{"id":3711,"date":"2022-03-29T13:37:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T13:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/?p=3711"},"modified":"2022-03-29T13:37:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T13:37:50","slug":"2-6-million-dla-solicitation-f-16-tail-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2022\/03\/2-6-million-dla-solicitation-f-16-tail-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"$2.6 Million DLA solicitation for F-16 Tail Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3712\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3712\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3712\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/F-16-hangar-850.jpg\" alt=\"F-16C\" width=\"850\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/F-16-hangar-850.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/F-16-hangar-850-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/F-16-hangar-850-768x495.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. Col Zachary &#8216;Rooster&#8217; Probst taxis a F-16C Fighting Falcon from the 84th Test and Evaluation Squadron before a test near Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., June 14, 2021. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. John Raven)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) has issued a solicitation for the tail assembly shell used on the F-16 aircraft.\u00a0 The assembly shell, NSN 1560-01-072-1242 has a functional description, &#8220;Used as 300 gallon tank pts assembly&#8221;.\u00a0 It includes the upper and lower skin, bulkhead closure, joint ring, doubler, frame, stops and angles.\u00a0 Technical data is available on this item so new companies can compete.\u00a0 The contract will span five years with an estimated annual demand of 28 units.<\/p>\n<p>The assembly was last sold to the military by GSE Dynamics for $19,285 each in quantity of 25. Other suppliers include Cobham Mission Systems, and HD Aero Support.\u00a0 The price has risen from $7,607 in 2008.\u00a0 Based on past procurement history pricing, we estimate the value of this contract at $2.6 million over five years.<\/p>\n<p>Vendors will have 311 days from award to submit the first article test items, and 623 days to complete the order.<\/p>\n<p>All offers are due by April 22, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about this opportunity, log into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\">BidLink<\/a> and put SPE4A7-22-R-0251 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 Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) has issued a solicitation for the tail assembly shell used on the F-16 aircraft.\u00a0 The assembly shell, NSN 1560-01-072-1242 has a functional description, &#8220;Used as 300 gallon tank pts assembly&#8221;.\u00a0 It includes the upper and lower skin, bulkhead closure, joint ring, doubler, frame, stops and angles.\u00a0 Technical data is available &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2022\/03\/2-6-million-dla-solicitation-f-16-tail-assembly\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;$2.6 Million DLA solicitation for F-16 Tail Assembly&#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-3711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711","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=3711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3713,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions\/3713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}