U.S. Army Moving ‘Rapidly’ Toward New Contract For M16A4 Rifles
BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 1 month ago
So much for the highly heralded 6.8mm, caseless, not-battle-tested whatever it is thingamajig.
The U.S. Army Contracting Command will soon release its final request for soliciting and award up to two, 5-year firm fixed price – Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts for M16A4 5.56mm Rifles.
In a notice posted on the U.S. government’s main contracting website on 27 September, the Army Contracting Command announced that the Government intends to evaluate proposals and award up to two, (but not necessarily two), contracts without holding discussions with offerors for delivery of 215,000 5.56mm Rifles (maximum quantity).
Also states that a license agreement between Colt’s Manufacturing LLC and the U.S. Government requires the items procured to be manufactured in the United States Territory.
Perhaps Colt pulled back from the civilian market because they expect to get awarded a new *.mil contract.
Whatever. I hope their deal with the devil was worth it. Or not.
This is a strange article anyway. Why would a license agreement between the FegGov and Colt be pertinent to award of a new contract, especially if Colt wasn’t going to be involved?
So we may learn from this that FedGov is going to Colt yet again for M4s. Not DD, not Rock River Arms, not BCM, not FN, but Colt. Quality? Maybe not so much.
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On September 29, 2019 at 9:03 pm, John said:
You can put your money on Colt and the body bag companies; the Colt rifles to
fail regularly and the bags for those who depended on them.
On September 30, 2019 at 12:02 pm, Bram said:
The Colt M16s in my old armory were considerably crappier than the FNs and other contractors.
On September 30, 2019 at 12:20 pm, Richard said:
I remember Colt trying the same thing back during the reign of Willy Jeff Clinton. In order to gain brownie points with the government they ceased sales to the civilian market, then lost the M-4 contract to FN, and then went bankrupt.