Benner Metals Corp

Benner Metals Corp, a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in Fullerton, California, manufactures and supplies structural and specialty metal products to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor across 182 awards, competing in open market procurements without SBA set-aside designations on most work. The company does not hold a federal contract vehicle, though it operates as a prime under multiple single-award and multiple-award blanket purchase agreements and indefinite delivery contracts held by defense agencies.

Benner Metals specializes in structural steel angles, metal bars, plates, sheets, channels, and metallic tubes, as well as specialty alloys including aluminum, titanium, 4340 alloy steel, and stainless steel. Recent representative work includes a $299,780 delivery order from the Naval Air Warfare Center (awarded January 27, 2026) for various types of metals in multiple alloys and heat-treat levels; a $65,490 delivery order (November 13, 2024) for a 36-inch diameter 6061 aluminum ingot from the Naval Air Warfare Center; and a $214,004 delivery order (August 23, 2024) from the Naval Air Warfare Center for a range of structural and specialty metals supporting aircraft maintenance and weapons system development. The company also fulfills smaller transactional purchase orders from the Defense Logistics Agency for structural angles, metal bars, and tubes, typically valued in the $1,000 to $15,000 range.

Customer concentration is driven by Naval Air Warfare Center dominance: across 38 awards, NAWC and its parent Naval Air Systems Command account for $29 million of the combined potential value — approximately 53% of Benner Metals' total federal portfolio. The Defense Logistics Agency (spanning multiple sub-offices) represents the next tier, with 139 awards across DLA, DLA Land and Maritime, and DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment carrying a combined potential value of $1.426 million. The company also serves the Department of the Air Force Ogden Air Logistics Complex ($9 million blanket purchase agreement) and the Department of the Army Materiel Command ($7.5 million each to TACOM Life Cycle Management Command and Army Research Development and Engineering Command). These top five customers account for 98% of awards and 99% of combined potential value.

Benner Metals holds six active blanket purchase agreements and indefinite delivery contracts anchoring its defense business. The largest vehicle is a $9 million single-award blanket purchase agreement with the Naval Air Warfare Center (awarded February 21, 2023, completion March 13, 2028) for miscellaneous metals and metal fabrication services, which has generated 21 delivery orders. A $9 million multiple-award blanket purchase agreement with the Ogden Air Logistics Complex (awarded July 30, 2023, completion July 29, 2028) procures round raw stock metals for repair and manufacture of custom aircraft components on A-10, B-1B, B-2, B-52, C-5, F-15, F-16, and T-38 landing gear; a $7.5 million multiple-award blanket purchase agreement with Army Materiel Command (awarded July 18, 2023, completion July 7, 2028) covers AC metal products; and a $7.5 million multiple-award blanket purchase agreement with TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (awarded March 25, 2022, completion March 24, 2027) supports the Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center with various types of steel. Smaller vehicles include two recent single-award indefinite delivery contracts with Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime, each valued at $250,000 (awarded June 26, 2025 and July 21, 2025 respectively) for metallic tubes, and a third DLA Land and Maritime single-award indefinite delivery contract for $350,000 (awarded March 26, 2026) for metal bars under a Total Small Business set-aside — marking Benner Metals' only set-aside footprint in recent awards.

Award activity has grown year over year, rising from 32 awards in 2022 to 47 in 2025, though only 6 awards appear in 2026 year-to-date data as of the March 2026 source cutoff. The recompete cliff shows minimal exposure: only 2 awards with combined potential value of $4,000 complete within the next twenty-four months. The company's NAICS concentration is heavy in metal manufacturing: Iron and Steel Forging dominates with 96 awards, followed by Nonferrous Metal Rolling, Drawing, and Extruding (38 awards) and Iron and Steel Mills and Ferroalloy Manufacturing (25 awards). By product service code, the portfolio splits between Structural Shapes (61 awards), Bars and Rods (60 awards), and Structural Shapes in Nonferrous Base Metal (28 awards), reflecting a commodity-metals supply business serving aircraft maintenance, component repair, and weapons system fabrication across the defense industrial base.