H & C Tool Supply Corp.

H & C Tool Supply Corp., doing business as Hewes Fastener Division, supplies precision cutting tools, carbide inserts, end mills, drills, taps, tool holders, boring bars, hydraulic chucks, and related machining accessories to the U.S. Army as a small business prime contractor operating entirely under blanket purchase agreements. The vendor is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in Rochester, New York, with 979 federal contract awards across a 18-year footprint, generating $16.1 million in combined potential value.

Hewes Fastener Division competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements; the source records show mixed set-aside posture across task orders, with roughly half designated "Total Small Business" and half unrestricted, but the vendor holds no dedicated 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other SBA set-aside certifications in the source material. The company's capability portfolio is narrowly focused on consumable and precision manufactured tooling for Army ground systems production and maintenance. Representative work includes a $601,840 purchase order for a carbide-inserted broaching set per specification (awarded February 2023), an $86,112 firm fixed-price BPA call for Kennametal Extrude Hone media under a Total Small Business set-aside (September 2025), and an $84,392 order for 880 carbide inserts under another small-business set-aside (December 2022). Across all awards shown, the vendor has delivered generic categories such as various cutting tools, tooling items, Kennametal tool crib supplies, and specialized fixtures per customer drawings.

Customer concentration is extreme and singular. The Department of the Army Materiel Command TACOM Life Cycle Management Command accounts for 972 of 979 awards (99% of volume) and all $16 million in potential value. The next-largest customer, the Department of the Army Research Development and Engineering Command, contributes only $149 thousand across a single award. This concentration reflects a single-source relationship: Hewes Fastener Division holds a primary master BPA (W911PT21A0033) with TACOM LCMC, awarded July 6, 2021, with a $4.999 million ceiling and completion date of July 4, 2026. Task orders against this BPA form the overwhelming bulk of recent activity. Two successor or parallel BPAs (W911PT16A0033 and W911PT12A0033) account for 309 and 342 task orders respectively and carry combined potential values of $2.6 million and $1.5 million; these appear to be earlier vintage vehicles now largely closed, with few recent calls.

Activity trajectory shows modest volatility without clear growth or decline: 52 awards in 2022, 41 in 2023, 54 in 2024, 42 in 2025, and only 9 awards through mid-2026 (a truncated partial year). The most recent award dates April 14, 2026. The recompete cliff is minimal—only 2 awards with ultimate completion in the next 24 months carry a combined potential value of $16 thousand—because the primary master BPA itself (W911PT21A0033, representing the bulk of the footprint) does not expire until July 4, 2026, which falls just inside the window but is not yet urgent. However, that single BPA expiration will represent the largest competitive juncture in the vendor's recent history and the most material recompete risk.

Hewes Fastener Division operates exclusively as a prime contractor on government contracts; no subcontract work appears in the source. The company manufactures or distributes generic cutting tool commodities (carbide inserts, end mills, reamels, taps, drills, boring bars, hydraulic chucks, tool holders, adapters, collets, and related fasteners and abrasives) sourced from brand-name suppliers such as Kennametal, Iscar, Sandvik, and Ceratizit. Primary NAICS concentration is 332911 (Cutting Tool and Machine Tool Accessory Manufacturing), with secondary codes covering bolt/nut manufacturing, industrial supplies wholesaling, and machinery repair—though the source award language and product descriptions align most closely with tool distribution rather than true manufacturing. All work is performed in Rochester, New York. The vendor's federal contract history extends back to at least 2004 per SAM.gov registration noted in award summaries, establishing it as a long-standing, trusted logistics supplier to Army ground systems sustainment rather than a defense innovation or engineering-services firm.

Wholesale distributor of metal-cutting tools, cutting fluids, and fasteners. Familiar with mil-spec requirements for fasteners, in-house QC, DFARS compliant. In house packaging & labeling.