Presolicitation
Gasket 5330-01-472-8179
Department of Defense · Defense Logistics Agency
AI summaryThe Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Weapons Support office plans to buy a gasket (NSN 5330-01-472-8179) under a firm-fixed-price indefinite delivery contract: one set price per item, with orders placed over time. The estimated annual demand is 3798 EA, with no set-aside. The solicitation is expected on or about October 30, 2026 (passed), and the response date is estimated around December 2, 2026, 4:30 PM Eastern. More in the summary
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The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Weapons Support office plans to buy a gasket (NSN 5330-01-472-8179) under a firm-fixed-price indefinite delivery contract: one set price per item, with orders placed over time. The estimated annual demand is 3798 EA, with no set-aside. The solicitation is expected on or about October 30, 2026 (passed), and the response date is estimated around December 2, 2026, 4:30 PM Eastern.
Who can bid
- Item is subject to the Trade Agreements Act and the Nonmanufacturer Rule (a reseller must supply products made by a qualifying small business manufacturer)
How to submit: Upload through DIBBS (DLA Internet Bid Board System), the preferred method, or email offers to Tracy.Assenheimer@dla.mil. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (4)
From the version posted Oct 21, 2026.
- Worth checking: Approved sources are named. AM General LLC (CAGE 34623, P/N 5742114) and General Motors LLC (CAGE 7X677, P/N 12560223) are the approved sources; how other firms qualify is not stated.
- Worth checking: Date passed (Oct 30, 2026): Response date is an estimate. The response date is set from the expected solicitation issue date of October 30, 2026 and may change.
- Worth checking: Trade Agreements Act and Nonmanufacturer Rule apply. Items must come from eligible countries, and a reseller must supply products from a qualifying small business manufacturer.
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- Minor: 125-day delivery from each order. Each delivery order must be filled within 125 days, so a business needs a dependable source before it bids.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Supply gasket NSN 5330-01-472-8179; estimated annual demand quantity (ADQ) 3798 EA
- Deliver within 125 days after the date of each delivery order (DD Form 1155); no deliveries before an order is issued
- Deliver FOB origin (seller's location), with inspection and acceptance at destination
- Ship-to addresses are given with each delivery order
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price indefinite delivery contract (IDC), FAR Part 12 commercial procedures
- Period of performance
- 3-year base period + two separate 1-year options, total not to exceed 5 years
- Place of performance
- Columbus, OH, USA (SAM.gov); ship-to addresses come with each delivery order
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- How they'll choose
- Combination of price, delivery, performance, and surge and sustainment; price may be a significant factor
- Offers due
- December 2, 2026, 4:30 PM Eastern
- How to submit
- Upload through DIBBS (DLA Internet Bid Board System), the preferred method, or email offers to Tracy.Assenheimer@dla.mil
What they'll judge offers on
- Price
- Delivery
- Performance
- Surge and sustainment
What to include when you submit
- Complete the entire solicitation
- Submit offers on a hard copy of the Standard Form 1449 (SF 1449: the form you sign and return as your offer) Request for Quotation (RFQ), scanned and uploaded
- Offers must be in English and in US dollars
- The solicitation will be on the internet at http://www.dibbs.bsm.dla.mil/rfp; hard copies are not available
Not in the notice text
- The solicitation itself (RFQ) has not been issued; it is expected on DIBBS.
- How a firm other than the named approved sources qualifies is not stated.
- Minimum order quantities and the price schedule are not given.
- Size standard: the notice lists 600 under NAICS 339991, but no unit is stated.
Eligibility and how to respond
- No set-aside, but the notice names requirements you must meet before you can bid:
- The notice mentions an approved or qualified source list. Only listed sources may be eligible, so check that your company or product is on it.
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Upload through DIBBS (DLA Internet Bid Board System), the preferred method, or email offers to Tracy.Assenheimer@dla.mil. Check it in the notice before you send anything.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 21, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- DLA Weapons Support, Columbus, OH
- Product/service code
- 5330 · Packing and Gasket Materials
- Business type
- Manufactured parts & equipment (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 339991)
- 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
Terms on this notice: Solicitation