{"id":3411,"date":"2021-08-16T15:34:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T15:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/?p=3411"},"modified":"2021-08-16T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T15:40:00","slug":"405000-contract-kc-135-support-rods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2021\/08\/405000-contract-kc-135-support-rods\/","title":{"rendered":"$405,000 contract for KC-135 support rods"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3303\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3303\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/KC-135.jpg\" alt=\"KC-135\" width=\"780\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/KC-135.jpg 780w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/KC-135-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/KC-135-768x498.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">KC-135<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DLA Aviation will be issuing a five year contract for the supply of cowl support rods for the KC-135 aircraft. \u00a0 These corrosion resistant rods, NSN\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/nsn_search\/1560-01-145-3844\">1560-01-145-3844<\/a> have a steel alloy rod end as per MIL-S-5000. The latch end contains a positive lock pin to hold 3\/8 diameter pin when in operational position. There is no set quantity for the contract, but DLA estimates that they will purchase 80 units each year.<\/p>\n<p>The last company to supply these was Hydraflow, Inc. for $1,014.22 each in quantity of 22.\u00a0 Other suppliers include LKR, Inc., V. Lopez Jr, and Statz Corporation.\u00a0 Based on past procurement history pricing, we estimate the value of this contract at $405,600 over five years.<\/p>\n<p>A technical data package is available from DLA so companies can compete. All offers are due by September 13, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about this opportunity, log into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\">BidLink<\/a> and put SPE4A7-21-R-0839 into the \u201cSearch for Anything\u201d box.\u00a0 More solicitations like this can be found using BidLink\u2019s intelligent solicitation search.<\/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 will be issuing a five year contract for the supply of cowl support rods for the KC-135 aircraft. \u00a0 These corrosion resistant rods, NSN\u00a01560-01-145-3844 have a steel alloy rod end as per MIL-S-5000. The latch end contains a positive lock pin to hold 3\/8 diameter pin when in operational position. There is no &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2021\/08\/405000-contract-kc-135-support-rods\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;$405,000 contract for KC-135 support rods&#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-3411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411","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=3411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3413,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411\/revisions\/3413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}