Custom Hydraulic & Machine, Inc.

Custom Hydraulic & Machine, Inc., a small business manufacturer of hydraulic components and hose assemblies based in Kent, Washington, operates as a prime contractor supplying specialized pipe fittings, adapters, elbows, couplings, and related hydraulic hardware to defense agencies on a full-and-open basis, with occasional participation in total small business set-asides.

The company has accumulated 2,334 prime awards across all federal sources with combined potential value of $29.9 million and actual obligations of $30.4 million. Customer concentration is extreme and highly specialized: the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Land and Maritime accounts for 1,136 awards (48% of total) and $19.6 million in potential value, followed by the Naval Supply Systems Command with 406 awards and $6.1 million, and Naval Sea Systems Command with 650 awards and $4 million. Together, these three customers represent 97% of all awards and account for all material revenue. The company's exposure is almost entirely Navy and DLA supply-chain work — no meaningful exposure to Army, Air Force, or non-defense civilian agencies.

Custom Hydraulic & Machine's capability footprint centers on fabricated metal pipe and hose fittings (740 awards) and other metal valve and pipe fitting manufacturing (409 awards) under NAICS 332919, 332996, and related codes. Representative work spans thousands of discrete purchase orders and delivery orders: a $234.9 million order from DLA for hose-to-boss elbows (April 2025), a $226.7 million order from Naval Supply Systems Command for straight adapters (December 2025), a $131.5 million order from Naval Supply Systems Command for union end fittings under total small business set-aside (February 2026), a $299.1 million order from Naval Supply Systems Command for hose elbows under total small business set-aside (September 2025), and a $219.1 million order from DLA for straight hose-to-boss adapters (May 2025). The company also maintains a $959.6 million Indefinite Delivery Contract with Naval Sea Systems Command for polybottle adapters supporting naval nuclear propulsion programs (award date April 2022, running through March 2027), against which it has generated delivery orders totaling approximately $239.9 million to date, and holds multiple $250 thousand single-award IDCs with DLA for various hydraulic components.

Activity per year has been stable in the low hundreds of awards annually — 119 awards in 2022, 99 in 2023, 103 in 2024, 98 in 2025, and 34 in the first four months of 2026. The recompete cliff in the next twenty-four months carries 28 awards with combined potential value of $1 million, a modest exposure relative to the vendor's total portfolio and reflecting the high-velocity, continuous-replenishment nature of DLA and Navy supply operations.

Subcontract work is minimal, comprising 29 awards (1% of total). Custom Hydraulic & Machine subcontracts to Electric Boat Corporation on submarine-related work including weapon cradle fasteners, secondary propulsion unit cable tensioning devices, and design-change implementation related to ballistic missile submarines — work that feeds its parent prime's naval shipbuilding and nuclear propulsion mission but does not materially alter the vendor's profile as a supply-chain specialist.

Custom Hydraulic & Machine competes predominantly full-and-open against all qualified sources on DLA and Navy purchase orders and small-business set-asides. The vendor is not 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, or otherwise designated for preferential contracting, though it qualifies as small business under NAICS 332919 and participates selectively in total small business set-asides when offered. The company has no presence on government-wide acquisition vehicles (GWACs), schedules, or multi-award IDIQs; all awards are single-award IDCs or transactional purchase and delivery orders issued directly by the customer agencies. This vehicle posture — deep penetration of two customer agencies through multiple narrow-scope, single-award IDCs — creates structural lock-in: the vendor's federal footprint is nearly synonymous with DLA Land and Maritime and Navy spending on standardized hydraulic fittings.

ADAPTERS, HOSE ASSEMBLIES, MANUFACTURER, SWIVEL FITTINGS, SUPPORT SLEEVES, UNIONS, COUPLINGS, MIL-F-24787, MIL-H-24135, MIL-H-24136