Baker & Associates Inc.

Baker & Associates Inc., a Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) and Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB) based in Centerville, Ohio, supplies mechanical and electrical components to the federal government as a prime contractor, competing predominantly in full-and-open and Total Small Business set-aside procurements through purchase orders and indefinite delivery contracts with the Defense Logistics Agency.

The company's capability portfolio centers on specialized mechanical and electrical components: gaskets, sealing materials, shielding components, motors, fuel pumps, adhesives, wire mesh, o-rings, filters, switches, relays, connectors, and related consumables. Representative work includes a $207.3 million Total Small Business set-aside purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime (awarded November 2025) for alternating current motors; a $188.6 million Total Small Business set-aside delivery for shielding gaskets to DLA Land and Maritime (October 2025); a $1.25 million definitive contract from the Air Force's Wright Patterson AFB (September 2025) providing administrative support of financial and logistical services to the Israeli Foreign Liaison Office through March 2029; and a $83.0 million purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime (March 2026) for alternating current motors.

Customer concentration is acute and heavily leveraged toward the Defense Logistics Agency. The top five funding agencies account for 91 percent of awards: DLA Land and Maritime dominates with 4,070 awards worth $38.4 million in combined potential value; DLA Aviation follows with 952 awards valued at $9.8 million; DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment has 352 awards at $2 million; DLA Troop Support Hardware accounts for 247 awards at $510 thousand; and general DLA awards represent 220 awards at $1.6 million. A significant outlier appears in the rankings by potential value: the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Aeronautical Systems Center anchors two awards worth $950 million combined potential value, driven by the Wright Patterson AFB contract and a single large-dollar ASC award. This creates tension between the two rankings—DLA dominates by award count and establishes the baseline revenue stream, while the Air Force contract represents transformational dollar exposure.

Baker & Associates holds three active Indefinite Delivery Contracts: a $350,000 single-award Total Small Business IDC with DLA Land and Maritime (awarded April 2026, completion April 2027) for retainer shielding components; a $349,999.99 single-award Total Small Business IDC with DLA Aviation (awarded March 2026, completion March 2029) for gaskets, shielding, seals, fuel pumps, motors, insulators, and related components; and a $350,000 single-award IDC with DLA Land and Maritime (awarded October 2025, completion October 2026) for gaskets with no set-aside designation. These vehicles are the primary contracting mechanisms for the vendor's high-volume, low-dollar transactional work. The top five parent vehicles—all Blanket Purchase Agreements spanning Defense Logistics Agency activity—collectively account for 139 task orders and $10.4 million in potential value.

Activity has remained stable year over year: 248 awards in 2022, 450 in 2023, 419 in 2024, 414 in 2025, and 75 recorded in 2026 (through mid-April). The combined potential value across all 6,449 awards is $1.06 billion; obligated dollars total $92 million (9 percent of potential value), reflecting the high proportion of firm fixed-price purchase orders and IDC awards that have not yet been fully invoiced. Fifty-one awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $1.8 million, representing modest recompete exposure given the vendor's established position on core DLA vehicles.

Baker & Associates operates as a prime contractor on 100 percent of its recent awards, with minimal subcontract engagement: five sub-awards in the source data, including support services for naval aircraft modifications to DLA Land and Maritime under prime contractor Adams Communication & Engineering Technology, Inc. The vendor's footprint is overwhelmingly centered on DLA's mechanical and electrical components supply chain, with recurring NAICS categories including Gasket, Packing, and Sealing Device Manufacturing (409 awards); Other Electronic Component Manufacturing (552 awards); and Capacitor, Resistor, Coil, Transformer, and Other Inductor Manufacturing (324 awards). The vendor competes across full-and-open and set-aside vehicles with equal frequency, though Total Small Business set-asides represent a strategic focus given EDWOSB and WOSB certifications.

WORLDWIDE LOGISTICS SUPPORT, MILITARY PACKAGING, WAREHOUSING AND DISTRIBUTION, GOVERNMENT SUBCONTRACTOR FOR MANY STOCK CLASSES, VALUE ADDED RESELLER/SUPPLIER, LICENSED EXPORTER.