RETAINER, PACKING

This contract covers the procurement and packaging of retainers under solicitation SPE4A6-26-T-06L0 for the Department of Defense’s ASC Commodities Division, with a requirement to deliver four units of NSN 5330-01-247-9058. The delivery is scheduled for 163 days after contract award, with the original required delivery date set for February 17, 2028. Packaging must comply with stringent DLA packaging requirements including MIL-STD-2073-1E for preparation and MIL-STD-129 for marking, ensuring protection from environmental factors such as UV exposure. Items are to be sealed in medium-duty, waterproof, greaseproof, and opaque bags consistent with MIL-DTL-117 standards, applicable to direct vendor deliveries, foreign military sales, and stock shipments. Inspection and acceptance occur at the destination, with no quantity variance allowed. Quality and technical requirements follow the DLA Master List and utilize MIL-STD-1916 or equivalent zero-based sampling methods aligned with the criticality of attributes. Government identification removal applies only for non-accepted supplies, and although item unique identification is not required per customer request, all documentation must support source approval requests. The contract specifies FOB origin delivery with freight shipping directed to the Defense Logistics Agency Distribution San Joaquin facility in Tracy, California. Contact for this procurement is Stuart Dowdy at the DLA, with all procedural details including packaging, marking, sampling, and handling explicitly governed by referenced military standards and DLA directives.