DLA DIBBS micro-purchases

The sub-$25k defense buys USASpending misses, straight from the Defense Logistics Agency's DIBBS bid board. Two grains: open solicitations (RFQs) to bid on right now, and award history — who won a given item (the awardee CAGE), the last-sold TOTAL award price by NSN, and the date. DLA publishes only the total award price per line, not a per-unit price. Ask "last-sold award price for NSN 5330-01-234-5678" or "open RFQs in FSC 4720 closing this week."

Items are keyed by NSN (National Stock Number) and classified by FSC (Federal Supply Class); the winning vendor is identified by its 5-character CAGE code — the same CAGE that appears on federal contract awards. Use mode=price_history with an NSN for one item's price trail, newest sale first.

Source & conduct: DIBBS solicitation and award records are public U.S. federal procurement data — no CAC is required to view (a CAC is only needed to submit a quote). We collect them politely: a single browser session, rate-limited and off-peak, honoring the site's robots rules. No individuals — records are commodity line items (NSN/FSC/nomenclature) and company CAGE codes.

There is a portal for this: DIBIQ puts this bid board in front of a DLA bidder as pages rather than tool calls — open solicitations, per-unit prior prices where they exist, approved sources and published item characteristics. Same subscription, same refusals.

Coverage figures populate from the ingestion pipeline after the first scrape.

{
  "tool": "dla.dibbs",
  "params": {
    "mode": "price_history",
    "nsn": "5330-01-234-5678",
    "limit": 10
  }
}

{
  "mode": "awards",
  "solicitation_number": "SPE7M323V0001",
  "nsn": "5330-01-234-5678",
  "nomenclature": "GASKET, ROUND",
  "total_contract_price": 456.00,
  "price_basis": "observed_award_total",
  "cage_code": "1ABC5",
  "award_basic_number": "SPE7M323D0001",
  "delivery_order_number": "SPE7M324F0012",
  "delivery_order_counter": "0",
  "award_date": "2026-03-15",
  "posted_date": "2026-03-18"
}