Midwest Fastener Supply, LLC

Midwest Fastener Supply, LLC, a Minnesota-based small business, supplies precision fastener components—socket head cap screws, hex head cap screws, self-locking nuts, washers, studs, and bolts—to the Department of the Navy as a prime contractor under purchase orders, with negligible subcontract exposure. The vendor operates as a Subchapter S corporation and competes predominantly under total small business set-asides, which designate roughly 60% of its recent prime awards; the balance compete full-and-open or carry no set-aside marking. Headquartered in Burnsville, Minnesota, with satellite performance locations in St. Paul and other regional facilities, Midwest Fastener manufactures fasteners under NAICS 332722 (Bolt, Nut, Screw, Rivet, and Washer Manufacturing) and PSC 5305 and 5310 codes. The vendor has been registered in SAM.gov since February 2012.

Customer concentration is extreme and Navy-centric. The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) and Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) together account for 99% of awards by count and 97% of combined potential value, with NAVSEA alone carrying 803 awards worth $3.9 million. The Army Materiel Command TACOM Life Cycle Management Command is a distant third with 24 awards totaling $433 thousand. Over the past several years, Midwest Fastener has secured well over 900 federal purchase orders—the vast majority firm fixed-price, simplified-acquisition fastener buys under $100 thousand each—with a combined potential value of $5.7 million across all awards. Annual award volume shows sharp contraction: 64 awards in 2022, declining to 15 in 2023, 10 in 2024, and 3 in 2025, with only 5 awards so far in 2026. Five awards carrying a combined potential value of $44 thousand are scheduled for completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore exposed to recompete.

The vendor's footprint shows no parent contract vehicles of scale. Individual NAICS and PSC concentration underscore laser-focused specialization: 848 of 908 awards fall under Bolt, Nut, Screw, Rivet, and Washer Manufacturing; within PSC, 555 awards are for screws alone, 206 for nuts and washers. Nearly all awards are small-dollar purchase orders issued by Navy supply and shipyard logistics centers—orders for specific fastener NSNs in quantities of dozens to thousands of units, with 365-day delivery windows and one-year warranties. Representative recent contracts include a $300 thousand Naval Supply Systems Command purchase order for 15,448 units of self-locking hex nuts (December 2023), a $257 thousand Naval Sea Systems Command order for socket head cap screws (August 2022), and five January 2026 Naval Supply Systems Command purchase orders for socket head cap screws, hexagon head cap screws, studs with reduced body dimensions, plain hexagon nuts, and hexagon cap screws, each valued between $7.4 thousand and $10 thousand. The vendor holds one seat on a single Blanket Purchase Agreement (W9098S15A0012), which has generated 20 task orders worth $203 thousand combined.

Midwest Fastener's subcontract footprint is minimal. The source lists a single sub-award: a 2025 General Dynamics Information Technology engineering services sub-task (value not disclosed) for Mark 41 Vertical Launching System component upgrades and testing. This sub engagement signals occasional defense prime teaming but does not materially alter the vendor's profile as a Navy fastener specialist competing as a prime.