Defense Stampings And Engineering, Inc.

Defense Stampings And Engineering, Inc., a veteran-owned small business manufacturer headquartered in Pensacola, Florida, supplies precision-engineered industrial components and mechanical hardware to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor exclusively—751 awards across firm fixed-price purchase orders and single-award indefinite delivery contracts, with no subcontract activity. The company competes on an unrestricted basis in most procurements, though several of its active IDCs carry total small business set-aside designations.

Defense Stampings manufactures a concrete, narrow portfolio of specialized components: mounting brackets, cable hangers, pipe sections, electrical mounting bases, fuel engine tanks, retaining straps, access covers, connecting links, double-angle brackets, spacer plates, battery retainers, metal molding components, and related structural hardware. Representative recent work includes a $3,045 purchase order from DLA Construction and Equipment for precision-engineered industrial components and base and support services (April 2026), a $1,468 total small business set-aside delivery order from DLA Land and Maritime for battery retainers (January 2026), and a $13,581 delivery order from DLA Land and Maritime for battery retainers (June 2025). Award values typically range from several hundred dollars to approximately $20,000 per transaction, consistent with DLA's transactional procurement model for inventory replenishment across continental and overseas depots.

Customer concentration is extreme and single-source: DLA dominates 100% of the award footprint. The top three funding entities account for 95% of awards by count. DLA Land and Maritime leads with 315 awards carrying $3 million combined potential value, followed by DLA Aviation (175 awards, $1.3 million) and DLA Troop Support Hardware (178 awards, $115 thousand). DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment and Naval Sea Systems Command are minor secondary customers. Dollar concentration tracks award concentration—DLA Land and Maritime's $3 million represents 64% of the company's $4.7 million total combined potential value.

Defense Stampings holds four active single-award indefinite delivery contracts with DLA: a $250,000 IDC with DLA Aviation for precision-engineered industrial components awarded August 2025 and running through August 2030; a $250,000 total small business set-aside IDC with DLA Land and Maritime for NSN 6160015971381 battery retainers with a May 2026 completion date and an estimated 12 orders annually; a $250,000 total small business set-aside IDC with DLA Land and Maritime for metal molding components (NSN 2590011883225) through February 2026; and a $250,000 total small business set-aside IDC with DLA Aviation for pipe brackets and related components. These IDCs structure task orders to enable rapid fulfillment to CONUS and OCONUS depots with 109-day delivery windows and guaranteed minimum order quantities. Additional non-parent-vehicle awards flow through standing purchase orders without a listed parent vehicle structure.

Award activity has accelerated substantially year over year—37 awards in 2022, 56 in 2023, 59 in 2024, and 108 in 2025—though 2026 activity visible in the source reflects only three months of data. Forty-eight awards (combined potential value $113 thousand) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing modest recompete exposure. Obligated dollars total $2.3 million against the $4.7 million combined potential value, indicating 49% invoicing across the portfolio.

The company's NAICS footprint reflects hardware manufacturing: 304 awards fall under hardware manufacturing generally, 70 under electrical equipment and component manufacturing, 51 under small arms and ordnance accessories, and 33 under military armored vehicle and tank components. PSC codes cluster around hardware, commercial (349 awards), electrical hardware and supplies (83), and weapon-system-specific hardware (60). All performance occurs at the contractor's Pensacola manufacturing facility, enabling domestic production for rapid military logistics support across all service branches.