{"id":2910,"date":"2020-09-30T13:43:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T13:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2020-09-30T13:43:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T13:43:16","slug":"dla-competition-cable-assembly-915951-annual-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2020\/09\/dla-competition-cable-assembly-915951-annual-purchases\/","title":{"rendered":"DLA wants more competition on this cable assembly; $915,951 annual purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2911\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2911\" style=\"width: 416px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2911\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/6150-01-628-9758-cable-special-purpose.jpg\" alt=\"6150-01-628-9758 cable, special purpose\" width=\"416\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/6150-01-628-9758-cable-special-purpose.jpg 416w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/6150-01-628-9758-cable-special-purpose-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">6150-01-628-9758 cable, special purpose<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DLA Aviation is looking for companies to provide competition for this cable assembly used in the F-16 and A-10 Thunderbolt.\u00a0 Currently the only supplier is Thunderbolt Defense.\u00a0 The most recent purchase was for 75 units at $3,300 each.\u00a0 The price has risen from $2,070 in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>DLA estimates annual demand for this item at 321 units, which is up from 239 units earlier this year. They estimate annual purchases at $915,951.<\/p>\n<p>The original Thales part number is\u00a0A13091-5.\u00a0 DLA is so interested in finding suppliers that they are willing to make a sample available to vendors to reverse engineer.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about this cable, log into BidLink and search put\u00a06150-01-628-9758 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DLA Aviation is looking for companies to provide competition for this cable assembly used in the F-16 and A-10 Thunderbolt.\u00a0 Currently the only supplier is Thunderbolt Defense.\u00a0 The most recent purchase was for 75 units at $3,300 each.\u00a0 The price has risen from $2,070 in 2019. DLA estimates annual demand for this item at 321 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2020\/09\/dla-competition-cable-assembly-915951-annual-purchases\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DLA wants more competition on this cable assembly; $915,951 annual purchases&#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-2910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910","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=2910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2912,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions\/2912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}