Sources SoughtPosted Apr 15, 2025·Responses due Apr 22, 2025

NSN 5320-010561566, COLLAR,PIN-RIVET

DLA Aviation · DLA AVIATION

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
332510
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
SPE4A625R0277
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
5320
Place
Richmond, VA, USA
Contact
Ive Allen (ive.allen@dla.mil)
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation SPE4A625R0277 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Apr 15, 2025 · this notice
    Sources Sought
Solicitation
  • May 1, 2025
    Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
    Open
Award
  • Nov 19, 2025
    Award Notice
    Don Industrial Group LLC · $2.6M
    Open
  • Nov 19, 2025
    Award Notice
    Don Industrial Group LLC · $2.6M
    Open

Next steps for this stage

Standard steps for the notice type; not advice about this buyer.

  • 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

The result of this market research will contribute to determining the method of procurement. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to this procurement is 332510. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AT THIS TIME. This request for capability information does not constitute a request for proposals; submission of any information in response to this market survey is purely voluntary; the government assumes no financial responsibility for any costs incurred. Drawings are not available. If your organization has the potential capacity to perform these contract service… (show all)

s, please provide the following information: 1) Organization name, address, email address, Web site address, telephone number, and size and type of ownership for the organization; and 2) Tailored capability statements addressing the particulars of this effort, with appropriate documentation supporting claims of organizational and staff capability. If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements. The government will evaluate market information to ascertain potential market capacity to 1) provide services consistent in scope and scale with those described in this notice and otherwise anticipated; 2) secure and apply the full range of corporate financial, human capital, and technical resources required to successfully perform similar requirements; 3) implement a successful project management plan that includes: compliance with tight program schedules; cost containment; meeting and tracking performance; hiring and retention of key personnel and risk mitigation; and 4) provide services under a performance based service acquisition contract. BASED ON THE RESPONSES TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE/MARKET RESEARCH, THIS REQUIREMENT MAY BE SET-ASIDE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES OR PROCURED THROUGH FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION, and multiple awards MAY be made. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions. Submission Instructions: Interested parties who consider themselves qualified to perform the above-listed services are invited to submit a response to this Sources Sought Notice by 04/22/2025. All responses under this Sources Sought Notice must be emailed ive.allen@dla.mil. If you have any questions concerning this opportunity, please contact: Ive Allen. Technical Orders and Qualification Requirements are not available. APPENDIX 1: Purpose and Objectives Potential sources shall be capable of furnishing all labor, materials, facilities and equipment required to accomplish the new manufacture of the item(s). Generally, this entails the procurement/manufacture of component parts, inspection, testing, preservation/packaging, and shipping. Additionally, potential sources may be responsible for supply chain management, logistics planning, forecasting production requirements, long-lead time parts procurement, diminishing manufacturing sources and material shortage issues, and shipping serviceable assets. The unit prices will be established at the time of a contract award. The specific requirement for this effort is below: Approved Source: Cage: 56878 SPS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC P/N HL1187-10 Cage: 73197 HI-SHEAR CORPORATION P/N HL1187-10 Cage: 5M902 HOWMET GLOBAL FASTENING SYSTEMS INC. P/N HL1187-10 Cage: L4528 LISI AEROSPACE CANADA CORP DIV HI P/N HL1187-10 Cage: 81205 THE BOEING COMPANY P/N BACC30X10 Nomenclature: COLLAR,PIN-RIVET NSN: 5320-010561566 Estimated Requirement: CLIN 1: 10,020 QTY EA CLIN 2: 157,060 QTY EA CLIN 3: 385 QTY EA TOTAL:167,465.00 QTY EA If your company desires to be reviewed and qualified as an "Approved Source" for this item, submit an application package through the Source Approval Request (SAR) Program as outlined in the attached JACG SAM HB document. A SAR package contains all of the technical data needed to demonstrate that the prospective contractor can competently manufacture the product to the same level of quality, or better, than the required item. The onus is on the contractor to document and demonstrate their product is equal to, or better, than the currently approved item, which DLA Aviation is procuring. DLA-Aviation can only receive Source Approval Requests (SAR) through DoDSafe link due to internet/web safety concerns. To submit your SAR please send an email to: dlaavnsmallbus@dla.mil, subject line "Request a SAR drop off". Include CAGE code, the NSN and the email address where you want to receive the DoDSafe link. After your email is received, a DoDSafe drop off will be returned, where you can download your SAR file. ?

Who won similar work

1422 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (DLA AVIATION), same NAICS 332510.

Single-winner award sizes (1420): middle half $39K to $250K, median $82K; range $25K to $5.4M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
Don Industrial Group LLC52$9.4MOct 14, 2026
S & B, INC.43$7.9MOct 16, 2026
RAPID RIVET AND FASTENER CORPORATION36$9.0MOct 19, 2026
DEFENSE SUPPORT SERVICES, INC.34$8.0MOct 14, 2026
ADEPT FASTENERS INC34$6.9MSep 29, 2026
ATF Aerospace, LLC32$8.3MSep 23, 2026
KAMPI COMPONENTS CO INC30$6.1MSep 18, 2026
TRIMAN INDUSTRIES INC27$2.1MSep 29, 2026
INSERTS & KITS, INC.26$8.7MOct 9, 2026
AERO-GLEN INTERNATIONAL LLC26$2.5MOct 13, 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.

Latest awards
  • Oct 19, 2026BOEING DISTRIBUTION SERVICES X, INC.$32K53--RECEPTACLE,TURNLOCK FASTENERNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
  • Oct 19, 2026RAPID RIVET AND FASTENER CORPORATION$350K53--RIVET,BLINDNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
  • Oct 19, 2026FDH Aero, LLC$744K53--PIN-RIVETNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
  • Oct 19, 2026RAPID RIVET AND FASTENER CORPORATION$30K53--RIVET,BLINDNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
  • Oct 19, 2026BROWN HELICOPTER, INC.$350K53--STUD,TURNLOCK FASTENERNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
  • Oct 19, 2026BOEING DISTRIBUTION SERVICES X, INC.$350K53--RIVET,BLINDNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
  • Oct 16, 2026PERCIPIENT MANUFACTURING, LLC$350K53--RECEPTACLE,TURNLOCK FASTENERNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
  • Oct 16, 2026S & B, INC.$350K53--RIVET,BLINDNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
  • Oct 15, 2026BOEING DISTRIBUTION SERVICES X, INC.$350K53--RIVET,BLINDNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
  • Oct 15, 2026BOEING DISTRIBUTION SERVICES, INC.$350K53--PIN-RIVETMateriality: <0.01% of $BA revenue (Low) SEC

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 8 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.

  • 0 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 0 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.