Jay-Tex Aviation Llc.

Jay-Tex Aviation LLC, a for-profit corporation based in Mount Pleasant, Texas, supplies commercial off-the-shelf aviation hardware components and spare parts to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor, with 100 percent of its federal footprint in direct contracts to the Defense Logistics Agency and Navy supply commands.

Jay-Tex competes in full-and-open procurements without SBA set-aside designations on the vast majority of awards, though a small number of recent contracts carry Total Small Business set-asides. The company is registered as a federal contractor since February 2002 and maintains current SAM registration through May 2026. Its footprint centers on NAICS codes for aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing, hardware manufacturing, fastener manufacturing, and equipment merchant wholesaling, with corresponding PSC concentrations in airframe structural components, commercial hardware, nuts and washers, bushings and spacers, and screws.

The customer concentration is overwhelmingly Defense Logistics Agency. DLA Aviation accounts for 458 awards with $1.4 million combined potential value, and DLA Land and Maritime accounts for 365 awards with $1.2 million, together representing 823 awards (91 percent of the total) and $2.6 million (97 percent of combined potential value). The remaining four top customers—the Navy's Naval Supply Systems Command, Naval Air Systems Command, DLA Troop Support Hardware, and DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment—together account for 446 awards and $457 thousand. This concentration is extreme: no vehicle sits above single-digit task orders; instead, Jay-Tex operates as a transactional supplier on DLA's indefinite delivery contracts, receiving repeated firm-fixed-price purchase orders for individual components ranging from under $150 to over $720,000 in historical value.

Recent activity remained steady: 52 awards in 2022, 44 in 2023, 56 in 2024, 58 in 2025, and 10 in 2026 (year-to-date through mid-April). The combined potential value across all 1,359 awards is $3.1 million, though obligated dollars across the same awards total $5.5 million, indicating that historical pricing on component replenishment has outpaced current ceiling values. No recompete cliff data is provided in the source; purchase orders are short-cycle, with ultimate completion dates typically thirty to ninety days from award.

Jay-Tex operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint in the source. The company sources and supplies discrete aviation components—gaskets, springs, seals, connectors, fasteners, bearings, valves, actuators, switches, and specialized assemblies—to sustain military aircraft maintenance and logistics operations across multiple service branches. The breadth of inventory (221 awards tagged to aircraft parts manufacturing alone) and the velocity of DLA replenishment cycles (over 1,300 awards since 1981) signal a business model centered on rapid order fulfillment and stock availability rather than on large engineering or systems integration work.

Jay-Tex Aviation, Inc. was founded in 1974. The company's line of business includes the wholesale distribution of transportation equipment and supplies.