Class J&As

New,

I don't know how much research you've done, but from my experience, the current contracting environment does not make it more difficult to get Class J&A's approved. Sometimes it just makes good business sense to do it on a class basis. I just did a quick search on FBO, and although you can't search specifically for "class" J&A's, they are easy to find if you know what you are looking for. From my experience, they are done to justify procuring from a peculiar manufacturer for weapon systems spare parts/components where the Government lacks sufficient data to break out any of the items. I believe you will find a preponderance of them from what I would term "inventory control point" buying activities. Typically each military service has one or two and the Defense Logistics Agency has three or four large buying activities that predominately procure spare parts. My experience is only DoD. Here's a link to one for 9 years and 1400+ parts.......

https://www.fbo.gov/index?tab=documents&tabmode=form&subtab=core&tabid=2645eba1a57e7e0f8c29d10da8f1a0c1

Link only gets you to front page. I don't know the announcement number.

I would love to see one, I never have at my Agency.

Try this:

https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=94a8abc4401e19bf2821937146161791

If that doesn't work, try an FBO search for SPM4A2-13-R-0005 in the keyword/solicitation number field (without the dashes).