{"id":2823,"date":"2020-08-24T15:21:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T15:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2020-08-24T15:38:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T15:38:38","slug":"dla-competition-f18-wing-lock-control-153472","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2020\/08\/dla-competition-f18-wing-lock-control-153472\/","title":{"rendered":"DLA wants more competition on this F18 wing-lock control; $153,472"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2824\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/winglock-control-1680-01-125-2841.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/winglock-control-1680-01-125-2841.jpg 398w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/winglock-control-1680-01-125-2841-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>DLA Aviation is looking for companies to provide competition for this wing-lock control used in the F-18 aircraft.\u00a0 DLA estimates annual demand at 11 units, but BidLink&#8217;s data indicates they might require 16 each year.<\/p>\n<p>The OEM for NSN\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/nsn_search\/1680-01-125-2841\">1680-01-125-2841<\/a> is\u00a0Triumph Controls, LLC.\u00a0 Their part number is\u00a07-43426-5.\u00a0 It was last sold in quantity of 125 for $5,999 each in April of 2018.\u00a0 A prior sale of 10 units was priced at $10,505 each.<\/p>\n<p>DLA has determined that by making a sample of this unit available to contractors, they might be able to find more competition.\u00a0 Any contractor interested may be able to borrow or purchase a sample to reverse engineer.\u00a0 No drawings nor technical data package are available.<\/p>\n<p>To see more information about this NSN, log into BidLink and put\u00a01680-01-125-2841 into &#8220;Search for Anything&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2563\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2563\" style=\"width: 728px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BidLink_DoD-contracts_banner.jpg\" alt=\"See solicitation details on BidLink\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BidLink_DoD-contracts_banner.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BidLink_DoD-contracts_banner-300x37.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2563\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">See solicitation details on BidLink<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DLA Aviation is looking for companies to provide competition for this wing-lock control used in the F-18 aircraft.\u00a0 DLA estimates annual demand at 11 units, but BidLink&#8217;s data indicates they might require 16 each year. The OEM for NSN\u00a01680-01-125-2841 is\u00a0Triumph Controls, LLC.\u00a0 Their part number is\u00a07-43426-5.\u00a0 It was last sold in quantity of 125 for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2020\/08\/dla-competition-f18-wing-lock-control-153472\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DLA wants more competition on this F18 wing-lock control; $153,472&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2825,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions\/2825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}