Gerhardt Gear Co, Inc.

Gerhardt Gear Co., Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of precision industrial gear components based in Burbank, California, operates as a small business prime contractor (100% of recent awards) supplying spur gears, spline adapters, torque tubes, worm gears, gear clusters, and gearshafts to the Department of Defense logistics enterprise. The company competes full-and-open but has received multiple Total Small Business set-aside awards; across the recent footprint, set-aside work represents a minority of dollar volume but a measurable share of individual awards, signaling it pursues both channels.

Gerhardt Gear's customer concentration is extreme and highly specific. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime accounts for 452 awards (98% of recent contract volume) valued at $12.6 million in combined potential value. DLA Aviation adds 38 awards at $1.3 million, and the remaining five customer agencies together represent 2% of awards and less than 1% of dollars. Across the recent five-year award window, activity has declined from 44 awards in 2022 to five in 2026 year-to-date, a 89% contraction that signals either a significant recompete cycle or diminishing order frequency. Seven awards (combined potential value $310 thousand) reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months.

Gerhardt Gear holds an extensive portfolio of single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Land and Maritime, representing its primary revenue vehicle. The source names thirteen named IDCs active between 2022 and 2025, each carrying a $250,000 ceiling and one-year ordering periods; the most recent awards in November 2025 include one $350,000 IDC and two $250,000 IDCs. These vehicles support rapid procurement of National Stock Number items including spur gears (NSNs 3020007633094, 3020008873387, 3020010084160, 8511247519, 8510272861, 8509662969, 8510522709, 8510431741), gearshafts (NSN 3040003213943, 8511116793, 8511279070, 8511339128, 8511367583), spline adapters (NSN 3040014838147, 3040014838110, 8510361179, 8510522706, 8510607748), and related components. Delivery orders issued under these vehicles are typical in value from $3,000 to $70,000, with terms of 30 to 360 days from order to delivery. The source notes Gerhardt Gear maintains "multiple active Indefinite Delivery Contracts . . . valued at approximately $250,000 each" with DLA Land and Maritime, DLA Aviation, and DLA Supply Chain, indicating at least seven to ten active vehicles at any given time.

Capability framing centers on manufacturing and supply of mechanical power transmission equipment components—specifically gears and adapters for military vehicle, vessel, and aircraft applications. Representative recent prime work includes a $113,752.10 non-set-aside purchase order (November 20, 2025) for 238 units of spur gears; a $131,867.28 Total Small Business set-aside (December 7, 2024) for 276 units of spur gears; a $69,042.50 Total Small Business set-aside (April 12, 2024) for 481 spur gearshafts; a $123,250 delivery order (March 13, 2025) for spur gears; and a $25,500 non-set-aside delivery order (May 16, 2023) for torque tube gear drive units. Across the broader footprint, the source identifies 364 awards under NAICS 333613 (Mechanical Power Transmission Equipment Manufacturing) and 67 awards under NAICS 333612 (Speed Changer, Industrial High-Speed Drive, and Gear Manufacturing), with 285 awards spanning PSC code for gears, pulleys, sprockets, and transmission chain. The company has served as a subcontractor on one documented award in the source—a machined subcomponent delivery in support of a prime contract, dated March 11, 2026.

Gerhardt Gear has been registered in the System for Award Management since 2002 and holds no SBA set-aside certifications mentioned in the source beyond small business status. The company is not certified as an 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, or other designated category. All IDCs and most delivery orders are non-set-aside; Total Small Business set-asides recur but do not dominate the portfolio. The steep decline in annual award count—from 44 in 2022 to 5 in 2026 YTD—merits monitoring for recompete losses, though the source does not distinguish between recompete completions, lost bids, or intentional reduction in ordering by DLA.

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