Covert Industries, LTD

Covert Industries, LTD, an Austin, Texas-based for-profit Subchapter S corporation, manufactures and supplies fasteners, mechanical hardware, sensing elements, and optical components to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on full-and-open purchase orders and indefinite delivery contracts, with no small-business set-aside posture on the majority of its prime work. The vendor competes predominantly in unrestricted federal procurement and does not rely on set-asides as a business model, though it holds one small-business-set-aside IDC with DLA Aviation.

Covert Industries' federal footprint is overwhelmingly concentrated with the Defense Logistics Agency and its subordinate components. The top five DLA customer streams account for 91% of recent awards and anchor nearly all of the combined potential value. DLA Aviation leads by award count (475 awards, $4.3 million combined potential value), followed closely by DLA Land and Maritime (432 awards, $2.9 million), with DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (110 awards, $816 thousand), the general DLA pool (160 awards, $603 thousand), and DLA Troop Support Hardware (29 awards, $381 thousand) rounding out the active set. The vendor has worked with 12 distinct federal agencies in recent years, but DLA accounts for substantially all activity; no other single agency appears with material presence. Covert Industries' award portfolio spans 1,329 total federal actions since 1999, with recent velocity averaging 60 awards annually across 2023 and 2024, declining to 38 awards through April 2026 year-to-date. Recent activity centers on small-dollar purchase orders ($1 thousand to $28 thousand ceilings) for socket head cap screws, hexagon head cap screws, machine screws, washers, nuts, self-locking hardware, and sensing element water components. Representative work includes a March 2026 $350 thousand single-award small-business-set-aside IDC for hexagon head cap screws (NSN 5305016644367) running through March 2027; a November 2023 $250 thousand non-set-aside sensing-element IDC with DLA Aviation expiring November 2028, which has generated delivery orders valued at $14,220 each; and routine purchase orders such as a December 2025 $14,502 delivery order for sensing elements under the existing DLA Aviation contract and an August 2025 $11,940 order for recessed washers.

The vendor's capability portfolio, grounded in the award history, centers on precision fastener manufacturing (socket head cap screws, hexagon head cap screws, machine screws, setscrews, self-locking nuts, washers, lock washers) and specialized components (sensing elements, optical holders, dongles, preformed hoses, manual control handles, wiper rings, clamps). Category concentration shows bolt, nut, screw, rivet, and washer manufacturing as the dominant NAICS (298 awards), followed by hardware manufacturing (111 awards), optical instrument and lens manufacturing (91 awards), and other aircraft parts manufacturing (90 awards). The top procurement service code is screws (206 awards), with optical instruments and test equipment (127 awards) and nuts and washers (95 awards) following closely.

Covert Industries places orders under five primary DLA indefinite-delivery vehicles. The largest parent vehicle by task-order count is IDC SPM7LX06D7082 (25 task orders, $215 thousand combined value), followed by SPM45103D1459 (18 task orders, $380 thousand), SPE4A618D0091 (11 task orders, $314 thousand), SP045103D1459 (9 task orders, $331 thousand), and SPM44105D1339 (7 task orders, $141 thousand). These IDVs span DLA Aviation, Land and Maritime, and Troop Support components, with work performed predominantly at the vendor's Austin, Texas facility and various DLA depots across the continental United States and overseas consolidation points.

The recompete exposure window is light: only 13 awards (combined potential value $26 thousand) complete within the next twenty-four months. Covert Industries' subcontractor footprint is minimal; the source identifies two sub-awards to Textron Systems Corp for LCAC material purchases (December 2025 and February 2025). The vendor has been registered as a federal contractor since July 2001 and describes itself in award summaries as a long-standing supplier of precision mechanical components and hardware essential to military equipment maintenance and operational readiness. No parent company, subsidiary relationships, or teaming arrangements are named in the source material.

Covert Industries has supplied many different motor vehicle and tank parts, etc. to the DLA centers & TACOM Rock Island.