Holmes Tool And Engineering, Inc.

Holmes Tool And Engineering, Inc., a Bonifay, Florida-based small business manufacturer, produces custom-fabricated aircraft arresting system components for the Department of the Air Force and Department of the Navy as a prime contractor. The company operates exclusively as a prime (100% of awards), competing under the Total Small Business set-aside category across recent awards, with secondary full-and-open purchase orders from the Air National Guard. Holmes Tool and Engineering manufactures diesel engine conversion kits, BAK-15 enclosures, depressor roller assemblies, sweep wire assemblies, and related aircraft arresting system parts that lack National Stock Numbers or are unavailable through standard Defense Logistics Agency depots.

Customer concentration is heavily tilted toward the Air Force. The Department of the Air Force Air Education and Training Command (AETC) anchors the portfolio with 23 awards and $10.7 million combined potential value (94% of total value across five federal customers). The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command represents the secondary customer with 28 awards but only $275 thousand combined potential value — a high-volume, low-dollar-per-order pattern that contrasts sharply with AETC's larger task orders. The Air National Guard, Naval Education and Training Command, and Department of the Navy round out the five-customer roster. Holmes Tool and Engineering holds two active BPAs: the larger single-award BPA FA481921A0005 with AETC, under which six task orders carry $3.6 million combined potential value and which runs through March 2026, and a smaller BPA FA481914A0001 carrying $813 thousand across eleven task orders.

Recent contract work includes a $1.33 million BPA call from AETC (award date February 6, 2025, completion September 30, 2025) and a $647,670 BPA call from AETC (award date February 5, 2026, completion September 30, 2026), both for aircraft arresting system parts procurement on a firm-fixed-price basis. A $141,490 full-and-open purchase order from the Air National Guard in January 2023 for 70 diesel engine conversion kit exhaust muffler guards represents the firm's non-set-aside footprint. Award velocity has been sparse in recent years — one award each in 2024, 2025, and 2026 — after higher activity in 2022 and 2023. Only one award (the $648 thousand February 2026 AETC BPA call) reaches ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating minimal near-term recompete exposure. The company's work is classified primarily under NAICS 332710 (Machine Shops) and 332999 (All Other Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing), with PSC coding dominated by Aircraft Landing Equipment and Marine Lifesaving and Diving Equipment. Holmes Tool and Engineering performs all work at its manufacturing facilities in Bonifay and Panama City, Florida.

CNC and precision conventional machining and fabrication, engineering and CAD.