Accurate Bushing Company, Inc.

Accurate Bushing Company, Inc., doing business as Smith Bearing, manufactures precision bearing components—roller bearings, needle bearings, cam followers, and roller cams—for military aircraft and ground vehicle maintenance and repair, operating as a prime contractor exclusively to the Defense Logistics Agency. The company is a small business manufacturer headquartered in Garwood, New Jersey, competing predominantly under small business set-asides (six of its seven active Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Aviation carry Total Small Business designations) while maintaining capacity to compete in full and open procurements.

Smith Bearing's customer concentration is extreme. The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation accounts for 1,220 of the vendor's 1,503 total awards (81% of volume) and $35.8 million of its $38.3 million combined potential value (94% of dollars). The remaining activity—scattered across Defense Logistics Agency corporate, Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime, the Air Force Materiel Command, and the Navy—is negligible by comparison. This concentration reflects a narrow, deep supplier relationship: DLA Aviation issues rapid-turn delivery orders (mostly under $50,000) against standing IDIQs rather than pursuing new competitive procurements. Recent work includes a $96,300 purchase order for 1,070 cam follower needle bearing units (March 2026), a $173,600 order for 3,100 linear-rotary roller units (December 2025), and a $90,000 purchase order for 1,000 cam follower needle units (July 2025), all firm fixed-price, all to military distribution depots.

Smith Bearing holds seven active Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Aviation, each carrying $250,000 ceilings with performance periods extending through 2028–2031. Six are designated as Total Small Business set-asides; one is full and open. These IDCs function as standing supply vehicles, with DLA Aviation issuing task orders on an as-needed basis for specific bearing National Stock Numbers. Recent IDC awards include three new $350,000 single-award contracts awarded March–January 2026 (replacing or supplementing earlier $250,000 vehicles), indicating DLA Aviation's confidence in the vendor and expansion of the available ceiling. The top five parent vehicles by task order count (spanning NSNs 4610133612, SP044103D4140, SPE4A719D5155, SPE4A614D5839, and SPE4A620D5774) generated between 18 and 23 task orders each, with combined values ranging from $75,000 to $653,000. All work is performed at the company's Garwood facility with no subcontractors identified across the award footprint.

Activity has contracted sharply. The vendor received 64 awards in 2022 and 82 in 2023, but only 31 in 2024, 44 in 2025, and 11 through April 2026—a 73% decline from the 2023 peak. This decline likely reflects DLA Aviation's consolidation of frequent small orders into fewer, larger delivery orders rather than a loss of business, given the constancy of the customer relationship and the vendor's presence on current IDCs. Nineteen awards totaling $504,000 in combined potential value face ultimate completion within the next 24 months, representing moderate recompete exposure concentrated on the standing IDC portfolio.

Smith Bearing operates in a single industrial segment: NAICS 332991 (Ball and Roller Bearing Manufacturing) accounts for 1,322 of 1,503 awards; PSC 5310-14 (Bearings, Antifriction, Unmounted) dominates with 1,375 awards. The vendor competes as a source-controlled, qualified-products-list supplier of commercial bearing items. No subcontract history exists; all work is executed as a prime contractor. The company has maintained SAM registration since June 2001 and holds no known positions on government-wide vehicles, GSA Schedules, or multi-agency IDIQs outside DLA Aviation.