Every day the Defense Logistic Agency (DLA) creates thousands purchase requests for items they buy on a regular basis. DLA is the prime buying activity for any item such as sustainment or spare parts that support the troops or any of the thousands of systems used throughout Military and Federal Government agencies.
While the Federal Government shutdown 2019 continues (as of January 15, 2019) the Department of Defense (DoD) continues to remain in operation awarding thousands of Government Contracts and issuing Government Solicitations every day.
We took a quick look at our collection of our Government solicitations posted today, with two questions in mind. Who are the top three manufacturers? What type of products do they make?
The top three manufacturers (by number of solicitations) posted by DLA today are SPS Technologies and Oshkosh Corporation. Yes that’s only two companies; SPS Technologies has both the 1st and 3rd place position. SPS Technologies is a manufacturer of fasteners and Oshkosh Corporation makes trucks and vehicle parts, DLA buys a lot of both.
These open government solicitations cover a variety of items. The fasteners are things like Rivets, Screws, and Bolts. The automotive parts cover items such as Vehicle heaters, Cylinder assemblies, Bushings, Cable assemblies and parts kits to name a few.
Government Solicitations typically list the officially accepted manufacturer and/or offer opportunities for new manufacturers to become “New Qualified Sources” through a source approval process.
Selling to the DoD can provide government contractors a virtually endless stream of government bid opportunities covering all types of items.
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