Bethel Industries Inc.

Bethel Industries Inc., headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, manufactures military uniforms, ballistic protective equipment, and soldier protection systems as a prime contractor to the Department of Defense and federal law enforcement agencies. Bethel is an SBA-certified women-owned small business and minority-owned (Asian-Pacific American) manufacturer of goods, competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements rather than set-aside vehicles, though it holds several total small business set-aside IDIQs with the FBI.

Bethel's capability portfolio centers on soldier protection systems, ballistic armor, and military apparel. The vendor holds a $508.1 million multiple-award IDIQ with the Department of the Army Program Executive Office Soldier for Soldier Protection System Torso Extremity Protection Ballistic Combat Shirts, under which it received an $11.4 million delivery order in September 2025 for ballistic combat shirts (Generation II). A $148.1 million single-award IDIQ with Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Clothing and Textiles, awarded April 2025, procures ballistic carrier assembly components; recent delivery orders include $10.2 million (June 2025) and $9 million (August 2025) awards. Bethel also holds a $32.2 million total small business set-aside IDIQ with DLA Troop Support for extreme cold weather trousers (awarded May 2022, completion December 2025), which has generated $28.4 million in delivery orders through November 2025. Additional single-award FBI IDIQs cover rifle-rated shields and ballistic plates under total small business set-asides, with ceilings of $9 million (pistol-rated and rifle-rated compact shields) and $2 million (rifle-resistant stand-alone plates), both running through early 2029.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward Army soldier-protection programs and DLA uniform procurement. The Department of the Army PEO Soldier anchors $1.61 billion (60% of combined potential value) across 19 awards; Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Clothing and Textiles holds $948.7 million (35%) across 366 delivery orders under long-standing extreme cold weather and apparel contracts. The Federal Bureau of Investigation contributes $16.2 million across 14 awards for ballistic shields, and the Drug Enforcement Administration places orders for ballistic plates and protective equipment totaling $1.7 million across 14 awards. The concentration reflects Bethel's specialization: 256 awards carry PSC 8405 (Clothing, Special Purpose), 45 carry PSC 8465 (Armor, Personal), and NAICS codes cluster around apparel contracting (162 awards under All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing, 154 under Apparel Accessories and Other Apparel Manufacturing, 35 under Cut and Sew Apparel Contractors).

Vehicle position across top parent IDICs reflects a delivery-order-heavy footprint. Five IDICs generate most activity: Indefinite Delivery Contract SPM1C107D1502 carries 111 task orders ($56.2 million combined potential value), SPM1C113D1015 carries 68 task orders ($62.6 million), SPM1C108D1028 carries 49 task orders ($68.1 million), SPE1C117D1092 carries 32 task orders ($30.4 million), and SPM10005D0418 carries 20 task orders ($20.2 million). These vehicles are primarily DLA Troop Support and Army PEO Soldier contracts for recurring apparel and protective-systems orders.

Activity accelerated from 2023 to 2025 — 8 awards in 2023 to 18 in 2025 — then moderated to 12 in 2026 with 1 award in early 2027. Eight awards (combined potential value $20.4 million) face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure centered on the December 2025 expiration of the extreme cold weather trousers IDIQ and rolling completions of ballistic combat shirt and carrier assembly delivery orders.

Bethel subcontracts minimally; the vendor shows two subcontract awards under Booz Allen Hamilton in 2025 for cut-and-sew manufacturing and ballistic research support, representing less than 1% of its footprint. The prime posture is dominant — 416 of 418 total awards are prime contracts or IDICs.

Recent activity has skewed toward large modular scalable vest and ballistic combat shirt delivery orders under Army PEO Soldier vehicles ($27.6 million MSV order in July 2023, $26.6 million MSV order in May 2023, $23.2 million MSV order in July 2024, $18.2 million MSV order in August 2024) alongside steady DLA Troop Support apparel replenishment orders. Combined potential value across all awards stands at $2.69 billion, with $664.9 million obligated (25% utilization), indicating substantial unexercised ceiling authority across active IDICs running through 2033.

subcontracting cut & sew operation for others in the textile industry. We can produce up to 6,000 lined jackets and 2,000 pants per week.