{"id":4246,"date":"2025-08-25T18:41:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T18:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/?p=4246"},"modified":"2025-08-25T18:41:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T18:41:03","slug":"300000-solicitation-parachute-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2025\/08\/300000-solicitation-parachute-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"$300,000 solicitation for parachute bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DLA Aviation has issued a solicitation for parachute deployment bags (NSN\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/nsn_search\/1670-00-039-5073\">1670-00-039-5073<\/a>).\u00a0 These bags are 36&#8243; x 24&#8243; x 10&#8243; made from plastic polyamide.<\/p>\n<p>They were last sold to the U.S. Military by Butler Parachute for $574 in quantity of 146.\u00a0 Aerial Machine &amp; Tool sold them for $1,096 EA for 340 units just a year prior.\u00a0 One possible explanation is that Butler sold the first article test item for $4,156 while Aerial machine sold them for $1,500. It&#8217;s hard to predict the final price based on this data but the contract value should be somewhere between $43,800 and $328,800.\u00a0 DLA has not published annual demand but over the past few years DLA has purchased around 350 units yearly.<\/p>\n<p>Drawings are available for this item.\u00a0 All responses due by September 16, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, log into BidLink and put SPE4A7-25-Q-1428 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DLA Aviation has issued a solicitation for parachute deployment bags (NSN\u00a01670-00-039-5073).\u00a0 These bags are 36&#8243; x 24&#8243; x 10&#8243; made from plastic polyamide. They were last sold to the U.S. Military by Butler Parachute for $574 in quantity of 146.\u00a0 Aerial Machine &amp; Tool sold them for $1,096 EA for 340 units just a year &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/2025\/08\/300000-solicitation-parachute-bags\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;$300,000 solicitation for parachute bags&#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-4246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246","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=4246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4247,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions\/4247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bidlink.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}