Baker Sheet Metal Corporation

Baker Sheet Metal Corporation, a Norfolk, Virginia-based small-business manufacturer, supplies precision sheet metal fabrication and miscellaneous metal assemblies to the U.S. Navy as both a prime contractor (26% of recent awards) and a subcontractor (74%). The company is a Subchapter S Corporation registered in SAM since 2001, competing predominantly full-and-open on small-business set-asides and purchase orders rather than on government-wide vehicles.

The Navy accounts for nearly all of Baker Sheet Metal's federal footprint. Naval Sea Systems Command dominates the customer base with 1,446 awards totaling $3.4 million in combined potential value, followed by the Navy's Atlantic Fleet Forces Command (96 awards, $2 million) and Naval Air Systems Command (9 awards, $1 million). Department of Homeland Security's Coast Guard rounds out the top tier with 24 awards valued at $289 thousand. The top five customers represent 95% of recent award count and 89% of combined potential value. Across these relationships, Baker Sheet Metal delivers stainless steel and carbon steel components for surface ships and submarines: life jacket lockers, workbench assemblies, ladders, lockers, storage units, doors, panels, and marine hardware. Recent representative prime awards include a $72 thousand Small Business Set-Aside purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command for 6,000 RSL Spring Clips for the USS Bataan (August 2025), a $14.1 thousand Total Small Business Set-Aside for stainless steel Type C life jacket lockers (May 2025), an $11.4 thousand workbench assembly (January 2025), a $3.95 thousand stainless steel funnel (March 2026), and a $1.36 thousand ladder (July 2025). Purchase order values are characteristically small, ranging from under $2 thousand to low five figures, with completion windows of three to six months.

The source data reveals extreme imbalance between potential value and obligated dollars — $8 million in combined potential value against $68.1 million obligated, signaling that Baker Sheet Metal operates largely on modifications, funding actions, and task orders against standing contracts rather than new awards. The Indefinite Delivery Contract N0018901D0257 anchors the parent-vehicle footprint with 15 task orders valued at $411 thousand. Award trajectory shows volatile growth: 15 awards in 2022, 227 in 2023, a spike to 976 in 2024, then a sharp drop to 57 in 2025 and one award year-to-date in 2026. NAICS concentration centers on Ship Building and Repairing (1,262 awards), Sheet Metal Work Manufacturing (92 awards), and Fabricated Structural Metal Manufacturing (53 awards), reflecting the Navy's heavy reliance on Baker Sheet Metal for vessel-mounted metal components.

Baker Sheet Metal serves as a subcontractor almost exclusively under Huntington Ingalls Inc., the dominant shipbuilder for Navy capital projects including CVN-class carrier construction (CVN 80/81) and refueling overhauls. The sub footprint includes hundreds of task orders on CVN-class detailed design and construction contracts, contributing engineered steel assemblies — locker units, workbenches, doors, ladders, ceiling tiles, drainage assemblies, stowage lockers, and structural support components — to the carrier build. Secondary sub relationships include work under Electric Boat Corporation on submarine construction (SSN 804 and SSBN 826), Scientific Research Corporation on carrier maintenance (CVN 74), General Dynamics Information Technology on ship and air C5ISR systems support, Epsilon Systems Solutions on hyperbaric systems support, and Delphinus Engineering on cabinet and locker supply. All sub work is routed through large Navy primes on capital ship construction and overhaul contracts, with no direct exposure to other defense industrial sectors or civilian agencies.

The recompete cliff is minimal — only one award with an ultimate completion date in the next twenty-four months, valued at $4 thousand. Baker Sheet Metal's federal revenue base is narrow, single-customer-dependent, and highly fragmented across numerous small task orders and purchase orders, creating operational complexity but also insulating it from large single-award terminations.