KEY, MACHINE

The contract is for the procurement of 121 units of a machined key component identified by NSN 5315014659931 under solicitation SPE4A6-26-T-10VZ, issued by the ASC Commodities Division of the Department of Defense. Delivery is required within 272 days of the order, with a target delivery date of May 7, 2027, and shipment is FOB origin to the delivery point at the DDSP New Cumberland Facility in Pennsylvania. The contract is a fixed-price solicitation governed by simplified acquisition procedures, with pricing at $121.000 total for the full quantity, though unit price is not explicitly stated. The item must comply with a comprehensive set of technical, quality, and packaging requirements incorporated by reference from the DLA Master List of Technical and Quality Requirements, MIL-STD-2073-1E for packaging, MIL-STD-129 for marking, and RP001 for DLA-specific packaging and palletization standards. Sampling must follow MIL-STD-1916, ASQ H1331 Table 1, or an equivalent zero-based plan, with acceptance thresholds of zero non-conformances unless otherwise specified, and critical, major, and minor attributes are assigned verification levels VII, IV, and II with corresponding AQLs of 0.1, 1.0, and 4.0. Mercury and mercury-containing compounds are strictly prohibited in preservation, packaging, packing, and marking per IP056, except for functional uses in batteries, fluorescent lights, instruments, sensors, controls, weapon systems, or chemical reagents specified by NAVSEA, with portable mercury-containing items requiring shockproof design and a second containment boundary per NAVSEA 5100-003D. Item Unique Identification is not required under DFARS 252.211-7003(c)(1)(i), but bare item marking is mandated under RQ017. Compliance with cybersecurity safeguards is required via DFARS 252.204-7012 and 252.240-7997, enforcing NIST SP 800-171 controls and mandatory cyber incident reporting, alongside additional federal requirements including restrictions on mercury, hexavalent chromium, trafficking in persons, employment eligibility verification, ethical compensation of former DoD