{"id":1503,"date":"2018-08-17T18:44:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T18:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2018-08-17T18:49:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T18:49:13","slug":"nsns-for-wire-markers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2018\/08\/nsns-for-wire-markers\/","title":{"rendered":"NSN\u2019s for Wire labels"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1505\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1505\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/wiremarker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1505\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/wiremarker.jpg\" alt=\"wire marker NSN 7690-00-422-9667\" width=\"640\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/wiremarker.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/wiremarker-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">wire markers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over the past 18 years we\u2019ve helped our military and commercial customers find NSNs.\u00a0 Finding NSNs for a particular item can be challenging, especially when you don\u2019t know the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2018\/08\/searching-for-dod-contracts-using-the-correct-wording\/\">official name<\/a>.\u00a0 Today\u2019s \u201cNSN Hints\u201d will look at how to find NSN\u2019s for wire markers.\u00a0 The above photo shows a typical wire marker in use.<\/p>\n<p>The customer needed a way to mark electrical wires they were removing from an engine they were repairing.\u00a0 He thought that there should be some sort of \u201cwire marker\/wire label\u201d he could apply and needed the NSN for wire markers.\u00a0 I explained that there may be multiple NSNs for marking wires and first we need to identify the official name.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases government buyers will list common names along with the official names and NSNs listed in either solicitations or contract awards.\u00a0 By searching all of those documents you might find a match, that\u2019s how I did it in BidLink.\u00a0 However even in places like FBO you might have a chance.\u00a0 But if you think like the military and search using one of the official names \u201cMarker, Identification\u201d &#8211; your chances will greatly improve. Once you\u2019ve located one NSN and the technical characteristics match what you are looking for then you\u2019ve found the NSN.\u00a0 The key is using the official name in all your searching.<\/p>\n<p>BidLink is a provider of DoD procurement research tools and has been a leading provider of industry marketing data relating to DoD procurement and solicitations for the past 18 years. Find defense contracts and research competition. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bidlink.net\">Learn more at www.bidlink.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past 18 years we\u2019ve helped our military and commercial customers find NSNs.\u00a0 Finding NSNs for a particular item can be challenging, especially when you don\u2019t know the official name.\u00a0 Today\u2019s \u201cNSN Hints\u201d will look at how to find NSN\u2019s for wire markers.\u00a0 The above photo shows a typical wire marker in use. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2018\/08\/nsns-for-wire-markers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NSN\u2019s for Wire labels&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[116,115],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government_contracts_bootcamp","tag-7690-00-422-9667","tag-nsns-for-wire-markers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}