Gaffel Equipment

Gaffel Equipment, a veteran-owned sole proprietorship based in Lee Center, New York, supplies industrial plumbing components, electrical connectors, laboratory equipment, and consumable supplies to the Naval Supply Systems Command as a prime contractor under a single dominant blanket purchase agreement, competing exclusively under total small business set-asides on individual purchase orders.

Gaffel Equipment operates almost entirely within the Department of the Navy ecosystem, with 2,802 awards (100% of its award count) from the Naval Supply Systems Command totaling $82.1 million in combined potential value. Three additional awards from the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation and Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime account for less than $10 thousand combined and do not materially alter the customer concentration profile. Activity has declined from 243 awards in 2022 to 41 in the first quarter of 2026, though the vendor maintains an active and recurring flow of small purchase orders across a broad product portfolio.

The vendor's entire prime footprint rests on a single $40 million blanket purchase agreement with the Naval Supply Systems Command, awarded December 15, 2022, with a ceiling completion date of December 14, 2027. This five-year BPA carries no set-aside designation at the vehicle level but channels work through recurring calls for whole body valves and valve piece parts under Federal Supply Class 4820, with individual purchase orders designated as total small business set-asides. Recent representative work includes a $110,856 order for laboratory burette equipment (February 2026), a $67,500 order for black markers (November 2024), a $46,200 order for guard column electrical connectors (November 2025), a $45,012 order for anion guard columns (December 2025), and numerous smaller orders ranging from $300 to $40,000 for pipe fittings, adapters, clamps, laboratory glassware, electrical components, and miscellaneous consumables. All awards are firm fixed-price purchase orders with ultimate completion dates typically four to six months from award.

Gaffel Equipment's capability portfolio, grounded in recent awards, centers on the sourcing and supply of commercial industrial components and laboratory consumables rather than manufacturing or integration work. The vendor specializes in valve assemblies, plumbing fittings (couplings, unions, reducers, adapters, tees, plugs, nipples, ferrules, connectors), electrical components (plugs, connectors, ferrules), laboratory equipment (burettes, beakers, flasks, graduated cylinders, pipettes, bottles, cuvettes, stirring bars), hand tools (hex keys, wrenches, tweezers, clamps), and miscellaneous consumables (tape, markers, filters, stoppers, sensors). Top NAICS categories are Other Metal Valve and Pipe Fitting Manufacturing (727 awards), Laboratory Equipment and Supplies (289 awards), and Saw Blade and Handtool Manufacturing (156 awards). Top PSC codes are Hose, Pipe, Tube, Lubrication, and Railing Fittings (859 awards) and Laboratory Equipment and Supplies (289 awards).

Gaffel Equipment holds no subcontractor relationships and carries no position on government-wide vehicles, agency-wide IDIQs, or GSA Schedules beyond the single NAVSUP BPA. The vendor does not compete on full-and-open procurements; all recent work is designated total small business set-aside. The recompete cliff carries minimal risk: 25 awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months total $135 thousand in potential value — less than one-sixth of one percent of the current portfolio — and all fall within the existing BPA framework, where Gaffel Equipment holds the only seat and faces no active competition on individual calls.

Gaffel Equipment has been registered in SAM since March 2004. The vendor's award trajectory reflects a mature, stable supplier relationship with a single customer whose purchasing pattern has contracted by 83% from its 2022 peak, suggesting either a reduction in Navy logistics demand, consolidation of purchasing under fewer vendors, or a shift in procurement strategy away from distributed small orders. The portfolio structure — 2,806 awards in a twenty-one-year window with 100% concentration in one agency and 99.9% in one vehicle — indicates a narrowly scoped supplier role with limited revenue diversification and no visible path to growth beyond NAVSUP's continued call-order activity.

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