Please review the NSN below and provide us with any sources that are able to manufacture this item. Provide the location of the manufacturer (City, State or Country if applicable). Please provide the POC’s for these manufacturers if available. All this information can be submitted to the contract specialist listed below. Thank you in advance for your assistance.
NSN ITEM NAME CAGE PART #
3040003612781 Connecting Link, Rig 15860 4054118
Approved Source(s) New Hampshire Ball Bearings Inc (15860) P/N 4054118
The AMC/AMSC for the NSN listed above is 3C.
AMC 3 – Acquire directly from the actual manufacturer, whether or not prime contractor is the actual manufacturer.
AMSC C This part requires engineering source approval by the design control activity in order to maintain the quality of the part. Existing unique design capability, engineering skills, and manufacturing knowledge by the qualified sources require acquisition of the part from the approved sources. The approved sources retain data rights, manufacturing knowledge, or technical data that are not economically available to the Government, and the data or knowledge is essential to maintaining the quality of the part. An alternate source must qualify in accordance with the design control activity’s procedures, as approved by the cognizant Government engineering activity. The qualification procedures must be approved by the Government engineering activity having jurisdiction over the part in the intended application.
Please review the NSN listed above and provide any sources that may be able to manufacture these items. The approved sources for this NSN are currently listed above. All information may be submitted directly to the Contract Specialist listed above. This information must be provided by the response date indicated above.
Should a company wish to be reviewed and qualified as an “Approved Source”, they may submit an application package through the DLA Land and Maritime Alternate Offer/Source Approval Request (SAR) Program. A SAR package contains all technical data needed to demonstrate that the prospective contractor can competently manufacture the product to the same level of quality or better than the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM). The onus is on the contractor to document and demonstrate their product is equal to, or better, than the currently approved item which DLA Land and Maritime is procuring.
For further information, please reference the DLA Land Maritime web page shown below and click on the highlight: Alternate Offer/Source Approval Program for detailed explanation for the information and format necessary for a SAR and for the SAR approval process.
http://www.landandmaritime.dla.mil/programs/altofferor/
Thank you in advance for your assistance.
