L.a. Martin Company

L.a. Martin Company, a Dearborn, Michigan-based Subchapter S corporation, manufactures precision-engineered machined hardware, fasteners, and automotive components as a prime contractor exclusively to the Defense Logistics Agency and Department of Defense, competing in full-and-open procurements with no SBA set-aside designations despite holding a total small business set-aside indefinite delivery contract for synchro clamps.

The vendor's federal footprint consists entirely of purchase orders and two indefinite delivery contracts with Defense Logistics Agency divisions. L.a. Martin Company operates 100% as a prime contractor (2,275 awards, zero subcontract work), with no parent vehicles, GWACs, or multi-agency IDIQs in its portfolio. The company's customer concentration is extreme: Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime accounts for 1,019 awards and $7.8 million in combined potential value (72% of the portfolio), followed by DLA Aviation with 698 awards and $1.8 million. The three largest DLA divisions (Land and Maritime, Aviation, and Troop Support Hardware) represent 98% of all awards. Nearly all work flows through low-dollar purchase orders ranging from under $100 to approximately $42,000, with median contract values in the $1,000 to $10,000 range. The most recent awards (April 2026) include a $120 fitting, a $200 nut, and a $2,911.50 straight shaft, exemplifying the high-frequency, component-level procurement pattern that defines the vendor's business model.

Recent work focuses on defense logistics supply-chain parts. Representative contracts include a $23,725 total small business set-aside purchase order (July 2025) for 65 fender brace motor-vehicle components under DLA Land and Maritime, a $15,752.10 total small business set-aside order (October 2024) for 195 bearing inserter units under DLA Aviation, and a $19,665.60 total small business set-aside procurement (October 2025) for a piston set recuperator. The company also holds a newly awarded single-award indefinite delivery contract with DLA Land and Maritime (April 2026, $350,000 ceiling, total small business set-aside) for synchro clamps, replacing or supplementing an earlier $250,000 IDC for exhaust manifolds.

Activity has been consistent but with declining trajectory: 149 awards in 2025 fell from 146 in 2022, averaging 110 awards per year over five years. Only seven awards face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, carrying $31 thousand in combined potential value—a minimal recompete cliff for a vendor this size. The portfolio spans hardware manufacturing (501 awards), saw blade and handtool manufacturing (270 awards), bolt-nut-screw-rivet-washer manufacturing (206 awards), and mechanical power transmission equipment (191 awards). Leading PSC categories are hand tools nonedged and nonpowered (312 awards), nails-machine keys-pins (240 awards), and commercial hardware (234 awards). Performance locations include Dearborn and Bensalem, Pennsylvania, with deliveries distributed across Defense Logistics Agency depots throughout the continental United States and overseas.

L.a. Martin Company does not appear in the source material as a subcontractor to other primes, nor does it hold positions on government-wide vehicles or agency-wide IDIQs. The vendor competes exclusively against other small manufacturers in DLA's granular, full-and-open purchase-order landscape, with occasional total small business set-aside carve-outs. Its federal revenue base is narrow—all $10.8 million in combined potential value flows from a single customer (DLA) across three operating divisions—and its growth rate is flat, making it a specialized, low-volume supplier of discrete components to military logistics depots rather than a candidate for large-scale teaming, subcontracting, or vehicles that aggregate work across agencies.