Quality Refrigeration Company, Inc.

Quality Refrigeration Company, Inc., doing business as Quality Refrigeration Co Inc., supplies specialized refrigeration, air-conditioning, and HVAC components and services to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on full-and-open and small-business-set-aside purchase orders, with a secondary subcontract footprint supporting naval vessel maintenance. The company is a small business based in Wilmington, California, competing in full-and-open and total-small-business-set-aside categories across the Defense Logistics Agency and the Department of the Navy.

Quality Refrigeration's prime portfolio centers on commercial and marine refrigeration equipment manufacturing (NAICS 333415) and industrial valve manufacturing, with 962 of 1,046 total awards (92%) issued as prime contracts. The company's capability scope is narrowly defined by the Defense Logistics Agency's procurement: compressors, condensers, valve plates, thermostatic switches, pressure switches, gaskets, seals, magnetic unloaders, fluid filters, and other electromechanical refrigeration components measured in units and low-dollar purchase orders. Representative prime work includes a $109.5 million purchase order (August 2025) for refrigeration compressors to USS Tripoli and Naval Weapons Systems Support (total small business set-aside), a $119.9 million total-small-business-set-aside order (July 2025) for 14 fluid filters, a $70 million purchase order (April 2025) for six refrigeration compressors to DLA Distribution Depot Oklahoma (open competition), and an $108 million total-small-business-set-aside order (March 2026) for a refrigeration compressor unit. Performance occurs in Wilmington, California, with delivery to DLA distribution facilities and military installations worldwide.

Customer concentration is extreme and single-agency dependent. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime division accounts for 407 awards (39% of all awards) and $6.1 million in combined potential value (32% of all dollars), while DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment accounts for 260 awards (25%) and $3.8 million (20% of dollars). Together, DLA Land and Maritime and DLA Construction and Equipment represent 64% of all awards and 52% of total potential value. Secondary customers—the Department of the Navy's Military Sealift Command (82 awards, $4 million), the U.S. Coast Guard (46 awards, $3.3 million), and NOAA (7 awards, $1.1 million)—together account for 17% of awards and 36% of dollars. The split between rankings reflects DLA's dominance in volume but MSC's higher per-order dollar values.

Quality Refrigeration holds seven single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Land and Maritime, each valued at $250,000 and designated for total small business participation. These contracts, awarded on staggered schedules between June 2024 and May 2025, cover electromagnetic relays, thermostatic switches, gaskets, fluid filters, and magnetic unloaders. IDC line items carry guaranteed minimums (one to 25 units per item) and anticipated annual ordering frequencies (three to 12 orders per year). Task orders under these IDIQs have generated 22 named delivery orders in the source data, with values ranging from $1.04 million (electromagnetic relay, October 2025) to $119.9 million (fluid filters, July 2025).

Activity has grown modestly year over year: 79 awards in 2022, 98 in 2023, 110 in 2024, and 141 in 2025. Most recent activity is concentrated in early 2026 (41 awards through April). Nine awards with combined potential value $369 thousand face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating limited recompete exposure.

Quality Refrigeration operates as a subcontractor exclusively to BAE Systems Maritime Solutions San Diego Inc., appearing on at least 31 named sub-awards (all within the past eighteen months) supporting docking selected restricted availabilities and fleet maintenance availabilities (DSRA, DMP, SSSD) for USS Halsey, USS Mobile, USS Paul Hamilton, USS Green Bay, USS Essex, and related naval vessels. The sub-award descriptions identify refrigeration repair and component replacement work supporting ship maintenance contracts.

The vendor competes exclusively on small-business-set-aside and full-and-open purchase orders; no GWAC, IDIQ, or GSA Schedule presence is evident in the source. The seven DLA Land and Maritime IDIQs are the only contract vehicles in the top parent-vehicle ranking. All 1,046 awards are purchase orders or delivery orders against these standing IDIQs, with no teaming relationships to other primes in the prime contracting role. Quality Refrigeration's federal footprint is tightly clustered: DLA represents 79% of all prime and sub awards and 85% of combined potential value, with no geographic or capability diversification beyond refrigeration and HVAC components for military logistics and vessel maintenance.