Component Central, Inc.

Component Central, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Stanton, California, supplies electronic, electrical, and mechanical components to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor, competing almost exclusively through full-and-open purchase orders with no set-aside designation. The company operates across multiple Defense Logistics Agency divisions, executing 1,555 prime awards (all purchase orders) valued at $5.6 million in combined potential value, with $4.4 million obligated to date.

Component Central's capability portfolio centers on routine replacement parts and sustainment materials for military equipment: connectors, resistors, switches, relays, springs, fasteners, capacitors, transformers, seals, bearings, gears, and specialty electronic components. Representative work includes a $67,500 purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime for an armature motor (October 2024), a $32,400 delivery order from DLA Aviation for levers and bearings under Total Small Business set-aside (February 2026), a $32,000 purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime for waveform converters (November 2024), and an $18,875.28 order from DLA Land and Maritime for nonmetallic seals under Total Small Business set-aside (June 2024). Individual order values typically range from $250 to $20,000, with occasional exceptions reaching $32,000–$67,500. Place of performance is consistently Stanton, California.

Customer concentration is extreme and single-agency dependent. Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime accounts for 897 awards (57.7% of total count) and $3.4 million (60.7% of combined potential value), with DLA Aviation close behind at 375 awards (24.1% of count) and $1.3 million (23.2% of value). DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment and DLA Troop Support Hardware account for the remaining volume. The top two customers (DLA Land and Maritime and DLA Aviation) represent 82% of all awards and 84% of all dollars. The company holds no work with civilian agencies. Component Central operates under four indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Land and Maritime, each valued at $250,000, with task-order activity sparse—only 13 task orders across all four IDCs combined in the source data window.

Award activity has declined from 173 awards in 2022 to 29 in 2026 (first quarter only), trending downward each year. No recompete cliff is visible in the source data; purchase orders are discrete, short-cycle procurements with completion dates typically 30–60 days from award, and there is no indication of larger umbrella contracts expiring. The company does not appear in the source as a subcontractor and has no named subcontractor relationships.

Set-aside posture is predominantly full-and-open, with occasional Total Small Business designations appearing on roughly 3–5% of visible awards. Component Central does not carry 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, or other SBA certifications in the source material and does not compete on set-aside vehicles. Its sole customer engagement mechanism is responsive bidding on Defense Logistics Agency purchase orders for small-dollar component procurement.