Equitable Engineering Company Inc.

Equitable Engineering Company Inc., a Troy, Michigan-based small business manufacturer, supplies precision mechanical components—predominantly spur gears, gearshafts, shouldered shafts, and gear assemblies—to the Defense Logistics Agency and military branches as a prime contractor under Total Small Business set-asides. The company competes predominantly under small business set-asides across its footprint, with most recent DLA prime awards split between Total Small Business designations and full-and-open competitions.

The vendor's customer concentration is extremely narrow and stable. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime division accounts for 290 awards (49% of the total 592-award footprint) carrying $8.8 million in combined potential value, followed at distance by DLA Aviation (42 awards, $2.3 million), the Department of the Air Force (73 awards), the Department of the Navy (34 awards), and the Department of the Army Materiel Command (3 awards, $455 thousand). Together, the top five customer agencies represent 84% of recent awards by count and 96% of combined potential value. DLA Land and Maritime's dominance is both breadth and depth—it places the most orders and anchors most of the dollar value.

Equitable Engineering holds multiple single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime, each with $250,000 to $350,000 ceilings and one-year ordering periods. Recent IDCs include a $350,000 Total Small Business IDC awarded February 23, 2026, for spur gears (NSN 3020009871957) completing February 23, 2027; a $350,000 Total Small Business IDC awarded December 2, 2025, for spur gearshafts (NSN 3040008773619) completing December 2, 2026; and a $250,000 Total Small Business IDC awarded September 26, 2024, for spur gearshafts (NSN 4610114804) completing September 26, 2025. Against these vehicles, the vendor places delivery orders and purchase orders ranging from under $4,000 to over $200,000. Representative prime awards include a $65,175 Total Small Business purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime (December 30, 2025) for 79 units of shouldered shafts; an $81,900 Total Small Business purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime (January 10, 2025) for spur gears; a $66,407 purchase order from DLA Aviation (April 12, 2024) for shaft, impeller, and gear assemblies; and a $206,250 purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime (September 13, 2022) for spur gearshafts.

Activity has declined in recent years—16 awards in 2022, declining to 5 awards in the first quarter of 2026—though the vendor remains consistently active under its DLA Land and Maritime IDC framework. Awards completing in the next twenty-four months total only $80 thousand in combined potential value (2 awards), representing minimal recompete exposure in that window. The vendor's primary NAICS concentration is Mechanical Power Transmission Equipment Manufacturing (231 awards), with secondary exposure to Aircraft Engine and Engine Parts Manufacturing (49 awards) and Aircraft Manufacturing (35 awards). Product Service Code concentration tracks closely: Gears, Pulleys, Sprockets, and Transmission Chain (297 awards) and Miscellaneous Power Transmission Equipment (150 awards) represent the bulk of procurement.

Equitable Engineering has a single recorded subcontract relationship: a sub-award from Sierra Nevada Company, LLC (September 23, 2025) for ACLS pedestals aircraft parts. The vendor's awarded footprint is overwhelmingly prime work—591 of 592 total awards are prime contracts or IDVs; one is a subcontract. All work is performed at the contractor's Troy, Michigan facility. The source notes the vendor was registered in SAM.gov as early as 2001 and describes a "long history" of supplying the Defense Logistics Agency, though the structured award data in the source spans from 1981 forward, with heaviest concentration in 2021–2025. Combined dollars obligated across all awards ($21 million) exceed combined potential value ($12.3 million) by 171%, suggesting the vendor regularly exceeds its ceiling values or receives multiple task orders within the same IDC vehicle.

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