Forceco LLC

Forceco LLC Forceco Manufacturing, a small business prime defense contractor based in Saginaw, Michigan, manufactures precision-engineered components, fabrication services, and supply chain support for Navy and Army weapon systems and aircraft development programs, competing predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides and holding two major Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs) that anchor 32 of its 45 recent federal awards.

Forceco is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation incorporated in 2013, competing across small business set-asides. The vendor's capability footprint centers on precision machining, fabrication, assembly, and parts manufacturing for defense applications — concrete work includes producing piston rods, howitzer replacement parts, firing mechanism housings, cable tensioner components, and aircraft-support materials. Recent named work includes a $4.999 million Naval Air Warfare Center BPA call for government purchase card supplies and prototype parts production (April 2026); a $537,860 Total Small Business definitive contract with TACOM Life Cycle Management Command for manufacture of 55 front shrouds and 50 rear shrouds for the 105mm M35 Cannon, completing May 2025; a $184,531 U.S. Army West Point howitzer refurbishment contract for design, fabrication, and construction of critical parts including trigger shafts and firing pins; and a $135,050 Naval Air Systems Command purchase order for ten rotary retract engine cable tensioner piston rods. Forceco also subcontracts: one sub-award from Lockheed Martin Corporation in December 2023 for annual tooling and aircraft parts service.

Customer concentration is extreme and represents both strength and risk. The Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center accounts for 35 of 43 prime awards (81% of the award count) and $111.2 million of the $119.9 million combined potential value across all awards (93%). The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command holds three awards totaling $7.6 million. This concentration reflects Forceco's deep footprint on a single Navy customer's BPA vehicle rather than diversified agency relationships.

Forceco holds two primary parent vehicles: a $4.999 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement (N6833522A0035) with the Naval Air Warfare Center running through August 2027, which has generated 24 task orders totaling $105.1 million in combined potential value, and a $7.5 million multiple-award BPA with the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command running through December 2027. The Naval Air Warfare Center BPA dominates the footprint — monthly government purchase card calls under this vehicle account for the majority of recent awards, each carrying ceiling values of $4.999 million though actual performance typically executes much smaller incremental work orders. Task orders on this vehicle range from nominal ($26,650 in December 2025) to substantive ($52,500 in April 2026).

Activity has grown sharply year over year, from two awards in 2022 to fourteen in 2024, with eleven awards in 2025 and one in 2026 year-to-date. The recompete cliff in the next twenty-four months is minimal — only one award ($185 thousand for West Point howitzer refurbishment) completes by mid-2028. Most of Forceco's combined potential value sits under the Naval Air Warfare Center BPA extending through August 2027 and the Army Materiel Command BPA extending through December 2027, providing visibility into the medium term but exposing the vendor to recompete risk on both vehicles beginning in 2027.

The vendor's capability portfolio concentrates in machine shop work (27 awards by NAICS category) and other aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing (10 awards), with secondary exposure to forging, turned products, and small arms ordnance. Procurement Service Code concentration runs to aircraft ground servicing equipment (29 awards) and guns in the 75mm through 125mm range (2 awards), reflecting the Navy's aircraft-systems focus and legacy Army cannon-system sustainment. Forceco performs work at its Saginaw, Michigan headquarters, with one noted sub-award referencing a Wharton, New Jersey facility. Place of performance is consistently Saginaw for Navy work. Obligated dollars remain minimal — $1.6 million obligated against $119.9 million in combined potential value — indicating the BPAs function as call vehicles against which individual task orders drive payment rather than as full-funded awards.