Automation Distribution, Inc.

Automation Distribution, Inc., a small-business Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, distributes industrial robotic systems, components, and automation equipment to federal agencies as a prime contractor under small-business set-asides and unrestricted full-and-open procurements. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime (100% of recent awards) with no subcontract footprint, supplying Universal Robots collaborative arms, mobile robot platforms, grippers, tool changers, programmable logic controllers, relay assemblies, and associated accessories to civilian and defense customers.

NASA and the National Institute of Standards and Technology dominate Automation Distribution's customer base. NASA's Shared Services Center accounts for 11 awards valued at $448 thousand combined potential value (representing 48% of the vendor's total awards across the source window), while NIST accounts for 6 awards valued at $302 thousand (31% of total potential value). These two customers comprise 87% of recent award count and 93% of combined potential value. The remaining customer set includes the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of the Navy (Naval Sea Systems Command and Naval Air Warfare Center), and the Department of the Army Research, Development and Engineering Command. The top two customers track closely on both volume and dollars, indicating consistent, repeat purchasing rather than concentration risk from a single large order.

Recent representative work includes a $77,430 firm-fixed-price purchase order from NIST in September 2026 for a complete Universal Robots UR8 Long industrial arm system with OnRobot gripper, screwdriver, tool changer, and screw feeders, due October 30, 2026; a $146,233 Total Small Business set-aside purchase order from NASA Shared Services Center in June 2022 for Vention Universal Robot equipment; a $54,149 Total Small Business purchase order from NASA in June 2023 for a UR20 robotic arm; and a $31,488 Total Small Business purchase order from the Department of Veterans Affairs in August 2024 for a Freight100 mobile robot base and charging station with two-year maintenance.

Activity remains episodic — two awards in 2021, one in 2022, one in 2023, four in 2024, and one in 2026 — with one award (valued at $77 thousand) completing in the next twenty-four months. The vendor's awards cluster under NAICS codes reflecting equipment distribution and manufacturing: Other Electronic Component Manufacturing (7 awards), Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers (4 awards), and General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing (3 awards). PSC codes track to Laboratory Equipment and Supplies (8 awards) and Miscellaneous Special Industry Machinery (3 awards), indicating both research-lab automation and defense-industrial applications. All named awards are firm-fixed-price purchase orders with no parent IDIQs, GWACs, or BPAs present in the source.

Since 1977, our goal has been to help our customers meet their automation design goals with cost-efficient technical solutions.

We provide solutions for factory automation, material handling, life science and analytical instruments. Products include: pneumatic, electrical control, motion control, robotics, HMI, PLCs and PCs, safety controls, and a wide range of sensing products including ultrasonic, temperature, liquid level, flow, and pressure. We also offer our customers a fully integrated assembly department for prototypes to volume sub-assemblies.

Automation Distribution's team members work hard to earn your trust in everything we do.