Central Wire Industries LLC

Central Wire Industries LLC, doing business as Strand Core, is a domestic manufacturer of wire rope, wire strand, and related industrial products that operates as a prime contractor supplying rope and wire materials to the Defense Logistics Agency on full-and-open competitive delivery orders and purchase orders, with no set-aside posture across its recent federal footprint.

Central Wire Industries is a for-profit foreign-owned corporate entity headquartered in Milton, Florida, with over 40 years of industry experience in wire and rope manufacturing. The company operates entirely as a prime contractor — 103 recent awards, 100% prime, zero subcontract work — and competes exclusively in full-and-open competitions; no set-aside designations appear across the portfolio except for a single $250,000 Total Small Business IDC awarded by DLA Aviation in March 2024. The vendor's capability set is narrowly focused on rope and wire supply: the portfolio is dominated by NAICS 334413 (Other Fabricated Wire Product Manufacturing, 100 of 103 awards) and PSC code for Chain and Wire Rope (102 awards). Representative recent work includes a $4,591.30 delivery order from DLA Aviation in January 2026 for wire rope products under an IDC, a $41,448 Total Small Business set-aside purchase order in February 2025 for rope and wire, a $27,936 firm fixed-price delivery order in May 2022, and a $29,876 delivery order in April 2022, all performed at the Milton, Florida facility.

Customer concentration is extreme: Defense Logistics Agency Aviation accounts for 101 of 103 awards ($3.1 million combined potential value, 99% of the portfolio by count), with DLA Land and Maritime holding the remaining 2 awards ($355 thousand). The two rankings are identical — no tension between volume and dollars — because Central Wire Industries serves a single customer base at a single price point. The vendor holds five active Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Aviation: a $250,000 non-set-aside IDC awarded April 10, 2024 running through April 2029 for rope and wire; a $250,000 Total Small Business set-aside IDC awarded March 29, 2024 through March 2029 for wire strand; an older $250,000 IDC (SPE4A619D6818) with 12 task orders totaling $311 thousand; and a recent $350,000 single-award IDC awarded November 7, 2025 by DLA Land and Maritime running through November 2026. The five named IDCs anchor the contract vehicle position; the top three parent vehicles by task-order count are older DLA Aviation IDCs with $70 thousand, $311 thousand, and $49 thousand in combined task-order value.

Activity has declined sharply: 11 awards in 2022, 7 in 2023, 10 in 2024, 5 in 2025, and 1 in 2026 year-to-date. Combined potential value across all 103 awards stands at $3.5 million, with $1 million obligated (29% of potential). The recompete cliff is not materially significant given the vendor's sole-customer dependence on DLA Aviation — the commercial risk is customer retention at DLA Aviation, not contract recompete. Central Wire Industries has zero subcontract footprint and does not subcontract to other primes; all 103 awards are prime delivery and work is performed entirely at the Milton facility. The vendor's positioning is as a specialist commodity supplier to a single federal customer with narrow capability (rope and wire products) and no diversity of revenue streams; competitive exposure for any contractor serving DLA Aviation's rope and wire requirements would center on this vendor's performance and pricing.