Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
Retainer, Packing
Department of Defense · Defense Logistics Agency
AI summaryThe Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Weapons Support is asking for quotes on 579 packing retainers (national stock number 5330011760932), set aside totally for small businesses. The buy may become an automated indefinite delivery contract (a contract where orders are placed over time) lasting one year or until orders reach $350,000. The full request for quotation (RFQ) is on a linked site that was not read. More in the summary
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The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Weapons Support is asking for quotes on 579 packing retainers (national stock number 5330011760932), set aside totally for small businesses. The buy may become an automated indefinite delivery contract (a contract where orders are placed over time) lasting one year or until orders reach $350,000. The full request for quotation (RFQ) is on a linked site that was not read.
Who can bid
- Small business. This is a total small business set-aside.
How to submit: Quotes must be submitted electronically. 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: Small business set-aside. SAM.gov lists this as a total small business set-aside, so only small businesses should send quotes.
- Minor: Shipping to U.S. and overseas depots. Items go to depots in the continental U.S. and overseas through a consolidation point, which can add packing and shipping cost to a quote.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Supply 579 each of RETAINER,PACKING, national stock number (NSN) 5330011760932 (line 0001)
- Deliver the days after date of order (ADO)
- Ship to various DLA depots in the continental U.S. (CONUS) and outside it (OCONUS, via a consolidation and containerization point)
- Contract type
- Request for quotation (RFQ); may result in an automated indefinite delivery contract (IDC)
- Period of performance
- One year, or until orders reach the $350,000 total, whichever comes first; the notice estimates 2 orders per year
- Estimated value
- Up to $350,000 in total orders (the contract's order limit stated in the notice)
- Offers due
- October 30, 2026 (no time given in the notice)
- How to submit
- Quotes must be submitted electronically
What to include when you submit
- Get the RFQ from the link provided in the notice and follow its instructions
- Submit the quote electronically
Not in the notice text
- The RFQ, its clauses, drawings, specifications and delivery terms are at the link in the notice and were not read
- Exact closing time on October 30, 2026
- How the award will be decided
- Place of performance is blank in SAM.gov
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 332722
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Quotes must be submitted electronically. 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 53 · Hardware and Abrasives SAM.gov gives only the 2-digit group. The stock number in the notice points to 5330 (Packing and Gasket Materials).
- Business type
- Manufactured parts & equipment (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 332722)
- 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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