{"id":2995,"date":"2020-12-02T14:54:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T14:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/?p=2995"},"modified":"2020-12-02T14:54:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T14:54:14","slug":"dla-competition-life-preserver-accessory-kit-345759-annual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2020\/12\/dla-competition-life-preserver-accessory-kit-345759-annual\/","title":{"rendered":"DLA wants more competition on this Life Preserver Accessory Kit; $345,759 annual"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2996\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2996\" style=\"width: 344px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2996\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/LPU-36-life-preserver.jpg\" alt=\"LPU-36 Life Preserver\" width=\"344\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/LPU-36-life-preserver.jpg 344w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/LPU-36-life-preserver-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LPU-36 Life Preserver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DLA would like to see more competition for the Nomex accessory kit used with the LPU-36 life preserver. The OEM of this item was Simula Safety, which is no longer in business.\u00a0 The only supplier dating back to 2006 is Bae Systems, selling these kits for $301.25 in quantity of 1,075.\u00a0 The OEM part number is\u00a0110210-1.<\/p>\n<p>The military has determined that they would like to encourage more competition for this item.\u00a0 As a result, they are making samples of this kit available for contractors to reverse engineer.<\/p>\n<p>DOD estimates annual demand at 651 units totaling $345,759 in purchases each year.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about this item, log into BidLink and search\u00a04220-01-487-5800.\u00a0 BidLink can help you acquire a sample from the military to reverse engineer this item.<\/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 would like to see more competition for the Nomex accessory kit used with the LPU-36 life preserver. The OEM of this item was Simula Safety, which is no longer in business.\u00a0 The only supplier dating back to 2006 is Bae Systems, selling these kits for $301.25 in quantity of 1,075.\u00a0 The OEM part number &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2020\/12\/dla-competition-life-preserver-accessory-kit-345759-annual\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DLA wants more competition on this Life Preserver Accessory Kit; $345,759 annual&#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-2995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995","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=2995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2997,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions\/2997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}