C & H Machine Inc.

C & H Machine Inc., doing business as Support Equipment Inc., is a precision machining manufacturer based in Escondido, California, that supplies fluid filters, pump components, desiccant chambers, and related mechanical equipment to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on purchase orders and indefinite delivery vehicles. The vendor operates as a for-profit manufacturer without SBA set-aside designations on its prime footprint, though it holds a Total Small Business set-aside designation on at least one Defense Logistics Agency award.

The vendor's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime division, which accounts for 55 awards and $433 thousand in combined potential value — 89% of the vendor's award count and representing the dominant customer across the DLA ecosystem. The Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command follows distantly with six awards and $262 thousand. The vendor's top award categories by NAICS are Pump and Pumping Equipment Manufacturing (31 awards), All Other Miscellaneous General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing (12 awards), and Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (5 awards), with PSC distribution centered on Power and Hand Pumps (45 awards) and Centrifugals, Separators, and Pressure and Vacuum Filters (15 awards). Representative prime work includes a $17.76 thousand Total Small Business purchase order from DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment for desiccant chambers (awarded June 2023, completed December 2023), a $6.812 thousand firm fixed-price order from DLA Land and Maritime for fluid filters (awarded May 2023, completed August 2023), and a $6.786 thousand fluid filter order from DLA Land and Maritime (awarded July 2024, completed September 2024).

The vendor maintains positions on five DLA indefinite delivery contracts, with the highest activity on IDC SPM7M107D5L27 (five task orders, $78 thousand combined potential value) and SPM7M308D7016 (four task orders, $48 thousand). Recent activity has been sparse and episodic — one award in 2021, two in 2023, one in 2024, four in 2025, and two in 2026 — with $1.5 million in combined potential value across eighty total awards and $1.3 million obligated. In its subcontractor role, C & H Machine Inc. supplies precision-machined housings and bulkhead components to L3Harris Nexgen Communications (three sub awards in 2025 for Navy prototype electric power system units) and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (one sub award in December 2025 for aircraft pylon components and one grant sub-award in March 2026 under General Atomics for metals and alloys work). Performance location is Escondido, California across the prime and sub footprint.

manufacture aerospace, medical, prototype, machined parts