Albest Metal Stamping Corp

Albest Metal Stamping Corp, a Brooklyn-based for-profit Subchapter S corporation, manufactures military-grade metal and plastic hardware components as a prime contractor exclusively — exclusively on full-and-open federal procurements with periodic small-business set-asides. The company specializes in producing buckles, clips, rings, identification tags, fasteners, and related metal hardware for military uniforms, tactical gear, and federal correctional facility operations, drawing 100% of its 772 recent prime awards from the Department of Defense and the Department of Justice.

Albest's customer concentration sits heavily with the Defense Logistics Agency. The top five funding entities account for 82% of combined potential value across all recent awards: DLA Troop Support Clothing and Textiles dominates with 167 awards worth $32.3 million in combined potential value, followed by DLA Central Office (44 awards, $2.9 million), the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Central Office (38 awards, $2.9 million), DLA Aviation (62 awards, $2.7 million), and DLA's Federal Correctional Complex Pollock (7 awards, $411 thousand). The volume-to-value gap is pronounced — Bureau of Prisons claims 190 awards (the largest count) but only $177 thousand combined potential value, while DLA Troop Support's 167 awards carry nearly $32.3 million, signaling that high-dollar orders cluster in apparel and textile hardware versus small transactional purchases to correctional facilities.

Albest holds four active indefinite delivery contracts totaling over $8.2 million in aggregate ceiling value. The largest is a $7.5 million total-small-business-set-aside IDC awarded March 12, 2026, by DLA Troop Support Clothing and Textiles for Marine Corps brass buckles (Types I, II, and III) with a five-year term through March 2031. A second $887,880 IDC awarded October 14, 2025, to the same customer covers identification tag and personnel items on a 48-month term through October 2029. A $1.872 million total-small-business IDC with DLA Central Office (awarded December 19, 2022, through December 2026) procures various hardware items including buckles, clips, rings, and fasteners; recent delivery orders under this vehicle have ranged from $13,120 to $94,680. A $698,544 IDC with DLA Troop Support Clothing and Textiles (October 27, 2021, through October 27, 2025) supplies identification tags, with recent delivery orders in the $35,640 to $59,400 range. Beyond these IDCs, Albest works under several older DLA indefinite delivery contracts referenced in task-order activity, including vehicles for various hardware ($152 thousand across 37 task orders) and fastening components ($1.9 million across 19 task orders).

Award activity has declined sharply. Albest received 24 awards in 2022, 20 in 2023, 10 in 2024, 13 in 2025, and only 3 in 2026 through early April. Combined potential value across all recent awards sits at $50.1 million, with $23.4 million obligated (47% utilization). Only two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $106 thousand — a minimal recompete cliff driven by the recent IDC awards' multi-year terms extending through 2029 and 2031. Representative delivery orders illustrate Albest's core work: a $178,200 firm-fixed-price delivery order from DLA Clothing and Textiles (July 2025) for buckles; a $102,600 order (January 2025) for buckles and clips; a $94,050 order (July 2025) for buckles and clips; and a $57,000 order (January 2026, total-small-business set-aside) for buckles and clips under a DLA Clothing and Textiles IDC. Small-business set-asides appear sporadically across the Bureau of Prisons Central Office ($12,000 to $79,500 purchase orders) and DLA Central Office ($12,000 to $47,840 purchase orders) but not in the high-dollar DLA Troop Support apparel work, which competes full-and-open. Albest operates entirely from its Brooklyn, New York manufacturing facility (1 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11249) and places all work there.

Metal staming,Metal forming, Plastic injection molding, welding, Assembly, Tool & Die work, Packaging