3 In 1981, the United States and the Kingdom of Norway signed a bilateral agreement establishing the Norway Air-Landed Marine Expeditionary Brigade (NALMEB) prepositioning program. The NALMEB program supported the defense of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and other missions until 2005 when the program was altered to support both regional European and global requirements. The approved name was changed to the Marine Corps Prepositioning Program – Norway (MCPP-N). Today, MCPP-N serves multiple activities and missions capable of global support to all Geographic Combatant Commanders (GCCs). E/S are stored for selective withdrawal and movement and can be tailored to meet multiple tasks. 1.1.4 In 2024, HQMC directed the establishment of the Marine Corps Prepositioning Program Philippines (MCPP-PHIL). The new ashore site, located in the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) freeport zone within the Republic of the Philippines, includes communication radio systems, engineer equipment systems, and light, medium and heavy trucks. The MCPP-PHIL Prepositioning Objective (PO) aims to create operationally relevant capabilities supporting FMF campaigning and provide support to INDOPACOM theater campaign objectives. MCPP-PHIL PO establishment consisted of a phased and incremental approach that aligned service-wide actions with resources and host nation authorizations. A portion of the PO supports humanitarian assistance/disaster relief (HA/DR) as an equipment set with associated sustainment was shipped to Subic Bay Philippines aft…