Commercial carbine solicitation?

[Slater]

From today's DoD contract announcements:

Colt's Manufacturing, West Hartford, Connecticut (W15QKN-18-D-0105); Daniel Defense,* Black Creek, Georgia (W15QKN-18-D-0106); FN America, Columbia, South Carolina (W15QKN-18-D-0107); and Remington Arms Co., Ilion, New York (W15QKN-18-D-0108), will compete for each order of the $28,482,840 firm-fixed-price contract to fabricate, locate, procure, or otherwise provide 5.56MM North Atlantic Treaty Organization commercial off-the-shelf carbines. Four bids were solicited with four bids received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of July 13, 2019. U.S. Army Contracting Command, New Jersey, is the contracting activity.

Presumably for foreign sales?

[markm]

Probably just a Stickman group buy.

[Slater]

I thought the phrase "fabricate, locate, procure, or otherwise provide" was curious.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

How much per gun?

[ABNAK]

Well at ~ $1000 a pop it's 28,000 weapons. Interesting.....foreign sales?

[sinister]

Typically, yes. This way they produce M4s without having to pass full MIL acceptance testing for FMS clients-customers. They can cast the sub-contractor net wider for components.

I outfitted an Iraqi SF expansion with Rock River select-fire M4geries with Daniel Defense rails.