Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
Retainer, Battery
Department of Defense · Defense Logistics Agency
AI summaryThe Defense Logistics Agency (DLA Weapons Support) wants quotes on 2,512 battery retainers (NSN 6160-01-597-1381), set aside for small businesses. It may result in an automated indefinite delivery contract (IDC: a contract for orders placed as needed) lasting one year or until orders reach $350,000. The full request for quotes (RFQ) is posted at a link not shown in the text. More in the summary
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The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA Weapons Support) wants quotes on 2,512 battery retainers (NSN 6160-01-597-1381), set aside for small businesses. It may result in an automated indefinite delivery contract (IDC: a contract for orders placed as needed) lasting one year or until orders reach $350,000. The full request for quotes (RFQ) is posted at a link not shown in the text.
Who can bid
- Small business set-aside (total): only small businesses can bid
How to submit: Electronically; the RFQ is at the link in the SAM.gov notice. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch
From the version posted Oct 15, 2026.
- Serious: Total small business set-aside. Only businesses that qualify as small under the NAICS code can send a quote.
- Minor: Shipping to CONUS and overseas depots. Items go to various CONUS and OCONUS DLA depots through a consolidation and containerization point, which can add shipping and packaging steps.
- Minor: Drawings and specifications are separate. Digitized drawings and military specifications and standards must be retrieved or ordered electronically; hard copies of the solicitation are not available.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Supply NSN 6160015971381 RETAINER,BATTERY, line 0001, quantity 2,512 each
- Delivery stated as 126 days after date of order
- Ship to various CONUS and OCONUS (via consolidation and containerization point) DLA depots
- Submit quotes electronically
- Contract type
- Possible automated indefinite delivery contract (IDC); the notice says it is an RFQ
- Period of performance
- One year or until orders reach $350,000, whichever comes first
- Estimated value
- Orders capped at $350,000 in total (term ends at one year or when aggregate orders reach 350000.00); guaranteed minimum quantity 376
- Offers due
- October 30, 2026 (no time given on SAM.gov)
- How to submit
- Electronically; the RFQ is at the link in the SAM.gov notice
What to include when you submit
- Quotes must be submitted electronically.
Not in the notice text
- The RFQ itself, with its clauses, quote instructions, closing time and delivery terms, is at the link provided on SAM.gov and was not read.
- Evaluation method is not stated in the text.
- Place of performance is not stated beyond the shipping destinations.
Eligibility and how to respond
- Set aside for small businesses: only a business that counts as small under this notice's NAICS code can bid as the prime contractor. More open small business set-asides under NAICS 335311
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Electronically; the RFQ is at the link in the SAM.gov notice. Check it in the notice before you send anything.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 15, 2026
- Notice type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- Office
- DLA Weapons Support, Columbus, OH
- Product/service code
- Group 61 · Electric Wire, Power Distrib Equipment SAM.gov gives only the 2-digit group. The stock number in the notice points to 6160 (Miscellaneous Battery Retaining Fixtures, Liners and Ancillary Items).
- Business type
- Electronic parts & equipment (supplies) (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 335311)
- 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
- Set-aside contracts explained
Terms on this notice: Solicitation, Set-aside
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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