Solicitation
Diesel Engine, Starter Motor, Magnetic Contactors, Powerpack & Alternators Supporting 800kW, 60 Hz DPGDS - Commercial NSN's
Department of Defense · Defense Logistics Agency
AI summaryDefense Logistics Agency Land at Aberdeen plans five-year contracts for a starter motor, two magnetic contactors and an alternating-current generator for 800kW, 60 Hz DPGDS equipment. The firm-fixed-price (one set price per unit) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ: orders as needed) contracts may go to several firms; the response due date is November 9, 2026, 11:59 PM Eastern. Quantities are unclear: Section B totals 25, 5, 5 and 5 Each over five years, but the delivery text says 1, 1, 1 and 5 each. More in the summary
AI summary Beta
The notice looks incomplete: Text is incomplete. The technical data package (Exhibit B) is sent through DoD SAFE after Joint Certification Program approval. Attachment 0001, the pricing and delivery spreadsheet with the quantity ranges, is not in the text read. Check the attachments on SAM.gov.
Defense Logistics Agency Land at Aberdeen plans five-year contracts for a starter motor, two magnetic contactors and an alternating-current generator for 800kW, 60 Hz DPGDS equipment. The firm-fixed-price (one set price per unit) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ: orders as needed) contracts may go to several firms; the response due date is November 9, 2026, 11:59 PM Eastern. Quantities are unclear: Section B totals 25, 5, 5 and 5 Each over five years, but the delivery text says 1, 1, 1 and 5 each.
Who can bid
- Active Defense Logistics Agency Joint Certification Program (JCP) status, needed to receive the technical data packages (TDPs).
How to submit: Through DoD Secure Access File Exchange (DoD SAFE) to Keaneesha.a.Canady@dla.mil; Section A instead says to email a signed copy to the contract specialist and contracting officer. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (11)
From the version posted Oct 15, 2026.
- Serious: Joint Certification Program status needed to get the drawings. Technical data packages (TDPs, the part drawings and specifications) go only to firms with active Joint Certification Program (JCP) status. JCP is a Defense Department program that approves access to controlled technical data.
- Worth checking: Quantities conflict between sections. Contract line item number (CLIN: one priced line of the order) 0004 shows 5 Each in Section B but 5 each per delivery in Section F. CLIN 0001 shows 25 Each in Section B but 1 each in Section F. Each line has a national stock number (NSN, the government's parts ID). Ask the contracting officer.
- Worth checking: First article testing both waived and requested. Section A says contractor first article testing (FAT, testing of first units before full production) does not apply. Section L still asks for schedules with and without FAT.
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- Worth checking: Title lists a diesel engine and powerpack that are not in the item list. The SAM.gov title names a diesel engine and powerpack, but only a starter motor, two magnetic contactors and an alternating-current generator are listed with national stock numbers.
- Worth checking: Different packaging instructions. Section A cites Special Package Instructions SPI-AG00000605 and 606, Section D cites SPI-AG00000621, and the Technical Requirements Document cites SPI AG00000340. Marking standards also differ (MIL-STD-2073-1 versus MIL-STD-129R).
- Worth checking: Two ways to send the offer. Section L says to send proposals only through DoD SAFE, while Section A says to email a signed copy to the contract specialist and contracting officer.
- Minor: Inspection location differs. Section A says inspection and acceptance happen at origin, while Section E lists destination (New Cumberland, PA) for each line.
- Minor: Number of price quantity ranges differs. Section A asks for four quantity ranges, but Section M weights only three (30%, 40%, 30%). The ranges themselves are in Attachment 0001, which is not in the text.
- Minor: Data reports priced and not priced. Section A says Exhibit A holds separately priced contract data requirements list (CDRL, a required report) items. It also says CDRLs will not be priced and their cost belongs in unit prices.
- Minor: Evaluation text refers to other equipment. Section M asks bidders to show understanding of Mast Group hydraulic-pneumatic equipment and aircraft failures, which does not match engine parts. Ask what applies.
- Minor: Covered defense information clause. The contract includes the clause on safeguarding covered defense information and reporting cyber incidents, and offers must follow Controlled Unclassified Information markings.
Read from the notice and 5 attachments. Show which files.
- Solicitation - SPRBL127RA007.pdf (read)
- TRD SPRBL127RA007.docx (read)
- C001_DI-MISC-80711A- Configuration Control (002).pdf (read)
- A001_DI-MISC-80711A- IUID Marking Diagram Instructions.pdf (read)
- B001_DI-MISC-80711A- Obsolescenece Status Report (002).pdf (read)
Full summary
What they want
- Supply four parts to DLA Distribution, New Cumberland, PA 17070-5002, in military packaging; the contractor pays transportation.
- CLIN 0001, STARTER, MOTOR, NSN 6110-01-688-2186, part number 21103722. Quantity unclear: 25 Each in Section B (5 per year), but 1 each in Section F.
- CLIN 0002, CONTACTOR, MAGNETIC, NSN 6110-01-694-0231, part number HCV-7HAL: 5 Each in Section B (1 per year best estimate).
- CLIN 0003, CONTACTOR, MAGNETIC, NSN 6110-01-694-6706, part number HCV-7HAL-1: 5 Each in Section B (1 per year best estimate).
- CLIN 0004, GENERATOR, ALTERNATING CURRENT, NSN 6115-01-623-4053, part number RBIQ0010373. Quantity unclear: 5 Each in Section B (1 per year), but 5 each in Section F.
