Ruoff & Sons Inc.

Ruoff & Sons Inc., a for-profit manufacturer based in Runnemede, New Jersey, serves as a prime contractor supplying precision-machined components and assemblies to the U.S. Army's ground combat systems, artillery, and tactical vehicle programs, competing predominantly through full-and-open federal procurements on Army-wide vehicles rather than socioeconomic set-asides.

The vendor's federal footprint is heavily concentrated in ground ordnance manufacturing. Over the past five years, Ruoff & Sons has received 1,286 awards (1,270 prime, 1% subcontract) totaling $33.3 million in combined potential value, with obligations running to $38.9 million. The activity trajectory shows recent decline—from 53 awards in 2024 to 22 in 2025 and just 5 in 2026 through mid-February—signaling that the vendor's core customer relationship may be reaching capacity limits or competitive pressure. The recompete cliff is minimal; only one award worth $6 thousand reaches completion within the next twenty-four months.

Ruoff & Sons' customer base is nearly monocultural. The Department of the Army Materiel Command's TACOM Life Cycle Management Command dominates at 992 awards ($26.8 million, 77% of total potential value); the balance scatters across the Department of the Army proper (140 awards, $103 thousand), Army PEO Ground Combat Systems (41 awards, $731 thousand), the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Air Force, and the Marine Corps. This concentration carries execution risk—TACOM represents single-customer dependency for order flow.

Ruoff & Sons holds five major parent vehicles, all Army-managed Blanket Purchase Agreements and Indefinite Delivery Contracts. The most active are BPA W911PT16A0026 (314 task orders, $3 million), IDC W911PT06A0026 (226 task orders, $3 million), BPA W911PT11A0026 (173 task orders, $1.5 million), BPA W911PT21A0026 (157 task orders, $2.7 million), and IDC W911PT04A0026 (131 task orders, $27 thousand). All vehicles run through TACOM and have no set-aside designation. Individual call orders range from sub-hundred-dollar components to definitive contracts in the $500 thousand to $986 thousand range for carrier assemblies and actuator subassemblies.

Representative prime work includes a $399 thousand definitive contract for 55 XM35 M35 actuator assemblies (awarded July 2025), a $986 thousand delivery order for 179 carriers and 182 tow eye assemblies for tactical vehicles (December 2022), a $511 thousand definitive contract for 687 recoil guides and 172 TOW brackets (September 2022), and dozens of smaller BPA calls for machined parts such as firing pins, extractors, bushings, levers, gears, and shafts supporting 105mm M20 and 155mm M776 cannons, M35 actuator systems, and Bradley vehicle platforms. The vendor also received multiple Ukraine mission support contract awards in 2022–2023 for safety lock assemblies, spindles, recoil guides, and components, indicating secondary demand from foreign military sales channels managed through TACOM.

NAICS and PSC data confirm the vendor's specialization: 962 awards fall under Machine Shops (NAICS 3327), 89 under Rolled Steel Shape Manufacturing, and the remainder across ordnance and tank component categories. Top PSCs reflect ordnance focus—440 awards for guns 75mm through 125mm, 426 for guns over 150mm through 200mm, and 105 for guns 30mm to 75mm.

Ruoff & Sons maintains a minimal subcontracting footprint—only 16 sub-awards in the source—all placed with BAE Systems Land & Armaments as prime on Bradley A4 follow-on production and self-propelled howitzer system vehicle efforts (material supplier role, awards dated between December 2022 and September 2025). The vendor functions primarily as a direct prime to TACOM, not as a sub in larger defense primes' supply chains.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on precision machining and component fabrication for artillery ordnance, ground combat platforms, and tactical vehicles. The work is wholly consumables and spare parts—firing mechanisms, actuators, bushings, extractors, levers, gears, and shafts—rather than systems integration or engineering services. Set-aside posture is negligible; the source shows that while a small number of individual BPA calls carry Total Small Business or Partial Small Business designations, the majority of awards and nearly all vehicle positions carry no set-aside, indicating that Ruoff & Sons competes full-and-open and does not rely on socioeconomic status to maintain its TACOM relationship.