Rotary Draw Hand Tube Bender
Closed Solicitation Posted
- Solicitation number
- FA469026Q0046
- Agency
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Air Combat Command
Air Force, Department of Defense
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- Total Small Business
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 333517 Machine Tool Manufacturing
- PSC
- 3441 Bending And Forming Machines
- Place of performance
- Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota 57706, United States
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The 28th Contracting Squadron at Ellsworth Air Force Base seeks one rotary draw hand tube bender, with proposals due September 14, 2026, and questions due September 10, 2026 at 3:00 PM MDT. The procurement is a total small business set-aside under NAICS 333517 with a 500-employee size standard.
Place of performance is Ellsworth Air Force Base, Box Elder, South Dakota. The bender must be delivered FOB Destination no later than 90 days after contract award. Offerors must provide a technical characteristics statement and confirm the machine's ability to produce part number L5842706. The system must be a complete kit from a single manufacturer, manually operated via lever arm, capable of accommodating tubing diameters from 0.25 to 2.0 inches in stainless steel, aluminum, titanium, and copper alloys, and producing bends up to 180 degrees with a precision degree-of-bend indicator. The bender body and primary components must be constructed from high-strength steel with a shop floor mounting system. Tooling must include a comprehensive set of precision-machined dies, clamp blocks, and mandrels conforming to aerospace standards. The supplier must provide an operator's manual, a minimum three-year comprehensive warranty covering parts and labor for manufacturing defects, and accessible technical support. The award is firm fixed price to a single offeror on a lowest-price-technically-acceptable basis: quotes are ranked by price, and the lowest-priced quote is reviewed for technical acceptance; if technically unacceptable, the next lowest-priced quote is evaluated until one achieves technical acceptability. Both technical and price factors drive evaluation. Direct questions in writing to SrA Zachary Dunham and TSgt Ross Duval at zachary.dunham@us.af.mil and ross.duval@us.af.mil.
Notice text
The 28th Contracting Squadron at Ellsworth AFB, is issuing this Request for Quotation (RFQ) for a rotary draw hand bender. Offerors must provide a technical characteristics statement as well as confirmation on ability of the machine to produce part number L5842706 (Attachment 3) for review of technical acceptability.
Basis for Award: The govenrment intends to award a single, Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) contract to the offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, Price and other factors considered. Technical and Price factors will be utilized.
- Delivery: Required deliver is FOB Destination to ellsworth AFB, SD, no later than 90 days after contract award.
- Attachment: All information necessarty to submit a quote is contained in the attached RFQ document titled FA469026Q0046. Offerors must read the attachment in its entirety before submitting a quote.
- Attachment 1 - Solicitation FA469026Q0046
- Attachment 2 - Salient Characteristics
- Attachment 3 - Part Number L5842706
Quote Evaluation: Quotes will be ordered from lowest-priced to highest-price, the lowest-priced will be reviewed for technical acceptance. If deemed technically acceptable then the contract will be awarded, if the contract is deemed technically unacceptable then the next lowest-priced quote will be evaluated until a quote is deemed tehcnically acceptable.
Questions: Direct any questions or concerns you have to SrA Zachary Dunham and TSgt Ross Duval. All questions must be in writing and shall be emailed to zachary.dunham@us.af.mil and ross.duval@us.af.mil. Request for Information (RFI) will not be answered via phone. All questions must be submitted no later than 3:00 pm MDT, 10 September, 2026.
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Notice history
| Notice | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| This notice | Solicitation | |
| Tube Hand Bender | Pre-Solicitation |
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