Cheshire Tool Co

Cheshire Tool Co., a veteran-owned small business based in Cheshire, Connecticut, supplies precision cutting tools, drills, reamers, taps, end mills, inserts, and related machining components to the U.S. Army as a prime contractor on a single-award blanket purchase agreement through May 2030.

Cheshire operates entirely as a prime contractor under one dominant vehicle: a $4.999 million single-award BPA with TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (W911PT25A0055), which succeeded two prior BPA generations (W911PT15A0055 and W911PT20A0055). The source documents show 524 total awards across four customer agencies, with near-complete customer concentration in TACOM—512 awards (97.7% of the total count and 100% of combined potential value at $12.8 million). Three additional agencies account for the remaining awards: the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Construction and Equipment placed 10 orders valued at $934 thousand; the Army's Detroit Arsenal contracting office placed 1 award for $13 thousand; and Air Education and Training Command placed 1 award for $11 thousand.

Cheshire's capability portfolio is narrowly focused on consumable machining tools and shop supplies. Representative work includes BPA calls for carbide drills, precision end mills, reamers, machine taps, inserts, shanks, collets, tool holders, specialty cutters, and measuring gauges. A March 2024 call valued $21.5 million ceiling for drill tips (part 5509970); a July 2024 call valued $13.6 million for solid carbide drills; and a February 2024 call valued $16.6 million for Botek tool crib items. Individual task order ceilings typically range from $1,000 to $25,000, reflecting transactional volumes consistent with tooling replenishment for production facilities including the Watervliet Arsenal. Performance location is exclusively Cheshire, Connecticut. The vendor manufactures or stocks cutting tools and machine tool accessories under primary NAICS 333514 (Cutting Tool and Machine Tool Accessory Manufacturing), with secondary categories for machine tool manufacturing, lubricants, industrial supplies wholesale, and abrasive products.

Activity has been volatile in recent years—36 awards in 2022, declining to 24 in 2023, recovering to 53 in 2024, then dropping to 25 in 2025 and only 6 through April 2026. No recompete cliff data is provided in the source. The vendor holds no other contract vehicles, GWACs, or agency-wide IDIQs; all federal work flows through the three generations of TACOM BPAs. Cheshire does not subcontract to other firms and has no documented sub-award footprint. Set-aside posture varies call-to-call: roughly half of recent orders carry Total Small Business designations leveraging the vendor's veteran-owned status, while the remainder are unrestricted full-and-open procurements.

Combined dollars obligated across all 524 awards totals $2.8 million (22% of combined potential value), indicating substantial unexercised ceiling authority on the current BPA vehicle. The vendor has maintained continuous SAM registration since 2004 and has operated as a trusted supplier to TACOM for over two decades, but the source provides no background description of corporate structure, ownership beyond the veteran-owned designation, or business model evolution. All work is performance-based delivery of specified tooling items to Army production and maintenance operations.