Republic Machinery Co Inc.

Republic Machinery Co Inc., doing business as Republic Lagun Machine Tool Co, manufactures and supplies metalworking machinery — primarily lathes, milling machines, and machine tool accessories — to the U.S. military, defense logistics, and civilian federal agencies as a prime contractor under full-and-open and total small-business set-aside procurement. The company is a self-certified small disadvantaged business, woman-owned, and Hispanic American-owned, headquartered in Harbor City, California, and competes predominantly under small-business set-asides on purchase orders for commercial metalworking equipment.

Republic Machinery has delivered over 140 prime federal contract awards since 1980, with recent activity focused on machine-tool sales. Representative recent work includes a $901,886 firm-fixed-price purchase order from the Army Contracting Command–Redstone (awarded September 2024) for one CNC vertical knee mill and one 18-inch lathe to support the Technology Development Directorate at Redstone Arsenal; a $134,928 Defense Logistics Agency award (January 2022) for three engine lathes under total small-business set-aside; a $75,685 sole-source delivery from NASA's Shared Services Center (July 2023) for an American Turnmaster manual lathe; and a $63,523 Food and Drug Administration purchase order (September 2026) for an American Turnmaster AT-1860-G geared head lathe supporting biomedical research at the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health.

Customer concentration is moderate across the defense industrial base and civilian agencies. The Department of the Navy accounts for 24 awards across its subordinate commands, with the Naval Sea Systems Command alone holding 13 awards worth $1.4 million in combined potential value. The Defense Logistics Agency (both Aviation and Land and Maritime divisions) holds 19 awards totaling $694 thousand. The Department of the Army Materiel Command's Research Development and Engineering Command anchors three awards valued at $1.1 million. The top five customer groupings cover 44% of recent awards by count and 39% by potential value, reflecting a fragmented customer base across Navy maintenance and repair, Army equipment procurement, DLA supply distribution, and ad-hoc civilian-agency equipment purchases. Republic Machinery seats on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (nine task orders, $909 thousand combined potential value) and holds multiple single-award IDIQs with the Army (DAAA0984C0233, DAAA0985C0249, DAAD0994C0037).

Activity has declined from four awards in 2022 to one or two annually in 2025–2026; only one award with a combined potential value of $64 thousand faces completion in the next twenty-four months, creating minimal near-term recompete exposure. Republic Machinery also holds a minor subcontract footprint: two sub-awards to Leidos (September 2024 and September 2025) for critical minerals and materials research and advanced munitions development, and one sub-award to the University of Dayton (June 2022) for engineering supplies. The vendor's core product portfolio spans NAICS codes in machine-tool manufacturing (24 awards) and metal-cutting machine tools (18 awards), with PSC codes concentrated on milling machines (45 awards) and lathes (44 awards), reflecting a focused, equipment-centric business model with no services or systems-integration capability exposure.

INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY - MILLING, DRILLING & BORING MACHINES; LATHES, ROLL GRINDERS, PRESSES. (CONVENTIONAL AND COMPUTER NUMERICAL CONTROL).