For Military, Government, and Aerospace & Defense Professionals
Hundreds of thousands of professionals in 37 countries use Haystack Gold. It’s built for:
- US military organizations
- Foreign military services
- Aerospace and defense contractors
- Any organization that builds or sells items to the US government
Acquisition and purchasing
Acquisition and purchasing
- Find suppliers for the parts you need, including supplier contact information and pricing
- Access current and historical pricing
- Negotiate better with competitor pricing for government purchases
- Locate alternate sources of supply when primary sources are not able to deliver
- Pinpoint sources and products purchased by specific government agencies with extensive award history data
Engineering
- Find suppliers for the parts you need, including supplier contact information and pricing
- Negotiate better with competitor pricing for government purchases
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Find alternate suppliers when your first choice is unavailable
- Pinpoint sources and products purchased by specific government agencies with extensive award history data
- Ensure compliance with specifications and standards
- Manage BOMs by commodity or platform
Integrated logistics support
- Find suppliers for the parts you need, including supplier contact information and pricing
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Find alternate suppliers when your first choice is unavailable
- Manage BOMs by commodity or platform
Obsolescence management
- Find suppliers for the parts you need, including supplier contact information and pricing
- Locate alternates to fit form and function by technical characteristics/parameters
- Provide insight to end-of-life (EOL) issues
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Get on-the-shelf availability data
- Manage BOMs by commodity or platform
Sales and marketing
- Find suppliers for the parts you need, including supplier contact information and pricing
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Negotiate with knowledge of competitor pricing for government purchases
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Find alternate suppliers when your first choice is unavailable
- Pinpoint sources and products purchased by specific government agencies with extensive award history data
Maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO)
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Use existing parts information to streamline internal processes and strengthen MRO capabilities
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Reduce cost of maintaining duplicate parts
- Support Foreign Military Sales (FMS) and maintain older equipment with historical and obsolete part numbers and NSNs
- Manage part and material risk and enhance Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) capabilities with information on past vendors
The deepest insight into defense industry supply chains
Haystack Gold provides the most current pricing, technical and availability data on 350+ million part references in 70+ datasets.
US, UK, and Canadian data
National Forging Tooling database
Access to cFolders documentation/drawings
ISO Group RFP quote system
Unique supplier inventory with RFQ alerts when customer inventory has been uploaded
Addition of the Unique Entity Identifier (UEI), in addition to CAGE and DUNS numbers
Integrate with industry and military standards in Engineering Workbench
Integrate with electronic parts, electro-mechanical components, and fasteners in BOM and Parts Intelligence
Integration with Parts XML Web Services
Integrate with ILSmart inventory locator system
Integrate with Crestwood Technology Group (CTG) inventory, expanding our capability to include dual use and commercial parts
Crestwood Technology Group (CTG) Integration
Haystack Gold has partnered with CTG to integrate CTG’s extensive inventory of Aerospace & Defense parts into our advanced search engine and database. You get:
- Access to CTG’s vast inventory of supply options
- Expanded procurement options beyond military & government parts
- Time savings in tracking down hard-to-find parts
- Efficiency of a single platform
Rely on Haystack Gold to:
Increase efficiency
- Accelerate business, manufacturing and supply chain processes
- Shorten cycle times
- Accelerate research & innovation
- Reduce manual data entry
- Locate hard-to-find items
Ensure quality
- Maintain mission-readiness
- Improve product quality
- Improve & enrich internal data quality
Reduce cost
- Reduce purchasing or manufacturing costs
Gain a competitive advantage
with Awards/Procurement History
- Access to 70+ years of history to conduct cost and pricing analysis
- Provide alternate sources of supply
- Price to win
Expand growth opportunities
with RFQ Management
- Access Open Government Solicitations with daily notifications of new opportunities
- Monitor a list of FSC, NIINs or CAGE codes
Reduce supply chain risk
with Supplier Inventory
- Provides alternate sources of supply
- Displays supplier inventory/stock on hand
- Allows in app quote requests
- Integrated with ISO Group and ILSMart marketplaces
Build supply chain resilience
with Master Cross Reference List
- Extensive list of alternate parts as catalogued by the DLA
- Locate form, fit & function replacement
- Obsolescence indicators for part availability & vendor status
Trusted by a global customer base
Can’t stress enough how important Haystack is for this critical data. These groups are one-person efforts. When they put together data and make a claim that this is what the cost is, this is what you need to win… People often don’t agree with this and then start to really drill into you for evidence. When you can substantiate it with Haystack data and government data… People will then believe you and you don’t lose credibility.
Program Manager for RFPs at Leading Aerospace & Defense Corporation
Case Studies
Leading Aerospace and Defense Corporation Consistently Wins $4B+ Contracts Using Haystack
Competition is strong when bidding on $4B+ US govt contracts, with less than 60 days to submit a bid. Here’s how our client uses Haystack to win. Download the case study
