Presolicitation
SPE4A727R0038-1560-Parts Kit, Fastener
Department of Defense · Defense Logistics Agency
AI summaryTotal small business set-aside: the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA Aviation) plans to buy 20 each of a fastener parts kit (NSN 1560-016993342), firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price). This is a presolicitation; the solicitation is expected on or around November 5, 2026 on the DLA Internet Bid Board System (DIBBS). SAM.gov lists November 5, 2026, 3:00 PM Eastern as the response date, when the solicitation is expected. More in the summary
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Total small business set-aside: the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA Aviation) plans to buy 20 each of a fastener parts kit (NSN 1560-016993342), firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price). This is a presolicitation; the solicitation is expected on or around November 5, 2026 on the DLA Internet Bid Board System (DIBBS). SAM.gov lists November 5, 2026, 3:00 PM Eastern as the response date, when the solicitation is expected.
Who can bid
- Small business: the solicitation will be a total small business set-aside.
How to submit: The solicitation will be on DIBBS; the notice text does not say how offers are sent. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch
From the version posted Oct 21, 2026.
- Serious: Total small business set-aside. Only small businesses can bid on the solicitation when it is issued.
- Worth checking: Solicitation not yet issued; documents are on DIBBS. The solicitation, its clauses and offer instructions will be posted on DIBBS on or around the date the notice gives.
- Minor: Long delivery time. Delivery of the production units is 281 days, so plan parts and cash flow for that span.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- PARTS KIT,FASTENER, NSN 1560-016993342, purchase request 7017272920
- Quantity of 20 EACH, firm-fixed-price
- Delivery of production units in 281 days; FOB origin (Government takes over at your location), with inspection and acceptance at origin
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price (FFP)
- Period of performance
- Delivery of the production units: 281 days (the start point is not stated)
- Place of performance
- Richmond, VA, USA per SAM.gov; the notice text does not name a place
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- How to submit
- The solicitation will be on DIBBS; the notice text does not say how offers are sent
What to include when you submit
- Find the solicitation on DIBBS under Requests for Proposal (RFP) / Invitation for Bid (IFB) once it is issued; no paper copy will be available.
Not in the notice text
- The solicitation, drawings or technical data, clauses, evaluation factors and offer instructions will be on DIBBS and are not in this notice.
- The notice does not say when the 281 days start counting.
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; the notice text does not say how offers are sent. Check it in the notice before you send anything.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 21, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- DLA Aviation, Richmond, VA
- Product/service code
- 1560 · Airframe Structural 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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