{"id":3607,"date":"2021-12-16T14:55:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T14:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/?p=3607"},"modified":"2021-12-16T14:55:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T14:55:29","slug":"dla-competition-machined-part-268517-annually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2021\/12\/dla-competition-machined-part-268517-annually\/","title":{"rendered":"DLA would like more competition on this machined part; $268,517 annually"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3608\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3608\" style=\"width: 419px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/plate-assembly.jpg\" alt=\"Plate Assembly 1650-00-968-8236\" width=\"419\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/plate-assembly.jpg 419w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/plate-assembly-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plate Assembly 1650-00-968-8236<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DLA Aviation is looking for more companies to compete to produce this metal plate assembly.\u00a0 This plate, NSN 1650-00-968-8236 is used on the Landing Craft Air Cushion.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3609\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3609\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3609\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/landing-craft-air-cushion-lcac-01.jpg\" alt=\"Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC)\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/landing-craft-air-cushion-lcac-01.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/landing-craft-air-cushion-lcac-01-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/landing-craft-air-cushion-lcac-01-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There is no current solicitation for this item but DLA regularly purchases it.\u00a0 There is only one supplier and DLA has determined that they may see better pricing if more companies competed to produce it.\u00a0 Drawings are available so that new companies can compete.<\/p>\n<p>The military is so interested in seeing more companies compete that they are making samples available to be reverse-engineered.<\/p>\n<p>The only company to supply this item since 2015 is Meggitt North Hollywood, Inc. They were last sold for $571.97 in quantity of 122.\u00a0 DLA estimates that including contracting costs the government will spend $268,517 on these each year.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about this item, log into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\">BidLink<\/a> and put 1650-00-968-8236 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 more companies to compete to produce this metal plate assembly.\u00a0 This plate, NSN 1650-00-968-8236 is used on the Landing Craft Air Cushion. There is no current solicitation for this item but DLA regularly purchases it.\u00a0 There is only one supplier and DLA has determined that they may see better pricing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2021\/12\/dla-competition-machined-part-268517-annually\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DLA would like more competition on this machined part; $268,517 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-3607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607","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=3607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3610,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions\/3610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}