{"id":3453,"date":"2021-09-13T19:20:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T19:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/?p=3453"},"modified":"2021-09-13T19:20:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T19:20:36","slug":"1-4-million-dla-solicitation-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2021\/09\/1-4-million-dla-solicitation-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"$1.4 Million DLA solicitation for batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3454\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3454\" style=\"width: 659px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3454\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/6140-01-490-4317_BB-390_U.jpg\" alt=\"Battery 6140-01-490-4317 BB-390_U\" width=\"659\" height=\"686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/6140-01-490-4317_BB-390_U.jpg 659w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/6140-01-490-4317_BB-390_U-288x300.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Battery 6140-01-490-4317 BB-390_U<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DLA Land and Maritime has issued a solicitation for Nickel Metal Hydride batteries.\u00a0 These batteries, NSN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/nsn_search\/6140-01-490-4317\">6140-01-490-4317<\/a> are used in various military communications devices including the AN\/PSC-5 radio. It&#8217;s a multi-voltage rechargeable battery with a built-in charge indicator and according to the related Mil-Spec MIL-PRF-32052, which calls out a minimum capacity requirement of 4.8 ampere hours and nominal voltage of 12\/24 Volts.\u00a0 The OEM part number is BB-390\/U NIMH.<\/p>\n<p>The solicitation is for 1,205 batteries and one first article test item.\u00a0 They were last sold to the military by Bren-Tronics, a leading supplier if batteries to the military for $210.55 each.\u00a0 A first article test item was sold for $10,474.\u00a0 DLA estimates annual demand at 9,281 units. Based on past procurement history pricing we estimate the value of this contract at $1.4 Million.<\/p>\n<p>This is a perfect opportunity for a battery manufacturer interested in producing one of the most popular Mil-Spec batteries.<\/p>\n<p>The contract is set-aside for small businesses.\u00a0 All offers are due by Sept 20, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about this opportunity, log into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\">BidLink<\/a> and put SPE7L7-21-Q-0309 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 Land and Maritime has issued a solicitation for Nickel Metal Hydride batteries.\u00a0 These batteries, NSN 6140-01-490-4317 are used in various military communications devices including the AN\/PSC-5 radio. It&#8217;s a multi-voltage rechargeable battery with a built-in charge indicator and according to the related Mil-Spec MIL-PRF-32052, which calls out a minimum capacity requirement of 4.8 ampere &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2021\/09\/1-4-million-dla-solicitation-batteries\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;$1.4 Million DLA solicitation for batteries&#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-3453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453","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=3453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3455,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions\/3455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}