Subject: Link Assy, Scissor - No telephone requests will be accepted.  Direct your requests and communication to: ATTN: DLA-AHA Tawana Sizemore, Contract Specialist, via email [email protected] or facsimile 256-955-8601. For request for solicitation, provide your name, the company name and Cage Code and a telephone/facsimile number.

PRON: AX6F6251AX.  The Government proposes to acquire on a five-year Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract a minimum quantity of 125 each up to 725 each quantity maximum of a Link Assy, Scissor, NSN: 1560-01-132-0796, Part Number: 70410-02456-042 applicable to the BE Blackhawk Helicopter system. Production Lead Time without First Article Testing is 125 each, 113 Days After Receipt of Order (DARO) with deliveries to New Cumberland, PA 17070-5002. Forecasted quantities are: 1st Year, 125 each, 2nd Year, 150 each, 3rd Year, 150 each, 4th Year, 150 each, and 5th Year, 150 each. This item is restricted to Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation Cage Code: 78286, Bodine Tool and Machine Company Cage Code: 07544, Apex Manufacturing Company, Inc. Cage Code: 2V343, and Technic Sphere Superpower Cage Code: 3X771.

All offerors must meet prequalification requirements in order to be eligible for award. Firms that recognize and can produce the required item described above are encouraged to identify themselves.  Firms are encouraged to seek source approval in order to compete for future solicitations by accessing the website http://amcomdmz.redstone.army.mil/casl_cmo/casl_cmo_home and looking under Standardized Aviation and Missile Source Approval Request (SAMSAR). All responsible sources may submit an offer, which shall be considered by the Agency.  The closing date annotated is an estimated date and may be adjusted dependent upon the date of release for solicitation; however, the solicitation will not close prior to the date stated above.  Foreign Firms are reminded that all requests for solicitation must be processed through their respective embassies.