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Slater
04-12-18, 20:49
It doesn't say if this is an FMS contract, but isn't the US military out of the M16A4 procurement business?


"ARMY CONTRACTING COMMAND WARREN (DTA) PROPOSES TO SOLICIT, NEGOTIATE, AND AWARD, UP TO TWO - 5-YEAR FIRM FIXED PRICE - INDEFINITE DELIVERY INDEFINITE QUANTITY (IDIQ) CONTRACTS UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF FAR 16.504 INDEFINITE-QUANTITY CONTRACTS FOR THE FOLLOWING ITEM: NSN: 1005-01-383-2872, NOUN: M16A4 5.56MM RIFLE, MINIMUM QUANTITY: 18,000 EACH, MAXIMUM QUANTITY: 215,000 EACH. IF TWO AWARDS ARE MADE EACH SUCCESSFUL AWARDEE WILL RECEIVED A GUARANTEED MINIMUM ORDER OF 9,000 EACH OF NSN: 1005-01-383-2872. FUTURE ORDERS WILL BE COMPETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS OUTLINED IN THE SOLICITATION AND RESULTING CONTRACT. NAICS CODE: 332994, UNIT OF ISSUE: EACH, INSPECTION: SOURCE, ACCEPTANCE: SOURCE, FOB POINT: ORIGIN, LEVEL OF PRESERVATION: MILITARY, LEVEL OF PACKAGING: A. THE SOLICITATION, W56HZV-17-R-0010, IS ANTICIPATED FOR RELEASE IN EIGHT TO TEN WEEKS AND WILL CONTAIN THE REQUIRED TECHNICAL INFORMATION AND A SPECIFIC DUE DATE AND TIME."


https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=0a824749830f513534fed24aa53c175e&_cview=0
26 Inf
04-12-18, 23:43
Never mind through Army Contracting Command

ETA - follow-up on this? https://govtribe.com/project/m16a4-rifle-market-survey-2
Diamondback
04-13-18, 06:02
Could this solicitation be part of FMS or MAP, or LE assistance programs? I'm just a desk wonk not a BTDT, but if my memory of Bureaucratese serves usual practice is to trunk all large-scale Federal contracts through a single agency for all services, varying by who originated the program. (IE, if Big Green were to as unlikely as this is adopt HK416's, they'd probably have to go through the USMC M27/M38 program office.)
RetroRevolver77
04-13-18, 10:04
Hopefully they give the contract to Colt.
mack7.62
04-13-18, 10:36
M16A4's are better for riot control, just sayn' :dirol:

Keep your eye's peeled for a follow on bayonet order.
ABNAK
04-13-18, 18:18
Foreign military assistance?
Diamondback
04-13-18, 18:29
Foreign military assistance?

Covered under FMS (sales) and MAP (gifts/loans) in my post above. :)
ABNAK
04-13-18, 18:52
Covered under FMS (sales) and MAP (gifts/loans) in my post above. :)

Doh! :blink:
lowprone
04-14-18, 22:50
If they would stop giving them to every raghead in the world , we would have some.
1168
04-16-18, 21:02
If they would stop giving them to every raghead in the world , we would have some.
But then who will we fight tomorrow?
lowprone
04-17-18, 18:01
Oh Gee, I did not think of that !
We are probably looking at a masterfully planned piece of pre positioning here.
Arm all of our recent enemy with our weapons systems, and then when we end up
fighting them again, we will have weapons commonalty, Genius !!!
RetroRevolver77
04-18-18, 10:56
Oh Gee, I did not think of that !
We are probably looking at a masterfully planned piece of pre positioning here.
Arm all of our recent enemy with our weapons systems, and then when we end up
fighting them again, we will have weapons commonalty, Genius !!!


Or more so, we know they won't maintain them nor have spare parts to repair them rendering the rifles useless if we should face them again.