ACE Aviation Service, Inc.

ACE Aviation Service, Inc., a veteran-owned small business based in Oceanside, California, manufactures and supplies specialized aviation components and mechanical hardware exclusively to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor, with 1,869 recent awards totaling $12.2 million in combined potential value and $10 million obligated. The company operates 100% as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint, competing predominantly full-and-open rather than under set-asides, though several of its Indefinite Delivery Contracts carry Total Small Business set-aside designations.

ACE Aviation's capability portfolio centers on fabricated pipe and pipe fittings, commercial hardware, valves, and specialty mechanical components including bushings, tube adapters, elbows, tees, couplings, plugs, restrictors, and fasteners—all manufactured at its Oceanside facility and delivered to military depots and DLA distribution centers across the Continental United States and overseas. Representative recent work includes a $35.58 thousand total small business purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime in May 2025 for tube-to-boss elbow components (2,128 units); a $22.24 thousand purchase order from DLA Aviation in November 2024 (Total Small Business set-aside) for bushing sleeves; and a $52.12 thousand total small business purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime in June 2024 for tube-to-boss elbow components. Work spans the full range of order values, from sub-$100 orders to five-figure purchases, all firm fixed-price and predominantly under DLA's multiple indefinite delivery vehicles.

Customer concentration is total: Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime commands 1,040 awards ($6.2 million), DLA Aviation holds 365 awards ($3.5 million), DLA Troop Support Hardware accounts for 176 awards ($593 thousand), and DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment captures 94 awards ($406 thousand)—together representing 94% of awards and 90% of combined potential value. No other federal agency appears in the active award footprint. Activity has grown from 60 awards in 2022 to a peak of 97 in 2024, with 74 awards in 2025 and 18 to date in 2026; the single recompete risk in the next twenty-four months carries only $10 thousand in potential value, reflecting the high turnover and discrete order-based nature of the vendor's DLA relationship.

ACE Aviation holds six active Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA across Aviation, Land and Maritime, and Troop Support divisions, each valued at $250 thousand and extending through 2026–2030. These vehicles include a Total Small Business set-aside IDC with DLA Aviation for liquid quantity indicators (ultimate completion September 2028), a no-set-aside IDC with DLA Land and Maritime for tube-to-boss fittings (completion September 2024), a $250 thousand single-award IDC with DLA Land and Maritime for connecting link rigs (completion April 2026), and multiple others structured as automated indefinite-delivery vehicles with four to seven estimated orders per year and guaranteed minimum quantities. Recent order activity against these IDCs shows consistent small-dollar, high-velocity transactional flow. The vendor competes exclusively within DLA's supply chain for military maintenance and logistics operations, with no prime work outside the agency.

SUPPLY MACHINED PARTS FOR MILITARY AIRCRAFT AND FIGHTING TANKS-ESPECIALLY HYDRAULIC FITTINGS SUCH AS FOUND UNDER FEDERAL STOCK NO CLASS 4730 AND VALVES UNDER 4820.