Presolicitation
Hatch, Marine
Department of Defense · Defense Logistics Agency
AI summaryOnly small businesses can bid: DLA Land and Maritime (Defense Logistics Agency) plans a firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price) indefinite delivery contract for a marine hatch, with an estimated annual demand quantity (ADQ) of 20. The base period is 3 years plus 2 option years. The solicitation is expected on or about October 30, 2026, with the response date on or around November 30, 2026. More in the summary
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Only small businesses can bid: DLA Land and Maritime (Defense Logistics Agency) plans a firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price) indefinite delivery contract for a marine hatch, with an estimated annual demand quantity (ADQ) of 20. The base period is 3 years plus 2 option years. The solicitation is expected on or about October 30, 2026, with the response date on or around November 30, 2026.
Who can bid
- Small business: the acquisition is a 100% small business set-aside, NAICS 332510 with size standard 750
How to submit: Upload through DLA Internet Bid Board System (DIBBS, DLA's online bidding site), the preferred method, or email brandon.preece@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 22, 2026.
- Serious: Small business set-aside (100%). Only small businesses can bid; the notice gives a size standard of 750 for NAICS 332510.
- Worth checking: Buy American Act applies. The item must meet domestic-product rules, which can limit where parts and materials may come from.
- Minor: Short window to offer a commercial item. The notice invites interested firms to tell the contracting officer of their interest and capability with a commercial item within 5 days of the notice.
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- Minor: Delivery within 241 days after each order. Material is delivered within this time after each delivery order date.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Hatch, Marine, National Stock Number (NSN, the federal catalog number) 2040-01-357-9117, built to basic drawing number 70876, part number 8100-1252-0235, revision M
- Estimated annual demand quantity (ADQ): 20
- Deliver within 241 days after the date of each delivery order; no deliveries before the order (DD Form 1155) is issued
- Item is subject to the Buy American Act; ship-to details come with each delivery order
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price (FFP) indefinite delivery contract (IDC: orders are placed as needed), using Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12.201 commercial item procedures
- Period of performance
- Base period of 3 years with 2 option years
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- How they'll choose
- Combination of price, delivery and performance
- Offers due
- Expected on or around November 30, 2026, 3:00 PM Eastern
- How to submit
- Upload through DLA Internet Bid Board System (DIBBS, DLA's online bidding site), the preferred method, or email brandon.preece@dla.mil
What they'll judge offers on
- Price (may be a significant factor)
- Delivery
- Performance
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 proposals, scanned
- Write offers in English and in US dollars
- Get the drawings from the technical data site https://tdmt.dla.mil by querying MR013579117 or SPE7MX26RX102 in the Solicitation field
Not in the notice text
- The solicitation itself is posted on DIBBS: its clauses, inspection terms and packaging are not in this text
- Which approved source or sources the drawing lists: the notice names none
- The place of performance and the ship-to address (given with each delivery order)
- The contract's dollar value: only the annual demand quantity of 20 is given
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. The notice also names requirements: More open small business set-asides under NAICS 332510
- 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 DLA Internet Bid Board System (DIBBS, DLA's online bidding site), the preferred method, or email brandon.preece@dla.mil. Check it in the notice before you send anything.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 22, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- DLA Land and Maritime, Columbus, OH
- Product/service code
- 2040 · Marine Hardware and Hull Items
- Business type
- Manufactured parts & equipment (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 332510)
- Versions
2 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 22, 2026 · Amendment 0001Due Nov 30, 2026 (changed)
- Oct 22, 2026 · Presolicitation (this version)Date Oct 29, 2026
- 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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