Birdon America Inc.

Birdon America Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business manufacturer headquartered in Denver, Colorado, operates as a prime contractor supplying industrial components, specialized maritime equipment, and bridge-erection boats to the Department of Defense and the U.S. Coast Guard. The company competes predominantly full-and-open across its prime footprint, with a subsidiary operation (Namjet LLC) and two operational locations: Denver, Colorado (primary manufacturing) and Bayou La Batre, Alabama (shipyard facility).

Birdon's capability portfolio centers on discrete industrial hardware—fasteners, brackets, marine fenders, gaskets, hoses, panels, and sealing devices—alongside larger-scale maritime and amphibious construction. The vendor manufactures under primary NAICS codes including Bolt, Nut, Screw, Rivet, and Washer Manufacturing (169 awards), Hardware Manufacturing (164 awards), and Rubber and Plastics Hoses and Belting Manufacturing (94 awards). Representative contract work includes a $1.029 billion single-award Coast Guard definitive contract for the RB-S Demo Boat (awarded January 2026, completing July 2026), delivery orders totaling $74.2 million for Webfoot-class Light Ice-capable (WLIC) vessel production and classing activities (awarded September 2025, completing September 2027), and a $25.7 million Army delivery order for 28 Bridge Erection Boats (awarded July 2025, completing September 2027). The vendor also received a $997,065 federal grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration (CFDA 20.814, Assistance to Small Shipyards program) to purchase and install an automated welding system at its Bayou La Batre shipyard facility, with performance through August 2026.

Customer concentration is extreme and skewed by vessel-construction awards to the Coast Guard. The top five funding agencies account for 97% of recent awards by count, but dollars tell a different story: the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard anchors $2 billion in combined potential value (22 awards), while the Department of the Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Combat Support and Combat Service Support holds $384.2 million across 24 awards. Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime, by contrast, places the vast majority of awards by transaction count (861 awards) but carries only $9.6 million in combined potential value—a sign of high-volume, low-dollar micro-purchases and small task orders. The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (321 awards, $1.3 million) and Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support divisions follow the same pattern. This split reveals two distinct business streams: discrete hardware supply to DLA on standing indefinite delivery contracts, and large-scale maritime construction for the Coast Guard and Army.

The vendor holds several named indefinite delivery contracts. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime has awarded multiple single-award IDCs—ceiling $250,000 to $350,000 each—for battery boxes, gaskets, mounting brackets, steering gear arms, vehicular panel housings, and access covers, collectively generating over $4 million in task orders. The Army's PEO CSCSS holds a $25.7 million delivery order (contract W56HZV19D0093) for Bridge Erection Boat procurement with 22 task orders and potential value of $242.3 million. The Coast Guard holds multiple large delivery orders against parent IDCs, including the $26.6 million WLIC #2 vessel outfitting order (70Z02319DAML00300) and the $84.8 million WLR 1801 Inland Buoy Tender outfitting order (70Z02323D93270001), both under Total Small Business set-asides.

Activity trajectory shows declining award volume: 221 awards in 2022, 203 in 2023, 217 in 2024, 162 in 2025, and 41 in the first half of 2026. However, potential value has grown sharply in recent years due to large Coast Guard and Army vessel awards. The recompete cliff is material: nine awards (combined potential value $361.6 million) face ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, including the two major WLIC vessel delivery orders completing September 2027 and March 2028.

SCI-reported service-contract activity is minimal and recent. The vendor invoiced $6.9 million across all fiscal years in the SCI dataset (FY2024 carrying the majority), with 15.9 FTEs recorded in FY2024 and 1.5 FTEs in FY2023. Median government-paid rates on federal service contracts run around $87.22 per hour, with senior labor pricing through $717.26 per hour, though substantial rate variance reflects the vendor's mixed portfolio of labor and hardware-focused tasks. SCI reports zero subcontractor hours across prime records, indicating the vendor builds its own delivery teams for service work and does not rely on sub-hours in the service-contract reporting subset.

Birdon operates as a near-pure prime contractor: 1,466 awards (100%) are prime; sub-award activity is negligible (one sub-grant sub-award with no associated contract sub-awards). The vendor neither subcontracts to other primes systematically nor maintains a named sub footprint; when the vendor appears in a sub role, it is not represented in this source. Federal grant work is limited to the single Maritime Administration shipyard modernization grant; the company does not actively pursue discretionary grant funding across other agencies.