{"id":4161,"date":"2025-02-14T17:12:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T17:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/?p=4161"},"modified":"2025-02-14T17:12:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T17:12:05","slug":"million-dollar-solicitation-kc-135-fairings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2025\/02\/million-dollar-solicitation-kc-135-fairings\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Million dollar solicitation for KC-135 fairings"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3303\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3303\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/KC-135.jpg\" alt=\"KC-135 Stratotanker\" width=\"780\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/KC-135.jpg 780w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/KC-135-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/KC-135-768x498.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">KC-135 Stratotanker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DLA Aviation has issued a solicitation which will result in an Indefinite Quantity Contract (IQC) for supply of fairings (NSN\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/nsn_search\/1560-00-738-0791\">1560-00-738-0791<\/a>) for the KC-135 aircraft.\u00a0 The resulting contract will last for five years ordering an estimated quantity of 200 units over that time.\u00a0 The Boeing part number for this item is 65-1257-19.\u00a0 Technical data is available for this item so new companies can compete.<\/p>\n<p>The last company to supply this item to the military was Aerometals, Inc. which sold 24 units for $2,672ea.\u00a0 The only other supplier in the last 20 years was IBP consulting which sent in a single unit (likely first article). Recent solicitations for this item have received only one offer.<\/p>\n<p>We estimate the value of this contract at $534,000.\u00a0 Vendors have 365 days from order to delivery of goods.<\/p>\n<p>All offers are due by March 24, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, log into BidLink and put SPE4A7-25-R-0329 into Search for Anything at the top.<\/p>\n<p>Tired of DIBBS \/ SAM and bid services that don\u2019t understand defense contracting? \u00a0Try BidLink for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.bidlink.net.<\/a><\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DLA Aviation has issued a solicitation which will result in an Indefinite Quantity Contract (IQC) for supply of fairings (NSN\u00a01560-00-738-0791) for the KC-135 aircraft.\u00a0 The resulting contract will last for five years ordering an estimated quantity of 200 units over that time.\u00a0 The Boeing part number for this item is 65-1257-19.\u00a0 Technical data is available &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2025\/02\/million-dollar-solicitation-kc-135-fairings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Half Million dollar solicitation for KC-135 fairings&#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-4161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161","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=4161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4162,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161\/revisions\/4162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}