INSIGNIA, BRANCH OF

The contract specifies the procurement of 45,000 branch of service insignia for the U.S. Army, issued under solicitation SPE1C1-26-T-1062, with a delivery requirement of 119 days and delivery FOB destination. All items must comply with multiple military standards including MIL-DTL-15665K, MIL-DTL-495F, MIL-STD-129R, and MIL-STD-1916, with specific packaging and marking instructions aligned to MIL-STD-2073-1E and MIL-HDBK-129. Each insignia must be mounted and packaged according to strict unit pack requirements: Army Branch Insignia must be grouped in quantities of twenty on 6x6 inch white sulfite cards, sealed in chemically inert transparent plastic, with ten such cards per intermediate paperboard box; Marine Corps cap insignia must be individually mounted on 2x2 inch cards with forty per box; paired Navy/Marine insignia must be mounted on 2.5x2.5 inch cards, sealed in plastic, with fifty pairs per box. Packaging must conform to DLA’s procedural requirements, and all containers must ensure protection against corrosion and damage during transit. Palletization is mandated when economically feasible using 4-way winged pallets, and all marking must include NSN, contractor CAGE code, nomenclature, packing date, contract number, shipment and lot numbers, and delivery address, with bar coding as required. First article testing requires five samples to be submitted, with written notification of approval or rejection within thirty calendar days. Inspection is standard per FAR 52.246-2, and MIL-STD-105E is canceled in favor of MIL-STD-1916 or ANSI/ASQ Z1.4, with referenced standards to be verified for applicability. Delivery is to Arizona Industries for the Blind in Phoenix, with full compliance to DLA’s packaging and transportation directives, and the contract includes clauses addressing covered defense information, removal of government identification from rejected supplies, and adherence to the DLA Master List of Technical and Quality Requirements as of the solicitation date.