The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) has announced that they would like to see more competition for this filter element. The filter, NSN 1650-01-055-9445 is used on the F-16 aircraft. There has been only one supplier, Honeywell International, who has sold the filter to DLA since 2016. Prior suppliers include Western Filter and Donaldson Company.
The filters were last sold to the military for $329.04 in quantity of 1,385. DLA estimates that they will spend $384,480 on these this year, a 20% increase from last year’s demand.
There is no current solicitation for this item, but DLA has determined that more competition will provide better pricing. The government is so interested in finding more companies that they are making samples available for companies to reverse engineer. A technical data package and drawings are also available.
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