CNS Co LLC

CNS Co LLC, doing business as Packing & Shipping, supplies standardized hardware components, fasteners, mechanical parts, and specialty fittings to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor across more than 400 small-business purchase orders, competing exclusively in full-and-open, non-set-aside procurements despite its small business status. The Bellbrook, Ohio–based sole proprietorship operates as a for-profit limited liability company and has been active in federal contracting since February 2020.

Customer concentration is severe and single-threaded: the vendor captures 100% of recent awards across only four distinct federal customer agencies, all within the Defense Logistics Agency. DLA Land and Maritime anchors the portfolio at 207 awards ($1.8 million combined potential value), followed by DLA Aviation at 189 awards ($344 thousand combined potential value). The remaining eight awards are split between DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment and DLA Troop Support Hardware. The two rankings align exactly — DLA Land and Maritime dominates both award count and dollars — reflecting a customer base with no strategic diversification beyond the DLA enterprise.

The capability footprint centers on commodity hardware manufacturing and supply. Representative work includes a $91,671.69 firm fixed-price purchase order for aircraft fairings (NSN 8511978577) awarded by DLA Aviation on March 16, 2026; a $12,779.01 purchase order for fitting, rudder top (NSN 8510714993) awarded by DLA Land and Maritime on June 24, 2024; and a $230,999.97 total small business set-aside purchase order for aircraft fairings (NSN 8510425309) awarded by DLA Aviation on February 6, 2024. The vast majority of awards are sub-$1,000 individual task orders for screws, washers, nuts, bolts, o-rings, clamps, adapters, hose and tube fittings, brackets, and related mechanical components. The top product categories by award count are bolt, nut, screw, rivet, and washer manufacturing (134 awards) and hardware manufacturing (65 awards); the top PSC categories are screws (75 awards) and hose, pipe, tube, lubrication, and railing fittings (59 awards). Performance consistently takes place at the vendor's Bellbrook, Ohio facility with shipments to DLA depots throughout the continental United States and overseas.

The vendor holds positions on three DLA small-business Indefinite Delivery Contracts with individual ceilings of $250,000 to $350,000. A single-award IDC with DLA Land and Maritime (contract SPE7M320D61TY, $250,000 ceiling, awarded September 6, 2022) was established to procure maritime vessel fittings including rudder fittings; a second single-award IDC with DLA Land and Maritime (contract 4610134706, $350,000 ceiling, awarded April 6, 2026) procures retaining straps on an as-needed basis with a guaranteed minimum quantity and estimated four delivery orders per year. These vehicles have generated three combined task orders worth $59 thousand and two task orders worth $83 thousand across the top vehicles listed, indicating modest utilization relative to ceiling values.

Activity has declined sharply. The vendor received 103 awards in 2022, 91 in 2023, 48 in 2024, 67 in 2025, and 29 through mid-April 2026. Combined potential value across all 404 awards totals $2.2 million, with $841 thousand obligated (38% realization). Fourteen awards carrying $94 thousand in combined potential value face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, exposing the vendor to recompete risk across its core DLA customer base. The portfolio reflects a transactional, high-volume, low-margin hardware supply model with no apparent teaming relationships, subcontracting activity, or customer diversification beyond DLA's material handling and aviation logistics mission.