Canton Gear Manufacturing & Designing Co., Inc.

Canton Gear Manufacturing & Designing Co., Inc., a small business manufacturer based in Canton, Ohio, supplies precision mechanical components—primarily spur gears, bevel gears, and power transmission equipment—to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor on full-and-open purchase orders and small-business-set-aside indefinite delivery contracts. The company operates as a for-profit manufacturer of goods with 100% prime award positioning and no subcontract activity in the source data.

Canton Gear's customer concentration is highly concentrated within DLA. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime division accounts for 30 awards carrying $634 thousand in combined potential value (98% of the vendor's total portfolio), with the DLA Aviation division placing 4 awards ($13 thousand) and the DLA Troop Support Hardware division placing 1 award ($1 thousand). The vendor serves only DLA across its federal footprint. Representative recent work includes a December 2025 purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime for $6,201 in spur gears (completion March 2026), a November 2025 order for $3,836 in spur gears (completion April 2026), and an October 2025 order from DLA Aviation for $3,453 in splined cranks (completion May 2026). Canton Gear also holds two single-award indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Land and Maritime, each valued at $250 thousand and designated as total small business set-asides, for spur gears under separate National Stock Numbers; one IDC completed in September 2024, and the other ran through August 2023.

Activity has oscillated across the past five years—three awards in 2021, nine in 2022, four in 2023, four in 2024, and eight in 2025—with recent momentum upward. Combined potential value across all 35 awards is $648 thousand, with only $148 thousand obligated to date (23% realization rate), reflecting the transactional nature of purchase-order procurement and the vendor's reliance on IDC vehicles to establish standing with DLA. Only one award faces recompete inside the next twenty-four months (a $14 thousand potential value), suggesting limited near-term recompete pressure. The vendor's capability portfolio is narrow and specialized: 28 awards fall under PSC Gears, Pulleys, Sprockets, and Transmission Chain, with secondary work in hardware and bolts. NAICS concentration shows mechanical power transmission equipment manufacturing as the dominant category (21 awards). Canton Gear's federal business model depends entirely on DLA inventory replenishment and equipment maintenance requirements for specialized mechanical components across military logistics operations, with no exposure to other defense agencies or civilian customers in the source data.