Acme Products & Engineering Inc.

Acme Products & Engineering Inc., a Brooklyn-based small business manufacturer, supplies precision-engineered industrial machinery components—pump impellers, valve assemblies, hydraulic seals, and mechanical parts—to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on purchase orders and small indefinite-delivery contracts, with approximately 60% of awards designated as total small business set-asides. The company has held a System for Award Management registration since June 2001 and operates as a for-profit corporation without stated minority or other SBA ownership designations beyond small-business status.

Acme's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward military logistics and sustainment. The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Land and Maritime dominates, accounting for 861 awards and $16.6 million in combined potential value; the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command follows with 294 awards and $14 million. Together, these two customers represent the bulk of Acme's business. Secondary customers include the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (122 awards, $1.5 million), Naval Supply Systems Command (55 awards, $3.7 million), and Military Sealift Command (15 awards, $1.9 million). The company's footprint spans 14 distinct customer agencies but is concentrated in ship maintenance and equipment readiness: pump components for USS Wasp, USS Iwo Jima, USS Carl Vinson, USS Emory S. Land, and similar vessels dominate the named work.

Representative contracts demonstrate Acme's role supplying ship-critical components under set-aside vehicles. A $1.16 billion total small business set-aside with Naval Sea Systems Command (awarded March 12, 2025) procured turbine generator parts for USS Bataan (LHD-7). A $904 thousand total small business set-aside (August 11, 2025) covered main feed pump parts for USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7). A $770 thousand total small business set-aside (May 7, 2025) procured centrifugal pump impellers for DLA. Other work includes a $624.5 thousand purchase order from Military Sealift Command (March 5, 2026) for USS Emory S. Land force draft blower parts and a $511.5 thousand Naval Supply Systems Command order (May 29, 2024) for pump shafts. The majority of awards are firm fixed-price purchase orders under $200 thousand, issued against standing indefinite-delivery contracts.

Acme holds at least one active IDC with DLA Land and Maritime with a $350 thousand ceiling (awarded March 16, 2026, total small business set-aside) expiring March 16, 2027. Multiple other IDCs appear in the subcontract and delivery-order history, though the source names only the single recently awarded IDC explicitly. Work is performed entirely at Acme's manufacturing facility in Brooklyn, New York (NSN 11232).

Activity has grown modestly year over year: 79 awards in 2022 to 118 in 2025, with 24 awards recorded through mid-April 2026. The recompete cliff is light—only 20 awards (combined potential value $3.3 million) complete within the next twenty-four months. Twenty awards out of 1,632 total represent low recompete pressure relative to the overall portfolio.

Acme's subcontractor role is minimal (23 sub-awards, 1% of the portfolio). Named prime relationships include BAE Systems Maritime Solutions San Diego Inc. (multiple direct material expense sub-awards on ship availabilities including USS Green Bay LPD-20 and USS Mobile LCS-26), BAE Systems Jacksonville Ship Repair LLC (USS Ramage DDG-61), Metro Machine Corp. (USS Bataan LHD-5), and Marine Hydraulics International LLC (USS Gunston Hall LSD-44). Sub-work centers on provisioning components and direct material expenses for naval vessel maintenance rather than manufacturing or engineering services.

Acme's capability portfolio aligns tightly with its customer base and NAICS concentration. The top five NAICS categories—Pump and Pumping Equipment Manufacturing (277 awards), Fluid Power Pump and Motor Manufacturing (147), Industrial Valve Manufacturing (128), Gasket, Packing, and Sealing Device Manufacturing (97), and Mechanical Power Transmission Equipment Manufacturing (79)—account for the vast majority of awards. Product Service Code 43 (Power and Hand Pumps) dominates with 544 awards; PSC 44 (Valves, Nonpowered) follows with 186. The company manufactures small specialized components—impeller rings, bearing sleeves, gaskets, packing retainers, wiper rings, valve seats, hydraulic seals, and similar parts—in quantities of one to several hundred units per order, delivering within days to months to DLA distribution hubs and naval maintenance facilities.

Acme competes almost exclusively under small business set-asides; approximately 60% of its contracts carry total small business set-aside or competitive 8(a) designations, with the remainder in full-and-open competitions. The company does not hold a GWAC or other government-wide vehicle position; all work flows through direct purchase orders, single-award or multiple-award IDCs with DLA and Navy commands, or specific ship-maintenance solicitations. Acme is not certified 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, or other SBA designation beyond small-business status.