National Brass Company

National Brass Company, a Cleveland-based woman-owned small business manufacturer, serves the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor supplying industrial plumbing fixtures, automotive components, and hardware for military maintenance, repair, and operations on purchase orders and indefinite delivery contracts. The company competes predominantly full-and-open; while woman-owned small business and total small business set-asides appear on approximately 25% of recent awards, the majority are firm fixed-price procurements without set-aside designation.

National Brass Company's federal footprint centers on DLA with narrow geographic and product scope. DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment accounts for 236 awards and $3.2 million in combined potential value, while DLA Land and Maritime holds 186 awards and $2.3 million — together representing 88% of the vendor's award count and 95% of its dollar value across the source data window. The remaining customer agencies include DLA Aviation (21 awards, $79 thousand), DLA Troop Support Hardware (7 awards, $265 thousand), and minor exposure to other federal buyers totaling less than 1% of volume. This extreme concentration in two DLA divisions reflects National Brass Company's role as a specialized supplier rather than a broad-based federal vendor.

The product and service mix is tightly bounded. The top five PSC codes — Plumbing Fixtures and Accessories, Hose and Pipe Fittings, Valves, Miscellaneous Vehicular Components, and Hardware — account for nearly all awards. Representative work includes a $225.6 million total small business set-aside purchase order from DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment for floor drains (awarded April 28, 2022), a $141.6 million total small business set-aside order for floor drain units (May 17, 2024), and a $106.25 million full-and-open purchase order for floor drains to DLA Distribution facility W1A8 (October 22, 2025). Smaller recurring orders range from micro-purchases under $2,000 to mid-five-figure awards for strainer elements, vehicle filler necks, automatic boat drains, and filter elements. National Brass Company operates from its manufacturing facility in Cleveland, Ohio across all deliveries.

Activity trajectory shows recent decline. The vendor received 39 awards in 2022, declined to 24 in 2023 and 27 in 2024, then dropped sharply to 5 awards in 2025 and 3 in the first quarter of 2026. Combined potential value across all awards in the source window stands at $6.2 million, though combined dollars obligated reach $11.1 million — reflecting the gap between potential and actual invoice on large, multi-year delivery orders. Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is minimal: only 2 awards with combined potential value of $18 thousand face ultimate completion dates before mid-2028, indicating limited near-term contract churn.

National Brass Company holds positions on five parent vehicles. The highest-value vehicle is Indefinite Delivery Contract SPM44004D0585, carrying 13 task orders worth $69 thousand combined potential value. Additional vehicles include Basic Ordering Agreement DLA70086D0078 (6 task orders), Indefinite Delivery Contract SP044004D0585 (6 task orders), Basic Ordering Agreement DLA70087D0035 (5 task orders), and Indefinite Delivery Contract SPE7M313D5002 (5 task orders, $46 thousand combined potential value). All are DLA-issued vehicles; none carry multi-agency reach. The vendor holds one named single-award IDC with DLA Land and Maritime (contract 4610087995, $250 thousand ceiling, total small business set-aside, established March 2022) for strainer element supply, which generated four firm fixed-price delivery orders totaling $24.035 thousand by December 2022.

The vendor carries no subcontract footprint in the source data — all 685 awards reflect prime contract status. National Brass Company's 685-award portfolio across a roughly four-decade span represents transactional order volume concentrated in the past five years; the vendor operates as a specialized MRO-component supplier to two related DLA organizations rather than as a systems integrator or capability-stacking prime. The combination of 100% woman-owned small business designation, single-agency concentration, narrow product scope, and recent award decline signals a vendor positioned in a mature, commoditized DLA supply category facing compression from larger multi-product suppliers.

MANUFACTURER OF DECK DRAINS AND ACCESSORIES.