RBC Bearings Incorporated

RBC Bearings Incorporated, West Trenton Division, manufactures and supplies precision roller, needle, cylindrical, and self-lubricating bearings to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor, competing full-and-open with no set-aside designations across its federal footprint. The company is headquartered in West Trenton, New Jersey, operates as a for-profit manufacturer under primary NAICS 332991 (Ball and Roller Bearing Manufacturing), and holds 99% of its recent awards as prime contracts, with only 9 sub-awards out of 600 total federal transactions spanning three decades.

RBC Bearings' customer concentration is extreme and heavily weighted to DLA Aviation. The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation accounts for 439 awards carrying $76.4 million in combined potential value — 73% of the vendor's total federal portfolio by dollar count and 59% by award count. The broader Defense Logistics Agency family (DLA Aviation plus other DLA components) represents 551 awards and $98.1 million in combined potential value, or approximately 76% of RBC Bearings' entire federal footprint. This concentration is the decisive signal: DLA Aviation is the near-exclusive customer, with the Department of the Navy, Department of the Army, and other DoD elements representing marginal activity. The top-customers rankings by count and potential value track perfectly — DLA Aviation dominates both dimensions, indicating consistent dollar-per-award scale rather than a mix of high-value and high-volume customers.

RBC Bearings competes on multiple DLA Aviation Indefinite Delivery Contracts, each single-award and firm fixed-price with no set-aside. The two largest active IDCs are valued at $5.05 million (awarded September 18, 2024, running through September 17, 2029) and $1.71 million (awarded September 10, 2024, running through September 9, 2029), each covering roller and needle bearings (PSC 4610112396 and 4610113528). A third IDC worth $250 thousand (awarded September 22, 2021, expired September 16, 2024) covered roller and needle bearings; a fourth worth $250 thousand (awarded May 4, 2022, expired May 4, 2023) covered plain self-lubricating bearings. Across the top five parent vehicles, RBC Bearings has placed 89 task orders totaling $23.3 million in combined potential value, with the largest vehicle (SP044103D0571) accounting for 32 task orders worth $20.8 million. Recent representative prime work includes a $2.13 million purchase order from DLA Aviation (January 17, 2025, awarded under IDC SP044103D0571) for needle roller bearings (NSN 3110-00-455-6188) with completion by December 12, 2025; a $987.74 thousand delivery order (October 1, 2024) for roller and needle bearings completing August 20, 2025; a $441.19 thousand delivery order (April 21, 2025) for roller bearings completing March 10, 2026; and a $440.49 thousand purchase order (July 14, 2025) for roller and needle bearings (NSN 3110-004556188) completing July 24, 2026.

Activity has remained relatively steady over the past five years (25 to 31 awards annually from 2021 to 2025), with only six awards facing ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and combined recompete exposure of $727 thousand — a minimal cliff. RBC Bearings also subcontracts as a supplier of common aerospace commodities to The Boeing Company and Zimmer US Inc. on helicopter and aircraft programs, including CH-47F aircraft procurement and manufacturing work (recent sub-awards in February 2025, April 2024, and October 2025).

Capability-wise, RBC Bearings manufactures and supplies engineered precision bearings — roller bearings, needle bearings, cylindrical bearings, ball bearings, plain self-lubricating bearings, and related components — for military aircraft, ground vehicle, and equipment maintenance and repair. The vendor's federal business is almost entirely transactional: small to mid-sized purchase orders and delivery orders issued repeatedly against standing IDCs, with individual task order values ranging from under $1 thousand to $2.1 million, all firm fixed-price, all for on-demand inventory resupply to support DLA Aviation's global supply chain mission. Work is performed at RBC Bearings' manufacturing facility in West Trenton, New Jersey.