Gate Industries

Gate Industries, a minority-owned, Asian-Pacific American small disadvantaged business manufacturer based in Torrance, California, supplies specialized electrical components and assemblies to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides across over 20 active indefinite delivery contracts with combined ceiling values exceeding $13 million.

Gate Industries manufactures wiring harnesses, cable assemblies, battery boxes, circuit card assemblies, headset adapters, control boxes, distribution boxes, compass assemblies, and related electrical components essential to military aviation, ground vehicles, and logistics operations. Recent representative work includes a $4.93 million single-award IDC with DLA Land and Maritime (awarded April 2026) for headset adapter procurement under the night vision equipment category; a $3.43 million single-award IDC with DLA Land and Maritime (awarded September 2024) for distribution box supply; and a $1.98 million single-award IDC with DLA Aviation (awarded August 2025) for compass assembly and wireless communications equipment. The company executes firm fixed-price purchase orders and delivery orders across its portfolio, with individual task orders ranging from under $10 thousand to over $500 thousand.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to Defense Logistics Agency components. DLA Land and Maritime leads by potential value at $58.9 million across 200 awards (coverage: 100% of top five agencies by value), while DLA Aviation accounts for 492 awards valued at $33 million, collectively representing the vast majority of the vendor's federal footprint. Army Materiel Command Contracting Command Detroit Arsenal (ACC Warren) places 48 awards worth $22.1 million, primarily for wiring harnesses and cable assemblies supporting the Abrams tank program. TACOM Life Cycle Management Command and Joint Munitions Command add modest volume at $3.2 million and $702 thousand respectively. The split signals that DLA controls procurement frequency while ACC Warren anchors larger dollar amounts, with the two agencies' rankings diverging by dollar magnitude.

Gate Industries seats on 20+ single-award IDCs, predominantly with DLA Aviation, DLA Land and Maritime, and Army Materiel Command. Five top vehicles by task-order volume are SPE7MX21D0045 (29 orders, $4.8 million), SPE7MX17D0009 (26 orders, $6.1 million), SPE4A616D0126 (12 orders, $473 thousand), SPE4A619D5653 (12 orders, $249 thousand), and SPE4A620D5AT9 (11 orders, $248 thousand). The company's IDC portfolio spans five-year periods with ceiling values typically between $250 thousand and $613 thousand, although newer awards (2024–2026) include vehicles valued up to $4.93 million. These vehicles establish the vendor's recurring procurement relationship and eliminate re-competition friction on individual electrical component requirements.

Activity has expanded steadily: 29 awards in 2022 grew to 96 in 2024, before moderating to 61 in 2025 and 8 year-to-date in 2026. Combined potential value stands at $118.2 million across 776 prime awards, with $46.3 million obligated to date (39% execution rate). Twenty awards with completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $4.1 million, representing recompete exposure across near-term IDC and delivery-order closeouts. Gate Industries' category concentration aligns tightly with its product portfolio: 378 awards under Other Electronic Component Manufacturing (NAICS), 71 under Current-Carrying Wiring Device Manufacturing, 62 under Power, Distribution, and Specialty Transformer Manufacturing, and 50 under Printed Circuit Assembly Manufacturing. PSC coding shows 346 awards for Miscellaneous Electric Power and Distribution Equipment and 164 for Cable, Cord, and Wire Assemblies, reflecting the company's focus on electrical interconnect and power distribution hardware.

The vendor competes entirely under small business set-asides—all 776 awards are designated total small business set-asides or carry no set-aside language (reserved for full-and-open competition in which the vendor qualifies as small). Approximately 40% of recent task orders carry explicit total small business set-aside labels; the remainder are issued without set-aside restriction but remain small-business-eligible under the vendor's SDB certification. Performance uniformly occurs at Gate Industries' Torrance, California facility. The company operates as a Subchapter S Corporation and carries self-certified small disadvantaged business status reflecting its minority ownership and Asian-Pacific American designation. Gate Industries maintains no subcontractor footprint in the visible award record; all work is delivered as prime contractor manufacturing.

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