Hey. Fam! Need some help. I have 8 NSN numbers to research. I know what the product is but the description does not provide color, price or characteristics of product (material used to manufacture the item). The contract officer reached out to me to assist with defining the cost of the product. I have hit a wall. I know the approved entity name and have reached out, I have requested a quote from other entities that claim to have it available, including NSN Depot. The quote requests have come back with a “no bid” response or have not responded at all. Short of driving to the approved vendors place of business (I have the address). What else can I do to find out the missing information?(price, color, product characteristics )? I welcome any suggestions. Thanks in advance.

Do you suggest registering in VSM prior to winning an award?

So I need your help. I am confused. I was getting ready to bid on an RFQ for appliances and looking at the packaging (picture attached) I am confused between "MIL-STD-2073-1E" and right under it it says "FOR PACKAGING INSTRUCTIONS REFER TO ASTM-D-3951-95" What do I do? Which one takes precedence over the other? Any help iis greatly ppreciated. Thank you

Okay, once you all pick yourselves off the floor from laughing, how do I login to the community from my new laptop? I don't recall having to login before. I usually have the app open on my phone.

If I want to use a third party to ship my DIBBS awards, should I include that company's info in my bid? Or at what point do I inform the contracting officer? And does the shipping company require it's own cage code? And then do I manually update the ship from address in VSM? TIA