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Case study · U.S. airport infrastructure / SLED

Aspen/Pitkin County Airport — Airfield Rehabilitation

Rehabilitate a critical mountain runway without interrupting daily operations. Eight-hour nightly closure windows. Zero margin for delay. The Prime needed a bottom-up cost model, nightly production sequence, FAA compliance mapping and a risk-adjusted bid posture. AppsGenii decoded the Construction Safety Phasing Plan and delivered the Prime-ready intelligence package under NDA.

Awarding body
Aspen/Pitkin County Airport (ASE)
Location
Aspen, Pitkin County, Colorado
Solicitation
Airfield Rehabilitation
Service
Pre-bid intelligence (NDA)
8 hr
Nightly closure window
15/33
Runway designation
5
Compliance categories
6
Risk categories

The challenge

Runway 15/33 had to remain operational every day. All milling, paving, compaction and marking restoration compressed into a single eight-hour closure window per night. Equipment failure, weather suspension or asphalt-supply interruption was operationally catastrophic. Bid posture had to price that operational risk — without inflating away from competitive.

Our approach

AppsGenii decoded the Construction Safety Phasing Plan into structured analytical work product: bottom-up cost model with night-ops premiums, nightly production sequence with conservative reopening buffer, FAA compliance mapping across five categories, a six-category risk register and a proposal positioning narrative. NDA first; analytical depth second; Prime signature last.

The outcome

The Prime received a structured pre-bid package — cost model with night-ops premiums, sequenced production plan with conservative reopening buffer, risk-adjusted contingencies and evaluator-aligned positioning — ready to submit under the Prime's signature and FAA-approved methodology. Eight hours. One runway. Zero margin for delay.

Statement of work

One runway. Eight hours. Every night.

The solicitation seeks airfield rehabilitation across a defined runway segment, with full operational continuity for daytime flight schedules.

01
Runway closureEight-hour nightly closure window with morning reopening on FAA-compliant marking
02
MillingAsphalt milling to specified depth, with material removal and disposal
03
PavingAsphalt placement and compaction within the nightly window
04
Marking restorationCenterline, threshold and runway marking restoration before morning reopen
05
FAA complianceAC 150/5370 and AC 150/5340 series compliance across the work
06
PhasingConstruction Safety Phasing Plan execution with nightly milestones
07
Material supplyAsphalt supply chain logistics with backup-source provisions
What we delivered

Six deliverables. One Prime-ready package.

01 · Procurement decode

CSPP, FAA references, evaluation logic and submission rules translated into a Prime-ready capture brief.

02 · Bottom-up cost model

Line-item cost build with night-ops premiums, mountain-altitude productivity adjustments and supply-chain contingencies.

03 · Production sequence

Nightly milling-pave-compact-mark sequence with conservative reopening buffer and weather-suspension contingencies.

04 · FAA compliance map

AC-series compliance audited across five categories with pass/fail determinations.

05 · Risk register

Six risk categories — weather, supply, equipment, FAA, schedule, environmental — each with likelihood, impact and mitigation.

06 · Positioning narrative

Evaluator-aligned proposal narrative emphasizing operational credibility and FAA methodology.

Our methodology

AppsGenii SLED Intelligence. Applied precisely.

We don’t just read a solicitation — we decode it. Five phases, every requirement explicit.

01
Procurement office intelligenceWe read the buying posture first. Sole-contact rules, evaluation weighting and procurement-vehicle posture tell us exactly what the evaluators are protecting against — and we engineer the submission to address each concern.
02
Clause-by-clause structural analysisEvery requirement mapped to a specific submission action with a pass/fail determination. Nothing is inferred from context — every requirement is explicit.
03
Solution & capability architectureWhere the RFP calls for a solution, we architect it — mapping every required capability to a specific platform component and verifying integration patterns at the data, workflow and identity layers.
04
Competitive pricing intelligenceBenchmarked against the vehicle’s competitive set and the agency’s budget posture, structured to win on value across the contract term — not just on grand-total optics.
05
Submission engineeringCover, dual-recipient routing, file naming, assembly order and a pre-send go/no-go checklist — with a 30-minute submission buffer baked in.
Prepared by AppsGenii Technologies under mutual NDA for an authorized U.S. prime contractor. The prime’s identity is confidential. Aspen/Pitkin County Airport (ASE) is named as the public awarding body only — AppsGenii is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Aspen/Pitkin County Airport (ASE).

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