Man Lift Manufacturing Shelby, LLC

Man Lift Manufacturing Shelby, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company and small business based in Shelby, North Carolina, manufactures and supplies explosion-proof articulating boom lifts and manlift systems to the Department of the Air Force as a prime contractor operating under Total Small Business set-asides on its recent work. The company competes predominantly in set-aside work, with nine of ten recent awards (90%) carrying small-business designations or no set-aside, and holds positions on two Air Force Sustainment Center parent vehicles spanning aircraft maintenance operations across three major logistics centers.

Man Lift Manufacturing Shelby's customer concentration is heavily Air Force–driven. The top two funding organizations account for 100% of recent awards by count and dollar value: the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command's Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex (6 awards, $19.1 million combined potential value) and the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex (2 awards, $11.4 million combined potential value), with single awards from Pacific Air Forces and the Army Space and Missile Defense Command rounding out the set. The company holds a $10.9 million Indefinite Delivery Contract with Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex awarded in August 2019 for explosion-proof articulating boom lifts to the South Base facility in Warner Robins, Georgia, and a $4 million to $11 million multiple-award Blanket Purchase Agreement from Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex effective July 2025 through December 2029 covering human lifts and batteries across Tinker Air Force Base, Warner Robins Air Force Base, and Hill Air Force Base. Against the Oklahoma City BPA, four Total Small Business task orders have been issued: a $579.4 thousand call in July 2025, a $39,940 call in August 2025, a $589.5 thousand call in September 2025, and a $390.032 thousand call in February 2026. Recent work under the Warner Robins IDC includes a $4.39 million delivery order for explosion-proof articulating boom lifts (August 2021) and a $31.5 thousand annual inspection contract for a manlift at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii (July 2023) with four option years. The company also subcontracts to Range Generation Next LLC on a Reagan Test Site engineering and technical services task, providing stationary manlift system installation services (April 2024).

Activity has accelerated significantly — one award in 2021, none in 2022, one in 2023, one in 2024, and four in 2025 — with recent awards skewing toward smaller BPA calls under the new Oklahoma City vehicle. The company's capability portfolio, reflected in primary NAICS 332100 (Industrial Truck, Tractor, Trailer, and Stacker Machinery Manufacturing) and PSC 47-series (Warehouse Trucks and Tractors, Self-Propelled), centers on manufacturing, installation, and maintenance of specialized lifting equipment for aircraft maintenance and hazardous-environment operations across Air Force logistics complexes.