{"id":2987,"date":"2020-11-18T14:56:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T14:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/?p=2987"},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:10:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T15:10:37","slug":"dla-competition-kc-135-gas-cap-200017-annual-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2020\/11\/dla-competition-kc-135-gas-cap-200017-annual-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"DLA wants more competition on this KC-135 gas cap; $200,017 annual demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2988\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2988\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2988\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/KC135-fuel-smaller.jpg\" alt=\"KC-135 Fuel Inlet\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/KC135-fuel-smaller.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/KC135-fuel-smaller-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/KC135-fuel-smaller-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A KC-135 Stratotanker receives fuel per its technical order specifications during a refueling exercise September 6, 2019 at Beale Air Force Base, <br \/>California. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Alexandre Montes)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DLA Land and Maritime is looking for companies to compete for this fuel cap used on the KC-135 super-tanker.\u00a0 Currently there is only one supplier, Jamaica Bearing, who is selling these for $907.18 in quantity of 56.<\/p>\n<p>The OEM is Eaton Industries (CAGE 86090) with a part number of 6986-4.\u00a0 The price has risen from $70.65 in 2001, which is likely why DLA has flagged this item for more competition.<\/p>\n<p>DLA estimates annual demand at 201 units.\u00a0 Based on their internal cost estimate, they spend $200,017 each year in these gas caps. They are so interested in getting other companies to compete for this business that they have set-aside samples for manufacturer&#8217;s to reverse engineer.<\/p>\n<p>BidLink can help you obtain more information about this item and how to acquire a sample.\u00a0 To learn more about this stock number, log into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\">BidLink<\/a> and put\u00a01560-01-273-6215 into Search for Anything.<\/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 NSN details on BidLink<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DLA Land and Maritime is looking for companies to compete for this fuel cap used on the KC-135 super-tanker.\u00a0 Currently there is only one supplier, Jamaica Bearing, who is selling these for $907.18 in quantity of 56. The OEM is Eaton Industries (CAGE 86090) with a part number of 6986-4.\u00a0 The price has risen from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2020\/11\/dla-competition-kc-135-gas-cap-200017-annual-demand\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DLA wants more competition on this KC-135 gas cap; $200,017 annual demand&#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-2987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987","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=2987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2990,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions\/2990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}