Kaufman Trailers, LLC

Kaufman Trailers, LLC, doing business as Kaufman Trailers Group, LLC, manufactures and supplies specialized trailers to federal agencies as a prime contractor, with 100% of recent awards held as prime positions and no subcontract footprint. A for-profit limited liability partnership based in Lexington, North Carolina, Kaufman Trailers is a small business competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements with no SBA set-aside designations on its major vehicle; several of its smaller purchase orders carry total small business set-asides.

Kaufman Trailers' federal footprint is anchored almost entirely by a single $421.8 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Troop Support Construction and Equipment division, awarded December 8, 2023, and running through December 7, 2028. This IDC, the company's largest vehicle, covers procurement of commercial trucks and trailers—including water tankers, fuel and lubricant dispensing equipment, construction equipment trailers, dump trucks, and specialized trailers—for U.S. military and federal agencies across the contiguous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and international locations in Europe, Africa, and the Pacific. The DLA has issued 18 delivery orders under this contract since award, with individual order values ranging from roughly $40,000 to $1.1 million. Representative delivery orders include a $612,339 order for 20-ton drop deck trailers (January 2025), a $1.1 million order for 20-ton lowbed trailers (July 2024), and a $413,900 order for 20-ton lowbed trailers (July 2024). Beyond the DLA vehicle, Kaufman Trailers has executed smaller direct purchase orders with the National Park Service ($12,490 for a CUGA-tilt trailer, August 2025), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ($79,624 for a 55-ton lowboy trailer, September 2024), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ($12,957 for farm equipment trailers, September 2024), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ($12,215 for unspecified trailers, September 2024), the Department of Agriculture Forest Service ($12,403 for a gooseneck trailer, September 2024), and the Federal Bureau of Prisons ($20,628 for trailers supporting a Bureau of Prisons project, May 2026).

Customer concentration is extreme. The Defense Logistics Agency accounts for 19 awards (70% of total award count) and $425.2 million (99.95%) of combined potential value. The remaining eight agencies—all civilian federal entities—each hold one small purchase order and collectively represent less than one-tenth of one percent of potential value. The DLA vehicle dwarfs activity from all other customers combined.

Activity has accelerated sharply: one award in 2023 (the IDC itself), eighteen in 2024, four in 2025, and four in the first five months of 2026. However, only three awards (combined potential value $137,000) complete within the next twenty-four months, leaving the bulk of the DLA contract value unobligated and extending the performance runway through late 2028. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $3.6 million, representing only 1% of the $425.4 million combined potential value; this wide gap between ceiling and obligation reflects the Indefinite Delivery structure, in which task orders are issued incrementally against the IDC ceiling. Kaufman Trailers has no subcontract relationships in the source data; all work is performed as a prime contractor. The company's capability set is narrowly defined by its trailer manufacturing and supply portfolio: lowboy trailers (35-ton, 50-ton, and 60-ton variants), lowbed trailers (20-ton variants), gooseneck trailers, drop deck trailers, equipment trailers, and specialized configurations for equipment transport and logistics support. Work is performed at the company's Lexington, North Carolina facility.