Factory Steel & Metal Supply Co., L.L.C.

Factory Steel & Metal Supply Co., L.L.C., doing business as Alex Saltsman & Jack J Carmen Etal, supplies metallic components — tubes, sheets, plates, bars, and strips — to the Defense Logistics Agency as a small-business prime contractor competing in full-and-open procurements and Total Small Business set-asides. The Highland Park, Michigan-based limited liability company operates exclusively as a prime on purchase orders, with 100 percent of its 300 recent federal awards issued directly to the vendor rather than through subcontract positions.

The vendor's federal footprint is dominated by the Defense Logistics Agency. DLA Land and Maritime accounts for 231 awards (77% of total count) with $508 thousand in combined potential value; DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment follows with 39 awards worth $364 thousand; and a third DLA component carries 25 awards worth $106 thousand. Together, DLA represents roughly 99 percent of the vendor's recent award count and substantially all of its customer concentration. The Department of the Navy, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of the Army account for a single award each, representing negligible volume. Award magnitudes are consistently small, ranging from under $100 to approximately $21,900 per purchase order, with a combined portfolio potential value of $995 thousand and obligated dollars of $1 million across 300 contracts.

The vendor's capability portfolio is tightly focused on commodity metallic supply. Representative work includes a $21,922 Total Small Business sheet-metal purchase order from DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (August 2024); a $20,880 Total Small Business metal-plate purchase order from DLA (November 2025); a $13,144 open-competition metallic-tube purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime (September 2023); and a $851,057 metal-bar purchase order (set-aside status not specified, awarded September 2023). The vendor supplies standard industrial metal products — iron and steel tubes and pipes (primary NAICS 331491, 203 awards), rolled steel shapes (37 awards), and related mill products (26 awards combined) — under PSC 47-P (pipe and tubing), PSC 47-S (plate, sheet, and strip), and PSC 47-B (bars and rods).

Activity has declined in recent years. Award volume peaked at 31 contracts annually in 2023 and 2024, fell to 23 in 2025, and reached only 12 through July 2026 — a trajectory suggesting flattening demand or tightening competitive position within DLA's metal-procurement spend. The vendor's registration in the System for Award Management dates to December 1997, establishing a long-standing federal presence, but recent award trends show contraction rather than growth. No parent contract vehicles (GWACs, IDIQs, blanket purchase agreements) appear in the award records; all work flows from individual DLA purchase orders issued on a transactional basis. The vendor does not hold seats on government-wide vehicles and does not operate as a subcontractor to larger primes — it functions as a sole-source supplier of commodity goods under small-dollar spot buys.

Set-aside posture varies across the portfolio. Total Small Business designations apply to approximately 15 percent of recent awards (roughly 45 of 300), while the remaining 85 percent compete under full-and-open market conditions, indicating the vendor pursues both set-aside and open opportunities without specialization in either category. No 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, or other advanced certifications are mentioned in the source material.

WHOLESALER OF ALUMINUM, STEEL, STAINLESS STEEL, BRASS, & COPPER, IN ALL SHAPES AND SIZES.