Band Assy-Low and Reverse

**Respond with interested no later than 19 SEP 2025 at 5:00PM ET**

DLA Land-Warren currently has a Sources Sought Notice posted for:
Item: Band Assy-Low and Reverse| NSN: 2530-00-679-4495 | Part Number: 8350561
Manufacturer’s Parts present. Please reference TDP.
Quantity: 488 each with 100% option
FOB: Destination
End Item: Bridge Armored Vehicle and Support Equipment
Higher Level Contract Quality System Requirement: QMS Requirements: ISO 9001:2015 or equivalent
REQUIREMENTS DESCRIPTION:
This is a SOURCES SOUGHT / MARKET RESEARCH synopsis to request information for Government planning purposes only. Responses will assist the Government in strategic planning for a potential future acquisition, which may or may not result in issuance of a solicitation or award of contract. Due to the market research nature of this notice, the Government does not encourage questions concerning its research.

DLA Land - Warren is seeking to gain knowledge of interest, capabilities, and qualifications of various members of the community, including small businesses. The primary NAICS code to be used for this effort is 336340- Motor Vehicle Brake System Manufacturing; and the Band Assy-Low and Reverse will be manufactured to the requirements of TDP No. 8350561, dated 07/22/2025.

If your company is interested and can demonstrate the firm’s ability, capability, and responsibility to deliver the equipment summarized above, we encourage you to respond to this announcement. In order to do so, you need to provide:

-Name and address of the firm.

-DUNS number and CAGE Code (valid System for Award Management (SAM) record is MANDATORY).

-Your Firm’s Point of Contact (name, phone number, and email address). -Your company’s business size status (small or large) (including Socio Economic Status, if applicable). If claiming small business status, the information must be verifiable in SAM.

-A summary of your company’s expertise in the manufacturing of Brake Band Assemblies.

-A summary of your company’s delivery capability.

-A summary of the place of performance.

PLEASE NOTE:
Statements of your firm’s expertise should include reference to relevant contracts performed within the past three years (including a description of the scope, quantity manufactured, contract number, and point of contact with phone number).
The Government acknowledges its obligations under 18 U.S.C. 1905 to protect information qualifying as confidential under this statute. Pursuant to this statute, the Government is willing to accept any proprietary (e.g., trade secret) restrictions placed on qualifying data forwarded in response to the survey questions and to protect it from unauthorized disclosure subject to the following:

1. Clearly and conspicuously mark qualifying data with the restrictive legend (all caps) proprietary with any explanatory text, so that the Government is clearly notified of what data needs to be appropriately protected.

2. In marking such data, please be sure to only mark those portions of data or materials that are truly proprietary (over breadth in marking inappropriate data as proprietary may diminish or eliminate the usefulness of your response - see item 6 below). Use circling, underscoring, highlighting or any other appropriate means to indicate Band Assy-Low And Reverse those portions of a single page which are to be protected.

3. The Government is not obligated to protect unmarked data. Additionally, marked data that is already in the public domain or in the possession of the Government or third parties, or is afterward placed into the public domain by the owner or another party through no fault of the Government will not be protected once in the public domain. Data already in the possession of the Government will be protected in accordance with the Government's rights in the data.

4. Proprietary data transmitted electronically, whether or not by physical media and/or whether by the respondent or the government, shall contain the proprietary legend (with any explanatory text) on both the cover of the transmittal e-mail and at the beginning of the file itself. Where appropriate for only portions of an electronic file, use the restrictive legends where proprietary portion begins and ends.

Address responses to David Edwards at: david.edwards@dla.mil.

Again, this information is being requested for Government planning purposes only and does not commit the Government to any contractual agreement. This is not a request for proposals. The Government will not award a contract based upon responses to this announcement. The Government shall not reimburse or pay any costs for preparing or submitting information in response to this notice.