{"id":1534,"date":"2018-08-24T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2018-08-24T17:03:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T17:03:00","slug":"dods-buying-30000-00-worth-of-car-covers-humvee-covers-and-thats-only-one-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2018\/08\/dods-buying-30000-00-worth-of-car-covers-humvee-covers-and-thats-only-one-order\/","title":{"rendered":"DoD\u2019s buying $30,000.00 worth of car covers, HUMVEE covers, and that\u2019s only one order"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1536\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1536\" style=\"width: 4041px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/HMMWV_dirt1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1536\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/HMMWV_dirt1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4041\" height=\"2185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/HMMWV_dirt1.jpg 4041w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/HMMWV_dirt1-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/HMMWV_dirt1-768x415.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/HMMWV_dirt1-1024x554.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HMMWV\u00a0 (photo courtesy of AFELM VEMSO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Department of Defense (DoD) owns a lot of vehicles, one of many items they purchase in support of those vehicles frequently is car covers, truck covers or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2018\/08\/searching-for-dod-contracts-using-the-correct-wording\/\">official name<\/a> DoD uses \u201cCover, Fitted Vehicular \u201d.\u00a0 This specific solicitation will result in an award of around $30,000 to the small business that submits the winning bid.<\/p>\n<p>This specific vehicle cover is used on the HUMVEE (or HMMWV).\u00a0 There are other similar covers they buy on a regular basis. \u00a0Companies wishing to sell or are US manufacturers of car covers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bidlink.net\">should look into this one<\/a> as DoD has drawings for any company that wants to become a new supplier.\u00a0 The solicitation closes August 27, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Also there\u2019s only one company currently making this item and DoD specifically mentions in the solicitation they seeking new manufactures to make this item.\u00a0 This item and as well as many others in this category of \u201ccar covers\u201d are\u00a0 good candidates for companies interested in increasing government sales.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Defense (DoD) owns a lot of vehicles, one of many items they purchase in support of those vehicles frequently is car covers, truck covers or the official name DoD uses \u201cCover, Fitted Vehicular \u201d.\u00a0 This specific solicitation will result in an award of around $30,000 to the small business that submits the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2018\/08\/dods-buying-30000-00-worth-of-car-covers-humvee-covers-and-thats-only-one-order\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DoD\u2019s buying $30,000.00 worth of car covers, HUMVEE covers, and that\u2019s only one order&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","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=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1541,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions\/1541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}