Cunico Corporation

Cunico Corporation, a tribally owned, for-profit manufacturer based in Long Beach, California, supplies specialized plumbing fittings, valves, and pipe components to the Navy and Defense Department as a prime contractor on 987 direct federal contract awards (97% of its recent footprint) and as a subcontractor to major defense primes. The vendor competes full-and-open with no set-aside posture across its prime awards, though the source notes that approximately half of Cunico's historical federal awards have used small business set-aside designations.

Cunico's capability portfolio centers on naval-specification pipe fittings and valves manufactured from steel, bronze, copper-nickel alloys, and specialized materials for fleet readiness and shipyard operations. The product range spans globe valves, plug valves, elbows, tees, flanges, blind flanges, and stop-check cartridges, all manufactured to MIL-V-24509A and equivalent military specifications. Representative recent prime awards include a $595 thousand Naval Supply Systems Command purchase order for 17 globe valves (NSN 3H-4820-015437373-L1) with completion due February 2027, a $72.2 thousand Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime order for valve plugs to Norfolk Naval Shipyard awarded August 2025, and a $14.3 thousand Naval Sea Systems Command purchase order for MIL-V-24509A plug valves with levers awarded June 2025. A $3.9 million Other Transaction Agreement with the Army Research Development and Engineering Command covers large-diameter fitting prototype development, representing the vendor's sole seven-figure prime award in the source data.

Customer concentration is extreme and Navy-centric. Naval Supply Systems Command dominates the footprint with 606 awards (combined potential value $8.5 million), followed by Naval Sea Systems Command with 202 awards ($916 thousand). Together, these two Navy components account for 92% of award count and 93% of combined potential value across the vendor's 1,014 total prime and sub awards. Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime and Defense Logistics Agency Aviation round out the active customer set, with the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command anchoring the second-highest single-award value at $4 million on the OTA.

Cunico's prime awards route through Navy indefinite delivery contracts, with 142 task orders placed under Indefinite Delivery Contract N0010405G7002 (combined potential value $1.7 million). Three task orders flow through Air Force Sustainment Center's Indefinite Delivery Contract FA853809D0008 ($391 thousand combined potential value). The vendor's NAICS footprint reflects its manufacturing focus: Other Metal Valve and Pipe Fitting Manufacturing (465 awards), All Other Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (173 awards), Fabricated Pipe and Pipe Fitting Manufacturing (53 awards), and Industrial Valve Manufacturing (36 awards). Top PSC coding aligns with commodity procurement — Hose, Pipe, Tube, Lubrication, and Railing Fittings (806 awards) and Valves, Nonpowered (73 awards).

In its subcontractor role, Cunico supplies components to Electric Boat Corporation on SSN (attack submarine) and SSBN construction and long-lead-time material procurements, and to Huntington Ingalls Incorporated on DDG 51 destroyer construction and CVN 74 aircraft carrier overhaul advance-planning work. Recent sub awards include weapon cradle roller leaf spring fasteners for Electric Boat (January 2025) and DDG 142 and DDG 141 construction components for Huntington Ingalls (September 2025).

Activity has been flat over the past five years — 11 awards in 2022, declining to 9 in 2025 and 2 year-to-date in 2026 — with only two awards (combined potential value $599 thousand) facing ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months. Combined potential value across all 1,014 awards sits at $15.2 million, though combined obligated dollars reached $35.1 million (231% of potential value), indicating significant prior obligation on completed work. The vendor's federal contracting history extends back to 1980.

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