Daniels Manufacturing Corporation

Daniels Manufacturing Corporation, a veteran-owned small business manufacturer based in Orlando, Florida, supplies precision electrical and mechanical hand tools, crimping tools, electrical contact insertion and removal tools, safety cable tools, and specialized aviation maintenance kits to federal agencies as a prime contractor under Total Small Business set-asides, with nominal subcontract exposure. The company operates as a Subchapter S corporation and competes predominantly within small-business reserved procurement vehicles.

The vendor's customer footprint spans 154 federal agencies, with concentration anchored by two buyers. The GSA Federal Acquisition Service drives 4,185 awards worth $131.2 million combined potential value, while the Department of the Army accounts for 3,934 awards worth $133.4 million — together representing 49% of the vendor's award count and 54% of potential value when combined with the Department of Navy Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center ($39.5 million across 427 awards) and TACOM Life Cycle Management Command ($44.3 million across 2,312 awards). A long tail of 154 customer agencies fills the remaining portfolio, including the Marine Corps, Defense Logistics Agency, and Naval Air Warfare Center. This concentration reflects a supply-chain role: Daniels manufactures discrete components and tool kits that integrate into larger equipment and support logistics pipelines rather than standalone systems.

Capability framing emerges sharply from recent awards. The vendor manufactures hand and edge tools (21,886 awards, the dominant NAICS category), saw blade and handtool manufacturing (2,111 awards), electronic connectors (211 awards), and power-driven handtools (305 awards). Federal procurement descriptions name specific product families: crimping tools (Type I, II, and III variants producing indent, formed, or compression termination contacts to military part numbers such as M22520/37-01 and M22520/40-1); electrical contact insertion and removal tools (Type I and II, multiple compositions and contact sizes); safety cable tools and kits (preset-tension Safe-T-Cable assemblies with metal cases); electrical contact tool kits conforming to MIL-SPEC MIL-T-83507 and QPL-83507-11; connector adapter tools for MIL-C-38999 series and Deutsch connectors; die sets for crimping operations; slip-joint and strap wrenches; hydraulic crimping tools (24-inch length, 7-ton force, handling 6 to 4/0 AWG on copper); and specialized aviation maintenance kits including wire repair and connector kits. Recent awards valued at $21.6 million, $37 thousand, $14.858 thousand, and $15.02 thousand exemplify the order magnitude and product mix. The vendor's two indefinite delivery contracts awarded in 2025 — a $350 thousand single-award IDC with DoD Aviation (completion December 2030) and a $250 thousand single-award IDC with Naval Aviation for 0.062 locking cables and cable tension testers (completion June 2030) — signal long-term supply relationships for discrete components rather than system integration.

Daniels Manufacturing competes almost exclusively under Total Small Business set-asides across all recent prime awards and holds positions on GSA's Multiple Award Schedule (7,110 task orders, $24.3 million combined potential value), Blanket Purchase Agreement GS06F83932 (3,262 task orders, $93 thousand combined potential value), and three additional BPAs with lower task-order volumes. The company's federal contract footprint is dominated by streamlined purchase orders for commercial-catalog and military-specification components, with firm fixed-price terms and completion dates typically within twelve months. Award activity has remained stable — 286 awards in 2025, 345 in 2026 year-to-date — with 283 awards facing recompete inside the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $777 thousand), representing modest pipeline turbulence relative to the vendor's historical volume. The company subcontracts to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration on F-16 support equipment for Jordan (electrical connector, wire repair tool kit) and to Bell Textron on Bell 429 aircraft connector kits, suggesting a minor role as a component supplier into defense primes rather than a primary teaming strategy.

Daniels Manufacturing's award portfolio — 26,050 prime awards out of 26,068 total across the dataset, with combined potential value $690.1 million and $154.3 million obligated — reflects a niche vendor anchored to repetitive supply of precision hand tools, crimping equipment, electrical connectors, and aviation maintenance kits. The vendor does not compete for large system contracts, services, or IT work; instead it operates as a catalog supplier into GSA and DoD logistics channels where small-business set-asides protect its market position. Recompete exposure is manageable and spread across many small orders, and the two new indefinite delivery contracts signal customer confidence in long-term supply.

DANIELS IS A MANUFACTURER OF MILITARY QUALIFIED CRIMP TOOLS AND COMPLETE MAINTENANCE TOOL KITS FOR ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR REPAIR AND ASSEMBLY.

DANIELS MANUFACTURES SAFE-T-CABLE

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