Electro-Line Inc.

Electro-Line Inc., a small business manufacturer of electronic components and electrical equipment headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, is a prime contractor supplying rotary switches, connectors, electrical protectors, and related military-grade hardware to the Defense Logistics Agency—entirely from its own manufacturing facility with no subcontracting footprint. The company competes predominantly under full-and-open (non-set-aside) purchase orders, though it also holds two recent Total Small Business set-aside Indefinite Delivery Contracts awarded in January 2026 by DLA Land and Maritime, each valued at $350,000 for rotary switch procurement.

Electro-Line's customer concentration is extreme and singular. The Defense Logistics Agency accounts for 97 percent of awards by count and combined potential value: DLA Land and Maritime dominates with 3,980 awards worth $23.4 million combined potential value, followed by DLA Aviation with 669 awards worth $3.6 million. The remaining DLA divisions (Troop Support Construction and Equipment, Troop Support Hardware, and DLA unallocated) account for the remaining 271 awards and $819 thousand. No other federal agency appears in the top-five customer list. This reflects Electro-Line's role as a logistics supplier of critical replacement parts for military equipment maintenance.

Electro-Line's product portfolio is tightly focused on electrical connectors, switches, and related components. Representative work includes a $68,065.74 dummy connector purchase order awarded December 4, 2025 (207 units, 168-day delivery); a $61,688.44 rotary switch order from September 21, 2025 (19 units, 140-day delivery); a $57,170 switch subassembly from February 17, 2026; and a $54,000 receptacle connector order from June 16, 2025 (18 units, 157-day delivery). Smaller orders—hundreds to low thousands—form the bulk of Electro-Line's portfolio, supporting DLA's incremental equipment maintenance requirements across the supply chain. The two IDCs awarded in January 2026 each call for rotary switches under Total Small Business set-asides with estimated order frequencies of 4 to 10 per year and guaranteed minimums of 2 to 4 units, with 50- to 68-day delivery windows to DLA depots across CONUS and OCONUS.

Activity has declined sharply. Electro-Line received 375 awards in 2022, 299 in 2023, 306 in 2024, 182 in 2025, and only 32 in 2026 through April. Combined obligated dollars ($33 million) exceed combined potential value ($28.7 million) by 15 percent, indicating that actual invoice activity has outpaced the ceiling values set at award. Within the next twenty-four months, seven awards with combined potential value of $58 thousand face completion and recompete exposure—a modest magnitude reflecting the high-velocity, low-value transactional nature of DLA purchase orders rather than large multi-year vehicles.

Electro-Line's award density is explained by DLA's procurement model: the agency issues hundreds of individual purchase orders annually from small values ($300) to mid-range orders ($136,000) drawn against its rotary switch IDCs and via spot buys. The vendor's top parent vehicle list reflects the nature of DLA procurement: five single-award IDCs, each placing 4 to 10 delivery orders, with minimal ceiling values. The company holds no GSA Schedule, GWAC seat, or agency-wide IDIQ; all work flows through DLA direct purchase orders and two newly awarded single-award IDC vehicles.

Since 2001, Electro-Line has been registered in SAM and has operated exclusively as a Dayton-based manufacturer with no documented subcontracting relationships and no geographic footprint outside Ohio. The company's entire posture—product focus, customer concentration, contract vehicle type, and award velocity—aligns with DLA's role as a military logistics sustainment buyer of electronic components in the sub-$100,000 transactional range. Electro-Line competes on quality, on-time delivery, and cost in a crowded field of small manufacturers supplying the same component categories to the same buyer.

Manufacturer of electronic assemblies.