Bartmex Precision Machining

Bartmex Precision Machining, a woman-owned sole proprietorship based in Santa Clara, California, manufactures precision-engineered machined components and assemblies for defense platforms and military systems as a prime contractor exclusively to the Defense Logistics Agency across multiple divisions.

The vendor holds over 1,200 prime purchase orders and definitive contracts spanning more than two decades of continuous federal contracting since its System for Award Management registration in December 2002. Bartmex operates almost entirely outside set-aside vehicles — approximately 75 to 80 percent of its awards carry no set-aside designation — though roughly 20 to 25 percent are designated as Total Small Business set-asides. Recent representative awards include a $636,925.52 firm fixed-price definitive contract from TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (Army Materiel Command) in September 2025 for support panels for mine dispensers, a $92,220 Total Small Business purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime in September 2025 for 1,590 accessory rail assemblies (ordnance accessories under NAICS 332994), and a $49,120 Total Small Business purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime in July 2025 for travel lock support units.

Customer concentration is extreme and singular: DLA accounts for 99 percent of all awards by count. The top ranking by award count shows DLA Land and Maritime leading with 825 awards and $8.6 million combined potential value, followed by DLA Aviation with 271 awards and $1.8 million, DLA Troop Support Hardware with 77 awards and $1.3 million, and DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment with 56 awards and $388 thousand. The potential-value ranking tracks the award-count ranking closely, with the Army's TACOM Life Cycle Management Command placing a distant second by dollars at $670 thousand across two awards. This concentration reflects a direct-buy supply relationship: Bartmex provides discrete mechanical components — ammunition adapters, brackets, valve assemblies, bearing components, recoil fluid systems, structural supports, travel locks, and aircraft floor panels — to DLA Land and Maritime and DLA Aviation on short-duration purchase orders, typically 90 to 200 days to completion.

The vendor holds seats on three Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Land and Maritime (SP040705D5280, SP075004D5A90, and SPM40705D5280), though these vehicles show minimal task-order activity in the source data. Activity has been uneven: eight awards in 2022, fourteen in 2023, a sharp drop to two in 2024, and recovery to twenty-two in 2025. Only two awards worth a combined $31 thousand face completion and potential recompete inside the next twenty-four months, leaving minimal near-term recompete exposure.

Bartmex's capability portfolio, grounded in the award record, centers on precision metal fabrication across small arms ordnance accessories (367 awards under NAICS 332994), aircraft structural components (161 awards under aircraft parts manufacturing), and hardware manufacturing (81 awards). The top PSC codes — Guns Through 30mm (190 awards) and Miscellaneous Power Transmission Equipment (97 awards) — reflect the breadth of defense ground-vehicle and aviation platforms served. All work is performed at the Santa Clara facility; Bartmex is not positioned as a subcontractor and holds zero sub-awards. The business model is a captive supplier to DLA's distribution network, delivering high-volume, low-to-mid-dollar precision components on firm fixed-price terms.