GMS International Corporation

GMS International Corporation, doing business as GMS, is a veteran-owned small business that supplies specialized aerospace and defense components to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) as a prime contractor through a high-volume transactional model of purchase orders and delivery orders against multiple single-award indefinite delivery contracts. The company does not compete under formal small business set-asides across its prime footprint; instead, it wins full-and-open competitions alongside Total Small Business set-aside awards that recur on specific vehicles tied to springs, transmitters, lights, and ordnance-related components.

GMS operates from Reston, Virginia, with subordinate performance locations in Herndon, Virginia; Lebanon and East Aurora, New York; Amityville and Union, New Jersey; Vergennes, Vermont; Elizabeth City, North Carolina; Wilson, North Carolina; Wilson, New York; and Cheltenham, United Kingdom. The company's concrete capability is the manufacture and supply of specialized aerospace and defense components including navigational lights, liquid transmitters, indicator lights and panels, springs (helical torsion, spiral torsion, and compression variants), electronic components (circuit card assemblies, resistors, switches), mechanical fasteners and fittings, cable assemblies, deicer boots, bomb racks and ejectors, arming units, and control systems for military aviation, maritime, and land-based platforms. Representative work includes a $313,065.21 delivery order from DLA Aviation in May 2026 for aircraft tip light assemblies; a $417,978 purchase order from DLA Aviation in December 2025 for position transmitters (22 units); a $349,992 purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime in February 2026 for starter valves (57 units with staggered delivery); a $119,117.20 Total Small Business set-aside purchase order from the U.S. Coast Guard in February 2026 for electrical control panels for C-130J aircraft; and a $987,175.20 purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime in July 2026 for circuit card assemblies (14 units).

Customer concentration is extreme and deliberate. DLA Aviation accounts for 2,050 of the company's 3,230 total awards (63% of award count) and $113.6 million of the $184.6 million combined potential value (61% of dollars). DLA Land and Maritime adds another 883 awards (27% of count) and $58.7 million (32% of value). These two DLA divisions together represent 98% of awards and 93% of combined potential value. The remaining customer base includes DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (149 awards, $5.5 million), Naval Supply Systems Command (18 awards, $2.1 million), and occasional work with Army Materiel Command, Air Force, and the Coast Guard. This customer concentration reflects GMS's positioning as a specialized supplier locked into DLA's transactional procurement ecosystem for aerospace components rather than as a broad federal contractor.

GMS holds at least 11 active single-award indefinite delivery contracts with DLA across Aviation and Land and Maritime divisions, each with ceilings ranging from $350,000 to $1 million. The largest vehicle is an IDIQs with DLA Aviation for panel indication lights with a $744,160.95 ceiling and completion through April 12, 2031. Other active vehicles include contracts for aircraft tip light assemblies ($313,065.21 delivery order), forward fairings ($350,000 ceiling), spiral torsion springs ($350,000, Total Small Business set-aside), helical torsion springs (multiple vehicles), arming units ($350,000), power supply units ($350,000, Total Small Business set-aside), piston ejector lines ($350,000), UPLOCK assemblies ($350,000), quick release plungers ($350,000), and lens lights ($1 million, Total Small Business set-aside). Task orders issued against these vehicles are consistently small, ranging from a few thousand dollars to roughly $420,000 for larger transmitter and light assembly orders. The company's activity has held steady at 255–306 awards per year over the past five years, with 130 awards recorded through September 2026 in the current year. However, 183 awards (combined potential value $16.3 million) reach ultimate completion within the next 24 months, creating significant recompete exposure across GMS's DLA vehicle portfolio.

GMS appears in the source with minimal subcontract activity: three sub-awards are noted under Raytheon and Moog between May and September 2025 covering life cycle contractor support for A3 Sentinel radars, hydraulic test sets, and Romania production electrical items. This sub footprint is negligible relative to the company's prime business.

The company's product concentration centers on electric lighting (navigational, indicator, recognition lights under PSC Electric Vehicular Lights and Fixtures—658 awards), liquid transmitters and measuring instruments (PSC 270 awards), aircraft accessories and miscellaneous components (PSC 231 awards), weapons and ordnance items (PSC 196 awards), and springs across multiple types (PSC 140 awards). NAICS coding reflects this: Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (568 awards), Motor Vehicle Electrical and Electronic Equipment Manufacturing (552 awards), and Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing (185 awards) dominate the portfolio. Pricing posture is uniformly firm fixed-price, and the majority of awards carry no set-aside designation, with recurrent Total Small Business set-asides on spring and light-related vehicles. Combined obligated dollars total $151 million (82% of potential value), indicating the source data captures a mature, invoiced revenue stream rather than speculative pipeline. GMS has maintained SAM.gov registration and DLA relationships since at least 2004, positioning itself as an embedded, stable supplier within the federal aerospace and defense logistics ecosystem rather than a growth-oriented or pursuit-active competitor.