Adept Fasteners Inc.

Adept Fasteners Inc., based in Valencia, California, supplies aerospace fasteners and related hardware to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) through multiple single-award indefinite delivery contracts with the Defense Logistics Agency. The company is a small business that competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides, with that designation recurring across the majority of its IDIQ vehicles and a material portion of its delivery orders.

Adept Fasteners specializes in manufacturing and supplying self-locking nuts, shear bolts, blind rivets, machine screws, turnlock receptacles, pin-rivets, hose assemblies, and related aerospace fastener components. The vendor holds nine single-award IDIQs with DLA Aviation, each carrying ceilings ranging from $349,999.99 to $2.5 million, with ultimate completion dates extending through 2031. Representative recent prime work includes a $350,000 Total Small Business IDIQ awarded June 29, 2026 by DLA Aviation for aerospace fasteners supporting military aircraft maintenance; a $2.5 million Total Small Business IDIQ awarded April 13, 2026 for self-locking nuts required for B-52 aircraft maintenance with an estimated maximum order of 138,920 units over five years; a $259,196 Total Small Business purchase order awarded May 18, 2026 for internal wrenches; and a $586,117.89 nonmetallic hose assembly purchase order awarded April 22, 2026 by DLA Land and Maritime. The vendor also performs work for the U.S. Coast Guard—a $93,762.90 purchase order awarded September 14, 2026 for plain assembled nuts used on MH-60T helicopters, and a $77,500 order awarded August 11, 2026 for pin-rivet collars on the same platform. Adept Fasteners also supplied screw thread insert tool kits to the General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service totaling over $106,000 across three awards in May and June 2026.

Customer concentration is extreme and centered on DLA operations. The top five funding agencies account for 97% of awards by count, with DLA Aviation dominating at 3,627 awards ($115.2 million combined potential value) and DLA Troop Support Hardware following at 3,365 awards ($76 million combined potential value). Combined, these two DLA entities represent the vast majority of Adept Fasteners' revenue base. The Department of the Army Materiel Command Contracting Command Detroit Arsenal ranks third by potential value at $17.2 million (only three awards), signaling occasional large-dollar purchases outside DLA's standard procurement pattern.

Activity has declined year over year from 752 awards in 2022 to 322 in 2026, reflecting a contraction in award volume despite relatively stable dollar value. However, 225 awards with combined potential value of $23.6 million are scheduled to complete within the next twenty-four months, representing significant recompete exposure and near-term opportunity for competitors to displace the vendor.

The vendor's top five parent vehicles are single-award IDIQs: SPE5EY15D0554 (248 task orders, $917 thousand), SPE4A621D0081 (189 task orders, $510 thousand), SPE5EY14D0517 (126 task orders, $1.4 million), SPE4A620D0191 (85 task orders, $281 thousand), and SPE5EN19D0038 (71 task orders, $524 thousand). Each represents a narrow DLA vehicle channel; the vendor does not maintain positions on government-wide acquisition contracts or multi-agency IDIQs.

Adept Fasteners subcontracts to defense primes on specialized fastener and hardware components. Named subcontract relationships include Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (control panel hardware and fastener components across multiple awards from February through April 2026), Bell Boeing Joint Project Office (self-locking nuts and pin-rivet collars, April and May 2026), and Moog Military Aircraft LLC (shouldered shaft fasteners, May 2026). Subcontract work represents only 2% of the award footprint and is secondary to the company's prime posture.

Adept Fasteners' capability portfolio is narrow and deep, focused exclusively on fastener manufacturing under NAICS 332722 (Bolt, Nut, Screw, Rivet, and Washer Manufacturing) and hardware under NAICS 332510. The source data spanning nearly two decades shows 5,466 awards under the lead NAICS, with secondary concentrations in Hardware Manufacturing (1,323 awards) and other fastener-related categories. By product service code, the vendor's work clusters under nuts and washers (2,633 awards), rivets (1,402 awards), bolts (1,398 awards), screws (1,087 awards), and fastening devices (534 awards). Place of performance is Valencia, California; the vendor does not list subordinate operational sites. Obligated dollars total $137.1 million against $233.4 million in combined potential value, indicating 59% cash conversion and a substantial backlog of unexercised IDIQ capacity and order optionality.