BEI Precision Systems & Space Company, Inc.

BEI Precision Systems & Space Company, Inc., a Maumelle, Arkansas–based manufacturer of precision optical encoders, accelerometers, and motion control components, operates as a prime contractor (95% of recent awards) supplying defense and civilian federal agencies on a full-and-open, non-set-aside basis. BEI is a subsidiary of Pssc Holding CO., a foreign-owned parent company. The vendor competes exclusively outside set-aside categories across its prime footprint, with one Total Small Business exception in 2021.

BEI's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward defense logistics and aviation: the top five funding agencies account for 75% of recent awards, dominated by the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (92 awards, $43.7 million combined potential value), the Naval Supply Systems Command (75 awards, $7.3 million), and the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Headquarters (60 awards, $8.8 million). While DLA Aviation leads both by volume and dollars, the Army Materiel Command Communications Electronics Command drives significant potential value through fewer, larger awards ($12.5 million across 6 awards), signaling a shift toward higher-dollar defense modernization work. The distribution across customer agencies is broad — BEI serves 28 distinct federal agencies — but the top five account for 86% of combined potential value.

BEI's capability portfolio centers on encoders, accelerometers, and specialized sensors for aviation, radar, and defense systems. Representative prime work includes a $2.8 million delivery order from DLA Aviation for accelerometer components (awarded November 2025, completion April 2028) against an existing indefinite delivery contract; a $1.4 million seed task order from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for 34 optical encoders (awarded June 2025) under a $5 million optical encoder IDIQ; a $3.7 million Federal Aviation Administration indefinite delivery contract for ASR-11 radar encoder units supporting 157 National Airspace System radar sites (awarded March 2024, running through March 2027); and a $2 million Army Contracting Command definitive contract for shaft angle encoders for the M1A2 family of vehicles (awarded August 2024, completion December 2025). BEI also holds a $5.89 million single-award accelerometer indefinite delivery contract with DLA Aviation (awarded November 2025, completion November 2027).

Vehicle position reflects BEI's reliance on agency-specific indefinite delivery contracts rather than government-wide acquisition vehicles. The top five parent vehicles are all single- or multiple-award IDIQs: the DLA Aviation indefinite delivery contract 6973GH18D00036 carries 29 task orders worth $1.2 million combined; DLA Aviation contract 6973GH24D00039 carries 18 task orders worth $1 million; the Naval Supply Systems Command contract N0010409GA110 carries 15 task orders worth $134 thousand; Army contract SPE4A616D6857 carries 15 task orders worth $3.8 million; and Army contract SPE4A621DC106 carries 13 task orders worth $4.9 million. BEI does not appear on major government-wide vehicles such as GWAC or GSA Schedule positions in the award data.

Activity trajectory shows strong growth through 2024, then a recent slowdown: awards climbed from 14 in 2022 to 40 in 2024, but dropped to 35 in 2025 and only 5 in the first quarter of 2026. Recompete exposure is modest — three awards worth $5.1 million combined are scheduled to complete within the next twenty-four months — suggesting limited near-term cliff risk relative to the vendor's $94.6 million total portfolio. Combined dollars obligated stand at $68.4 million, or 72% of combined potential value, indicating consistent task-order execution against the large DLA and Army IDIQs.

BEI maintains a subcontractor role (5% of awards) on major defense prime platforms. Recent sub work includes encoders supplied to Raytheon on APY-10 radar systems and P-8A Lot 13 contracts (September 2025); accelerometer components supplied to Bell Textron for Nigerian Foreign Military Sales AH-1Z helicopters (April 2025); optical encoders to BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services for the Instrumentation Range Support Program III (May and October 2024); and engineering support to L3Harris Technologies on the GEOXO Imager instrument implementation (January and March 2025). Earlier subcontract work includes structural components and support for UH-60V programs under Defense Systems And Solutions (January 2023) and MIT Lincoln Laboratory research and development efforts through intermediaries including Marvin Engineering and Honeywell. Subcontract scope centers on precision encoder and accelerometer components for radar, helicopter fire-control systems, and space-based optical instruments.

BEI's capability framing across the award portfolio reflects specialization in motion-control and sensing instrumentation: top NAICS categories are Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (126 awards), Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables (47 awards), and Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (24 awards). Top PSCs include Synchros and Resolvers (53 awards), Liquid and Gas Flow, Liquid Level, and Mechanical Motion Measuring Instruments (53 awards), and Electronic Countermeasures and Counter-Countermeasures Equipment (40 awards). This concentration signals a vendor narrowly focused on precision sensor and motion-control components, not a broad-based aerospace or defense systems integrator. The portfolio shows no evidence of IT services, professional services, staffing, or non-hardware offerings.