Jamaica Bearings Co., Inc.

Jamaica Bearings Co., Inc., operating through its Government Sales Division, is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation and non-small-business prime contractor supplying precision bearing products and aerospace components to the Department of Defense through direct purchase orders, delivery orders, and indefinite delivery contracts. The vendor competes full-and-open without set-aside designations on the vast majority of prime awards, though it qualifies for and occasionally wins total small business set-asides on select DLA orders.

Jamaica Bearings is headquartered in New Hyde Park, New York, where all work is performed. The company specializes in the procurement and distribution of ball bearings, roller bearings, seals, gaskets, valve assemblies, hydraulic components, filter elements, mechanical assemblies, and specialized aerospace parts — predominantly under PSC categories 31 (Bearings, Antifriction, Unmounted and Plain), 17 (Aircraft Hydraulic and De-Icing Components), and 23 (Packing and Gasket Materials). The primary NAICS concentration is ball and roller bearing manufacturing (332991). Recent representative work includes a $3.93 million definitive contract from the Air Force Sustainment Center for F108 engine fuel pump housings (April 2026), a $675.6 million definitive contract from Air Force Materiel Command for axial piston pump units for C-130 and C-101 aircraft (March 2026), a $1.1 million total small business purchase order from DLA Aviation for plain self-aligning bearings (March 2026), a $738 thousand total small business delivery order from DLA Aviation for cylindrical roller bearings (March 2026), and a $52.2 thousand purchase order from the U.S. Coast Guard for HC-144 aircraft bearings (March 2026).

Customer concentration is extreme and narrow. The Defense Logistics Agency dominates the portfolio — DLA Aviation alone accounts for 26,914 awards (65% of the 41,108 total) valued at $3.19 billion combined potential value; DLA Land and Maritime adds 10,777 awards ($665.8 million), for a combined DLA footprint of approximately 90% of all awards and 89% of total dollars. The next largest customer, DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment, represents 385 awards ($44 million), followed by Army Materiel Command TACOM (24 awards, $40.2 million) and Naval Supply Systems Command (120 awards, $24.5 million). The vendor serves 37 distinct agencies overall, but the DLA duopoly of Aviation and Land and Maritime is decisive.

Jamaica Bearings holds four single-award indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Aviation: one with a $350 thousand ceiling expiring April 2028 (awarded April 2026), another with a $350 thousand ceiling expiring April 2029 (awarded April 2026), a total small business set-aside IDIQ with a $350 thousand ceiling expiring April 2031 (awarded April 2026), and a full-and-open IDIQ with a $900 thousand ceiling expiring March 2029 (awarded March 2026) focused on filter body fluid components. Beyond these IDIQs, the vendor places the vast majority of volume under two large Basic Ordering Agreements managed by DLA: SPE4A119G0001 (4,951 task orders, $182.1 million combined value) and SPE4A124G0002 (1,746 task orders, $177.1 million combined value). These BOAs anchor the ordering activity across DLA's distribution network.

Activity has been substantial and sustained. The vendor executed 41,108 awards since 1981, with recent five-year volume averaging 2,751 awards annually (2,699 in 2022; 2,962 in 2023; 2,425 in 2024; 2,848 in 2025; 619 year-to-date in 2026 as of mid-April). Combined potential value across all awards stands at $4.11 billion, of which $1.43 billion (35%) has been obligated. Within the next twenty-four months, 1,729 awards (combined potential value $208.6 million) face ultimate completion and recompete, representing material recompete exposure concentrated in the DLA vendor base.

Jamaica Bearings operates as a prime on virtually all work — 41,072 of 41,108 awards (100%) are prime contracts or IDIQs, with only 36 sub-awards on record, all under General Atomics Aeronautical Systems on a production-ready test asset contract for a torque link (November 2025). The vendor does not meaningfully participate as a subcontractor in the federal market.

The portfolio is heavily weighted toward small-dollar transactional orders under the DLA supply system. Most awards are purchase orders or delivery orders ranging from under $1 thousand to $350 thousand, with order frequency and velocity driven by DLA's requirement for replacement parts and consumables across military platforms. The recent award spike in April 2026 reflects a large batch of DLA orders placed against the newly awarded IDIQs and existing BOAs. The $3.93 million Air Force and $675.6 million Air Force Materiel Command awards are exceptional in scale and represent manufacturing contracts rather than distribution orders, signaling the vendor's capability to handle production of engineered components, not just catalog procurement.

SMission: To support the warfighter and provide superior value to our partners by being the premier small business supply chain integrator of highly engineered products.

Vision: Be the #1 trusted, small-business supply chain partner of choice in the Defense Industry