A-Class First Article Manufacturing LLC

A-Class First Article Manufacturing LLC, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business based in Crowley, Texas, manufactures precision mechanical components and fasteners for the Department of Defense as a prime contractor under full-and-open and small business set-aside purchase orders. The company is a for-profit limited liability corporation and self-certified small disadvantaged business with Black American ownership.

A-Class operates exclusively as a prime contractor on small-dollar purchase orders—all fifteen recent awards are primes with no subcontract work—across two closely related DoD divisional customers. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime accounts for nine awards (100% combined potential value, $144 thousand), and the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation accounts for six awards ($27 thousand). The company manufactures bolts, studs, gears, pulleys, sprockets, hinges, bumpers, and other mechanical components to military specification. Recent representative work includes a $99,995 Total Small Business set-aside purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime for butt hinge manufacturing (ultimate completion April 12, 2027); a $16,685 Total Small Business set-aside for bumper production (June 4, 2025); a $7,830 Total Small Business set-aside for groove pulleys from DLA (November 24, 2025); and a $5,552 non-set-aside order from DLA Aviation for hook bolts (January 9, 2026). The company also delivered a government first article test for $3,119.92 on November 4, 2025, indicating validation of manufacturing processes for a new or new supplier designation.

Set-aside posture is mixed: six of fifteen awards carry Total Small Business set-aside designation, while nine awards competed full-and-open. Award volume has remained modest and flat—eleven awards in 2025, four awards through January 2026—with a combined potential value of $171 thousand across the entire footprint, fully obligated. Three awards with combined value of $109 thousand reach completion inside the next twenty-four months and face recompete risk. The vendor's workload concentrates on bolt and fastener manufacturing (four awards under PSC Bolts plus two for studs), mechanical power transmission equipment (five awards including gears and pulleys), and general hardware (three awards), positioning A-Class as a focused supplier for DoD's repetitive component replacement and equipment maintenance needs rather than a platform provider.