Lift-It Manufacturing Co., Inc.

Lift-It Manufacturing Co., Inc. manufactures rigging equipment, lifting hardware, and specialized cargo nets for federal agencies as a small business prime contractor, operating from Pomona, California as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation. The vendor competes predominantly full-and-open (61% of recent awards carry no set-aside designation), with the balance split across Total Small Business set-asides; Lift-It is not certified as 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or WOSB, but maintains small business status across its federal footprint.

Lift-It's capability portfolio centers on rigging equipment and cargo nets for defense maritime and emergency-response applications. Representative prime work includes a $798 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from the National Interagency Fire Center (awarded July 2025, completion August 2026) for 390 external helicopter cargo nets with 6,000-pound capacity to support U.S. Forest Service wildland firefighting operations; a $412 thousand purchase order from the National Interagency Fire Center (awarded February 2024, completion October 2025) for 148 cargo nets at 6,000-pound capacity and 327 nets at 300-pound capacity for the Rocky Mountain Area Incident Support Cache; and a $112.5 thousand purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command (awarded May 2022, completion August 2022) for docking lines supporting Puget Sound Naval Shipyard operations. Additional recent work includes twin-path slings, synthetic web slings, hoist rings, towing lines, docking lines, flight deck nets, lifting beams, and custom snatch blocks across multiple Navy and Coast Guard platforms.

Customer concentration is skewed toward maritime defense and logistics agencies. The top five customers by award count (61% of recent awards) are Naval Sea Systems Command (55 awards, $850 thousand combined potential value), Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Construction and Equipment (17 awards, $234 thousand), U.S. Coast Guard (14 awards, $320 thousand), Defense Logistics Agency (9 awards), and Navy Installations Command (8 awards, $186 thousand). The top-five by combined potential value (78% of total) reorder slightly: National Interagency Fire Center leads with 2 awards ($1.2 million), followed by Naval Sea Systems Command, Coast Guard, DLA Troop Support, and Navy Installations Command. Naval Sea Systems Command dominates volume; the Fire Center drives dollar concentration through two large cargo-net procurements.

Lift-It sits on one named parent vehicle: Indefinite Delivery Contract W31P4Q22D0004, with 2 task orders placed. The vendor holds primary NAICS position in Other Fabricated Wire Product Manufacturing (54 awards), Rope, Cordage, Twine, Tire Cord, and Tire Fabric Mills (19 awards), and Overhead Traveling Crane, Hoist, and Monorail System Manufacturing (14 awards). By PSC, the footprint is dominated by Blocks, Tackle, Rigging, and Slings (61 awards) and Miscellaneous Materials Handling Equipment (14 awards), reflecting the vendor's specialization in cargo securing and lifting hardware.

Activity has been modest and stable: 4 awards in 2022, 6 in 2023, 7 in 2024, 9 in 2025, and 2 year-to-date in 2026. One award—the $798 thousand National Interagency Fire Center cargo-net contract—faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and represents the primary recompete exposure. Lift-It maintains a small subcontract footprint (2% of awards): recent sub work includes rope and cordage supply to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation on the Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) hardware production contract (awarded August 2024) and Space Launch System (SLS) booster production (awarded March 2025). The vendor has maintained SAM.gov registration since 2002, signaling long-term federal contracting presence in a narrow, specialized product category.

Lift-It Manufacturing offers a full line of lifting slings, tiedowns, high-performance fiber slings, high-heat slings, nets and specialty assemblies.