First Navigant L.L.C.

First Navigant L.L.C., a Los Angeles-based sole proprietorship, supplies precision mechanical hardware and fastening components—screws, nuts, gaskets, seals, O-rings, and related items—to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor on over 200 awards since late 2023, nearly all awarded without set-aside designation despite the vendor's minority-owned, woman-owned, and self-certified small disadvantaged business (SDVB) posture.

The vendor is a minority-owned, Subcontinent Asian American-owned, woman-owned small business with self-certified SDVB status and economically disadvantaged woman-owned small business (EDWOSB) certifications. First Navigant competes in full-and-open procurements rather than set-aside vehicles—of 207 prime awards in the source, only a handful carry Total Small Business or set-aside designations. The company operates directly as a prime contractor with no subcontractor footprint.

Capability portfolio centers on defense logistics consumables. Representative work includes a $120,000 purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime (January 2026) for valve head components (NSN 1650009285125) with 154-day delivery; a $82,000 purchase order from DLA Aviation (June 2024) for retainer seals (NSN 5330015075395); a $50,000 Total Small Business purchase order from DLA Aviation (March 2026) for retainer seals; and a $36,000 gasket supply purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime (December 2025). The vast majority of awards are purchase orders and delivery orders in the $1,000–$10,000 range, with roughly 27% of combined potential value obligated across 207 awards as of mid-2026.

Customer concentration is tightly focused. DLA Aviation and DLA Land and Maritime account for 100% of awards (113 and 94 awards respectively, each carrying roughly $1.8 million combined potential value). No other federal agencies appear in the portfolio.

Vehicle position is granular and transactional. The vendor holds ten active Defense Logistics Agency Indefinite Delivery Contracts (IDCs), each with a $250,000 ceiling, awarded between November 2023 and October 2025, covering gaskets, O-rings, self-locking nuts, machine screws, plain seals, setscrews, and socket head cap screws. These IDCs are the parent vehicles under which task orders are issued; the source names five vehicles explicitly (SPE4A624D60DA with 6 task orders, SPE4A625D5216 with 3, SPE7L125D61SN with 3, SPE4A625D5297 with 2, and SPE4A625D60BN with 1). Most orders complete within 30–150 days of award, with cumulative potential value across the ten IDCs standing at $2.5 million.

Activity has grown sharply from six awards in 2023 to 103 in 2025, declining to 23 in 2026 year-to-date. The trajectory reflects heavy transaction volume in 2024–2025 and lighter activity in the current year. No recompete cliff data is present in the source; however, several IDCs awarded in late 2023 and early 2024 face expiration in 2026, creating potential recompete exposure.

Product concentration is narrow. NAICS 332722 (Bolt, Nut, Screw, Rivet, and Washer Manufacturing) accounts for 108 awards; NAICS 339991 (Gasket, Packing, and Sealing Device Manufacturing) accounts for 73 awards. Product Service Code 53-P (Packing and Gasket Materials) dominates at 80 awards, followed by Screws (56 awards) and Nuts and Washers (45 awards). First Navigant's business model is transactional supply of off-the-shelf defense consumables to DLA depots worldwide, not custom engineering or system integration.

First Navigant operates as a lean prime contractor, executing high-volume, low-touch purchase orders and delivery orders for critical spares in support of military equipment maintenance. The vendor's set-aside certifications are visible in SAM but inactive in its pursuit strategy; it wins in full-and-open competition, suggesting it either prices competitively or meets DLA's preferred-vendor status on existing IDCs.