CONTRACTOR FIRST ARTICLE TEST

The contract awarded to AIR INDUSTRIES MACHINING, CORP. under solicitation SPE4A725F0951 and delivery order SPE4A725D0027 is a Firm Fixed Price indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract with a total ceiling value of $2,000,000, although the initial priced line items total $8,000, representing only the first article test and production lot testing tasks. The contract spans five years with a pricing period extending from October 2024 through October 2029, and performance must be completed within 686 days of order receipt, including 476 days for the first article test report, 60 days for government review, 120 days for production lot testing evaluation, and 30 days for delivery of end items. All work must be performed at the contractor’s facility located at 1479 N Clinton Avenue, Bay Shore, NY, with packaging performed by TALCO PACKAGING CORP. in Bohemia, NY, and final delivery FOB destination. The contract requires full compliance with stringent military standards including MIL-STD-2073-1E for packaging, MIL-STD-129 for marking, and MIL-STD-130 for Unique Item Identification using Data Matrix symbols compliant with ECC200 and ISO standards, with serial number reporting required via DD Form 1423. The contractor must implement NIST SP 800-171 safeguards for Controlled Unclassified Information and report cyber incidents to the Department of Defense within 72 hours. Payment will be processed exclusively through Wide Area WorkFlow, with invoices filed as invoices and receiving reports for fixed-price line items, and all deliveries are subject to government inspection and acceptance at origin or destination depending on the specific test phase. Contract administration is managed by the Defense Contract Management Agency Northeast with oversight from the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation division, and the contractor’s CAGE code 8L513 is embedded across all documentation and marking requirements. Compliance with AS9100, MIL-STD-1916, and ASQ Z1.4 quality standards is mandatory, and the contractor bears the full cost of returns for production lot testing failures.