Prototype Cast Manufacturing, Inc.

Prototype Cast Manufacturing, Inc., doing business as Pcmi Manufacturing Integration, is a small disadvantaged business manufacturer of precision-cast and machined defense components operating as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) across the Defense Logistics Agency and Department of the Navy. The company, headquartered in Utica, Michigan with manufacturing operations in Macomb and Shelby Township, competes across the full federal marketplace without exclusive reliance on set-aside vehicles, though approximately 40 percent of its recent DLA awards carry total small business set-aside designations.

The company's capability portfolio centers on precision-engineered mechanical components and housings for military logistics operations: guided missile housings, mounting brackets, control panel brackets, gears, bearing assemblies, resilient mounts, torpedo tube bases, filler opening caps, and structural components across airframe, propulsion, and ordnance applications. Representative work includes a $306,425 total small business set-aside purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime for 1,443 mounting bracket units (awarded March 2024), a $257,790 total small business set-aside purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime for 2,301 conveyor elements (awarded May 2023), a $152,875 total small business set-aside purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime for resilient mounting hardware (awarded April 2024), and a $98,500 purchase order from DLA Aviation for launcher fairings (awarded July 2024). The company also holds a $250,000 single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with DLA Aviation (awarded June 2023, running through June 2028) designated as a total small business set-aside, under which it has exercised nine task orders ranging from $3,420 to $11,305 for guided missile housings and specialized mechanical components.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to Defense Logistics Agency divisions. The top five funding entities account for 98 percent of recent awards. DLA Land and Maritime leads by award count (48 awards, $1.7 million combined potential value) and by dollar value, followed by DLA Aviation (42 awards, $940 thousand), the Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command (6 awards, $454 thousand), DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (10 awards, $385 thousand), and DLA Troop Support Hardware (3 awards, $81 thousand). The two rankings track closely — DLA Land and Maritime dominates both volume and dollars — with the Navy representing the only non-DLA customer of material scale.

Activity has grown from three awards in 2022 to a peak of thirty in 2024, declining to seventeen in 2025 and two through mid-2026, a trajectory suggesting pipeline contraction or potential recompete timing. Seven awards (combined potential value $177 thousand) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore present recompete exposure. The company competes across airframe structural components, bearing assemblies, hardware, guided missile launchers, and power transmission equipment categories, with top NAICS concentration in ball and roller bearing manufacturing (14 awards), other aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing (13 awards), mechanical power transmission equipment manufacturing (12 awards), and hardware manufacturing (11 awards).

Prototype Cast Manufacturing operates entirely as a prime contractor with no subcontracting footprint in the source record. The company's strategic anchor is the DLA Aviation IDC, which provides recurring task order flow across multiple DLA divisions. Purchase orders and delivery orders under this vehicle and other DLA procurement actions constitute the company's federal footprint; no participation on government-wide IDIQs, GWACs, or cross-agency vehicles appears in the source data.

We provide ferrous and non-ferrous cast components for prototype and low-to-mid volume production applications. We provide CNC machining, assemble kits for low volume production runs. We supply design services for tooling and parts.