B & B Hose & Rubber Co., Inc.

B & B Hose & Rubber Co., Inc., headquartered in Chesapeake, Virginia, supplies industrial hoses, fittings, adapters, rubber sheets, flexible ducts, and custom-fabricated components to federal defense and logistics agencies as a prime contractor on nearly 1,800 awards spanning four decades. The company is a small business that competes predominantly on full-and-open procurements; across its recent prime footprint, Total Small Business set-asides account for roughly 30 percent of awards, with the remainder awarded without set-aside restrictions.

B & B Hose operates as a full-line Parker distributor with over 40 years of market presence. Recent capability work centers on hose assemblies (suction, discharge, fire, potable water, and specialty pressure-rated variants), flexible ducts, rubber sheets and seals, couplers, adapters, ball and check valves, and ancillary services including saw-blade and mill-blade sharpening and crane maintenance. Representative prime contracts include a $210 thousand Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) purchase order for 3-inch seawater hoses (50-foot length, total small business set-aside, awarded August 2023); a $194.75 thousand NAVSEA purchase order for 4-inch and 2.5-inch fracking hoses with end fittings (total small business set-aside, September 2022); and a $165.9 thousand NAVSEA purchase order for hose assemblies (total small business set-aside, December 2022). The vendor also holds a $9 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (4610051070) with Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support for non-National Stock Number materials through the EMALL online procurement portal, generating 729 task orders valued at $12.1 million combined potential value.

Customer concentration is pronounced and heavily skewed toward defense logistics and Navy operations. The top five customer agencies account for 92 percent of awards. Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support dominates the award count at 729 purchase orders and delivery orders ($12.1 million combined potential value), followed by Naval Sea Systems Command at 508 awards ($7.2 million). Defense Logistics Agency Logistics Information Service contributes 79 awards ($5.8 million combined potential value) — notably, this agency ranks third by dollar value but eighth by award count, indicating larger-dollar single orders. Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime placed 284 awards ($3.6 million combined potential value). Nearly all work routes through these logistics and Navy channels; Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard accounts for only 12 awards ($79 thousand).

B & B Hose sits on five primary indefinite delivery vehicles. The largest is Indefinite Delivery Contract SPMLW113DE029 with 647 task orders ($2.5 million combined potential value). The vendor also holds Indefinite Delivery Contracts SP47W120D0001 (168 task orders, $1.4 million), SPM7W107DE033 (156 task orders, $2.2 million), SP073004DE008 (95 task orders, $88 thousand), and SPM7W104DE008 (39 task orders, $566 thousand). All five appear to be Defense Logistics Agency supply vehicles for commercial-off-the-shelf industrial products.

Award activity has remained relatively flat—68 awards in 2022, 77 in 2023, 71 in 2024, declining to 30 in 2025 and 12 year-to-date in 2026. The recompete outlook is minimal; only one award with ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months carries $5 thousand in potential value, indicating limited near-term exposure.

In its subcontractor role (representing 1 percent of recent awards), B & B Hose supplies hoses, ducts, valves, adapters, and fittings to Vigor Marine LLC, Huntington Ingalls Inc., Metro Machine Corp., Marine Hydraulics International LLC, Asrc Federal Facilities Logistics LLC, and East Coast Repair & Fabrication LLC, supporting ship overhaul, maintenance, and repair work at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and other Navy facilities. Work includes post-shakedown availability projects on utility ships, refueling and overhaul availability on carriers, selected restricted availability on amphibious transports, and emerging seller availability on guided-missile destroyers.

B & B Hose's award footprint reflects its identity as a transactional supplier of commoditized industrial components to the Navy and defense logistics supply chain. The vast majority of contracts are firm fixed-price purchase orders and delivery orders under $50 thousand, with typical lead times measured in weeks. The company's $9 million DLA IDIQ and recurring placement on five indefinite delivery vehicles demonstrate standing as a pre-approved vendor for routine replenishment across Navy and logistics customer bases. Customer concentration, stable but declining activity volume, and minimal large-dollar recompete exposure position the vendor as a steady-state supplier of items spanning NAICS 326220 (Rubber and Plastics Hoses and Belting Manufacturing) and PSC 4730 (Hose and Flexible Tubing).

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