{"id":3706,"date":"2022-03-23T15:33:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T15:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/?p=3706"},"modified":"2022-03-23T15:33:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T15:33:04","slug":"air-force-kc-135-fuel-cell-sources-1-4m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2022\/03\/air-force-kc-135-fuel-cell-sources-1-4m\/","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force looking for KC-135 Fuel Cell Sources; $1.4M"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3707\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3707\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/KC-135-stratotanker.jpg\" alt=\"KC-135 stratotanker\" width=\"900\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/KC-135-stratotanker.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/KC-135-stratotanker-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/KC-135-stratotanker-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3707\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">KC-135 Stratotanker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The US Airforce has issued a sources sought solicitation seeking companies that can produce fuel cells for the KC-135R aircraft.\u00a0 Only one company has produced these for the military over the last 14 years, with the last purchase in 2015.\u00a0 The Airforce has issued this solicitation as market research to ascertain potential small business participation.\u00a0 Any small businesses that can produce this item should consider responding to the solicitation.<\/p>\n<p>The fuel cell, NSN\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/nsn_search\/1560-01-529-8635\">1560-01-529-8635<\/a> is described as &#8220;Cell assembly No. 6 Clockwise&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Airforce doesn&#8217;t release pricing information in procurement history but the solicitation and other sources can provide pricing guidance. The government estimates they will purchase a maximum of 42 fuel cells at an estimated acquisition cost of $1,484,808.\u00a0 This calculates to $35,352 each.\u00a0 The DOD single unit price estimate is $20,736, although this is based on older procurement history since there are no recent purchases.\u00a0 The company that supplied this tank in 2015 was American Fuel Cell and Coated, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>All responses are due by April 20, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about this opportunity, log into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\">BidLink<\/a> and put FD2030-22-0-1306 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 solicitation details on BidLink<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Airforce has issued a sources sought solicitation seeking companies that can produce fuel cells for the KC-135R aircraft.\u00a0 Only one company has produced these for the military over the last 14 years, with the last purchase in 2015.\u00a0 The Airforce has issued this solicitation as market research to ascertain potential small business participation.\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2022\/03\/air-force-kc-135-fuel-cell-sources-1-4m\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;US Air Force looking for KC-135 Fuel Cell Sources; $1.4M&#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-3706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706","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=3706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3708,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706\/revisions\/3708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}