I’m not surprised at all. Just after I was posted to Leuchars in the seventies, I went through the price challenge routine with SM 39 (as was) for an F4 item – a simple hexagonal nut; the price on the US DoD supply docs was around $5,000 each and that was before adding on the freight charges for carriage by civil air. I got the “don’t waste our time” routine because the item value was under $100k. 
And didn’t the UK have its own version with GEC and some avionic spares?
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