Birdon America Inc.

Birdon America Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Denver, Colorado, manufactures discrete industrial hardware, marine fenders, gaskets, hoses, and larger-scale maritime vessels as a prime contractor to the Department of Defense, U.S. Coast Guard, and Department of the Army. The company operates primary manufacturing in Denver and a shipyard facility in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, and competes full-and-open across its federal footprint without relying on set-aside vehicles for most work, though several recent large-dollar Coast Guard vessel awards carry Total Small Business set-aside designations.

Birdon's federal work splits sharply between high-volume transactional hardware procurement and lower-volume, high-value maritime construction. The transactional work—roughly 1,440 awards across the past five fiscal years—consists almost entirely of discrete components: bolts, nuts, screws, washers, gaskets, hose assemblies, brackets, cable assemblies, relays, pumps, and access covers ordered individually by the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime and Aviation divisions at values typically under $30,000. Representative hardware awards include a $29,791 purchase order for 36 marine fenders from DLA Land and Maritime in September 2025 and a $23,163 delivery order for gaskets from DLA Land and Maritime in August 2025. The higher-value maritime work centers on U.S. Coast Guard vessel construction. A $75.4 million delivery order in September 2025 funded production and outfitting of Webfoot-class Light Ice-capable vessels; an $85.5 million delivery order in June 2025 funded production and outfitting of three Inland Buoy Tender vessels; and a $39.1 million delivery order in June 2025 funded additional WLIC vessel production and classing. The Army awarded a $25.7 million delivery order in July 2025 for procurement of 28 Bridge Erection Boats under parent IDIQ W56HZV19D0093 (ceiling $242.3 million, 22 task orders). Combined, the Coast Guard holds over $2 billion in potential value across 23 awards; the Army's PEO CSCSS holds $384.2 million across 24 awards. The concentrated customer base reflects customer concentration: the top five funding agencies account for 97% of awards, with DLA Land and Maritime dominating by award count (877 awards, $9.7 million combined potential value) and the Coast Guard dominating by dollar value ($2.03 billion across 23 awards).

Activity has declined modestly year over year—221 awards in 2022 through 162 in 2025, with only 65 awards recorded in 2026 to date—reflecting the transition of award volume from transactional hardware purchases to larger vessel-construction delivery orders. Eight awards carrying combined potential value of $288.7 million reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore face recompete exposure.

Birdon operates as a 100% prime contractor across its footprint, with no material subcontract activity. Across SCI-reportable federal service contracts (a strict subset covering invoiced service work above $150,000 threshold), the vendor invoiced $8.5 million over fiscal years 2022–2025, delivered by a trajectory growing from 1.5 FTEs in FY2023 to 28.5 FTEs in FY2025. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts run a median of $87.22 per hour, with senior labor pricing reaching $717.26 per hour at the 90th percentile. The vendor self-performs all SCI-reported hours without named subcontractor engagement.

Birdon's parent vehicle position includes three DLA Land and Maritime single-award indefinite delivery contracts (each $250,000 to $350,000 ceiling) for battery boxes, gaskets, mounting brackets, and steering gear arms, collectively generating over $4 million in cumulative task orders; a Naval Sea Systems Command Other Transaction IDV ($15 million ceiling, awarded May 2026) for on-water test event activities; and multiple parent IDIQs anchoring large vessel-construction delivery orders from the Army and Coast Guard. The company also received a $997,065 federal grant from the Department of Transportation Maritime Administration (Assistance to Small Shipyards program, CFDA 20.814, August 2024–August 2026) to purchase and install an automated welding system at its Bayou La Batre shipyard.

The corporate structure includes a single named subsidiary, Namjet LLC, a for-profit limited liability company and manufacturer of goods, though the source does not detail its operational role or capability footprint relative to the parent.