C E Niehoff & Co

C E Niehoff & Co, a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation headquartered in Evanston, Illinois, manufactures specialized electrical and mechanical components for defense applications as a prime contractor (93% of awards) and subcontractor, competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements with no recurring set-aside posture. The company specializes in engine-driven alternators, voltage regulators, generators, battery power supplies, engine regulators, alternating current generators, needle roller bearings, and related electrical assemblies that support military vehicle, aircraft, and maritime equipment maintenance and modernization across the Department of Defense.

C E Niehoff & Co's customer concentration is heavily weighted to Army and DLA procurement. The top five funding agencies account for 88% of awards by count and 93% by potential value, dominated by the Department of the Army Materiel Command Contracting Command Detroit Arsenal (231 awards, $418.6 million combined potential value) and the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (1,328 awards, $223.1 million combined potential value). The two rankings diverge sharply — DLA Land and Maritime places the vast majority of individual orders (many small delivery orders and purchase orders) while Army Contracting Command Warren anchors the largest dollar values through multi-million-dollar indefinite delivery contracts. Defense Logistics Agency Aviation rounds out the active set with 230 awards valued at $7.7 million. Recent prime work includes a $710.3 million delivery order with Army Contracting Command Warren for AC engine generators (NSN 2920-01-670-4331) under a $4.33 million IDV running through August 2028; a $1.96 million delivery order from Army Contracting Command Warren for 749 alternating current generators (NSN 6115-01-504-0680); a $781.2 million purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime for 190 AC generators; and numerous DLA task orders for voltage regulators, engine regulators, MTVR alternators, and battery power supplies, typically in the $10,000 to $100,000 range.

C E Niehoff & Co maintains a portfolio of single-award indefinite delivery contracts with Army Contracting Command Warren and DLA Land and Maritime, including a $4.33 million IDV for engine-driven AC generators (NSN 2920-01-670-4331) running through August 2028, a $1.47 million five-year IDIQ for engine accessory generators (NSN 2920-01-697-8473) extending through July 2030, and a $1.47 million IDIQ for generator engine accessories (NSN 2920-01-515-6764) through July 2028. DLA Land and Maritime also awarded multiple $250,000 to $350,000 small-business-set-aside single-award IDVs for engine regulators (NSNs 2920009007993 and 2920012264601) and housing components, each with one- to three-year terms. Activity has been steady — 98 awards in 2022 growing to 155 in 2024, declining to 122 in 2025 and 27 year-to-date in 2026 — with only $4.4 million in combined potential value from awards completing in the next twenty-four months, representing modest recompete exposure.

In its subcontractor role, C E Niehoff & Co supplies electrical components and assemblies to Oshkosh Defense on Family of Heavy Tactical Vehicles (FHTV) requirements contracts for HEMTT variants, M984A4 wreckers, M1075A2 platform trucks, M983A4 tractors, and M1148A1P2 trucks for Israel Defense Forces and Ukraine support, as well as on diesel engine electrical systems and Remotely Operated Ground Unit Expeditionary - Fires (ROGUE-FIRES) carrier production. The company also supplies material and parts to BAE Systems Land & Armaments on Bradley A4 follow-on production and Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) early order material efforts, and provides harness and engineering support to DCS Corporation on Combat Capabilities Development Command Ground Vehicle Systems Center technical services. The subcontract portfolio centers on delivering electrical harnesses, generators, and alternator systems that integrate into heavy-duty tactical vehicle platforms.

C E Niehoff & Co operates with a subsidiary, Goodman Ball, Inc., which maintains its own federal contracting presence. The parent company's core capability framing rests on motor vehicle electrical and electronic equipment manufacturing (NAICS 336320) and motor vehicle gasoline engine parts manufacturing (NAICS 336312), with the top product service code category being Engine Electrical System Components, Nonaircraft (1,068 awards). The company has been a registered federal contractor since 2001 and serves as both a prime supplier and a subcontractor to major defense original equipment manufacturers including Oshkosh Defense, BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin, and AM General, positioning it as a source-controlled supplier within the military-industrial base for precision electrical components essential to sustaining military equipment readiness across multiple platforms and branches of the armed services. Place of performance spans Evanston, Illinois (headquarters and primary manufacturing), Roselle, Illinois, and Elgin, Illinois.

Alternators, Regulators and other power management equipment.