{"id":3348,"date":"2021-07-07T16:07:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T16:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/?p=3348"},"modified":"2021-07-07T16:07:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T16:07:08","slug":"dla-competition-5-56-magazines-2-4-million-annually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2021\/07\/dla-competition-5-56-magazines-2-4-million-annually\/","title":{"rendered":"DLA wants more competition on 5.56 magazines; $2.4 Million annually"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3349\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3349\" style=\"width: 546px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MAG556-BLK.jpg\" alt=\"MAG556-BLK\" width=\"546\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MAG556-BLK.jpg 546w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MAG556-BLK-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MAG556-BLK-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MAG556-BLK-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MAG556-BLK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DLA Land and Maritime is looking for more companies to compete to sell this 30 round 5.56 magazine, NSN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/nsn_search\/1005-01-615-5169\">1005-01-615-5169<\/a>.\u00a0 The next-generation PMAG 30 M3 MagLevel is a 30-round 5.56&#215;45 NATO (.223 Remington) polymer magazine for AR15\/M16 compatible weapons that features transparent windows to allow rapid visual identification of approximate number of rounds remaining.\u00a0 The OEM is Magpul Industries, but any company that can make this magazine can submit a Source Approval Request to become an authorized supplier.<\/p>\n<p>This is not an announcement of solicitation but rather the military announcing that it would like to see more companies competing for supply of this item.\u00a0 The most recent supplier was MagPul Industries which sold 27,928 units at $10.75 each.\u00a0 DLA believes it can see more competitive pricing if more companies can produce this item.<\/p>\n<p>The government estimates that they purchase 187,989 of these magazines each year.\u00a0 DLA estimates that it spends approximately $2.4 Million on them each year.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about this item, log into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\">BidLink<\/a> and put 1005-01-615-5169 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 Land and Maritime is looking for more companies to compete to sell this 30 round 5.56 magazine, NSN 1005-01-615-5169.\u00a0 The next-generation PMAG 30 M3 MagLevel is a 30-round 5.56&#215;45 NATO (.223 Remington) polymer magazine for AR15\/M16 compatible weapons that features transparent windows to allow rapid visual identification of approximate number of rounds remaining.\u00a0 The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2021\/07\/dla-competition-5-56-magazines-2-4-million-annually\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DLA wants more competition on 5.56 magazines; $2.4 Million annually&#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-3348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348","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=3348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3350,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions\/3350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}