Loocey DLA - The Best All-In-One Software for DLA/DIBBS

Loocey DLA is an all-in-one software platform for DLA/DIBBS suppliers and manufacturers. It imports DLA solicitations daily, adds award history and risk analysis to every RFQ, and then carries the work through a CRM bidding board, supplier quote requests, bid pricing and MIL-STD-129R container labels — so the whole workflow lives in one system instead of DIBBS plus a spreadsheet plus your inbox.

DIBBS shows you what is open. Loocey shows you what is worth quoting. Every RFQ arrives enriched with award history, approved-source data and flags such as AS Bidding and Same Winner, and every search you build can be saved as a reusable tab. From there you copy the solicitation into a CRM, request supplier pricing, calculate your bid and track it to award — none of which DIBBS does.

Solicitations are imported daily. Loocey often pulls data in before it appears on DIBBS — roughly a day early — which is why a few cells can look empty at first; they populate through the day as the rest of the data arrives.

Yes. Loocey computes an AS Bidding flag for each solicitation. Add a filter on AS Bidding set to Unchecked and those RFQs disappear from the view. There is a matching Same Winner flag for NSNs that one company keeps winning, and you can confirm either flag by opening the NSN dialog and checking the History tab.

A saved view stores a filter set, sort order, column selection and column order under a named tab at the top of the table. You build a search once — "posted in the last 7 days, no CMMC, FOB Origin, weight under 10 lb" — save it, and click that tab every morning. Filtering works identically on every table in Loocey, so the skill transfers from the RFQ list to the Bidding Board to Suppliers.

Conditions like "Days Greater Than Today" are evaluated against the current date every time the view loads, so a filter for the last 7 days keeps meaning the last 7 days. Loocey also has date-range presets (Today, Last Week, This Quarter, Last 90 Days and more) that can be flagged as dynamic, so the window rolls forward on its own.

Both. Part numbers live on the approved-parts relationship rather than the RFQ row, so you use a Related Data Filter (NSN > NSN Parts > DLA Approved Parts > Part Number) with the In condition. For large lists, keep your NSNs or part numbers in a Loocey list and point the filter at it with Dynamic Values — lists of 5,000+ work fine, and adding rows to the list updates every view built on it.

Selecting one or more RFQs and choosing Copy To Board copies the full solicitation detail onto your Bidding Board, creates supplier records from the approved sources, creates the matching inventory records, links everything together and stages the data needed for quote-request emails. Multiple selections run through the Job Queue and finish in seconds.

Yes. Select up to 20 RFQs on the Bidding Board and open the Bulk Email Sender. Loocey builds an individual, template-driven email per supplier — pre-filled with part number, quantity and RFQ details — which you can still edit one at a time. Connect a Microsoft 365 or Gmail account and messages send from your address and appear in your Sent folder; the RFQs move to Quote Requests Sent automatically. If you prefer, you can copy the generated emails and send them yourself.

The Pricing Module has three modes. Margin Calculation works forward from supplier unit cost, tax, shipping and your product margin. Last Award Calculation bases the bid on the last award unit price, inflation-adjusted (3% per year by default, and editable). Manual lets you set the Bid Unit Price directly while Loocey still reports cost, margin and profit. Global adjustment fields — additional profit, additional shipping, other cost and a per-unit adjustment — let you land on an exact target price.

On the Service Details tab of the RFQ. Add a service line with a quantity and rate and it flows into your Cost Total. Leave the margin blank and the cost comes out of your profit while the Bid Unit Price stays put; enter a margin and both profit and Bid Unit Price rise.

Yes. The DLA Label Maker generates Unit, Intermediate and Exterior container labels as print-ready PDFs sized for label printers such as Zebra — DLA and VSM do not provide printer-compatible labels. Fields including Award ID, NSN, unit of issue, quantity and description are pre-filled from the award record, and you can switch between 1D barcodes and the newer 2D PDF417 format, which Loocey encodes in the data structure DLA requires. Labels can also be generated programmatically through the Loocey API.

Loocey is multi-user. Assign RFQs to team members, build a "My Items" view using the Current User value that works for everyone, and control access with the Admin, Team Member, Viewer and Commenter roles — or duplicate a role and build your own permission set. Notes record who wrote them and when.

Yes. Any table can be exported to CSV, either the current page or a specified range of all records, from the table’s three-dot menu. Full-table export is not available on the DLA RFQs source table.

Loocey DLA is built on top of Loocey Core, the platform’s project and data management layer — workspaces, relational tables, 50+ column types, relationship columns, Kanban and calendar views, filters and saved views. That means you get DLA-specific data and workflow plus a general-purpose platform you can shape around the rest of your business.

Pick a plan on the Loocey DLA pricing page, or book a demo — our demos are run by technical team members and usually start with a short discovery so we can show the workflow against your actual situation. Then follow the Getting Started guide, which walks through account setup and the full bidding workflow.