Bairstow Lifting Products, LLC

Bairstow Lifting Products, LLC, a small business manufacturer and supplier of specialized rigging equipment and lifting products headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, operates as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) supplying shackles, slings, wire rope assemblies, chains, hoists, and related hardware to defense and civilian federal agencies under total small business set-asides and full-and-open competition. The company is a subsidiary of Bishop Lifting Products, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer also based in the lifting and rigging sector. Bairstow's federal work spans 486 recent awards with combined potential value of $12.2 million and combined obligated dollars of $6 million (49% of potential value), with over 100 years of operating history in federal supply.

Customer concentration sits overwhelmingly with the Defense Logistics Agency. DLA Aviation represents 201 awards (41% of the portfolio) carrying $6.4 million in combined potential value, and DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment accounts for 59 awards worth $324 thousand; together these two DLA components represent 53% of awards by count and cover 77% of the award concentration threshold. The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command ranks second with 81 awards valued at $3 million, reflecting Bairstow's role as a slings manufacturer and rigging supplier under a $1,999,999 multiple-award IDV running through June 2032. Five of the top customer agencies (DLA Aviation, NAVSEA, DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment, Air Force Pacific Air Forces, and Air Mobility Command) together account for 84% of combined potential value, signaling deep concentration in DLA and Navy supply chains. Across 53 distinct customer agencies, Bairstow also serves the U.S. Coast Guard, Global Strike Command, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Air National Guard on spot purchases for specialized lifting hardware.

Bairstow holds two primary IDV vehicles. The largest is a $1,999,999 multiple-award indefinite delivery contract with Naval Sea Systems Command (awarded July 1, 2022, completing June 30, 2032) for slings manufacturing and associated technical data. A $250,000 single-award IDV with DLA Aviation (awarded March 5, 2025, completing March 4, 2030) authorizes delivery orders for shackles. Beyond these, Bairstow operates under the Federal Supply Schedule GS07F0502X, which has generated 54 task orders worth $844 thousand in combined potential value, and holds positions on five active DLA indefinite delivery contracts (SPE4A619D0224, SPE4A617D6188, SPE4A619D0015, SPE4A617D6790) that collectively carry 41 task orders. Representative recent prime awards include a $116,260 NAVSEA purchase order for twinpath slings (April 23, 2025), a $59,941 NAVSEA purchase order for an A-frame (May 6, 2025), a $59,356 DLA Aviation delivery order for wire rope assemblies (April 29, 2024), and a $50,060 NAVSEA purchase order for wire rope assemblies (September 19, 2025). Smaller set-aside awards cluster around shackle procurement ($8,612 to $27,519 per order), multiple-leg slings, welded chains, and hoist hardware—the core fabric of Bairstow's tactical supply role.

Set-aside posture shows Bairstow competing under total small business set-asides on approximately 40–50% of recent awards, with the remainder under full-and-open or no-set-aside designations. The majority of larger dollar orders (those above $50,000) trend toward full-and-open procurement, while smaller tactical reorders ($3,000–$30,000) frequently carry small business set-aside tags. Bairstow's capability portfolio centers narrowly on fabricated metal rigging components: the top NAICS categories in its portfolio are All Other Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (91 awards) and Other Fabricated Wire Product Manufacturing (89 awards), with PSC concentration in Fittings for Rope, Cable, and Chain (148 awards), Chain and Wire Rope (90 awards), and Blocks, Tackle, Rigging, and Slings (64 awards). This reflects a specialized supplier role rather than a systems integrator or services firm—Bairstow manufactures and supplies discrete hardware to order, often to specification, rather than providing integration or technical services.

Activity has remained relatively flat year over year (19 awards in 2022, declining to 13 in 2024, then recovering to 22 in 2025). Combined obligated dollars stand at $6 million against $12.2 million in potential value, indicating approximately half of each order's contract ceiling has been invoked to date. Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is minimal—only one award with completion date in that window, carrying $23 thousand in potential value. This signals stable, long-lived task-order relationships rather than fixed-term competitive contracts facing imminent recompete cliff. Bairstow also operates as a subcontractor to BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services, providing custom spreader bars and freight storage trays for the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division Instrumentation Range Support Program (awards in March 2024 and August 2024), though sub-award volume represents less than 1% of the portfolio.

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