{"id":4065,"date":"2023-09-25T16:58:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T16:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2023-09-25T16:58:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T16:58:43","slug":"dla-competition-kc-135-fuel-manifold2-1-million-annually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2023\/09\/dla-competition-kc-135-fuel-manifold2-1-million-annually\/","title":{"rendered":"DLA wants more competition on this KC-135 Fuel Manifold;$2.1 Million annually"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4066\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4066\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4066\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/F108-egine.jpg\" alt=\"CFM-56 (F108) Engine\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/F108-egine.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/F108-egine-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/F108-egine-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CFM-56 (F108) Engine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Defense Logistics Agency is looking for more competition on a sole source fueling manifold (NSN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/nsn_search\/4730-01-523-2046\">4730-01-523-2046<\/a>) made by CFM International.\u00a0 Currently this company is the only supplier for this item.\u00a0 DLA has determined that they might see better pricing if there were more competition. The manifold provides fuel for the F108 engine used in the KC-135 aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The fueling manifold is described as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A device having a single inlet and more than one outlet designed to accommodate more than one connection for the distribution of fuel from a central source. It may include additional equipment, such as valves, fittings, protective caps and\/or plugs, and the like.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>DLA estimates that they will purchase 63 fueling manifolds each year.\u00a0 They last time they purchased this manifold it cost $34,650 in quantity of 7.\u00a0 Based on past procurement history pricing we estimate that the government will spend $2.18 Million each year on this part.<\/p>\n<p>The government is so interested in finding more suppliers for this item that they are making samples available for companies to reverse engineer. No technical data nor drawings are available.<\/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 4730-01-523-2046 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>The Defense Logistics Agency is looking for more competition on a sole source fueling manifold (NSN 4730-01-523-2046) made by CFM International.\u00a0 Currently this company is the only supplier for this item.\u00a0 DLA has determined that they might see better pricing if there were more competition. The manifold provides fuel for the F108 engine used in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2023\/09\/dla-competition-kc-135-fuel-manifold2-1-million-annually\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DLA wants more competition on this KC-135 Fuel Manifold;$2.1 Million annually&#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-4065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065","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=4065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4067,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions\/4067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}