Herbert Cooper Company Inc.

Herbert Cooper Company Inc., a Pennsylvania-based small business manufacturer of air transportation components and industrial gases equipment, operates as a prime contractor supplying air breathing hoses, air brake hose assemblies, air ducts, and related air system components to the Defense Logistics Agency. The company competes across full-and-open and Total Small Business set-aside solicitations without maintaining formal SBA designations (8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB) across its prime footprint; Herbert Cooper is registered in SAM as a small business manufacturer since 2001 and headquartered in Genesee Township, Pennsylvania under NAICS 332999 (All Other Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing) and PSC 47-P (Hose and Flexible Tubing).

Herbert Cooper's federal revenue is concentrated in a single customer: DLA Land and Maritime accounts for 698 of 855 prime awards (81% of the prime portfolio) and $17.9 million of the $18.4 million combined potential value across all prime work. Work flows overwhelmingly through single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts, with seven such IDVs each valued at $250 thousand serving as the primary vehicle for delivery orders ranging from under one thousand dollars to over one million dollars for large-lot air breathing hose and assembly procurements. Across the most recent five years (2022–2026), the company has received 33 to 39 awards annually, with 16 awards so far in 2026 and activity remaining strong. Four hundred seventy-one thousand dollars in orders and up to one million dollars in purchase orders for single line items reflect a mix of routine small-lot delivery orders and larger contract awards, several set aside for Total Small Business (such as a $434,992 purchase order for air breathing hoses awarded November 2022 and a $419,191 order for air duct hose awarded May 2024).

Recent representative prime work includes a $142.5 million purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime on August 6, 2025, for air breathing hoses (1,395 units with 412-day delivery and two single units), a $106.2 million Total Small Business set-aside awarded January 7, 2025, for air duct hose (2,782 units), and a $75.9 thousand Total Small Business set-aside issued March 19, 2026, for air breathing hoses with firm fixed pricing and 352-day delivery timelines. Seven single-award IDVs with DLA Land and Maritime and DLA Aviation (each with $250 thousand ceilings, dated 2022–2023) anchor the company's order pipeline; Herbert Cooper fulfills firm fixed-price delivery orders from these vehicles at rates that have ranged from $264 to over $8,800 per order. The company also holds one active IDV awarded October 2023 with an expiration of October 2024.

In its subcontractor role, Herbert Cooper supplies air brake hose assemblies and related material components to BAE Systems Land & Armaments across the Bradley A4 follow-on production effort (M2A4 and M7A4 vehicle builds), self-propelled howitzer systems, and M88A2 armored recovery vehicle production; recent sub awards date from January through December 2025. Across both prime and sub work, Herbert Cooper does not maintain parent vehicle positions on governmentwide acquisition contracts or BPAs outside the DLA IDV structure, and customer concentration remains extreme—DLA Land and Maritime represents the effective entirety of prime federal revenue.

Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months totals $264 thousand in combined potential value across six awards, representing minimal near-term attrition. Herbert Cooper's business model is characterized by high-volume, low-dollar-value purchase orders and delivery orders against standing IDV agreements, with product categories concentrated in air system components for military vehicles, aircraft, and logistics operations across CONUS and OCONUS locations.