Dircksen & Associates, Inc.

Dircksen & Associates, Inc., a Columbus, Ohio-based small business manufacturer, supplies industrial electromechanical components—primarily electromagnetic relays, pressure switches, solenoid valves, and hydraulic assemblies—to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor on 100% of its federal awards. The company operates as a for-profit organization with manufacturing facilities across Ohio, California (San Fernando and Burbank), and North Carolina (Winston-Salem), delivering firm fixed-price components for military equipment maintenance and Department of Defense sustainment operations.

The customer footprint is concentrated and stable. DLA Land and Maritime dominates the portfolio at 363 awards (91% of the 399 total) worth $18.9 million combined potential value, followed by DLA Aviation with 20 awards valued at $1.9 million. A small volume of work flows through the broader DLA (8 awards, $109 thousand), the Army's TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (2 awards, $142 thousand), and the Naval Supply Systems Command (1 award). The top two customers account for 96% of recent awards and 99% of combined potential value, indicating a DLA-centric business model with minimal diversification across federal agencies.

Dircksen & Associates competes predominantly under small business set-asides. Approximately 70% of federal awards carry total small business set-aside designations, reflecting the company's participation in the government's small business procurement initiatives. The remaining work is awarded full-and-open or without set-aside, predominantly on firm fixed-price purchase orders and delivery orders. The company does not sit on large government-wide acquisition contracts or schedules; instead, it operates under multiple DLA Indefinite Delivery Contracts, the largest being a single-award IDC with DLA Land and Maritime (awarded May 2025, ceiling $256,250, through May 2030) for pressure switch replenishment. Five additional parent IDVs carry smaller task order volumes ($9 thousand to $124 thousand combined potential value per vehicle).

Representative recent work illustrates the product and customer concentration. A $793,498.80 award from DLA Land and Maritime (October 2024) procured 97 units of electromagnetic relays under no set-aside. A $747,600 DLA Land and Maritime order (August 2023) covered 70 magnetic contactors under total small business set-aside. A $551,248 award (July 2024) called for 131 electromagnetic relays, also small business set-aside. Smaller orders cluster around pressure switches ($26 thousand to $646 thousand each), solenoid valves, flow control valves, check valves, and rotary relays. A single $47,200 award (October 2025) went to DLA Aviation for hydraulic accumulators for aircraft maintenance. The company operates exclusively as prime; no subcontractor relationships are named in the source.

Activity has grown modestly but remains concentrated. Awards per year increased from 17 in 2022 to a peak of 31 in 2024, declining slightly to 28 in 2025 and 14 in the first quarter of 2026. Combined potential value across all 399 awards stands at $21.4 million, with $16.5 million (77%) obligated. Twenty-nine awards (combined potential value $3.3 million) face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure concentrated in the DLA Land and Maritime pressure-switch and relay categories where the company's recent activity is heaviest. The vendor's product mix skews toward relays and solenoid components: the top NAICS are Relay and Industrial Control Manufacturing (80 awards) and Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing (71 awards), while the top PSC codes are Relays and Solenoids (113 awards) and Antennas, Waveguides, and Related Equipment (92 awards). Dircksen & Associates has been registered in the System for Award Management since 2002 and maintains long-standing supplier status within DLA's distribution network for military equipment sustainment across the defense logistics supply chain.

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