BOOTS, SAFETY, WOMEN'

The Defense Logistics Agency awarded Contract SPE1C126D0060 to Belleville Shoe Manufacturing Company, CAGE 90976, a Women-Owned Small Business, for the production of women’s safety boots under a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract. The total contract value is $349,807.56, based on base quantities of 1,470 pairs across nine size variants, each priced at $125.11 per pair, with recurring option quantities for delivery periods from November 2026 through April 2027. Deliveries are F.O.B. Destination to the Pendergrass Distribution Center in Georgia, with inspection and acceptance primarily occurring at the source, except for special measurement orders which are accepted at a designated facility in Austin, Texas. The boots are manufactured across two facilities in Arkansas and Illinois, with production lead times of 21 days for recruits and 60 days for non-recruits following order placement. Compliance is required with numerous Federal Acquisition Regulation clauses including those governing inspection, conformance, warranty, counterfeit part detection, cybersecurity, and payment acceleration for small business subcontractors. The contract mandates full adherence to NIST SP 800-171 for safeguarding covered defense information, cyber incident reporting through the DIBNET portal within 72 hours, preservation of forensic data for 90 days, and submission of malicious software to the DoD Cyber Crime Center. Packaging and marking must follow contract specifications or carrier requirements with DD Form 250 used for receiving and tracking. The award was made under a Lowest Price Technically Acceptable methodology, with no competitive trade-offs evaluated, and the contractor is required to maintain approved supply chain sources and provide advance notices and certificates of conformance for all deliveries. All subcontractors must comply with the same cybersecurity obligations and report incidents to the prime contractor. The contract includes deviations related to security prohibitions and inspection of supplies and references no specific MIL-STD packaging or marking standards. No payment office, contracting officer representative, or accounting data is provided in the documentation.