ARI Phoenix Inc.

ARI Phoenix Inc., a Lebanon, Ohio-based small business manufacturer of heavy-duty mobile column lifts, hydraulic jacks, tire changers, and automotive maintenance equipment, sells specialized vehicle maintenance and repair equipment to the Department of Defense and federal agencies as a prime contractor, with 100 percent of recent awards in a prime role and predominant total small business set-aside posture across its footprint.

ARI Phoenix operates as a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation registered in SAM.gov since October 2015. The vendor's primary NAICS code is Elevator and Moving Stairway Manufacturing (132 awards across the source), with secondary concentration in Other Electronic Component Manufacturing and machinery manufacturing and repair categories. Its capability portfolio centers on manufacturing and delivering mobile column lifts (4-post, wireless, line-powered, and battery-operated variants), hydraulic dolly-type jacks, tire changers and balancers, exhaust extraction systems, and related automotive shop equipment, paired with inspection, maintenance, and repair services for this equipment. Representative prime work includes a $1.83 billion sole-source definitive contract from DLA Land and Maritime (October 2023) for motor vehicle lifts under NSN 4910-01-695-1083; a $400 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Vehicle from DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment for mobile column lifts and related automotive maintenance equipment running through July 2026; and numerous smaller delivery orders and purchase orders under the General Services Administration's Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), totaling over $5.5 million across 125 task orders.

Customer concentration is highly skewed toward DLA and Army agencies. The top five funding agencies by award count account for 50 percent of awards, led by the Department of the Army Reserve Command (74 awards, $8.4 million combined potential value), DLA Land and Maritime (33 awards, $4.5 million), and the Department of the Army (27 awards, $2.2 million). By potential value, the rankings diverge sharply: DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment anchors the portfolio at $401.6 million combined potential value across 11 awards—nearly 91 percent of all dollars—primarily from the $400 million IDV. The GSA Federal Acquisition Service places second by value at $18.4 million across 12 MAS-based task orders, while Army Reserve Command's many small orders contribute $8.4 million in aggregate.

ARI Phoenix sits on the General Services Administration Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), the primary contract vehicle for its federal work, with 125 task orders generating $5.5 million in combined potential value. The vendor also holds a portfolio of single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts and Blanket Purchase Agreements with DLA and Army agencies: a $350,000 single-award IDC with DLA Land and Maritime for hydraulic jacks (awarded April 2026, running through April 2027); a $250,000 single-award IDC with DLA Land and Maritime for hydraulic jacks (September 2025–March 2026, with $155,006.54 already obligated in one delivery order); a $250,000 single-award IDC with DLA Land and Maritime for hydraulic jacks (October 2024–October 2025, with $133,563.60 obligated across two delivery orders); a $990,000 single-award BPA with the Department of the Army for auto lift inspection and repair at Michigan National Guard locations (June 2022–June 2027); and a $250,000 single-award BPA with the Massachusetts Army National Guard for annual and emergency repair and maintenance of materials handling equipment (April 2023–April 2028). These vehicles generate recurring task orders and delivery orders under total small business set-aside designations.

Activity has grown year over year from 24 awards in 2022 to 54 awards in 2024, before moderating to 36 awards in 2025 and 9 awards through early 2026 (snapshot date July 15, 2026). Only two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, with a combined potential value of $154 thousand, indicating minimal recompete cliff exposure in the near term. The vendor obligated just $21.8 million of its $442.7 million combined potential value (5 percent), reflecting the typical lag between award and invoicing on indefinite-delivery vehicles and the heavy weighting toward the $400 million DLA IDV, which has not generated large individual task orders to date.

ARI Phoenix competes predominantly under total small business set-asides. Across the source data, the vast majority of awards carry small business set-aside designations; a smaller subset—primarily DLA delivery orders for common motor vehicle lifts and purchases on the MAS—carry no set-aside. This posture positions the vendor as a qualified small business supplier to defense logistics and Army operations, with the $400 million DLA IDV serving as the anchor for recurring procurement of specialty automotive equipment that supports military vehicle maintenance infrastructure. The vendor has minimal subcontract footprint, with only one sub-award on record (equipment lifts and lift parts to KBR Services for the Marine Corps Prepositioning Program in Norway, November 2025), indicating a prime-focused business model rather than a teaming or sub-reliant strategy. ARI Phoenix's federal footprint reflects specialization in a narrow but high-demand product category—military-grade automotive lift systems and jacks—with consistent demand across Army, Air Force, National Guard, and DLA customers, supported by the company's established role as a qualified manufacturer of equipment that is difficult or uneconomical for the government to reverse engineer or source competitively.

ARI Phoenix, Inc. is small business in Lebanon, Ohio and carries the widely-known ARI-HETRA brand of Mobile Column Lifts. We are a direct sales and service manufacturer of maintenance equipment for Heavy-Duty vehicles to include line, battery-powered, or wireless mobile column lifts, heavy-duty wheel service equipment (such as tire changers and tire balancers), and custom exhaust extraction systems. ARI-HETRA systems are used in over 40 industries including military bases, airlines, airport authorities, fire departments, utility companies, school districts, heavy-duty automotive repair facilities, and transit, bus and coach companies.