Norcatec LLC

Norcatec LLC, doing business as Norcatec, is a small business manufacturer of military-grade spare parts and hydraulic components that operates as a prime contractor almost exclusively under total small business set-asides, delivering to the Defense Logistics Agency across nearly 2,900 federal prime awards worth $208.3 million. The company manufactures hose assemblies, seals, gaskets, coupling halves, valve components, shaft assemblies, and aircraft parts — the kind of high-mix, low-volume specialty components that fill DLA's spare parts inventory for aircraft, ground vehicles, and naval vessels.

Norcatec is headquartered in Garden City, New York, and was registered in the System for Award Management in May 2003. The vendor is a wholly owned subsidiary of Aeromed Group LLC, a veteran-owned small business (VOSB), but Norcatec itself carries no stated SBA ownership designation in the source. Across its prime footprint, Norcatec competes almost entirely under total small business set-asides — 98 percent of the 2,912 prime awards in the source portfolio carry that designation. The vendor takes virtually no full-and-open work. Sub-award volume is negligible (7 of 2,919 awards, less than 1 percent), with documented sub work limited to a single Textron Systems prime on a Ukraine support effort in March 2026; the company operates as a prime, not a sub, in the federal supply chain.

Customer concentration is extreme and monolithic. The Defense Logistics Agency dominates: DLA Land and Maritime alone accounts for 1,730 awards ($113.5 million, 54% of total potential value), and DLA Aviation adds another 827 awards ($46.2 million, 22%). Together, DLA Land and Maritime and Aviation represent 2,557 of 2,919 awards (88%) and $159.7 million of the $208.3 million portfolio (77%). The Department of the Army Materiel Command Contracting Command Detroit Arsenal ranks third with only 136 awards ($20.7 million). No other customer exceeds 102 awards. Norcatec is, in effect, a DLA small-parts vendor, not a diversified federal contractor.

The portfolio reveals a commodity-driven business model. The top NAICS categories are Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (288 awards), Fabricated Pipe and Pipe Fitting Manufacturing (269), Hardware Manufacturing (212), and Military Armored Vehicle Tank and Component Manufacturing (157). The top Product Service Codes are Hose and Flexible Tubing (386 awards), Hose Pipe Tube Fittings (344), Packing and Gasket Materials (150), and Vehicular Brake Steering Axle and Track Components (146). Award sizes skew small: median values run from a few thousand to $250,000 across individual purchase orders and the company's Indefinite Delivery Contracts. The largest single award in the source is a $1.931 million definitive contract from DLA Aviation on November 17, 2025, for disk and hub turbine components; several large IDVs carry $2.5 million (aviation metering fuel pump) and $799 thousand (marine windows) ceilings.

Activity has been volatile but recently robust. Norcatec won 221 awards in 2022, 341 in 2023, and 550 in 2024 — a 149% climb over two years. Awards dropped to 487 in 2025 and have slowed to 70 in the first seven months of 2026 (the source date is July 15, 2026). The recompete cliff exposes significant near-term pressure: 295 awards worth $36 million in combined potential value are due for completion or recompete within the next twenty-four months. This represents 12% of the portfolio's dollar value, concentrated in DLA contracts that Norcatec will need to actively defend and renew.

Vehicle posture is consistent with the DLA-centric model. Norcatec holds at least twelve Indefinite Delivery Contracts visible in the source, all single-award, all for DLA Land and Maritime or Aviation, ranging from $250,000 to $2.5 million ceiling. These IDCs — for gear clusters, seals, filter elements, brake chambers, tie-rod ends, armature assemblies, and distributing systems — are the backbone of the company's repeatable revenue stream. The firm also places work under Army Contracting Command BPAs (W56HZV14AJ016, W56HZV17AJ003) and other DLA purchase order vehicles. However, the company holds no seats on government-wide contract vehicles (no GWAC, no GSA Schedule, no OASIS+), limiting its ability to reach agencies outside DLA or to participate in multi-award competitive pools. This is by design: Norcatec's market is the DLA small-parts supply chain, not the wider federal IT, services, or general procurement ecosystem.

Manufacturing footprint spans multiple locations. While Norcatec is based in Garden City, New York, source documents reference performance locations in Texarkana, Texas (tank track blocks), Hanover, Pennsylvania (piston rings and seals), Jackson, Michigan (coupling halves and hose assemblies), Plymouth and Detroit, Michigan (tank components), Springfield and Crystal, Minnesota (air compressor vanes and hydraulic components), Glenolden and East Providence, Rhode Island (metallic detectors and seals), St. Marys, Ohio (track guide repair), and Rumford, Rhode Island (aircraft air seals), among others. This suggests either a network of manufacturing partners or contract manufacturing arrangements across the US supply base, not a single-facility operation. The primary office and CAGE code appear to be Garden City-based, but production is geographically distributed.

Recent prime contract work is representative. In the six months ending July 8, 2026, Norcatec won a $659.5 thousand purchase order from the U.S. Coast Guard (July 8, 2026) for HC-130J aircraft spare parts (Honeywell avionics components: Cabin Air Controllers, Outflow A/C Valves, Turbine Engine Fuel Controls, Hydraulic Servo Valves); a $1.931 million definitive contract from DLA Aviation (November 17, 2025) for disk and hub turbine components extending to May 4, 2029; a $268 thousand purchase order from DLA Aviation (September 25, 2025) for compressor blades; a $799 thousand purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime (August 21, 2025) for 31 units of marine windows; and approximately $1.057 million and $1.878 million in delivery orders from TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (March 2026) for T-161 track blocks and spare parts supporting Bradley Fighting Vehicles. The average award size sits in the $70,000 to $150,000 range; the company's business is high-velocity, low-complexity spare parts procurement, not large-scale system integration or development.

Norcatec exhibits zero subcontractor presence in the award data. It does not disclose named tier-1 subs or teaming relationships in the source materials. This posture — prime-only, small-parts driven, DLA-dependent, set-aside focused — carries both structural strengths and vulnerabilities. Strengths: deep penetration of DLA's supplier base, consistency in small-business set-aside competition, established IDC relationships enabling repeat revenue, and geographic supply-base flexibility. Vulnerabilities: near-zero government-wide vehicle presence, no prime contractor relationships as a sub, extreme customer concentration creating legislative or budget-driven cliff risk, commodity-price volatility, and recompete exposure in a market where DLA routinely re-solicits to expand supplier bases. The vendor's profile is a textbook example of a small-business specialist locked into a single customer's supply-chain requirements — resilient in its niche but exposed to consolidation, set-aside reform, or DLA sourcing strategy shifts.