{"id":3234,"date":"2021-04-28T13:59:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T13:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/?p=3234"},"modified":"2021-04-28T14:22:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T14:22:32","slug":"dla-competition-t38-aircraft-part-160000-yearly-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2021\/04\/dla-competition-t38-aircraft-part-160000-yearly-purchases\/","title":{"rendered":"DLA wants more competition on this T38 aircraft part; $160,000 yearly purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3235\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3235\" style=\"width: 428px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3235\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1680-00-909-4507_actuator_yoke.jpg\" alt=\"1680-00-909-4507_actuator_yoke\" width=\"428\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1680-00-909-4507_actuator_yoke.jpg 428w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1680-00-909-4507_actuator_yoke-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1680-00-909-4507 Actuator Yoke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DLA Aviation is looking for companies to compete to make this metal part used in the T37 and T38 aircraft engines.\u00a0 This actuator yoke, NSN 1680-00-909-4507 is made by Arwkin Industries.\u00a0\u00a0 It was last sold to DLA for $488 each in quantity of 137 by Friedman Enterprises.\u00a0\u00a0 Other suppliers include Quality Aviation, and Trust One Components.<\/p>\n<p>DLA estimates annual volume at 288 units, although other DLA data indicates 320 units each year.\u00a0 DLA estimates that it spends $159,929 each year on this part.<\/p>\n<p>There is a technical data package available from DLA in addition to a drawing.\u00a0 DLA is so interested in finding competition that they are making samples available to prospective vendors. These can be used to reverse engineer the item.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a solicitation. DLA purchases this item regularly and has determined that the government could save money if they could find more companies to compete for this business.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about this item, log into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\">BidLink<\/a> and put 1680-00-909-4507 into the \u201cSearch for Anything\u201d box.\u00a0 BidLink can assist your company in acquiring samples from DLA.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2563\" 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\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" 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\" alt=\"See NSN details on BidLink\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">See NSN details on BidLink<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DLA Aviation is looking for companies to compete to make this metal part used in the T37 and T38 aircraft engines.\u00a0 This actuator yoke, NSN 1680-00-909-4507 is made by Arwkin Industries.\u00a0\u00a0 It was last sold to DLA for $488 each in quantity of 137 by Friedman Enterprises.\u00a0\u00a0 Other suppliers include Quality Aviation, and Trust One &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2021\/04\/dla-competition-t38-aircraft-part-160000-yearly-purchases\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DLA wants more competition on this T38 aircraft part; $160,000 yearly 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-3234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234","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=3234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3238,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions\/3238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}