Guardian Manufacturing Company, LLC

Guardian Manufacturing Company, LLC, doing business as Guardian Gloves, manufactures chemical protective, electrical, and toxicological gloves for the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on a portfolio of 121 delivery orders and indefinite delivery contracts, all awarded by the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Clothing and Textiles division. The company is an SBA-certified HUBZone small business headquartered in Willard, Ohio, where it performs all manufacturing. Guardian competes in full-and-open procurements without set-aside designation across its entire prime footprint, though its HUBZone status confers preferential consideration eligibility in federal awards.

The customer concentration is extreme: DLA Troop Support Clothing and Textiles accounts for 98 of 121 awards (81% of award count) and $71.1 million of $80.9 million combined potential value (88%). The remaining customer base is negligible — the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command (3 awards, $478 thousand), the Naval Supply Systems Command (2 awards, $28 thousand), the Marine Corps (1 award), and other DLA divisions (11 awards, undisclosed value). This concentration reflects Guardian's role as a specialized supplier of military-specification protective gloves on a tight vertical relationship with a single buyer.

Guardian's work is anchored to five recurring indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Troop Support: IDC SPE1C121D1445 ($2.065 million ceiling, electrical gloves, April 2021–April 2025) has generated 22 delivery orders; IDC SP010006D4133 ($1.4 million in combined delivery-order value); IDC SPE1C115D1091 ($2 million, 10 orders); IDC SPE1C118D1007 ($4.4 million, 10 orders); and IDC SPM1C113D1025 ($4.8 million, 10 orders). A sixth IDC mentioned in award summaries, SPE1C121D1416 (chemical gloves, December 2020–April 2024), valued at $18.734 million, has completed or is near completion. Representative delivery orders under these IDCs include a $3.144 million chemical gloves order awarded September 2022, a $197.683 thousand electrical gloves order from December 2024, and a $86.835 thousand chemical gloves order from September 2025.

Activity has contracted sharply: nine awards in 2022, five in 2023, four in 2024, two in 2025, and one in 2026. Only one award (valued at $15 thousand) reaches completion inside the next twenty-four months, presenting no near-term recompete risk. However, the two largest IDCs underlying this portfolio — SPE1C121D1416 ($18.734 million) and SPE1C121D1445 ($2.065 million) — are expiring or have expired, and declining year-on-year award volume signals either contract consolidation, customer base change, or pending recompete activity not yet reflected in this source. Guardian holds no subcontractor relationships in the visible award record and does not appear as a sub on other primes' contracts. The vendor's capability footprint is tightly specialized: 114 awards map to PSC 8405 (Clothing, Special Purpose), and 75 awards to NAICS 315299 (Apparel Accessories and Other Apparel Manufacturing), positioning Guardian as a single-mission supplier of DoD-specification protective gloves with no diversified service or product lines.

Chemical protective butyl and neoprene rubber gloves in 14inch and drybox (32inch) length. Gloves are used for protection against nerve and mustard gases and other chemicals.