DLA Troop Support has issued a solicitation for pallet jacks. This Hydraulic Hand-Lift Truck has a capacity of 6,000 pounds, Fork size of 48-inch with Polyurethane wheels.
This Pallet Jack NSN 3920-00-242-5764 is based on a commercial item description. This basically means if the product you are offering meets or is IAW (In accordance with) the specifications it could be accepted.
The last company to sell these jacks to the military is Fulton Supply, which sold them for $279 each in quantity of 40 units. This current solicitation requires 81 units. Based on past procurement history pricing we estimate the value of this contract at $22,599.
How are Pallet Jacks purchased by the Government?
By reviewing past DOD sales in BidLink we’ve found that Pallet Jacks and other MRO Supplies are purchased in a variety of ways.
Open solicitations – Where you actively look on a daily basis for open solicitations under a specific category or keywords to find items to bid on. Pallet Jacks or Lift Trucks can be found by searching under the FSC 3920, this Federal Supply Class is defined as Material Handling Equipment.
GSA Contracts/ long-term MAS contracts – These types of contracts are where you list your items/part numbers with an intent to sell in an on-line government catalog. The Government can visit the catalogs anytime and buy products from them. By reviewing some past sales by Government agencies we have seen Pallet Jacks or Lift Trucks purchased under GSA Categories such as Hardware and tools, Categories 332510C and 332510S. A few of the brands we found that government purchased were Vestil, Big Joe, and Uline.
In the case of selling DOD Pallet Jacks, it would be beneficial to both search for open solicitations as well as list your products in various catalogs, in addition reviewing past sales of which brands are actually being purchased can greatly help in your sales.
All offers are due by July 11, 2022.
To learn more about this opportunity, log into BidLink and put SPE8E9-22-T-3580 into the “Search for Anything” box. More solicitations like this can be found using BidLink’s intelligent solicitation search.
