{"id":3883,"date":"2022-09-12T17:48:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T17:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/?p=3883"},"modified":"2022-09-12T17:48:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T17:48:20","slug":"dla-competition-pressure-gauge-188586-annual-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2022\/09\/dla-competition-pressure-gauge-188586-annual-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"DLA wants more competition on this pressure gauge; $188,586 annual sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3884\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3884\" style=\"width: 427px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3884\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dial-pressure-gauge.jpg\" alt=\"dial pressure gauge 6685-00-684-1667\" width=\"427\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dial-pressure-gauge.jpg 427w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dial-pressure-gauge-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3884\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dial pressure gauge 6685-00-684-1667<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DLA Aviation has announced that they would like to see more competition for this dial pressure gauge. This gauge, NSN 6685-00-684-1667 is 2&#8243; in diameter with a range of 0 to 4,000 PSI.\u00a0 The actuating element is made of beryllium copper.\u00a0 For the last 10 years only one company has supplied this item to the military, so DLA has decided that they would like to see more competitors.<\/p>\n<p>The gauge is used in the F-16, KC-130 and C-130 Hercules aircraft.\u00a0 It complies with military specification MIL-DTL-25308.<\/p>\n<p>There is no current solicitation for the item, but DLA orders 294 of these gauges each year with an estimated total landed cost of $188,586. They were last sold to the military by Q.E.D., Inc for $446.50 each in quantity of 99.\u00a0 DLA anticipates continued demand for this item.<\/p>\n<p>Technical data and drawings are not available but DLA is so interested in finding competition that they are making samples available to companies that wish to reverse-engineer this item.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about this item, log into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\">BidLink<\/a> and put 6685-00-684-1667 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DLA Aviation has announced that they would like to see more competition for this dial pressure gauge. This gauge, NSN 6685-00-684-1667 is 2&#8243; in diameter with a range of 0 to 4,000 PSI.\u00a0 The actuating element is made of beryllium copper.\u00a0 For the last 10 years only one company has supplied this item to the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2022\/09\/dla-competition-pressure-gauge-188586-annual-sales\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DLA wants more competition on this pressure gauge; $188,586 annual sales&#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-3883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883","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=3883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3885,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions\/3885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}