Lancaster Alloys Company, Inc.

Lancaster Alloys Company, Inc., doing business as Lancaster Alloys Co., a woman-owned, HUBZone-certified small business based in Lancaster, California, manufactures and distributes welding consumables and metal joining supplies to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on purchase orders and indefinite delivery contracts. The vendor operates as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation and competes predominantly full-and-open, with no set-asides characterizing its prime footprint despite holding HUBZone certification; the vendor has received one HUBZone set-aside order and one total small business set-aside IDC, but the overwhelming majority of its 359 awards carry no set-aside designation.

Lancaster Alloys' customer concentration is extreme and focused on a single buyer. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Construction and Equipment division accounts for 339 awards (94% of the award count) and $1.3 million of the vendor's $2.1 million combined potential value across all federal sources. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime accounts for 10 awards ($449 thousand), the Department of the Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command for 6 awards ($54 thousand), and two other defense agencies for a combined 4 awards. This concentration reflects Lancaster Alloys' role as a specialized supplier of discrete, low-dollar consumables rather than a systems integrator or platform vendor. The vendor holds a single $250 thousand indefinite delivery contract with DLA Land and Maritime (awarded August 5, 2021, for nonelectrical wire) and has issued task orders against three other IDCs, but the bulk of its activity consists of individual purchase orders ranging from under $200 to roughly $25 thousand per order.

Representative recent work includes a $25.729 million purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command awarded July 30, 2025, for Level 1 MIL-RCOCR-A-3 welding rod meeting stringent hardness specifications for Portsmouth Naval Shipyard support (delivered within 180 days); multiple DLA Troop Support orders in the $1 thousand to $22 thousand range for welding rods, electrodes, tin alloy solder, brazing alloys, and nickel brazing alloys throughout 2024, 2025, and early 2026; and a $6.5 thousand order for silver brazing alloy from DLA Troop Support in December 2023. The vendor's product scope, derived from PSC coding and award descriptions, centers on miscellaneous welding and soldering supplies (356 of 359 awards), with minor exposure to nonelectrical wire and electric arc welding equipment.

Lancaster Alloys' award activity has remained modest in dollar terms and volatile in order count. The vendor received 25 awards in 2022, 29 in 2023, 13 in 2024, 23 in 2025, and 10 in the first four months of 2026, reflecting the high-velocity, low-dollar-per-order nature of DLA consumables procurement. Combined potential value across all 359 recent awards totals $2.1 million, with $1.6 million (78%) already obligated. No recompete cliff data was provided in the source, but the vendor's reliance on transactional purchase orders from a single customer division creates constant demand for new orders rather than recompete risk on a small number of large vehicles. The vendor does not serve as a subcontractor and carries no named subcontractor relationships in its recent federal award footprint.

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