Deep South Equipment Company

Deep South Equipment Company, doing business as Deep South Equipment Co, supplies forklift repair services, materials-handling equipment maintenance, and heavy equipment components to federal logistics and military organizations as a small-business prime contractor. The vendor operates as a Shreveport, Louisiana-based for-profit Subchapter S corporation with a 22-award footprint spanning two decades; 95% of recent awards are prime contracts, concentrated on maintenance and repair of materials-handling equipment (11 awards) and light industrial truck and tractor manufacturing (3 awards).

Customer concentration clusters tightly around two logistics customers that collectively account for 95% of recent awards and dollar value. The Department of the Army Materiel Command TACOM Life Cycle Management Command leads with 10 awards valued at $109 thousand in combined potential value, while the Defense Logistics Agency Distribution accounts for 8 awards valued at $70 thousand. A single Veterans Affairs award (Veterans Integrated Service Network 16) for $11 thousand rounds out primary customers. Work across both agencies centers on firm-fixed-price purchase orders for forklift repair, turret maintenance, tractor tow delivery, and component replacement — representative recent awards include a $21.5 thousand Total Small Business purchase order from DLA Distribution for Hyster forklift turret maintenance completed at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma (January 2026); a $11.5 thousand Veterans Integrated Service Network 16 purchase order for forklift brake light and battery repair in Biloxi, Mississippi (July 2026); and a $20.5 thousand Total Small Business tractor tow delivery from DLA Distribution completed in June 2024.

Activity has remained sparse — one award per year in 2023, 2024, and 2025, with two awards year-to-date in 2026. The vendor also carries one subcontract as a sub-supplier to Aerojet Rocketdyne of DE, Inc., furnishing a Ricco R-PT-DD tug for RS25 engine production restart under the Space Launch System in April 2024. No set-aside designations recur across the prime footprint; most recent purchase orders use Total Small Business or no set-aside designation. Combined obligated dollars across all awards ($275 thousand) exceed combined potential value ($197 thousand), indicating completion and payment-to-ceiling variation across older awards.