{"id":3902,"date":"2022-09-28T15:11:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T15:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/?p=3902"},"modified":"2022-10-04T17:20:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T17:20:21","slug":"million-dollar-contract-f-16-light-assemblies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2022\/09\/million-dollar-contract-f-16-light-assemblies\/","title":{"rendered":"Half million dollar contract for F-16 light assemblies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3509\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3509\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3509\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/F-16D.jpg\" alt=\"An F-16 Fighting Falcon\" width=\"850\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/F-16D.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/F-16D-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/F-16D-768x518.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An F-16 Fighting Falcon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DLA Aviation will be issuing a five year contract for the supply of light assemblies used on the F-16 aircraft.\u00a0 Technical data is available on this item so new companies can compete.\u00a0 With a solicitation offer due date in late December, new companies have the time to submit Source Approval Requests to become approved sources.<\/p>\n<p>The light assembly NSN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/nsn_search\/6220-01-527-5887\">6220-01-527-5887<\/a> has a manufacturer&#8217;s part number of 16VF016001-4. The last company to sell this item to the military was Soderberg Mfg which sold 27 units for $934 each.\u00a0 There is no quantity listed in the solicitation but DLA estimates that they will purchase 635 over five years.\u00a0 The annual demand estimate of 127 units has increased from 89 last year.<\/p>\n<p>Based on past procurement history pricing we estimate the value of this contract at just over $500,000.\u00a0 All offers are due by December 19, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about this opportunity, log into BidLink and put SPE4A6-22-R-0461 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>DLA Aviation will be issuing a five year contract for the supply of light assemblies used on the F-16 aircraft.\u00a0 Technical data is available on this item so new companies can compete.\u00a0 With a solicitation offer due date in late December, new companies have the time to submit Source Approval Requests to become approved sources. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2022\/09\/million-dollar-contract-f-16-light-assemblies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Half million dollar contract for F-16 light 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-3902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902","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=3902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3906,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions\/3906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}