One-Way Manufacturing Inc.

One-Way Manufacturing Inc., doing business as One Way Manufacturing, manufactures precision metal tube assemblies, bent metallic tubes, and pipe assemblies for the federal defense supply chain, operating as a prime contractor on 265 awards (97% of recent activity) and holding a minority-owned, Asian-Pacific American-owned small business designation with headquarters in Anaheim, California.

The company competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides; approximately 40% of recent prime awards carry Total Small Business designations, with the remainder split between full-and-open and non-set-aside procurements. One-Way Manufacturing's customer concentration is extreme: the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime division accounts for 221 of 273 awards (81% of award count) and $4.8 million of $5.7 million combined potential value. Defense Logistics Agency Aviation adds 28 awards worth $936 thousand. The Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command, Naval Sea Systems Command, and DOD Missile Defense Agency round out a thin secondary customer base. This concentration reflects One-Way Manufacturing's core capability as a specialized supplier of metal tubing components to military logistics operations rather than a broad-market defense contractor.

One-Way Manufacturing holds three Indefinite Delivery Contracts, each with a $250 thousand ceiling: a single-award small-business-set-aside IDC awarded August 1, 2025, running through August 1, 2026, for bent metallic tubes and metal tube assemblies with an estimated 10 orders per year; a second single-award small-business-set-aside IDC awarded July 3, 2025, through July 3, 2026, also for bent metallic tubes with approximately 11 estimated annual orders; and a third IDC awarded August 26, 2021, (since expired as of December 14, 2021). These vehicles are the backbone of One-Way Manufacturing's business model, with individual task orders typically valued between $4 thousand and $255 thousand. Representative recent prime awards include a $255 thousand Total Small Business purchase order for tube assembly metal components to DLA Land and Maritime (April 14, 2026, completion June 8, 2027), a $440 thousand Total Small Business purchase order for fluid air manifold components to DOD Aviation (November 18, 2025, completion December 3, 2027), and a $194.9 thousand purchase order for tube assembly metal components to DLA Land and Maritime (June 25, 2025, completion April 21, 2026). The company's typical transaction spans $7 thousand to $100 thousand, with a small number of larger orders reaching $200 thousand to $450 thousand. Product Service Code 47 (Pipe, Tube, and Rigid Tubing) dominates the portfolio at 234 awards, with secondary work in aircraft air conditioning and heating equipment (13 awards) and airframe structural components (12 awards). NAICS 332996 (Fabricated Pipe and Pipe Fitting Manufacturing) covers 141 awards.

Activity has grown moderately year over year — 28 awards in 2022 to 41 in 2024 — but 2025 and 2026 show a slight decline (37 and 7 awards respectively, with 2026 incomplete through April 14). Seven awards with a combined potential value of $1 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, positioning One-Way Manufacturing in a recompete cycle on a portion of its DLA backlog. The vendor's subcontractor footprint is minimal; eight sub-awards (3% of activity) route to Lockheed Martin for work on gas line assemblies, retainer tubes, and JASSM (Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile) tube assemblies. This sub-engagement reflects One-Way Manufacturing's role as a specialty metal-component supplier to prime defense contractors rather than as a systems integrator or major sub. Combined potential value across all 273 awards is $5.7 million, with $5.4 million already obligated (95% obligation rate), indicating a mature, cash-flowing vendor with predictable small-order volume rather than a pipeline-heavy firm. The company's footprint is tightly scoped: metal tube and pipe manufacturing for military logistics depots, with minimal diversification into adjacent defense sectors or civilian federal markets.

Tube bending, rolling, and coiling, flaring, beading, swaging, welding, brazing, passivation, penetrant inspection, primer/paint coating, powder coating, zinc plating, hydraulic/pneumatic pressure/proof testing, machining, forward/reverse engineering.