Bethel Industries Inc.

Bethel Industries Inc., a women-owned and minority-owned (Asian-Pacific American) small business manufacturer headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, manufactures ballistic protective equipment, body armor systems, and military apparel for the federal government as a prime contractor. The vendor competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements; recent awards show no set-aside designations on the largest delivery orders, though several underlying indefinite-delivery vehicles carry total small business set-asides. Bethel holds over $2.69 billion in combined potential value across 412 prime awards, including six major indefinite-delivery contracts, and generates roughly $664.4 million in obligated dollars (25% of potential value), reflecting a mature, high-volume supplier relationship with the Department of Defense.

Bethel's core capability is manufacturing soldier and law enforcement protective systems, with concrete deliverables spanning rifle-resistant and ceramic ballistic plates, modular scalable vest systems, ballistic combat shirts, carrier assemblies, extreme cold weather apparel, and shields in pistol-rated and rifle-rated configurations. Representative work includes a $508.1 million multiple-award IDIQ with Department of the Army Program Executive Office Soldier for Soldier Protection System Torso Extremity Protection Ballistic Combat Shirts (awarded April 11, 2024, running through April 10, 2033), under which Bethel delivered a $11.375 million ballistic combat shirt order in September 2025; a $32.16 million single-award indefinite-delivery contract with Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support for extreme cold weather trousers (awarded May 26, 2022, generating approximately $28.4 million in delivery orders through November 2025); and a $148.1 million single-award IDIQ with DLA Troop Support for ballistic assembly components (awarded April 9, 2025, with three carrier assembly orders totaling approximately $28 million issued by September 2025). Bethel's historical portfolio extends back to 2005 and includes a $17.6 million Department of Defense cooperative agreement for COVID-19 response body armor manufacturing.

Customer concentration is extreme: 99 percent of awards come from five agencies, with two customers anchoring the portfolio. Department of the Army PEO Soldier leads by potential value at $1.61 billion across 19 awards; Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Clothing and Textiles leads by award count at 366 awards worth $948.7 million combined potential value. The Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation Headquarters Division and Drug Enforcement Administration account for $17.5 million combined (13 and 11 awards respectively), primarily for ballistic shields and tactical equipment in smaller delivery orders. The portfolio reveals a split strategy: DLA drives volume and dollars through recurring delivery orders on a $32.16 million extreme cold weather contract and several hundred carrier assembly and trouser orders; PEO Soldier anchors the largest IDIQs ($508 million and $813.5 million for Modular Scalable Vest programs) and issues fewer but substantially larger orders.

Bethel's vehicle position rests on six prime indefinite-delivery contracts: the $508.1 million PEO Soldier ballistic combat shirt IDIQ; a $813.5 million multiple-award contract for Modular Scalable Vest systems (generating over $89 million in delivery orders to date); a $148.1 million single-award DLA Troop Support IDIQ for ballistic assembly components; a $32.16 million single-award DLA Troop Support IDIQ for extreme cold weather trousers (expired December 4, 2025); a $9 million single-award FBI indefinite-delivery contract for pistol-rated and rifle-rated shields (awarded February 1, 2024, running through January 31, 2029); a $4 million single-award FBI indefinite-delivery contract for rifle-rated large-size shields without viewports (awarded April 1, 2024, running through March 31, 2029); and a $2 million single-award FBI contract for rifle-resistant plates stand-alone (awarded May 1, 2023, running through April 30, 2028). The top five parent vehicles account for approximately 280 task orders and $237.5 million in combined potential value, with the DLA SPM1C107D1502 contract alone generating 111 task orders worth $56.2 million.

Activity has grown modestly over the past five years, from 7 awards in 2022 to a peak of 18 in 2025, with 9 awards in 2026 year-to-date. Within the next twenty-four months, 12 awards totaling $40.4 million reach ultimate completion date and face recompete exposure, including the expired $32.16 million DLA extreme cold weather trousers contract and several individual delivery orders under the Modular Scalable Vest and ballistic combat shirt IDIQs. Bethel operates as a prime on virtually all awards (100 percent prime, less than 1 percent sub); two subcontract engagements appear in the source — work with Booz Allen Hamilton on soldier protection and ballistic research and development as a cut-and-sew manufacturer (awards in June and September 2025) — representing minimal sub exposure.

Bethel's NAICS footprint is dominated by All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing (162 awards) and Apparel Accessories and Other Apparel Manufacturing (150 awards), reflecting the mix of ballistic plates, armor systems, and protective textiles. PSC coding tracks primarily to Clothing, Special Purpose (256 awards) and Armor, Personal (41 awards), with secondary coverage in men's and women's outerwear categories. All work is performed at Bethel's Jersey City facility, with all delivery orders structured as firm fixed-price arrangements.

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.