Presolicitation
SPE4A727R0053-1680-014732355 - Panel, Control, Electrical-Electronic Eq/ 05F/Aircraft, Stratolifter C/KC
Department of Defense · Defense Logistics Agency
AI summaryPresolicitation (an early heads-up): the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Aviation plans a firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price) buy of 119 EACH of an electrical-electronic control panel, part number 16F8479-805, for the Stratolifter aircraft. It will be a total small business set-aside, so only small businesses can bid. The solicitation is expected on or around November 2, 2026 on DIBBS (the DLA Internet Bid Board System). More in the summary
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Presolicitation (an early heads-up): the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Aviation plans a firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price) buy of 119 EACH of an electrical-electronic control panel, part number 16F8479-805, for the Stratolifter aircraft. It will be a total small business set-aside, so only small businesses can bid. The solicitation is expected on or around November 2, 2026 on DIBBS (the DLA Internet Bid Board System).
Who can bid
- Be a small business: the solicitation will be a total small business set-aside
How to submit: The solicitation will be on DIBBS (https://www.dibbs.bsm.dla.mil/rfp) as a PDF; no paper copy will be available. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch
From the version posted Oct 16, 2026.
- Serious: Total small business set-aside. Only small businesses can bid on this buy.
- Worth checking: 482-day delivery for production units. A long delivery period; the text does not say when the 482 days start.
- Minor: Inspection and acceptance at origin. The Government inspects and accepts at your shipping point, so plan for source inspection at your facility.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- PANEL, CONTROL, ELECTRICAL-ELECTRONIC EQ, NSN 1680-014732355, part number 16F8479-805, QTY 119 EACH
- Deliver the production units in 482 days (the text does not say from when)
- FOB origin (the Government takes over at your shipping point), with inspection and acceptance at origin
- Contract type
- Planned firm-fixed-price (FFP) DLA direct procurement
- Period of performance
- Delivery of production units in 482 days (start point not stated)
- Place of performance
- Tracy, CA (as SAM.gov gives it)
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- How to submit
- The solicitation will be on DIBBS (https://www.dibbs.bsm.dla.mil/rfp) as a PDF; no paper copy will be available
What to include when you submit
- Download the solicitation from DIBBS under Requests for Proposal (RFP) / Invitation for Bid (IFB) once issued
- Read the solicitation on DIBBS for how and where to send your offer
Not in the notice text
- The solicitation, its clauses, delivery terms and evaluation basis are on DIBBS and were not read
- What the SAM.gov response date of December 2, 2026, 3:00 PM Eastern refers to
- Contract value or the Government's estimate
- Whether a first article test or source approval is required
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 336413
- How to submit, from the AI summary: The solicitation will be on DIBBS (https://www.dibbs.bsm.dla.mil/rfp) as a PDF; no paper copy will be available. Check it in the notice before you send anything.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 16, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- DLA Aviation, Richmond, VA
- Product/service code
- 1680 · Miscellaneous Aircraft Accessories and Components
- Business type
- Aircraft, ship & vehicle parts (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 336413)
- 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 read a government solicitation
- How to price a government contract
- Set-aside contracts explained
- Limitations on subcontracting
Terms on this notice: Solicitation, Set-aside
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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