R & B Electronics Inc.

R & B Electronics Inc., a small business manufacturer of electronic components and hardware headquartered in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, operates as a prime contractor supplying specialized electrical and electronic parts to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) and subordinate defense customers. The company competes predominantly full-and-open with no SBA set-aside certifications in its prime posture, though several of its Indefinite Delivery Contracts carry Total Small Business set-aside designations; across recent awards, approximately 60% of task orders execute under small business set-aside IDCs.

R & B Electronics manufactures and delivers concrete electronic hardware—electrical leads, terminal boards, terminal board covers, connector receptacles, splice sets, nuts, sleeves, lanyards, fuel tank caps, clips, and electrostatic dischargers—primarily for military aircraft maintenance and defense logistics operations. Representative prime work includes a $46.3 million Total Small Business set-aside purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime (May 2025) for 971 electrical clips supporting B-52 aircraft sustainment, a $28.9 million Total Small Business set-aside purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime (March 2024) for electrostatic dischargers, and a $21.1 million non-set-aside delivery order from DLA Aviation (April 2025) for electrical leads. The company holds eight active Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Aviation and DLA Land and Maritime, ranging from $250,000 to $1.54 million in ceiling value and extending through 2030, through which it issues firm fixed-price delivery orders typically valued between $600 and $25,000.

Customer concentration is extreme and singular. DLA Aviation dominates 1,029 awards (81% of total awards) valued at $13.1 million combined potential, while DLA Land and Maritime accounts for 186 awards (15% of total) valued at $8.6 million. Together these two DLA branches represent 98% of award count and 95% of combined potential value; the remaining six customer agencies—including Naval Supply Systems Command and DLA Troop Support divisions—generate negligible volume. Activity has declined year over year: 73 awards in 2022, 87 in 2023, 72 in 2024, 60 in 2025, and only 6 awards recorded through March 2026. Only one award reaching completion within the next twenty-four months carries $8 thousand in combined potential value, presenting minimal recompete exposure in that window. The company holds a single federal contract subcontract award on record—a bus-bar delivery under Kihomac Inc.'s F-16 Multiple Award Harness IDIQ in June 2024—reflecting a predominantly prime-contractor posture.

R & B Electronics' IDC vehicles include single-award contracts SPE4A724D5201 (non-set-aside, $350,000 ceiling through December 2030), SPE4A724D5157 (Total Small Business, $250,000 ceiling through September 2030), SPE4A720D5307 (non-set-aside, $1.54 million ceiling through June 2030 for DLA Land and Maritime), and four additional small business and full-and-open vehicles each valued at $250,000 with expirations through February 2027. No GSA Schedules, GWACs, or government-wide vehicles appear in the portfolio; R & B Electronics operates exclusively through single-award DLA indefinite-delivery relationships. The company manufactures goods under primary NAICS categories 334419 (Other Electronic Component Manufacturing, 628 awards) and 334930 (All Other Miscellaneous Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing, 184 awards), delivering products classified under PSC codes 5825 (Miscellaneous Electric Power and Distribution Equipment, 760 awards) and 5210 (Lugs, Terminals, and Terminal Strips, 261 awards). Work is performed at manufacturing facilities in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Grand Prairie, Texas, with deliveries to DLA depots throughout the Continental United States and overseas consolidation points. Combined potential value across all 1,276 awards totals $22.7 million, with $5 million obligated (22% realization).