Arizona Aero Fasteners, Inc.

Arizona Aero Fasteners, Inc., a minority-owned, woman-owned small business based in Moorpark, California, supplies precision aerospace fastener components—machine bolts, shear bolts, close tolerance screws, shoulder screws, pin rivets, and related hardware—to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor on a high-volume, transactional purchase-order basis. The company operates exclusively as a prime (100% of awards), with no subcontracting relationships, and competes entirely full-and-open; no set-aside designation was applied to the majority of individual purchase orders, though the vendor holds four underlying Total Small Business set-aside Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Aviation.

Arizona Aero Fasteners registered in SAM in May 2001 and has maintained a sustained, narrow-channel relationship with a single federal customer. The Defense Logistics Agency dominates the footprint: DLA Aviation accounts for 2,098 awards ($16.9 million combined potential value), and DLA Troop Support Hardware accounts for 2,316 awards ($12.5 million), together representing the overwhelming majority of the vendor's 5,173 total awards. The portfolio is heavily skewed toward high-frequency, low-dollar transactions—awards-per-year volume ran to 413 in 2023 and 336 in 2022, dropping to 310 in 2024 and 327 in 2025, with only 55 awards recorded in 2026 to date. Combined potential value across all 5,173 awards stands at $1.1 billion, but obligated dollars total only $17.2 million (2% of potential value), reflecting the nature of indefinite delivery contracts: order ceilings drive potential value, while actual invoiced spend remains modest.

The vendor's work flows through five primary DLA indefinite delivery contract vehicles: Indefinite Delivery Contract SPM50003D0065 (60 task orders, $543 thousand potential value), Indefinite Delivery Contract SP050003D0065 (52 task orders, $942 thousand), Indefinite Delivery Contract SP050004D0010 (34 task orders), and two additional IDCs with lower combined volume. The four Total Small Business set-aside single-award IDCs awarded between February 2026 and September 2025—each valued at $250,000 to $350,000 with completion dates extending through 2030—establish the contracting framework under which DLA Aviation issues delivery orders on an as-needed basis without predetermined quantities. All performance occurs at the contractor's Moorpark facility.

NAICS concentration is extreme: 4,036 of 5,173 awards fall under NAICS 332722 (Bolt, Nut, Screw, Rivet, and Washer Manufacturing), with smaller clusters in Precision Turned Product Manufacturing (460 awards) and Nonferrous Forging (244 awards). Product Service Code distribution tracks identically: Screws (2,469 awards) and Bolts (2,452 awards) account for 95% of the portfolio. Representative recent work includes a $23.8 thousand DLA Aviation purchase order for close tolerance screws (March 9, 2026, no set-aside), a $20.2 thousand purchase order for close tolerance screws under Total Small Business set-aside (March 9, 2026), and a $19.8 thousand Total Small Business set-aside purchase order for machine bolts (December 5, 2025). Transaction values range from under $300 to approximately $36,000 per order.

Within the next twenty-four months, 136 awards with combined potential value of $1.2 million face ultimate completion, creating moderate recompete exposure concentrated within the DLA Aviation and DLA Troop Support Hardware bases. The vendor has demonstrated consistent order fulfillment across more than 5,000 federal transactions since late 2024 (the timeframe cited in award narratives), establishing itself as a reliable, high-velocity supplier of standardized fastener components to the defense logistics supply chain. Customer concentration is functionally absolute—DLA accounts for the entire portfolio—and the business model depends entirely on continued DLA reliance for mission-critical aerospace hardware.

Distribution - Aerospace Fasteners