{"id":3837,"date":"2022-07-27T13:57:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T13:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/?p=3837"},"modified":"2022-07-27T14:00:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T14:00:37","slug":"26-5-million-dollar-solicitation-m242-feeder-assemblies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2022\/07\/26-5-million-dollar-solicitation-m242-feeder-assemblies\/","title":{"rendered":"$26.5 Million dollar Solicitation for M242 feeder assemblies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3838\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3838\" style=\"width: 3872px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3838\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/army_m242_2.jpg\" alt=\"Army M242 Belt\" width=\"3872\" height=\"2592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/army_m242_2.jpg 3872w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/army_m242_2-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/army_m242_2-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/army_m242_2-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3838\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M242 Belt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We originally published an article in April this year relating to Solicitation SPRDL1-21-R-0113, the latest amendment posted on July 11, 2022 changed the solicitation to \u201cTotal Small Business Set-Aside\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>We conducted some further research in the contracts section of BidLink and found a more recent award to Alliant Techsystems for $8,346,345 for a quantity of 203 units, and DoD only received two bids.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3839\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3839\" style=\"width: 3872px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3839\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/army_m242_1.jpg\" alt=\"M242\" width=\"3872\" height=\"2592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/army_m242_1.jpg 3872w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/army_m242_1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/army_m242_1-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/army_m242_1-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M242<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since Alliant Techsystems, a division of Northrop Grumman is a large company with over 1500 employees, Alliant Techsystems is excluded from submitting a bid.\u00a0 This opens the solicitation it to any company according to FAR 52.219-6, &#8220;Notice of Small Business Set-Aside&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There is a Technical Data Package (TDP) available.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3840\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3840\" style=\"width: 1500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3840\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/130820-M-GO800-459.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/130820-M-GO800-459.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/130820-M-GO800-459-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/130820-M-GO800-459-768x465.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/130820-M-GO800-459-1024x621.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loading 25 mm rounds into the M242 Bushmaster machine gun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This solicitation lists a Maximum 5 Year contract quantity of 646 25MM M242 feeder assemblies which could potentially be worth over 26.5 million dollars if all quantities are purchased.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about this opportunity, log into BidLink and put 1005-01-461-5038 into the \u201cSearch for Anything\u201d box. 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>We originally published an article in April this year relating to Solicitation SPRDL1-21-R-0113, the latest amendment posted on July 11, 2022 changed the solicitation to \u201cTotal Small Business Set-Aside\u201d. We conducted some further research in the contracts section of BidLink and found a more recent award to Alliant Techsystems for $8,346,345 for a quantity of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2022\/07\/26-5-million-dollar-solicitation-m242-feeder-assemblies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;$26.5 Million dollar Solicitation for M242 feeder assemblies&#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-3837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837","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=3837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3843,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}