K5 Defense LLC

K5 Defense LLC, a woman-owned, minority-owned small disadvantaged business based in Doral, Florida, operates as a prime contractor supplying specialized equipment, mechanical components, and industrial materials to federal defense and civilian agencies under total small business set-asides (approximately 75% of recent awards) and full-and-open competition. The company is a self-certified Hispanic American-owned limited liability corporation competing predominantly in small business reserve categories across the Defense Logistics Agency, Naval Sea Systems Command, and U.S. Coast Guard procurement streams.

K5 Defense's capability portfolio centers on supplying niche industrial and electrical components: electrical solenoids, pipe coupling clamps, power supply units, circuit breakers, connectors, transducers, hose assemblies, hydraulic equipment, industrial heaters, and specialized machinery. Recent representative work includes a $512 thousand purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime for 72 reciprocating compressors (awarded August 2024), a $406 thousand definitive contract with TACOM Life Cycle Management Command for M1 Abrams Tank power supply units (April 2025), a $273 thousand small business set-aside from the Bureau of Reclamation for stainless steel slide gates (May 2025), a $235 thousand Naval Sea Systems Command contract for emergency lighting units (September 2024), and a $182 thousand Coast Guard order for portable viscometers (September 2025). The company also supplies ancillary commodities—welding powder, sheeting, fasteners, laboratory equipment, books, and even food containers—indicating a broad merchant distribution posture rather than specialized defense system integration.

Customer concentration is high and heavily Navy and DLA dependent. The top five agencies by award count account for 54% of recent awards: Naval Sea Systems Command (91 awards, $3.8 million), DLA Land and Maritime (89 awards, $5.8 million), U.S. Coast Guard (32 awards, $1.2 million), DLA Aviation (26 awards, $821 thousand), and DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (25 awards, $1.3 million). By potential value, the top five shift slightly but remain agency-aligned: DLA Land and Maritime dominates at $5.8 million across 89 awards, followed by Naval Sea Systems Command at $3.8 million across 91 awards. The concentration signal is dual: NAVSEA places many small orders (average under $42 thousand), while DLA places fewer but much larger awards (average $65 thousand). K5 Defense serves 71 distinct customer agencies, but Navy and DLA channels account for roughly 60% of the footprint.

K5 Defense holds four active single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA, each valued at $250 thousand: electrical solenoids (Land and Maritime, established October 2025, ~4 orders/year, 7-unit minimum), pipe coupling clamps (Land and Maritime, September 2025, ~6 orders/year, 97-unit minimum), power supply units (Land and Maritime, April 2025, ~12 orders/year, 11-unit minimum), and electrical connector plugs (Land and Maritime, October 2025, ~4 orders/year, 9-unit minimum). These represent flexible procurement vehicles allowing DLA to issue delivery orders on demand up to ceiling. Task order activity on the parent vehicle line is minimal in the summary (the top vehicles show only 1–11 task orders each with negligible value), suggesting that most K5 Defense work flows through small purchase orders and delivery orders rather than large task orders under master contract vehicles.

Activity has grown year over year: 63 awards in 2022 to 138 in 2025, with 18 awards recorded in 2026 year-to-date (through April 22). Recent momentum is strong; K5 Defense won 138 awards in 2025 alone. However, a recompete cliff is building: 11 awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $372 thousand, representing recurring small-business set-aside purchase orders that will require rebidding or renewal.

K5 Defense is a pure prime contractor; the source contains no subcontract awards. All 483 awards in the portfolio are prime contracts or prime IDVs. The company does not operate in a teaming role or subcontractor capacity in the visible footprint.

Top NAICS categories reflect the component-supply posture: Saw Blade and Handtool Manufacturing (35 awards), Other Fabricated Wire Product Manufacturing (16 awards), All Other Miscellaneous Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing (15 awards), and Mechanical Power Transmission Equipment Manufacturing (13 awards). Top Product Service Codes track similarly: Hand Tools Nonedged Nonpowered (26 awards), Nails Machine Keys and Pins (17 awards), Laboratory Equipment and Supplies (13 awards), and Relays and Solenoids (12 awards). This diversity in category coding across a single vendor footprint signals that K5 Defense bids as a merchant supplier across multiple product lines, opportunistically winning purchase orders based on commodity availability and pricing rather than operating as a prime system integrator or platform provider.

K5 Defense's competitive posture is overwhelmingly small-business set-aside driven. Approximately 75% of awards carry total small business set-aside designations; the remainder are full-and-open or non-set-aside purchases from full-and-open solicitations. The company has not been awarded positions on government-wide acquisition contracts (GWACs) or broad-based blanket purchase agreements (BPAs) visible in the source; all work is either direct small-purchase orders or delivery orders under single-award IDCs held exclusively with DLA. This posture limits the vendor's ability to compete across civilian agencies outside the Navy-DLA-Coast Guard axis and constrains teaming opportunities with larger primes pursuing GWAC or full-and-open vehicles. Recompete risk is concentrated in DLA and Navy small-business streams; loss of set-aside eligibility would materially reduce addressable market.

K5 Defense is a minority-owned small business specializing in the sourcing of components, equipment, tools, and supplies for government and commercial entities.