{"id":4022,"date":"2023-06-22T16:11:55","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T16:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/?p=4022"},"modified":"2023-06-22T16:27:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T16:27:12","slug":"dla-spending-1-9-million-annually-rubber-equipment-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2023\/06\/dla-spending-1-9-million-annually-rubber-equipment-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"DLA spending $1.9 Million annually on this rubber equipment cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4023\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4023\" style=\"width: 419px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4023\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1650-01-605-1747-1.jpg\" alt=\"Rubber boot 1650-01-605-1747\" width=\"419\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1650-01-605-1747-1.jpg 419w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1650-01-605-1747-1-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boot &#8211;\u00a0 1650-01-605-1747<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DLA Aviation is looking for more companies to compete to supply this rubber boot used on the B-2 bomber.\u00a0 This boot, NSN 1650-01-605-1747 has a manufacturer&#8217;s part number of 8898-105. The part is managed out of Tinker AFB.<\/p>\n<p>Since there is only one supplier, the government has determined that it could see more competitive pricing if it could encourage more companies to make this item.\u00a0 They are so interested in expanding the supplier base that they are making samples of the item available for companies to reverse-engineer.\u00a0 Currently there are no drawings nor technical data available.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4024\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4024\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1650-01-605-1747-2.jpg\" alt=\"Boot - 1650-01-605-1747\" width=\"423\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1650-01-605-1747-2.jpg 423w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1650-01-605-1747-2-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4024\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boot &#8211; 1650-01-605-1747<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The only supplier is Triman Industries, which sold 46 units in 2018 for $17,367 each. DLA estimates that they will purchase 111 units each year.<\/p>\n<p>DOD estimates that they spend $3.2 Million each year purchasing this item, but based on past procurement history pricing it looks more like $1.9 Million excluding contracting costs.<\/p>\n<p>There is no current solicitation for this item, but DLA has indicated that it would like to communicate with companies that could produce it in the future.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about this item, log into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\">BidLink<\/a> and put 1650-01-605-1747 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DLA Aviation is looking for more companies to compete to supply this rubber boot used on the B-2 bomber.\u00a0 This boot, NSN 1650-01-605-1747 has a manufacturer&#8217;s part number of 8898-105. The part is managed out of Tinker AFB. Since there is only one supplier, the government has determined that it could see more competitive pricing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2023\/06\/dla-spending-1-9-million-annually-rubber-equipment-cover\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DLA spending $1.9 Million annually on this rubber equipment cover&#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-4022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022","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=4022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4026,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions\/4026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}