- Deliveries are scheduled once a year from September 28, 2027 to September 28, 2031 (CLIN 0001: October 8, 2027 to October 8, 2031). Quantities are not guaranteed.
- Give a one-year no-cost commercial warranty, running 12 months from Government acceptance on the DD 250 (the receiving report).
- Deliver three data reports: A001 item unique identification (IUID) marking diagram, B001 obsolescence status report, and C001 configuration control. Their cost goes inside the unit prices.
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price (FFP), indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) long-term contract; several awards intended, made on a rolling basis after the solicitation closes
- Period of performance
- One five-year base period, no option years
- Place of performance
- Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD (as SAM.gov lists it); items ship to DLA Distribution, New Cumberland, PA
- Estimated value
- Minimum $439,149.40 and maximum $1,389,305.05 for all awards, single and combined
- How they'll choose
- Best value tradeoff, item by item. Non-price factors combined are about equal to price, and a Red/Unacceptable rating on any factor rules out an award.
- Offers due
- November 9, 2026, 11:59 PM Eastern
- How to submit
- Through DoD Secure Access File Exchange (DoD SAFE) to Keaneesha.a.Canady@dla.mil; Section A instead says to email a signed copy to the contract specialist and contracting officer
- Page limits
- Technical proposal: 30 pages (each printed side counts; 8-1/2 by 11 inches; font no smaller than 10 point)
What they'll judge offers on
- Technical: (a) Technical Evaluation Approach (adequacy of response, technical performance, management), (b) Initial Risk Assessment
- Past Performance: recency, relevance and quality of up to three completed contracts
- Delivery Schedule: proposed schedule and first article testing time compared with the Government's schedule
- Price: comparative price analysis with quantity ranges weighted 30%, 40% and 30%
What to include when you submit
- Send a Technical Proposal, a Past Performance Proposal and a Delivery Schedule Proposal as three separate sections, evaluated apart from price.
- Complete, sign and return the RFP and any amendments, with prices and fill-ins entered.
- Give unit prices that need no interpretation. For each item you price, price every quantity range in Attachment 0001. An item with no price is treated as a no-bid.
- Include costs for data reports (CDRLs) inside the unit prices; separately priced CDRLs are not accepted.
- Past performance: list up to three completed contracts or orders, Government or commercial, completed within the past three years of the solicitation close date.
- For each past contract give the customer name and address, contact name, phone and email, contract number and period, contract type, total dollar value, items and NSNs, administrator contact, and any problems and how they were fixed.
- Delivery: propose a schedule covering standard delivery with first article testing (FAT), standard delivery without FAT, and accelerated delivery with increased quantity. Signing without one accepts the Government's schedule.
- Technical: include a production plan (process flow chart, milestone chart, personnel chart, long-lead and sole-source parts), plans for equipment failures and part obsolescence, and an initial risk assessment.
- List any exceptions you take to solicitation terms.
- Do not use hyperlinks, follow Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) markings, and send no classified data. Zip the files or upload them separately in native format.
- Complete the Section C representation on unused former Government surplus property; supporting documents are due within 24 hours of the contracting officer's request.
- Proposals are requested to be valid for 90 days after the solicitation closing date.
Not in the notice text
- Text is incomplete. The technical data package (Exhibit B) is sent through DoD SAFE after Joint Certification Program approval. Attachment 0001, the pricing and delivery spreadsheet with the quantity ranges, is not in the text read.
- A short middle part of the solicitation PDF (in the clauses) was attached but not read.
- Which chemical agent resistant coating (CARC, a military paint) colors and markings apply to each part is not clear from the Technical Requirements Document.
- Whether a diesel engine or powerpack is part of this buy is not stated; only four parts are listed.
- The date awards will be made is not given; awards are planned on a rolling basis after the solicitation closes.
Eligibility and how to respond
- No set-aside: any business, large or small, can bid unless the notice says otherwise.
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Through DoD Secure Access File Exchange (DoD SAFE) to Keaneesha.a.Canady@dla.mil; Section A instead says to email a signed copy to the contract specialist and contracting officer. Check it in the notice before you send anything.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 15, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Office
- DLA Land at Aberdeen, Aber Prov GRD, MD
- Product/service code
- 6110 · Electrical Control Equipment
- Business type
- Manufactured parts & equipment (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 333618)
- Attachments
Past awards and competition
Who has won work like this before, the likely incumbent, and what similar contracts paid, from USAspending.gov.
Before you respond
- How to respond to a solicitation (8 steps)
- How to read a government solicitation
- How to price a government contract
Terms on this notice: Solicitation
Full notice text from SAM.gov
1. Contract Type: This Request for Proposal (RFP) is for a Firm-Fixed Price Indefinite Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract, Long-Term Contract (LTC), consisting of one five year base period with no option years. 2. Items for Procurement: This acquisition is for the procurement of four (4) Diesel Engine, Starter Motor and Magnetic Contactors Supporting 800kW, 60Hz DPGDS. The items listed below are the subject of solicitation and are expected to be acquired under this procurement action. NSN: 6110-01-688-2186 Part Number: 21103722 Nomenclature: STARTER, MOTOR NSN: 6110-01-694-0231 Part Number: HCV-7HAL Nomenclature: CONTACTOR, MAGNETIC NSN: 6110-01-694-6706 Part Number: HCV-7HAL-1 Nomenclature: CONTACTOR, MAGNETIC NSN: 6115-01-623-4053 Part Number: RBIQ0010373 Nomenclature: GENERATOR, ALTERNATING CURRENT
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