Carbide Tools For Industry, Inc.

Carbide Tools For Industry, Inc., doing business as Abrasives & Tools, is a Santa Ana, California-based manufacturer of precision industrial cutting tools and abrasives that operates as a prime contractor exclusively to the Defense Logistics Agency across rotary files, milling end cutters, and abrasive wheels. The company is a self-certified small disadvantaged business and veteran-owned enterprise that competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements, though it holds four total small business set-aside indefinite delivery contracts valued at $250,000 each with DLA Land and Maritime.

Carbide Tools For Industry's federal footprint spans 365 awards concentrated entirely within the Defense Logistics Agency ecosystem. The top two customer divisions account for 100% of recent activity: DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (303 awards, $931 thousand combined potential value) and DLA Land and Maritime (57 awards, $1.5 million combined potential value). The company's capability portfolio is narrow and specialized — rotary files dominate the work (343 awards under PSC Cutting Tools For Machine Tools), complemented by milling end cutters and abrasive wheels (flap and standard). Representative awards include a $13,005 total small business set-aside purchase order for milling cutters (March 2024), a $10,980.58 firm fixed-price purchase order for rotary files (March 2025), and a $6,419.60 purchase order for milling cutters (March 2024). The majority of awards are small firm fixed-price purchase orders ranging from under $200 to roughly $13,000, with typical completion timeframes of one to three months and performance consistently at the Santa Ana manufacturing facility.

Activity has grown significantly over the past five years — from 27 awards in 2022 to 57 in 2024, then moderating to 50 in 2025. The combined potential value across all 365 awards sits at $2.5 million, with $1.2 million (46%) obligated to date. Carbide Tools For Industry operates three active indefinite delivery contracts under DLA Land and Maritime: one ($250,000 total small business set-aside) established in October 2021 with a completion date of October 2022, which has already generated two delivery orders worth $176 and $673 respectively. The IDC vehicle structure enables recurring orders for specific National Stock Numbers of rotary files on an as-needed basis to support military depot replenishment across domestic and overseas installations.

The vendor has registered in SAM.gov since 2002 and has maintained consistent supplier status with DLA across multiple product categories. All work is performed in-house at the Santa Ana facility; there are no identified subcontractors in the source data, and the vendor operates purely as a prime contractor with no sub-award history. Category concentration is stark — 363 of 365 awards fall under NAICS Cutting Tool and Machine Tool Accessory Manufacturing, with 343 awards traceable to PSC Cutting Tools For Machine Tools, reinforcing the vendor's role as a specialized, high-volume supplier of repetitive, low-to-mid-value industrial machining consumables to sustain DoD equipment readiness and military supply chain operations.