Bourbon Seals LLC

Bourbon Seals LLC, a woman-owned small business manufacturer based in Paris, Kentucky, supplies precision sealing components—O-rings, retainer packings, preformed packings, gaskets, stuffing tubes, and fastening hardware—to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor on a 100% full-and-open competitive posture, with no subcontract activity. The company is classified under NAICS 339991 (Gasket, Packing, and Sealing Device Manufacturing) and operates as a sole proprietorship.

Bourbon Seals has established an exclusively defense-focused footprint centered on DLA Land and Maritime procurement. The vendor's 1,309 total awards since 2015 reflect a transactional supply model: 911 awards (86% of the award count, $11.2 million combined potential value) flow through DLA Land and Maritime, 124 awards ($1.1 million) through DLA Aviation, and 271 awards ($384 thousand) through DLA Troop Support Hardware. The remaining four awards carry minimal value. The top two customer rankings align closely—DLA Land and Maritime commands both the volume and the dollar concentration—indicating a single-customer dependency on a single contracting activity. Activity has remained steady across the past five years (168 awards in 2022, 216 in 2025, 121 to date in 2026), though obligated dollars ($3.3 million) represent only 26% of potential value, signaling typical lag in invoice timing on smaller purchase orders.

Capability work is granular and consumables-driven. Representative awards include a $103,898.08 delivery order (November 2025) for packing with retainer components under a Total Small Business set-aside; a $46,601.75 purchase order (February 2026) for preformed packing to DLA Distribution; a $28,234.24 Total Small Business set-aside order (March 2026) for 128 plain seals; and numerous individual purchase orders in the $1,000 to $15,000 range for O-rings, retainer packings, gaskets, and stuffing tubes. The vast majority of awards use firm fixed-price terms and carry no set-aside designation, though Bourbon Seals also wins under Total Small Business set-asides (roughly three awards in the past nine months at higher dollar values). PSC portfolio concentration is steep: 760 awards code to Packing and Gasket Materials, 426 to O-Ring, and 86 to Electrical Hardware and Supplies.

Bourbon Seals holds six active single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Land and Maritime, each valued at $250,000 to $350,000, awarded across 2025 and 2026 and expiring between November 2026 and May 2027. These IDCs cover specific National Stock Numbers for retainer packings, preformed packing, and related gasket and sealing devices, with delivery to continental U.S. and overseas DLA depots. Delivery timelines typically range from 76 to 97 days. The vendor issues firm fixed-price delivery orders and purchase orders under these IDCs on an as-needed basis. All work is performed at Bourbon Seals' manufacturing facility in Paris, Kentucky, with no identified subcontractors across any award.

Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is modest: 31 awards (combined potential value $175 thousand) reach ultimate completion in that window, primarily purchase orders with short performance periods rather than the larger IDC vehicles themselves. The IDC expirations between November 2026 and May 2027 represent the material recompete opportunity. Bourbon Seals competes in full-and-open procurements; the firm does not hold positions on government-wide vehicles, BPAs, or agency-wide IDIQs outside the DLA Land and Maritime single-award structure. The vendor's competitive posture is entirely transactional and supply-chain-driven, anchored to recurring DLA demand for military logistics consumables with no teaming, subcontract, or parent-contractor relationships evident in the federal record.

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