Alpha Materials Handling, Inc.

Alpha Materials Handling, Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Midlothian, Texas, manufactures and supplies materials handling equipment—cranes, hoists, lifts, automated storage systems, and related installation and maintenance services—to federal agencies as a prime contractor operating predominantly under total small business set-asides. The company is a Subchapter S Corporation with a 113-award prime footprint spanning 43 federal customer agencies, generating $4.6 million in combined potential value.

Alpha's capability portfolio centers on industrial materials handling equipment and specialized services. Representative work includes a $174.3 thousand single-girder 10-ton bridge crane for the Defense Logistics Agency awarded under total small business set-aside; a $283 thousand delivery and installation of two manlift/work platforms for the National Institute of Standards and Technology; a $175.2 thousand single-award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract with the Department of the Navy Reserve (running through May 2027) for preventative maintenance and repair services on Hanel RotoMat automated storage and retrieval systems at Navy Reserve facilities in Texas, under which four task orders totaling $75 thousand have been issued; and a $115.4 thousand total small business set-aside purchase order with the Defense Logistics Agency Distribution for bridge crane load testing, inspection, preventative maintenance, and corrective maintenance services at Tinker Air Force Base through June 2028. Work also encompasses rope and chain hoists, scissor lifts, delivery carts, burden carriers, pallet racks, warehouse shelving, and dock lifts, typically priced in the $5 thousand to $115 thousand range per award.

Customer concentration clusters with the Defense Logistics Agency Distribution (16 awards, $792 thousand combined potential value) and the Army Materiel Command Joint Munitions Command (18 awards, $768 thousand), together accounting for 34 awards and 49% of the award count. By potential-value ranking, DLA Distribution and Army Joint Munitions anchor the top tier, joined by the Air Force Materiel Command Air Force Sustainment Center ($524 thousand, two awards) and Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command ($462 thousand, three awards). The Navy Reserve and Naval Sea Systems Command combined account for 17 awards and $587 thousand. Alpha has worked with 43 distinct federal customer agencies, distributed across defense (Army, Navy, Air Force, Defense Logistics Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency), civilian (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of Commerce), and homeland security (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) sectors.

The company operates solely as a prime contractor (100% of awards); no subcontract activity appears in the source. Alpha holds a single named parent vehicle—the Navy Reserve single-award IDIQ (N6883622D0008, $175.2 thousand through May 2027)—under which four task orders have been placed. The company competes predominantly under total small business set-asides, with occasional full-and-open awards (three delivery orders under the Navy Reserve IDIQ and select DLA and NIST purchases carry no set-aside designation). Award categorization concentrates in overhead traveling crane, hoist, and monorail system manufacturing (15 awards); industrial truck, tractor, trailer, and stacker machinery manufacturing (15 awards); and showcase, partition, shelving, and locker manufacturing (8 awards). Corresponding PSC codes emphasize winches, hoists, cranes, and derricks (16 awards) and cabinets, lockers, bins, and shelving (16 awards).

Activity has remained modest and flat—7 awards in 2022, 8 in 2023, 8 in 2024, declining to 4 in 2025 and 3 in 2026 year to date. One award (the $115.4 thousand DLA Distribution contract through June 2028) faces completion within the next twenty-four months and represents recompete exposure. The company's historical footprint extends to 2009, but recent activity centers on purchase orders and delivery orders in the sub-$300 thousand range, with a single notable outlier (the $283 thousand NIST manlift/work platforms award in July 2023).

Alpha Material Handling can supply you with any items that you may need for your production or storage locations. No need is too big or too small.