Bula Forge & Machine Inc.

Bula Forge & Machine Inc., doing business as B F, is a small business manufacturer of precision-forged and machined metal components and hardware for defense applications, competing as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) across full-and-open and Total Small Business set-aside categories. The Cleveland, Ohio-based Subchapter S corporation manufactures tow hooks, pintle assemblies, clevis rod ends, locking pins, cylinder brackets, and related vehicular hardware components used in military ground vehicles, vessels, and equipment maintenance operations.

The vendor's customer concentration is heavily concentrated with the Defense Logistics Agency. The top five funding agencies account for 96% of recent awards, with DLA Land and Maritime anchoring the portfolio at 96 awards valued at $9.7 million combined potential value—a 92% concentration by dollar magnitude. Three additional DLA sub-offices follow distantly: DLA Troop Support Hardware (3 awards, $272 thousand), DLA Aviation (10 awards, $267 thousand), and DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (2 awards, $21 thousand). The Department of the Army Materiel Command's TACOM Life Cycle Management Command accounts for 18 awards valued at $230 thousand. This single-agency dependency, combined with the transactional nature of DLA purchase orders and delivery orders, creates a narrow customer footprint.

Bula Forge holds positions on five active Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Land and Maritime, the primary vehicle infrastructure supporting its federal business. The top-producing vehicle, IDC SPM7MX12D0103, carries 22 task orders valued at $1.4 million combined potential value. IDC SPE7MX18D0007 holds 8 task orders at $253 thousand combined potential value. Three additional IDCs (SPE7L122D60YX, SPE7L421D60JP, and SPE7L121D60LE) carry smaller volumes—7, 4, and 3 task orders respectively—in the $20 thousand to $30 thousand range. Representative recent prime awards include a $150,750 Total Small Business purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime (April 2025) for pintle pins, a $79,625 firm fixed-price purchase order from DLA Aviation (July 2025) for nose uplock link components, a $42,750 Total Small Business purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime (January 2026) for clevis rod ends, and a $250,000 single-award indefinite delivery contract ceiling from DLA Land and Maritime awarded October 2024 covering tow pintle assemblies.

Activity has contracted sharply. The vendor executed 11 awards in 2022, 13 in 2023, then dropped to 3 in 2024 and 5 in 2025, with only 2 awards recorded through February 2026. This trajectory reflects both the small-order nature of the DLA transactional business and potential recompete risk: four awards with combined potential value of $137 thousand reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The vendor's award portfolio spans 136 total prime contracts across a forty-four-year relationship with DLA, with $10.5 million in combined potential value and $4.4 million in combined dollars obligated to date (42% of potential value). Work is performed at Bula Forge's Cleveland facility and delivered to CONUS and OCONUS DLA distribution and depot locations worldwide.

The vendor holds no subcontracting relationships and operates exclusively as a prime contractor on small-dollar, commodity-class defense hardware procurement. Its competitive posture splits between Total Small Business set-asides (approximately 40% of recent awards) and full-and-open competition, with no participation on government-wide acquisition contracts, agency-wide IDIQs, or GSA Schedules. Bula Forge's market position is functionally a dedicated DLA parts supplier rather than a diversified federal contractor, making it relevant primarily for competitive intelligence on DLA Land and Maritime's small-business sourcing patterns and for identification of vertical-integration opportunities in precision metal fabrication supply chains.

ISO 9001-2008 certified. Fully integrated forging and machining facility with value added services.1-60# forgings; precision machining; fabrications; welding; heat treating; protective finishes subassemblies and assemblies. Short to mid range runs