Pre-solicitationPosted Mar 10, 2025·Responses due Apr 29, 2025

Electron Tube

DLA Land and Maritime · DLA LAND AND MARITIME

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
334419
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
SPE7M525R0008
Set-aside
Small Business Set Aside - Total
PSC
5960
Place
Not stated
Contact
Amy Plymale-Hillis614-692-8565 (Amy.Plymale-Hillis@dla.mil)
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation SPE7M525R0008 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Jan 28, 2025
    Sources Sought
    Open
  • Mar 10, 2025 · this notice
    Pre-solicitation
Solicitation
None posted
Award
  • Jul 28, 2025
    Award Notice
    ECI DEFENSE GROUP, INC. · $4.2M
    Open

Next steps for this stage

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  • Answer the notice: this is when the requirement can still be shaped.
  • Contact the contracting officer named on the notice.
  • Check who won similar work; they are the likely bidders.

What the notice says

Description: Solicitation# SPE7M5-25-R-0008 Purchase Requisition: 7010317075 NSN: 5960-01-028-6191 Item Description: Electron Tube Type of Set Aside: 100% Small Business Set Aside NAICS Code: 334419 Size Standard: 750 This requirement is for a quantity of 90 each. No Price Breaks requested. This solicitation will be issued as a 100% Small Business Set Aside and will be in accordance with (IAW) FAR Part 15 procedures for the supplies described. This acquisition is for supplies for which the Government does not possess complete, unrestrictive technical data; therefore, the Government intends to … (show all)

solicit and contract for only approved source(s) or their suppliers under the authority of 10 U.S.C. 3204 (a)(1). Approved source(s): Rockwell Collins (95105) P/N 256-0180-010 Photonis Defense (0BMR4) P/N 4661 Specifications, plans or drawings are not available. FOB Origin, Inspection / Acceptance Destination Delivery: 320 days Ship to location; DLA Stock Depot SW3119 Warner Robins AFB 455 Bryon Street BLDG 376 Robins AFB, GA 31098-1887 First Destination Transportation (FDT) applies. This solicitation is being issued under the First Destination Transportation (FDT) program to reduce cost of transportation through the use of Government-Arranged Transportation utilizing Government contracts and rates. If this acquisition is for Foreign Military Sales (FMS) FDT will not apply. For FDT program transportation requirements, see Procurement Note C16 - First Destination Transportation (FDT) Program, Government Arranged Transportation for Manual Awards, Procurement Note C17 - FDT Program-Shipments Originating from Outside the Contiguous United States and C20 - Vendor Shipment Module (VSM). Offers should be submitted based on FOB Origin. For offerors whose shipments will originate from outside the contiguous United States, the offeror's FOB Origin price shall include transportation to a contiguous United States location that the offeror selects based on cost effectiveness or other variables at the offeror's discretion. Additional information about FDT can be found at: http://www.dla.mil/FDTPI/ This solicitation is an RFP (Request for Proposal) and will issue around March 26, 2025. It will be available at https://www.dibbs.bsm.dla.mil . Hard copies of this solicitation are not available and must be downloaded from the internet site above. Solicitation will not contain a quantity option. Based upon market research, the Government is not using the policies contained in Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items, in its solicitation for the described supplies or services. However, interested persons may identify to the contracting officer their interest and capability to satisfy the Government's requirement with a commercial item within 15 days of this notice. Sources who are interested in becoming an approved source will be required to submit appropriate data per the requirements outlined in Procurement Note L04 (Offers for Part Number Items) and M06 (Evaluation of Offers for Part Numbered Items). DLA Land and Maritime does NOT have any/adequate technical data with which to procure this item and any alternate offeror must provide a complete data package including data for the approved and alternate part for evaluation. IAW FAR 5.207(c)(16)(ii) All responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the agency. Reverse Auctioning: This solicitation will not contain Procurement Note L09- Reverse Auction (RA). While price may be a significant factor in the evaluation of offers, the final award decision will be based upon a combination of price, delivery, past performance, technical acceptability, and any Socioeconomic proposals, in order to provide the best value to the Government.

Who won similar work

4 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (DLA LAND AND MARITIME), same product/service code (PSC) 5960 and NAICS 334419.

Single-winner award sizes (4): middle half $3.4M to $4.8M, median $4.4M; range $1.7M to $4.9M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
Microwave Power Products Palo Alto CA 94304 USA2$9.6MSep 30, 2025
Microwave Power Products, Inc. · $TDG · $10.0B2$5.7MApr 22, 2026

Value counts single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling; that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's last annual revenue from its 10-K.

Investor context
  • $TDG reported $10.0B revenue (12 months to Jun 27, 2026). The median single-winner award in these 4 past awards, $4.4M, is under 0.1% of that. SEC filing

One award's total value against one year of revenue; many awards are paid over several years.

Latest awards
  • Apr 22, 2026Microwave Power Products, Inc.$1.7MElectron TubeMateriality: 0.02% of $TDG revenue (Low) SEC
  • Oct 1, 2025Microwave Power Products, Inc.$4.0MElectron TubeMateriality: 0.04% of $TDG revenue (Low) SEC
  • Sep 30, 2025Microwave Power Products Palo Alto CA 94304 USA$4.7MElectron TubeNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
  • Nov 7, 2024MICROWAVE POWER PRODUCTS Palo Alto CA 94304 USA$4.9MELECTRON TUBENo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)

Materiality: one award's value as a share of the winner's revenue over the latest 12 months in its SEC filings (or its last fiscal year, as noted when you point at it). Low under 1%, Medium 1 to 5%, High 5% or more. Many awards are paid over several years, so this overstates a single year's share.

Competitive landscape

For the 2 most frequent past winners above. Lobbying is matched by the company's exact name or exact ticker; agencies are as named on the filings.

  • 0 of these past winners lobbied Defense Logistics Agency since 2024 (0 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Defense Logistics Agency job
  • No corporate PAC money from them to the overseeing committees since 2024
  • 0 foreign-agent (FARA) registrations
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Policy around it

Bills the past winners named while lobbying this agency's issues, rules from the department, and executive orders that name the agency, last 12 months.

  • 0 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
  • 32 rules from the department in the last 12 months
  • 0 executive orders naming the agency in the last 12 months
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Market

For past winners matched exactly to a listed company. Insider trades are open-market buys and sells (Form 4) in the last 90 days, shown as facts; our own study found insiders do not reliably buy ahead of awards. A sale marked 10b5-1 was made under a trading plan set up in advance.

  • 1 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 1 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
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Sources: SAM.gov notices and award notices; Senate LDA lobbying filings; FEC filings; FARA; Federal Register; congress.gov; SEC Form 4. Every row above links to its record.

Companies are matched to tickers by exact name only. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.