Independent Pipe & Steel, Inc.

Independent Pipe & Steel, Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Bakersfield, California, supplies structural steel pipe and piles to federal infrastructure and construction projects as a subcontractor (94% of recent awards), with minimal prime exposure. The company is organized as a Subchapter S Corporation and operates under the WOSB designation.

The vendor's federal footprint is concentrated in a single customer and use case. The Department of the Interior National Park Service accounts for 14 of 16 recent awards, all sourced through Manson Construction Co on the Golden Gate National Recreation Area Alcatraz Wharf stabilization project — a seismic strengthening and critical repair effort on Alcatraz Island that required multiple sub-awards for steel pipes and piles beginning in June 2023. Independent Pipe & Steel also holds one research and development operations support sub-award with Asrc Federal System Solutions LLC (November 2024), and one sub-award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory. The NPS concentration (88% of awards) reflects project-specific rather than diversified customer engagement; the vendor's recent federal presence is essentially tied to a single NPS infrastructure program delivered through Manson Construction.

Activity data shows a spike in 2023 (14 awards) driven by the Alcatraz project's multiple tranches, followed by a single 2024 award. Combined dollars obligated across all 16 awards total $66 thousand, indicating small order values typical of supply-chain sub-awards on construction programs. The company has been in the federal market since 1993 but exhibits episodic rather than steady-state engagement. The vendor's capability footprint centers on heavy and civil engineering construction (14 awards under NAICS 237390) and structural-shapes supply, with negligible research and development exposure. Teaming is routed entirely through established construction and systems primes rather than direct federal procurement.

Independent Pipe & Steel, Inc., established in 1982 (DBA: Independent Pipe), is a distributor of new prime, used and surplus steel pipe located in Bakersfield, California with over 38 years of proven reliability and the ability to service nationwide. We carry a large inventory of both domestic and foreign manufactured steel pipe. Independent Pipe is a proud member of the National Association of Steel Pipe Distributors and provides trustworthy customer service.