Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
Pin, Straight, Headed
Department of Defense · Defense Logistics Agency
AI summaryDefense Logistics Agency (DLA) Aviation wants quotes on QTY 428, unit of issue EA (each), of PIN,STRAIGHT,HEADED, national stock number (NSN) 5315012362713. It is a request for quotation (RFQ), a buyer's call for price quotes, and may become an automated indefinite delivery contract (IDC): orders placed over one year or until orders reach 350000.00. It is a total small business set-aside on SAM.gov. The response due date is November 2, 2026, with no time given. More in the summary
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Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Aviation wants quotes on QTY 428, unit of issue EA (each), of PIN,STRAIGHT,HEADED, national stock number (NSN) 5315012362713. It is a request for quotation (RFQ), a buyer's call for price quotes, and may become an automated indefinite delivery contract (IDC): orders placed over one year or until orders reach 350000.00. It is a total small business set-aside on SAM.gov. The response due date is November 2, 2026, with no time given.
Who can bid
- Small business: SAM.gov lists this as a Small Business Set Aside - Total, so only small businesses can win it
How to submit: Electronically, as the RFQ at the link in the notice directs. 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 18, 2026.
- Serious: Small business set-aside. Only small businesses can send quotes; larger firms are shut out.
- Worth checking: Full RFQ is outside the notice text. Quote instructions, clauses and award terms are in the RFQ, which this brief could not read.
- Minor: Delivery by 0210 days after date of order. The delivery clock starts at the date of order (ADO), so the lead time must fit your supply chain.
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- Minor: Shipping to depots in and outside the continental U.S.. Items go to various depots, some outside the continental U.S. (CONUS and OCONUS), through a consolidation point, which can add shipping and packaging work.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- QTY 428, unit of issue EA (each), of PIN,STRAIGHT,HEADED, national stock number (NSN) 5315012362713
- Delivery by 0210 DAYS ADO (days after date of order)
- Possible automated IDC: one-year term or until orders total 350000.00; estimated number of orders per year 1; guaranteed minimum quantity 42
- Ship items to various CONUS (continental U.S.) and OCONUS (outside it) DLA depots through a consolidation and containerization point
- Use digitized drawings and military specifications and standards, which may be retrieved or ordered electronically
- Submit the quote electronically
- Contract type
- Possible automated indefinite delivery contract (IDC), through a request for quotation (RFQ)
- Period of performance
- One year, or until orders reach 350000.00
- Estimated value
- Orders capped at a total of 350000.00 over the term (as written in the notice)
- Offers due
- November 2, 2026 (no time given)
- How to submit
- Electronically, as the RFQ at the link in the notice directs
What to include when you submit
- Submit the quote electronically; the notice says hard copies of the solicitation are not available
- Read the RFQ at the link in the notice for the quote format
Not in the notice text
- The full RFQ is at the link the notice refers to, but the link was not in the notice text, so the quote instructions, clauses, packaging and award method were not read.
- The time of day on the response due date of November 2, 2026 is not given.
- The "Deliver To" field is blank; the notice says only "various" depots, with no named locations.
- The notice does not say how the price should be quoted or how the quote will be judged.
- Digitized drawings and military specifications are retrieved or ordered electronically; where is not stated.
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 332510
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Electronically, as the RFQ at the link in the notice directs. Check it in the notice before you send anything.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 18, 2026
- Notice type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- Office
- DLA Aviation, Richmond, VA
- Product/service code
- Group 53 · Hardware and Abrasives SAM.gov gives only the 2-digit group. The stock number in the notice points to 5315 (Nails, Machine Keys, and Pins).
- Business type
- Manufactured parts & equipment (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 332510)
- 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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