Midwest Military Fasteners LLC

Midwest Military Fasteners LLC, a small business limited liability company based in Howell, Michigan, supplies precision fasteners and hardware components to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on over 4,300 federal awards spanning small business set-aside and full-and-open competitions. The vendor operates without subcontracting activity and competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides, particularly through its August 2025 Indefinite Delivery Contract with Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (ceiling $250 thousand, through August 2030).

Midwest Military Fasteners' capability footprint is straightforward and commodity-focused: the vendor manufactures and delivers standardized fastening components including socket head cap screws, hexagon cap screws, machine screws, bolts, nuts, washers, studs, and close-tolerance screws to support military aircraft maintenance and equipment readiness. Representative work includes a $75,143.64 Total Small Business purchase order from DLA Aviation for hexagon cap screws (June 2026), a $43,948.71 Total Small Business award from DLA Land and Maritime for hexagon head cap screws (October 2025), a $25,026.12 Total Small Business order for machine bolts (May 2026), and a $16,856.66 Total Small Business purchase order for hexagon head cap screws (November 2025) — all firm fixed-price commodity procurements performed in Howell. Recent activity also includes dozens of sub-$10,000 purchase orders issued against the August 2025 IDC, with individual order values ranging from roughly $700 to $7,000.

Customer concentration is extreme and single-threaded. Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Hardware anchors 58% of awards (2,502 awards, $18.2 million combined potential value), followed by DLA Aviation (37% of awards, 1,584 awards, $3.9 million) and DLA Land and Maritime (4.5% of awards, 194 awards, $399 thousand). Combined, DLA accounts for 99.8% of the vendor's award portfolio. The top three agencies account for essentially the entire footprint; Navy Sea Systems Command (41 awards, $136 thousand) and Army TACOM (6 awards, $80 thousand) represent margin.

The vendor holds a single named parent vehicle: the August 7, 2025 Indefinite Delivery Contract with DLA Aviation (SPE5EY16D0529, $250 thousand ceiling, Total Small Business set-aside, five-year term through August 6, 2030), against which task orders have been issued for socket head cap screws, hexagon cap screws, machine screws, bolts, and washers. This vehicle concentrates the vendor's post-award relationship with DLA and structures rapid delivery-order issuance for recurring fastener supply.

Activity volume has contracted sharply. The vendor received 390 awards in 2022, 330 in 2023, but only 135 in 2024 and 284 in 2025 (including the new IDC), with 130 awards so far in 2026. This three-year decline suggests either reduced DLA procurement, loss of orders to competitors, or a shift in the vendor's workload distribution. Combined potential value across all 4,330 awards stands at $22.7 million, with $7.7 million obligated (34% burn). Only 28 awards face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months ($267 thousand combined potential value), indicating minimal recompete exposure in the near term, though the active IDC and high purchase-order volume mean recompete pressure could surface if DLA shifts sourcing.

The vendor's technical posture is defense logistics commodity supply at scale — no technology development, no services, no integration. NAICS concentration is absolute: Bolt, Nut, Screw, Rivet, and Washer Manufacturing accounts for 3,778 of 4,330 awards (87%), with Nonferrous Forging and Precision Turned Product Manufacturing together accounting for less than 8%. PSC-level concentration mirrors this: Screws (2,485 awards), Nuts and Washers (1,036), and Bolts (589) represent 98% of the workload. The vendor registers in SAM continuously since September 2011 and operates as a 100% prime, with no disclosed teaming, subcontracting relationships, or sub-awards in the source data.