Aviation Procurement Systems, LLC

Aviation Procurement Systems, LLC (APS) is a for-profit limited-liability company based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, that procures and supplies specialized aviation parts, mechanical components, and sealing devices to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor across full-and-open and small-business set-aside vehicles, with a footprint anchored in Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) purchase orders and blanket purchase agreements.

APS competes predominantly under small-business set-asides—roughly 40% of its recent awards carry Total Small Business or competitive small-business designations. The vendor holds no reported SBA 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other formal SBA certifications in the source; it operates as a standard small business. Recent award work spans electrical backshells, fuel ejector pumps, sliding door tracks, radio frequency coils, thermostatic switches, ball bearings, solenoid valves, valve assemblies, seals, gaskets, fuel filter kits, and aircraft frames—concrete mechanical and electrical components critical to military aircraft platforms including helicopters such as the HC-27J and MH-60T. Sample awards include a $245,635 purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime (January 2026) for electronic test sets under a Total Small Business set-aside; a $131,300 purchase order from DLA Aviation (November 2025) for aircraft ball bearings, also set-aside small business; and a $228,565 purchase order from DLA Aviation (June 2025) for fuel filter kits with no set-aside. Place of performance is consistently Montgomery Village, Maryland, with delivery to DLA depots nationwide and overseas via consolidation points.

Customer concentration is extreme and stable. The top five funding agencies account for 97% of awards. DLA Land and Maritime leads by potential value: 390 awards totaling $14.7 million combined potential value. DLA Aviation follows with 505 awards (the largest count) worth $9.5 million. The Department of the Army Materiel Command Contracting Command Detroit Arsenal placed 63 awards valued at $8.2 million. DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment and DLA Troop Support Hardware round out the set with smaller volumes ($340 thousand and $365 thousand respectively). This is a DLA-centric footprint with minimal exposure outside the defense supply chain.

APS holds or operates under five named indefinite delivery contracts and three named blanket purchase agreements with DLA and the Department of the Army. The largest parent vehicles are Army BPA W56HZV17AJ005 (33 task orders, $5 million combined potential value) and Army BPA W56HZV20AJ006 (27 task orders, $3.4 million). Five single-award indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Land and Maritime and DLA Aviation each carry $250,000 to $350,000 ceilings and focus on specific components: plain seals, plain encased seals, support armatures, counterbalance weights, windshield wiper motors, and retainer nuts. These vehicles represent the operational backbone of APS's federal work; individual purchase orders and delivery orders are typically issued against them.

Activity has declined sharply in recent years. Awards per year fell from 227 in 2023 to 168 in 2024, then to 135 in 2025, and only 24 year-to-date in 2026 (a partial-year snapshot as of mid-July). Over 1,038 total awards in the source data, APS is obligated on $27.5 million (72% of combined potential value of $38.3 million), indicating a mature, executing contract base. Forty-three awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry $1.9 million combined potential value and represent immediate recompete exposure.

APS operates exclusively as a prime contractor; the source lists zero subcontract awards. The vendor does not appear in the subcontractor role in the award records provided.

By category, APS's awards cluster around Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (126 awards), Military Armored Vehicle, Tank, and Tank Component Manufacturing (79 awards), and Hardware Manufacturing (64 awards). Product Service Code concentration tracks the same: Flight Instruments (70 awards), Airframe Structural Components (69 awards), and Packing and Gasket Materials (63 awards) lead the distribution. This reflects APS's focus on discrete mechanical and electrical components rather than systems integration or services.