Quality Aviation, Inc.

Quality Aviation, Inc., a for-profit small business based in Fontana, California, supplies aircraft spare parts and components—fasteners, bearings, seals, valves, structural elements, and electronic assemblies—to the Defense Logistics Agency and allied military departments as a prime contractor on purchase orders and firm fixed-price delivery orders, competing full-and-open with no set-aside designation across the majority of its footprint.

Quality Aviation operates almost exclusively within DLA's supply chain, with 95% of its recent award volume concentrated among five customer organizations. The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation dominates the customer base, accounting for 3,852 awards (67% of all awards) valued at $28.5 million combined potential value; DLA Land and Maritime placed 776 orders worth $3 million; and three Air Force and Navy logistics commands generated the remaining volume. Activity has been steady year-over-year, ranging from 248 awards in 2022 to 425 in 2025, with 91 awards recorded through mid-April 2026. The vendor's combined potential value across 5,693 recent prime awards totals $36.3 million, though obligated dollars ($42 million) exceed potential value by 16 percent, indicating consistent invoice activity above floor estimates.

Quality Aviation's contract vehicle footprint is fragmentary and transactional. The vendor holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) valued at $250,000 with DLA Aviation (awarded March 14, 2023, running through March 13, 2028) designated as a total small business set-aside, focused exclusively on threaded rod products and related fasteners. Under that vehicle, the vendor has issued delivery orders ranging from $112 to $900. Beyond that IDC, Quality Aviation operates almost entirely on discrete purchase orders—predominantly under $50,000 ceiling values—issued directly by DLA Aviation and DLA Land and Maritime without parent IDV framing in the visible award history. A small number of delivery orders appear under other DLA IDCs (SPE4A623D5635, SPE4A716D5196, DLA50085C2234, F3460185C0257, N0038387C2143), but these represent fewer than 20 task orders across all vehicles combined. The vendor's business model is one of high-volume, low-unit-value transactional ordering rather than standing team positions on large GWACs or agency-wide vehicles.

Quality Aviation competes full-and-open on the vast majority of awards; fewer than 3 percent carry the total small business set-aside designation. The vendor qualifies as a small business and historically registers that status in SAM, but does not pursue or hold 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, or other restricted set-aside certifications. Ownership and minority status are not disclosed in the source material.

The commodity concentration is narrow and deep. Top NAICS categories include Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (1,389 awards), Aircraft Engine and Engine Parts Manufacturing (709 awards), and Hardware Manufacturing (611 awards). Top PSC categories align: Airframe Structural Components (769 awards), Gas Turbines and Jet Engines—Aircraft and Components (430 awards), and Hardware, Commercial (305 awards). The vendor supplies ball bearings, rivets, fasteners, seals, bushings, springs, shafts, valves, connectors, hinges, brackets, gaskets, tube assemblies, and miscellaneous aircraft structural and electrical hardware. Representative named orders from the recent footprint include a $300,000 purchase order for gate shut-off fittings (December 10, 2025), a $187,500 order for Stage 3 shroud components (October 3, 2025), a $73,425 order for immersion-type thermocouples (February 4, 2026), and orders for bearing retainer covers, relay assemblies, hydraulic fittings, landing gear components, and aircraft skin panels, each typically valued between $1,000 and $50,000.

Quality Aviation operates as a prime contractor on 100 percent of recent awards, with no documented subcontractor relationships or sub-award activity. All work is performed at the vendor's Fontana, California facility. Recompete exposure over the next twenty-four months is minimal: only two awards with combined potential value of $13,000 face ultimate completion between mid-2026 and mid-2028, reflecting the predominance of short-cycle purchase orders with completion dates one to six months post-award rather than multi-year contract vehicles approaching renewal.