https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=4bfa86faa5946081ac3c886bf208f08f&tab=core&tabmode=list&=The purported purpose of the survey is to find out which suppliers can supply ammo to the FLETC at Glynco, Ga.
It gives rise to a few questions. Ammo makers responded to questions about the possibility that the government was trying to circumvent the 2A by creating an artificial shortage in ammo. The replies from ammo makers that I read stated that only 5% of their production goes to government contracts. So, if ammo makers cannot keep up with public demand how can the even begin to supply additional demands of ammo to the DHS and its subsidiaries?
Notice questions #15 and #16. The gov is asking about supplying ammo in one or two million round lots, with turn-around times of 30 to 60 days!
Look below the questionnaire for info about FLETC at Glynco, GA
QUESTIONNAIRE:
1. Company Name:
2. DUNS Number:
3. Mailing Address:
4. Point of Contact Information to include: name, title, telephone number, and email address.
5. How long have you been in business?
6. Are you a large or small business for North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)?
7. If small business, are you:
Small Disadvantaged - or - 8(a)
In a Hubzone
Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned
Women Owned
8. If large business, are you capable of partnering with small business for this requirement?
9. Are you a manufacturer?
10. Does your company currently produce and/or sell any of the training calibers listed above? If yes, provide a list of your Government customers to include agency name and a point of contact with phone number or email address.
11. Describe your production facilities and capabilities.
12. Describe your quality assurance program.
13. What is your experience in working with your customers to identify and correct potential quality issues?
14. Are you capable of producing any of the training calibers listed above to meet the stated performance requirements?
15. Are you capable of producing large quantity orders of any training caliber specified with a short turnaround time of 30-60 days?
16. What would your lead time be for an order of 2 million rounds of a single type listed above?
17. If you were awarded a contract for some of the calibers listed above, submitted a production lot of one million rounds and that lot or portion of the lot was not accepted, would you be able to replace that order with an additional one million rounds within 60 days?
18. Do you have the resources and mechanisms required to endure the recalling or rejection of production lots of ammunition: What is your plan for mitigating this risk?
19. Provide information to include material safety data sheets and retail price lists for all caliber types and components of training ammunition.
20. Where would production take place?
There are 7 locations where FLETC trains, the major one being at Glynco, GA.
http://www.fletc.gov/about-fletc/locations/glynco/ Additionally, Glynco has 18 firearms ranges, including a state-of-the-art indoor range complex with 146 separate firing points; and eight highly versatile semi-enclosed ranges with 200 additional firing points.
I don't know the correct way to parse that sentence. It is a total of 146 + 200 = 346 firing points? Or is it (18 * 146) + (8 * 200) = 4,228 firing points? Considering that they said that during FY 2012, almost 70,000 students received FLETC training, and assuming that training is 5 days a week and not 6 or 7, and subtracting two weeks vacation, that leaves 70,000 folks being trained in 250 days, or 280 students per day. But, if the training is 5 days, for example, then the overlap requires 1,400 students on campuses during the week. That would imply 4 students per shooting point per week, taking turns. If each student fired 250 rounds during the week that would total to 17,500,000 rounds shot during the year, or about 1,500,000 rounds per 30 days. This is in line with their claim that they'd need about 1 to 2 million rounds every 30 to 60 days. Of course, that is taking only Glynco into consideration, unless the 70,000 include all students from all seven locations.
Others with shooting ranges include:
Cheltenham has 108 firing points.
Artesia has an undetermined number of firing points.
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These training needs by the FLETC wouldn't explain shortages of 20 gauge and .22 caliber rounds, unless Lead that would normally go into making those rounds would be diverted to the needs of the DHS. CCI Speer, for example, said that they made 4 million rounds of .22LR A DAY at their Idaho plant, and it is running 24/7. That 1,460,000,000 rounds of .22LR per year. Either the number of people purchasing and stocking up on ammo have exploded, or some or doing an extreme amount of hoarding. Or both.
