Month: April 2020

Naval Sea Systems Command awarded $76,187,806 to Timken Gears and Services for MRG Shipsets.

Today under a previous Navy contract N00024-16-C-4202, NAVSEA exercised an option for Main Reduction Gear (MGR) Shipsets for the Arleigh Burke-Class Guided-Missile Destroyers (DDG-51).  This base Government contract was initially awarded on February 12^th 2016.

Solicitation N00024-15-R-4202 from NAVSEA Contracts Division SEA 02 resulted in this award.  It was originally posted on December 23, 2014, with NAVSEA receiving only two responses.

NAVSEA’s SEA 02 contracting offices award close to $24 billion in contracts annually for ships, submarines, repair and major weapon systems.

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Today New York Governor Andrew Cuomo hosted a conference call with Governors from six North Eastern States to discuss the “Smart Reopening of their States.  This new collaborative task force currently includes New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Delaware.

This live conference call was broadcasted Monday afternoon, included comments by each of the Governors, Andrew Cuomo, Phil Murphy, Ned Lamont, Tom Wolf, Gina Raimondo and John Carney.  This new group plans on working together, reviewing Government data to help come up with the best decisions on how to reopen their states.

One of the questions Governor Cuomo fielded after the conference related to Government Contracts and FEMA – the purchasing of Ventilators and PPE.

Over the past few months we’ve had many clients come to us (BidLink) looking to find Government solicitations relating to Personal Protective Equipment or PPE.  The Federal Government and Department of Defense (DOD) buy these items all the time.  Currently one Government solicitation posted by FEMA (a division of Homeland Security) includes a full list of PPE items including items such as Tyvek suits, Face shields and N-95 Respirators.

This Government solicitation was posted under Product Service Code: 6515 – Medical and Surgical Instruments, Equipment, and Supplies and under NAICS Code: 423450 – Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers.  The solicitation number is 70FA2020R00000011

This is only one of the 1000’s of DOD and Federal Government Solicitations posted every day.  Many Successful Government contractors rely on 3^rd party tools that help consolidate and refine solicitation results, in addition provide data such as part number, NSN and procurement history data.

The more solicitations and data (by volume) you can review each day the better your chances will be in winning more DOD contracts.

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The Merger between Raytheon Company and United Technologies Corporation UTC Merger was completed today.  Raytheon Technologies Headquartered in Waltham, Mass is a large Defense contractor with “a global team of 195,000 employees, including 60,000 engineers and scientists.” according to SEC press release.

Raytheon Company, stock symbol “RTN” and United Technologies stock symbol “UTX” ceased trading on April 2, 2020.  United Technologies changed its name to Raytheon Technologies Corporation, stock shares now trade under the ticker symbol “RTX”.

Raytheon Technologies Businesses:
Collins Aerospace Systems
Pratt & Whitney
Raytheon Intelligence & Space
Raytheon Missiles & Defense

If you are looking for detailed information relating to Raytheon Technologies or any other Government contractor selling to DOD using the specific CAGE code(s) relating to the division of interest will return the best results.

Here is one example of the detailed information you can see based on CAGE code data.  One of the found CAGE codes for United Technologies Corporation is CAGE 52661.  This CAGE is currently listed “Doing Business as” Pratt & Whitney.

After finding the CAGE code of interest we reviewed all the sales relating to this specific CAGE code.

One of the orders we found that Pratt & Whitney received yesterday was for a Liquid Pump Housing NSN 4320-00-356-2578.  DLA Land and Maritime ordered a total of 86 units with a unit price of $899.67 each totaling $77,371.62.  The associated Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) number is SPE4A1-15-G-0006 and the Solicitation that resulted in this order was SPE7M5-19-T-454P.

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Manufacturers looking to sell to the Department of Defense for the first time or seeking to increase your DOD sales should always be on the lookout for items with only one Manufacturer.  In this article we will quickly look at Antennas the DOD buys.

Government contractors spend much of their time searching for DOD bids and sometimes forget to spend time researching beyond that one bid opportunity.  Reviewing data such as past contract sales (procurement history) of a specific company or commodity can lead you into directions you may not have seen.  The data tells the story.

This week a question came up after reviewing some open government solicitations for antennas.  We looked at a few of the NSNs listed, then looked at procurement history and listed manufacturers.  Of the very small number of NSNs we reviewed a trend was beginning unveil itself – Only One Manufacturer.  If you were a manufacturer of antennas or a similar/related product you might consider becoming a manufacturer of antennas for DOD.

Even if you don’t manufacturer antennas, there are millions of NSNs DOD buys on a regular basis and many of them will have only one listed manufacturer and the data will tell you.  DOD opportunities lie way beyond bid searching and this is one of the ways successful government contractors think.

The Department of Defense is always looking for new manufacturers, however most of the time they are not knocking at your door, it’s up to you to find these opportunities and looking at the data is a great start.

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