Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc.

Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc., doing business as Mechanical Equipment Co Inc., is a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer of engineered mechanical components and equipment that operates exclusively as a prime contractor to the Department of Defense and related federal agencies, competing in full-and-open procurements without set-aside designation. Headquartered in Mandeville, Louisiana, Meco manufactures and supplies hose assemblies, tubing, pumps, diesel engines, gearboxes, valves, water purification equipment, and specialized mechanical parts and fasteners to support military logistics and readiness operations worldwide.

Meco's federal footprint centers on the Defense Logistics Agency. The top five customer organizations by award count account for 80% of recent awards, dominated by DLA Land and Maritime (324 awards, $2.4 million combined potential value), followed by the Department of the Army (62 awards, $29 thousand combined potential value), the Department of the Navy (59 awards), DLA Aviation (54 awards, $319 thousand combined potential value), and DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (54 awards, $1.3 million combined potential value). By potential-value ranking, however, the Army's Materiel Command Contracting Command Detroit Arsenal leads ($8.3 million across 18 awards), with the Navy's Secretary of Naval Research second ($5.7 million across 2 awards); DLA Land and Maritime, while dominant in award count, ranks third by dollar magnitude. Recent representative work includes a $786,880 purchase order from the U.S. Air Force for two water purification units (ROWPUS) awarded August 2022, a $67,483.80 delivery order from DLA Land and Maritime for diesel engines under an indefinite delivery contract (IDC) awarded October 2022, and multiple smaller purchase orders ranging from under $100 to mid-five-figure awards for hose assemblies, sight indicators, retention press caps, tubing assemblies, gearboxes, centrifugal pumps, sediment strainers, and input module gearboxes.

Activity has contracted sharply in the source period. Meco received 35 awards in 2022, 29 in 2023, then one in 2024, seven in 2025, and one in 2026 through early April. Despite the compressed recent activity, the portfolio carries 692 total federal awards on record, with combined potential value of $20 million against $111.7 million in obligated dollars—reflecting significant historical volume and smaller recent order sizes. The source identifies a single indefinite delivery contract held by Meco: a $250,000 small-business-set-aside IDC with DLA Land and Maritime for diesel engines and related equipment (awarded October 2022, completion date October 2023), which generated a $67,483.80 delivery order in October 2022. Additional parent vehicles identified include Navy Indefinite Delivery Contract N0010496GA103 (12 task orders), Army Indefinite Delivery Contract DAAE0702DT019 (10 task orders, $8 million combined potential value), and three other Army and Defense Logistics Agency IDCs with smaller order volumes.

Meco's capability concentration reflects pure component manufacturing. Top NAICS categories include Fabricated Pipe and Pipe Fitting Manufacturing (74 awards), All Other Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (48 awards), and Bolt, Nut, Screw, Rivet, and Washer Manufacturing (41 awards). Top product service codes rank hose, pipe, tube, lubrication, and railing fittings (93 awards), water purification equipment (78 awards), power and hand pumps (57 awards), hose and flexible tubing (55 awards), and pipe, tube, and rigid tubing (41 awards). The work is performed at Meco's Mandeville, Louisiana manufacturing facility, with delivery to DLA depots and other DoD locations CONUS and OCONUS. Meco operates as a prime contractor only; the source contains no sub-award or teaming relationships. The vendor registered with SAM in 2002 and carries no SBA designations; full-and-open competition is the standard posture across the footprint.