HJ Kirby Corp

HJ Kirby Corp, a veteran-owned small business headquartered in Westlake, Ohio, supplies precision measurement and control components—primarily pressure gauges, valves, thermometers, and related instrumentation—to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor exclusively through firm fixed-price purchase orders and delivery orders. The company operates 100% as a prime contractor with no subcontract exposure and competes predominantly in full-and-open market procurements, though some of its underlying indefinite delivery contracts carry total small business set-aside designations.

HJ Kirby's customer concentration is extreme and monolithic: the Defense Logistics Agency accounts for 97% of awards and combined potential value across the vendor's recent footprint. Within DLA, the DLA Aviation division dominates with 248 awards valued at $2 million in combined potential value, while DLA Land and Maritime places a secondary volume of 67 awards valued at $304 thousand. The remaining four agencies—DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment, and an undesignated DLA entity—together account for roughly 16 awards with negligible dollar value. This concentration reflects HJ Kirby's narrow positioning as a component distributor for military logistics inventory replenishment rather than a systems integrator or services contractor.

HJ Kirby holds three single-award indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Aviation, each valued at $250,000, awarded in March 2022, August 22, 2022, and August 24, 2022, all carrying total small business set-aside designations. These vehicles enable DLA Aviation to issue delivery orders and purchase orders against standard gauge items on an as-needed basis. Beyond those three named IDCs, HJ Kirby places work under five additional indefinite delivery contracts (SPE4A614D5545, SPE4A621D5283, SPE4A616D5391, SPE4A617D5845, and SPE4A722D60CR) through which it has fulfilled between four and ten task orders per vehicle, with combined ceiling values ranging from $3 thousand to $56 thousand across the vehicles shown.

Representative recent awards illustrate the commodity-level scope: a $9,409 delivery order from DLA Aviation in December 2025 for dial pressure gauges (NSN 4610093765), performed at the company's Lawrenceville, Georgia facility; a $3,210.80 purchase order in September 2025 for a compound press gauge, performed in Westlake; a $9,702 purchase order in July 2025 for indicator thermometers; and a $49,714.70 purchase order in September 2023 from DLA Land and Maritime for sensor manifold assemblies designated as a total small business set-aside. Individual award values typically range from $50 to $10,000, with median order size well under $1,000.

Award activity has remained relatively flat over the past five years (25 awards in 2022, 24 in 2023, 17 in 2024, 25 in 2025, and four year-to-date through June 2026), suggesting a stable but unremarkable procurement footprint. The company's combined potential value across all 342 awards in the source data totals $2.4 million, with $915 thousand obligated—a 39% obligation rate typical of small purchase and delivery orders that flow through DLA's automated systems. Commodity classification concentrates in pressure, temperature, and humidity measurement and control instrumentation (256 awards under PSC 41–pressure and control instruments) and automatic environmental control manufacturing (61 awards under NAICS 335991).

HJ Kirby maintains operational capacity at both its Westlake, Ohio headquarters and a secondary facility in Lawrenceville, Georgia, with performance predominantly split between the two locations depending on order routing through DLA Aviation's regional depots. The vendor has been registered in SAM.gov since 2002 and demonstrates consistency as a reliable small-volume supplier to military logistics, but lacks the scale, vehicle diversity, or capability breadth characteristic of competitive federal contractors—the footprint is defensible only through commodity commodity-level availability and incumbent advantage with DLA's purchasing patterns.

Pressure gauges and air pressure regulators, filters and lubricators. Manual valves. Pressure Transmitters.