Plasan North America, Inc.

Plasan North America, Inc., a foreign-owned manufacturer headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, supplies fabricated armor components, protective systems, and vehicular hardware to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor to major defense primes. The company competes predominantly full-and-open; no small business set-asides apply to most of its prime footprint, though roughly 15% of recent DLA awards carry Total Small Business designations.

Plasan's federal work centers on Defense Logistics Agency procurement of armor solutions and metal fabrication. The company holds multiple single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Land and Maritime and DLA Aviation covering armor floor panels (ceiling $250,000), transparent armor, overlap armor plates, windshield plates, retainer assemblies, washers, and miscellaneous fasteners and brackets. Recent prime awards include a $102,750 Total Small Business purchase order (March 28, 2025) for transparent armor units under DLA Land and Maritime; a $80,550 Total Small Business purchase order (January 18, 2023) for transparent armor; and a $167,700 Total Small Business purchase order (August 31, 2022) for armor frames for vehicles. The company also holds a newly awarded single-award IDC with DLA Land and Maritime (March 31, 2026, $350,000 ceiling) for armor plates through July 31, 2027, and a February 5, 2026 single-award IDC (also DLA Land and Maritime, $350,000 ceiling) for windshield overlap components running through February 5, 2027. Most DLA orders are firm fixed-price purchase orders and delivery orders placed against standing IDC vehicles, with typical delivery timelines of 87 to 213 days to DLA depots across CONUS and OCONUS locations. Work is performed at Plasan's Grand Rapids manufacturing facility.

Customer concentration is extreme and concentrated in DLA. DLA Land and Maritime accounts for 897 of 1,100 total awards (81%) and $34 million of the $42 million combined potential value (81%). DLA Aviation and DLA Troop Support Hardware account for an additional 161 awards combined. The Department of the Army appears twice in the top-dollar ranking—a single $4.4 million award to Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command and a $1.5 million award to Army Materiel Command Sustainment Command—but these represent outliers in otherwise purely DLA-dominated customer concentration. The Marine Corps, Navy, and other defense agencies have placed fewer than ten awards each.

Activity has declined from a baseline of 37 awards in 2022 to 27 in 2023, 20 in 2024, recovering slightly to 27 in 2025, with only 4 awards recorded through March 2026. Over 1,100 total awards are recorded in the source data spanning from 2008 forward. The award portfolio shows shallow recompete risk: only one award ($32 thousand combined potential value) completes within the next twenty-four months. However, the portfolio contains multiple active IDC vehicles with one-year terms expiring in 2026 and 2027, representing natural recompete triggers for Plasan and competitive opportunity for others.

Plasan subcontracts heavily to Oshkosh Defense LLC (fabricated components for LVSR tactical vehicles and cab assemblies, with multiple recent modifications through early 2025) and to AM General LLC (auto parts for the JLTV family of vehicles, long-term contract signed February 2024). The company also supplies fabricated components and vehicle armor to Booz Allen Hamilton on engineering-development initiatives and spec materials to National Steel and Shipbuilding Company on T-AO Work Task Force programs. Science Applications International Corporation has subcontracted Plasan for ground vehicle systems modeling and simulation work and All-Terrain Electric Mission Modules spare parts.

Plasan's NAICS profile spans automobile and motor vehicle merchant wholesaling (276 awards), hardware manufacturing (200 awards), miscellaneous fabricated metal products (90 awards), and bolt, nut, screw, rivet, and washer manufacturing (80 awards). PSC concentration follows: vehicular cab, body, and frame structural components (281 awards); hardware commercial (203 awards); vehicular furniture and accessories (139 awards); and miscellaneous vehicular components (133 awards). The portfolio reflects a specialized armor and protective components supplier deeply embedded in DLA supply chains for tactical vehicle and shipboard equipment protection, with secondary exposure to major defense integrators through subcontract work.