Lite Cart Corp

Lite Cart Corp, a woman-owned small business manufacturer based in Largo, Florida, supplies specialized aircraft maintenance and cargo handling equipment—principally highline docks, welding positioners, and related materials-handling gear—to the Department of Defense and Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor exclusively under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule. The vendor competes across full-and-open and total small business set-aside vehicles; set-aside designation recurs across roughly half of recent awards, with no 8(a), HUBZone, or other federal small-business certifications in the source record beyond woman-owned small business (WOSB) status.

Lite Cart's capability portfolio centers on manufacturing and delivery of highline docks configured for 463L pallets and cargo trains, with load capacities to 80,000 pounds, and welding positioners and manipulators that support aircraft maintenance operations. Representative recent work includes a $284 thousand total small business set-aside delivery order from Air Education and Training Command for highline docks designed to build pallet trains (awarded September 2024), a $320 thousand delivery order from Air Force Reserve Command for highline dock delivery and installation (September 2024), and a $438 thousand full-and-open purchase order from Air Combat Command for highline dock equipment supporting operations in Jordan (August 2023). Place of performance spans domestic military installations (Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina; Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida; Travis Air Force Base in California) and overseas locations (Saudi Arabia, Oman, Great Britain, Jordan, and Georgia).

Customer concentration clusters heavily on the Department of the Air Force and Defense Logistics Agency. DLA accounts for 36 awards—the single largest volume—while Air Force subcommands dominate potential value: the Air Force Materiel Command Lifecycle Management Center at Wright Patterson Air Force Base leads in dollars (3 awards, $5.5 million combined potential value), followed by Air Combat Command (14 awards, $1.5 million), Air Mobility Command (15 awards, $1.1 million), and Pacific Air Forces (9 awards, $980 thousand). The top five customers together represent 54% of the vendor's award count and 44% of combined potential value. Lite Cart maintains a seat on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, through which 49 task orders worth $7.9 million in combined potential value have been placed. The vendor also holds positions on three indefinite delivery contracts—SP073094D8002, DLA40081C3762, and M0026382C0014—though order volume under these vehicles is minimal in the source snapshot.

Activity has remained modest in recent years: one award in 2022, five in 2023, five in 2024, one in 2025, and three through April 2026. Over the full 164-award portfolio, combined potential value stands at $22.5 million, with $18.9 million (84%) obligated. NAICS concentration shows 92 awards under Conveyor and Conveying Equipment Manufacturing (primary NAICS framing) and 28 under Construction Machinery Manufacturing, with PSC categories split across Conveyors (58 awards), Miscellaneous Materials Handling Equipment (39 awards), and Warehouse Trucks and Tractors (19 awards). The vendor has no recorded subcontract footprint; all 164 awards are prime contracts. Lite Cart has operated as a federal supplier since at least 1980 and maintains a track record with Air Force Materiel Command, Air Combat Command, Air Mobility Command, Air Forces Europe and Africa, Air Special Operations Command, and the U.S. Marine Corps.