Circle Prime Manufacturing Inc.

Circle Prime Manufacturing Inc., a for-profit electronic components manufacturer based in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, is a prime contractor supplying specialized radio frequency and electronic assemblies to the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime and allied defense customers, competing predominantly under full-and-open solicitations with no set-aside designation, though it qualifies and has won Total Small Business set-aside contracts.

Circle Prime's customer footprint is heavily concentrated with a single dominant buyer. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime accounts for 469 awards (73% of all awards) and $25.5 million (79% of combined potential value) across a deep bench of Indefinite Delivery Contracts, each with ceilings of $250,000 to $1.8 million for audio frequency amplifiers, antennas, circuit card assemblies, radio frequency filters, network circuits, and transmission couplers. The Defense Logistics Agency (non-Land and Maritime division) follows distantly with 113 awards and $265 thousand in potential value. The Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command has placed 9 awards for $159 thousand. The top two customers represent 81% of combined potential value and 93% of awards by count. This concentration in DLA LM reflects Circle Prime's role as an authorized manufacturer on military-qualified-products lists and its seat on multiple single-award IDCs spanning the past four years.

Circle Prime holds or has recently held positions on twelve named IDCs with DLA LM, ranging from $250,000 to $1.8 million in ceiling value. Recent awards include a $250,000 single-award IDC for audio frequency amplifiers (NSN 5996013106240) effective October 3, 2025, a $250,000 single-award IDC for circuit card assemblies (NSN 5998003111018) effective March 27, 2025, a $1.33 million Total Small Business antenna IDC effective September 13, 2025 (with five delivery orders issued totaling $345 thousand), and a $1.8 million single-award audio amplifier IDC awarded January 31, 2022. Delivery orders under these vehicles range from sub-$2,000 to approximately $228,000 and are structured as firm fixed-price procurements for immediate replenishment of consumable components. Work is performed entirely at the Cuyahoga Falls facility.

Capability scope is defined tightly by the award history: antennas (329 awards, top NAICS category), audio frequency amplifiers (98 awards), printed circuit assemblies and circuit card assemblies (83 awards), radio frequency filters (56 awards), network circuits, transmission couplers, and associated radio frequency and electrical interconnection equipment. The portfolio skews heavily toward production of catalog and qualified-products-list items in support of military logistics replenishment, not design, engineering, or integration work. Circle Prime has been registered in the System for Award Management since 2002. Recent representative orders include a $176,411.70 purchase order for 1,395 units of audio amplifiers (July 16, 2025), a $228,000 Total Small Business purchase order for 2,000 units of audio amplifiers (August 1, 2024), and a $112,173 purchase order for 269 antennas (June 21, 2023).

Activity declined over the past four years — 32 awards in 2022 to 18 in 2025 — reflecting a shift from transactional delivery orders placed against older IDCs to consolidation under fewer, higher-value single-award vehicles. The combined potential value across 641 awards is $32.1 million, with $25 million obligated (78% execution rate). Only two awards face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $42 thousand), indicating minimal recompete exposure in that window; most active IDCs run through 2025 or 2026 and will likely recompete or renew on staggered schedules.

Circle Prime competes in full-and-open solicitations and holds no exclusive set-aside positions; however, the source documents three Total Small Business set-aside IDCs and five Total Small Business delivery orders within the prime footprint, demonstrating qualification and intermittent use of set-aside vehicles. The company operates as a manufacturer without named subcontractor relationships in the source data; all 641 awards are prime contracts or IDVs.