Bay Machine Inc.

Bay Machine Inc., a small business manufacturer based in Calumet, Michigan, manufactures brake shoes, hose assemblies, semitrailer retention parts, and related vehicular components for the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor on single-award indefinite delivery contracts and firm fixed-price delivery orders and purchase orders. The vendor competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements without set-aside designation, though it holds one Total Small Business IDC alongside its full-and-open vehicle.

Bay Machine's customer concentration is extreme and single-sourced: the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime accounts for 74 of 78 total awards and $3.3 million of the $3.3 million combined potential value across the vendor's footprint. The remaining four awards ($420 thousand combined) are split across DLA Aviation, DLA Troop Support Hardware, and Army Materiel Command TACOM Life Cycle Management Command. Representative prime work includes a $35,700 firm fixed-price delivery order for brake shoes awarded March 21, 2022; a $34,450 delivery order for semitrailer retention parts awarded April 11, 2024; and a $29,400 brake shoe delivery order awarded December 1, 2022. All work is performed at Bay Machine's Calumet facility with distribution to DLA depots in CONUS and OCONUS locations.

Bay Machine holds six single-award IDCs with DLA Land and Maritime, each capped at $250,000. The most active vehicles are Indefinite Delivery Contract SPE7L324D61VS (8 task orders, $125 thousand combined potential value), SPE7L420D61AZ (3 task orders, $98 thousand), SPE7L122D61EK (3 task orders, $66 thousand), SPE7L121D60YV (3 task orders, $55 thousand), and SPE7L123D61MV (2 task orders, $59 thousand). Two of the five active IDC vehicles carry Total Small Business set-asides; the remainder are full-and-open. Recent IDC awards include a June 4, 2025 Total Small Business single-award IDC for leg and semitrailer retention parts (ceiling $250,000, ultimate completion June 4, 2026) and a May 14, 2025 full-and-open single-award IDC for brake shoes (ceiling $250,000, ultimate completion May 14, 2026).

Activity accelerated sharply from 2022 to 2024 (seven awards in 2022, eighteen in 2024) but slowed to eight awards in 2025 and one in the first quarter of 2026, suggesting either seasonal ordering patterns or a contracting portfolio facing near-term headwind. The vendor earned one subcontract role as a manufacturing sub to HII Mission Technologies Corp on a $2 thousand Army Combat Capabilities Development Command ground vehicle systems contract for friction stir welding anvil and clamps in May 2024.