{"id":2857,"date":"2020-09-10T00:20:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T00:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2020-09-10T00:20:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T00:20:47","slug":"dla-competition-f-a-18-wheel-segment-569000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2020\/09\/dla-competition-f-a-18-wheel-segment-569000\/","title":{"rendered":"DLA wants more competition on this F\/A-18 wheel segment; $569,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2858\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2858\" style=\"width: 422px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Wheel-segment-aircraft-1620-01-537-3055.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2858\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Wheel-segment-aircraft-1620-01-537-3055.jpg\" alt=\"F\/A-18 Wheel Segment\" width=\"422\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Wheel-segment-aircraft-1620-01-537-3055.jpg 422w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Wheel-segment-aircraft-1620-01-537-3055-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">F\/A-18 Wheel Segment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DLA Aviation is looking for companies to provide more competition for this wheel segment used in the F\/A-18 and EA-18G Growler.\u00a0 Currently the only supplier has been Honeywell International with the most recent order for six units priced at $6,997 each.<\/p>\n<p>DLA estimates annual demand at 58 units with an estimated cost of $569,002 each year.<\/p>\n<p>The wheel segment has a national stock number of\u00a01620-01-537-3055 and a manufacturer&#8217;s part number of\u00a0261208-1.\u00a0 A technical data package is available.<\/p>\n<p>In order to encourage more companies to make this part, they are making samples available for vendors to either purchase or borrow in order to reverse engineer.<\/p>\n<p>Companies interested in producing this item should contact DLA and request\u00a0 a sample.\u00a0 To learn more about this item, log into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\">BidLink<\/a> and put\u00a01620-01-537-3055 in the &#8220;Search for Anything box&#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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DLA Aviation is looking for companies to provide more competition for this wheel segment used in the F\/A-18 and EA-18G Growler.\u00a0 Currently the only supplier has been Honeywell International with the most recent order for six units priced at $6,997 each. DLA estimates annual demand at 58 units with an estimated cost of $569,002 each &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2020\/09\/dla-competition-f-a-18-wheel-segment-569000\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DLA wants more competition on this F\/A-18 wheel segment; $569,000&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857","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=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2859,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}