Perma-Cal Industries, Inc.

Perma-Cal Industries, Inc., a small business manufacturer of precision pressure measurement instruments headquartered in Minden, Nevada, serves as a prime contractor supplying pressure dial gauges, compound pressure gauges, and pressure-vacuum gauges to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Aviation as its dominant customer. The company is a Subchapter S Corporation with over 35 years of federal contracting experience competing predominantly full-and-open, with no SBA set-aside certifications in its prime footprint, though seven of its active indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Aviation carry total small business set-aside designations.

Perma-Cal's federal footprint is heavily concentrated in DLA Aviation procurement. Of 964 total awards (962 prime, 2 sub) across all sources, DLA Aviation accounts for 829 awards valued at $17.7 million combined potential value (97% of awards by count, 96% by dollars). A secondary DLA customer arm—Defense Logistics Agency (non-Aviation)—placed 97 awards worth $488 thousand. The remaining six customer agencies—Department of Homeland Security US Coast Guard, Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Johnson Space Center, and Department of the Air Force—account for fewer than five awards combined. The vendor's award portfolio is entirely focused on pressure measurement instrumentation: 955 of 964 awards fall under PSC code for pressure, temperature, and humidity measuring and controlling instruments.

Perma-Cal's capability portfolio is narrow and concrete: the company manufactures and sells pressure dial gauges (the largest product category), compound pressure gauges, compound pressure-vacuum gauges, and gauge assemblies. Representative named work includes a $43,680 delivery order from DLA Aviation (May 31, 2025) for pressure dial gauges under an indefinite delivery contract; a $77,165.76 delivery order (March 11, 2025) for pressure dial gauges; a $106,280 purchase order for pressure dial gauges under a total small business set-aside (March 30, 2026); and a $32,085 delivery order for pressure dial indicating gauges under a total small business set-aside (May 9, 2025). All work is performed at the company's manufacturing facility in Minden, Nevada. One secondary sub-award from 2024 involved extravehicular activities services, an outlier not reflected in the vendor's core business.

Perma-Cal holds seven active indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Aviation, each awarded as a single-award total small business set-aside, with individual ceiling values ranging from $250,000 to $467,748 and collective potential value of approximately $1.75 million through expiration dates between 2029 and 2030. These seven IDCs span awards from March 2024 through May 2025. The top five named parent vehicles in the portfolio (all DLA Aviation IDIQs) carry designations SPE4AX20D5041, SPE4A619D5377, SPE4A614D5413, SPE4A622D5270, and SPE4A620D5882, with combined task orders ranging from 13 to 38 orders per vehicle.

Activity has grown consistently: the vendor placed 81 awards in 2022, 91 in 2023, 104 in 2024, and 151 in 2025, with 22 awards recorded through April 2026. Twenty-eight awards face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, with combined potential value of $518 thousand—a modest recompete exposure reflecting the small order values typical of pressure gauge procurement. The combined potential value across all 964 awards stands at $18.5 million, with $13.8 million (74%) obligated to date.

Perma-Cal does not appear in the source material as a notable subcontractor to large primes; its federal footprint is almost entirely prime (962 of 964 awards). The two recorded sub-awards are both from 2024 and involve extravehicular activities services under an unnamed prime, suggesting opportunistic or historical engagement rather than a sustained subcontracting posture. The vendor's entire modern business model centers on direct supply of specialized pressure instrumentation to DLA Aviation through both unrestricted competition and small-business-set-aside indefinite delivery vehicles.

Mfgr. of pressure gauges in ranges from 15 to 15,000 psi ( + metric equivalents) and sizes from 3/4' to 8-1/2'. Industrial and Aerospace qualified. AS9100D & ISO9001:2015 Certified.