Fairlane Tool Company, Inc.

Fairlane Tool Company, Inc. (Fairlane Tool Division), a veteran-owned small business precision manufacturer based in Fraser, Michigan, supplies machined mechanical and aerospace components to the Defense Logistics Agency and Department of the Army as a prime contractor on a 100% prime-oriented portfolio spanning purchase orders, delivery orders, and Indefinite Delivery Contracts.

The vendor's federal footprint consists of 562 awards with combined potential value of $32.6 million, of which $22.5 million (69%) has been obligated. Award volume has held steady across the past five years—20 awards in 2022, climbing to 28 in 2024, then declining to 18 in 2025—with only three awards appearing in 2026 to date. The customer concentration is pronounced: Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime anchors the portfolio with 362 awards ($13.7 million combined potential value), followed by the Department of the Army Materiel Command Contracting Command Detroit Arsenal (14 awards, $10.1 million), the Department of the Army proper (29 awards, $4.1 million), DLA Aviation (107 awards, $3 million), and DLA Troop Support Hardware (22 awards, $898 thousand)—these five customers account for 95% of award count and 97% of combined potential value. The dollars-and-volume split reveals tension between Land and Maritime's volume leadership and Detroit Arsenal's dollar dominance; Land and Maritime drives order count through smaller discrete purchase and delivery orders, while Detroit Arsenal concentrates value in a small number of larger definitive contracts.

Fairlane Tool's capability portfolio centers on precision-machined power transmission and aerospace components: spur gears and gearshafts, shouldered shafts, helical gearshafts, bevel gearshafts, machine bolts, pulleys, wheel and sprocket assemblies, actuating cylinders, fan clutches, connecting rods, and related drivetrain elements. Representative prime contracts include a $2.77 million definitive contract for variable speed drives awarded by Army Contracting Command Warren on November 3, 2023, with completion through January 24, 2026; an $836.15 million definitive contract for connecting rod assemblies (NSN 2815-00-394-9702) for AVDS-1790 2-Series Diesel Engines awarded by DLA Land and Maritime on November 18, 2025 (with ultimate completion August 30, 2027) under a sole-source procurement where Fairlane Tool and Renk America LLC are the only authorized manufacturers; and a $469.7 thousand total-small-business-set-aside purchase order for engine fan clutches awarded by DLA Land and Maritime on May 10, 2024. The company manufactures all components at its Fraser, Michigan facility.

Fairlane Tool holds seven active Indefinite Delivery Contracts across DLA divisions. The largest is a $7.54 million multiple-award IDC for engine fan clutches and related mechanical components awarded April 8, 2025, by DLA Land and Maritime through April 7, 2030 (no set-aside). Other active IDVs include a $250 thousand single-award total-small-business-set-aside for spur gearshafts (April 7, 2025 through April 7, 2026); a $836.8 thousand single-award total-small-business-set-aside for machine bolts (May 20, 2022 through May 19, 2027) with three recent DLA Aviation delivery orders in October and November 2025 ($174.9 thousand, $59.9 thousand, and $50.1 thousand respectively, all firm-fixed-price, completion September-October 2026); a $250 thousand total-small-business-set-aside for grooved pulleys (March 27, 2023 through March 26, 2024, with two delivery orders executed); a $250 thousand total-small-business-set-aside for shouldered shafts (December 14, 2023 through December 13, 2024, no longer active); and a $250 thousand total-small-business-set-aside for actuating cylinders (August 9, 2021 through August 8, 2025, recently expired). The top parent vehicles by task-order frequency are Indefinite Delivery Contract SPE4A717D5108 (19 task orders, $146 thousand), SPE7LX20D0057 (13 task orders, $224 thousand), SPE4A617D6734 (9 task orders, $108 thousand), and SPE7L315D5004 (9 task orders, $80 thousand).

Set-aside posture is mixed across the prime portfolio. Roughly 40% of awards carry total-small-business-set-aside designations, while 60% are competed full-and-open. The vendor's IDV strategy favors small-business-set-aside vehicles as the primary contracting mechanism with DLA Land and Maritime, leveraging its veteran-owned status; delivery orders issued against these IDVs are frequently competed without set-aside restriction. Definitive contracts for larger programs—particularly Army Contracting Command Warren awards for radiator fan shrouds and connecting rod assemblies—also employ total-small-business-set-aside or unrestricted competition.

Recompete exposure concentrates in the near term: ten awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $3 million, including the $2.77 million variable speed drives definitive contract completing January 24, 2026. Fairlane Tool has demonstrated over four decades of continuous federal work (first award on record from October 1980), establishing itself as a recurring supplier within the defense logistics industrial base. The vendor subcontracts minimally; only one sub-award appears in the source—a November 2, 2023 callup of special test equipment and assembly line kits machine shop work under General Dynamics Land Systems Inc.