Midwest Tube Fabricators Inc.

Midwest Tube Fabricators Inc., a service-disabled veteran-owned small business manufacturer based in Sterling Heights, Michigan, delivers metal tube assemblies, bent metallic tubes, nonmetallic hose assemblies, air brake couplers, fluid filter elements, wire rope assemblies, and chain hoists to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor operating predominantly on full-and-open (non-set-aside) delivery orders against single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts. The company is structured as a Subchapter S Corporation and competes across multiple set-aside categories—service-disabled veteran-owned small business and total small business designations anchor a portion of its IDC vehicles—but the bulk of recent award dollars flow through competitive, non-set-aside task orders.

Midwest Tube Fabricators' federal footprint is entirely concentrated within DLA. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime accounts for 1,539 awards worth $33.4 million combined potential value, representing 97 percent of the company's award count and 72 percent of its combined potential value across all customers. DLA Aviation, DLA Troop Support Hardware, and DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment collectively represent the remaining customer base, with Aviation placing 56 awards ($788 thousand), Troop Support Hardware placing 42 awards ($1.2 million), and Troop Support Construction and Equipment placing 33 awards ($746 thousand). The vendor has worked with ten distinct federal agencies total, though nine of those appear to be DLA subdivisions. Representative prime work includes a $3.44 million delivery order (March 19, 2026) for nonmetallic hose assemblies, a $115.36 million purchase order (May 6, 2024) for nonmetallic hose assemblies set aside for total small business, and a $102.51 million delivery order (March 13, 2025) for nonmetallic hose assemblies under a service-disabled veteran-owned small business set-aside IDC. A $384.21 thousand single-award IDC for chain hoists under SDVOSB set-aside (January 25, 2023, with ultimate completion January 24, 2027) demonstrates longer-term vehicle positioning.

The vendor holds at least ten active or recently completed single-award IDCs with DLA Land and Maritime, each valued at $250 thousand to $384.21 thousand. Vehicles include three Total Small Business set-asides, three Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business set-asides, and one non-set-aside contract. The five largest parent vehicles by task-order count are Indefinite Delivery Contracts SPM75005D7549 (140 task orders, $2.1 million combined value), SP075005D7549 (65 task orders), SPM5EN13D0032 (16 task orders, $60 thousand), SPE4A618D5799 (11 task orders, $16 thousand), and SPM7MX10D7053 (11 task orders, $225 thousand). Task orders under these vehicles range from under $500 to over $100 thousand and typically carry 80–180 day delivery windows to DLA depots across the continental United States and overseas consolidation points.

Award activity shows sharp decline. The vendor received 107 awards in 2022, 79 in 2023, 62 in 2024, 31 in 2025, and 5 through March 2026. Combined potential value across all 1,758 awards (spanning since 1993) stands at $46.6 million, with $23.2 million obligated. The recompete cliff is material: many of the company's single-award IDCs expire or have recently expired (the oldest vehicles in the source data show completion dates between June 2023 and October 2026), and the sharp drop in awards per year suggests renewal competition or customer consolidation has already begun to tighten the vendor's pipeline.

Midwest Tube Fabricators subcontracts to Lockheed Martin Corporation on High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) programs, providing consumables and basic issue items for full-rate production and new equipment (awards dated June 2024 through November 2024). The vendor also supplies spare parts to Am General LLC (December 2024 sub-award for Lebanon spares logistics). Sub-award work totals only eight actions across the entire footprint, confirming prime-contractor dependency. NAICS concentration centers on Fabricated Pipe and Pipe Fitting Manufacturing (796 awards) and Iron and Steel Pipe and Tube Manufacturing from Purchased Steel (213 awards). PSC concentration is heavy in Pipe, Tube and Rigid Tubing (1,230 awards) and Miscellaneous Vehicular Components (80 awards), reflecting the vendor's manufacturing specialty in metal fabricated components for military logistics.