ArcPerform drafts the three linked documents a performance-based service acquisition needs from one plain description, structured to FAR 37.602 and FAR 46.401. It marks every judgment it will not make on the contracting officer’s behalf, and a built-in AI review reads the finished package back and reports where the three documents contradict each other.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – August 2026 – A-Frame Solutions has released ArcPerform, a free browser tool that drafts the three documents a performance-based service acquisition needs: the performance work statement, the performance requirements summary, and the quality assurance surveillance plan. It is the fourth free tool the company has published, alongside ArcPrice, ArcClause and ArcScout, and it requires no account.
The three documents are conventionally written separately, often by different people at different times, and that is the most common reason they end up contradicting each other. ArcPerform takes one plain description of the service being bought and produces all three from a single set of performance objectives, so each objective appears as a task narrative in the work statement, a row in the requirements summary, and a surveilled row in the surveillance plan.
The design constraint is what the tool refuses. An acceptable quality level decides how much deviation the Government will tolerate before performance is unacceptable, and it governs what a contractor is paid. A performance standard decides what the contractor owes. ArcPerform does not set either one.
Where the user has supplied a standard or a quality level, the tool reproduces it. Where they have not, it either proposes a value that is labelled as proposed and must be accepted before the package can be sent, or it declines and prints the section as a marked blank for the contracting officer to fill. That distinction is enforced in code rather than requested in a prompt: every judgment value in the package carries a source tag, and a validator checks each one that claims to have come from the user against what the user actually wrote.
The same restraint applies to facts about the acquisition. The period of performance, the place of performance, security requirements, key personnel and recognized holidays are all facts no tool knows. ArcPerform prints them as marked blanks, and the user can answer them in the tool if they want a fuller draft.
A final step reads the finished package back and reports three kinds of finding: places where the three documents cannot all be true at once, judgments worth a second look before they bind a contractor, and anything the drafted narrative added that the user never asked for. That last category matters most, because the source tags protect the table cells and nothing protects prose.
In testing on a custodial services example, the review flagged its own additions, including a hand-sanitizer restocking requirement and a pest-intrusion response category that appeared nowhere in the user’s description. Where a fix requires no information the tool lacks, it offers the exact replacement wording, and the user applies it in one click. The review is advisory. It does not approve the package and it does not block delivery.
FAR 37.602 requires a performance work statement to describe the requirement in terms of required results rather than the methods of performing the work, and to enable assessment of work performance against measurable standards. FAR 46.401(a) says a quality assurance surveillance plan should be prepared in conjunction with the statement of work and should specify all work requiring surveillance and the method of surveillance. FAR 46.401(b) says each contract shall designate the place or places where the Government reserves the right to perform quality assurance. FAR 37.604 points service acquisitions to subpart 46.4.
ArcPerform produces the full standard work statement outline rather than the performance sections alone, and cites what it relies on. It also notes that FAR Part 37 is among the parts in the June 23, 2026 proposed rules under the FAR Overhaul, while Part 46 is not.
ArcPerform is available now at aframesolutions.com/arcperform. There is no account and nothing is stored against a user’s name. The finished package is emailed as a Word file and a PDF, with the Word file formatted for editing. Drafting is metered with a small number of free packages that refill weekly; answering the decisions, running the review, editing any part of the three documents, and receiving the package are all free.
The tool is aimed at contracting officers, contracting officer representatives and requirements writers across federal, state, local and education buyers. Worked examples on the page cover custodial and grounds services, IT help desk support, program support services, security guard services, school district facilities, municipal road maintenance, and construction inspection for a state transportation project.
“The hard part of a performance-based acquisition was never the formatting. It is deciding how much deviation you will accept before performance is unacceptable, and what it costs the contractor when they miss. A tool that quietly fills that number in has not saved anyone time. It has put a number a contractor gets paid against into a document a contracting officer signs. We built ArcPerform to do the structural work and hand the judgment back.”
A-Frame Solutions is a service-disabled veteran-owned small business building AI-powered, no-code operations software for government agencies. Its ArcSuite AI platform operates under a federal Authority to Operate and is hosted in AWS GovCloud. The company was founded by former federal Contracting Officers. A-Frame holds GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract 47QRAA18D003H.