Salem Manufacturing & Sales Inc.

Salem Manufacturing & Sales Inc., doing business as Salem Industries, manufactures precision-engineered industrial fasteners, mechanical components, and hardware for the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor across over 5,000 purchase orders and indefinite delivery contracts, competing predominantly in full-and-open (unrestricted) procurements and Total Small Business set-asides. The company is a certified small business manufacturer headquartered in Whitehall, Ohio, with federal contracting status since June 2001, performing work primarily at its Columbus and Whitehall facilities.

Salem's federal footprint is concentrated almost entirely within the Defense Logistics Agency, which accounts for 98% of its awards by count and 87% of potential value. The customer breakdown within DLA shows heavy dominance by Land and Maritime (2,406 awards, $18.7 million combined potential value) and Aviation (1,561 awards, $8.4 million), with subordinate volume in Troop Support Hardware (703 awards, $7.6 million) and Troop Support Construction and Equipment (191 awards, $813 thousand). Salem competes successfully in both unrestricted and small business set-aside categories; recent awards include unrestricted purchase orders for a $319,500 marine door component, an $84,000 elbow flange to pipe assembly, and a $79,340 wearing rings procurement, alongside Total Small Business set-aside awards for a $52,020 electrical covers contract, a $27,390 tee handle wrenches order, and a $21,597.45 pad eyes purchase order.

Salem's product portfolio spans fasteners (socket head cap screws, hexagon cap screws, plain hexagon nuts, machine screws, washers, pins, studs, springs), mechanical components and assemblies (bushings, bearings, sleeves, shafts, rings, valves, adapters, handles), piping and fluid system elements (couplings, flanges, valve stems, strainers, flow control valves), and specialized hardware (plates, brackets, brackets, knobs, and tools). Representative recent contracts include a $9,850 pump shaft sleeve from DLA Land and Maritime, a $10,896 socket head cap screws award from DLA Aviation, and a $14,850 wearing rings procurement, all structured as firm fixed-price purchase orders with delivery dates between June and August 2026.

Salem holds five active Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA: a $350,000 single-award IDC for helical compression seats (Total Small Business, Land and Maritime, April 2026–April 2027), a $350,000 single-award IDC for rectangular nuts (Total Small Business, Aviation, March 2026–March 2027), and three additional IDCs with estimated three-orders-per-year cadence and two-unit annual minimums, totaling $750,000 across the portfolio. The vendor operates exclusively as prime contractor; no sub-award activity appears in the source.

Activity has grown from 535 awards in 2022 to 674 in 2025 but dropped to 142 in 2026 year-to-date, reflecting the compressed window through April 2026 in the source data. Combined potential value across all awards stands at $41 million, with $21 million (51%) obligated. Eighty-two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying $1.1 million combined potential value and constituting recompete exposure. Salem's manufacturing profile concentrates in bolt, nut, screw, rivet, and washer manufacturing (912 awards), hardware manufacturing (871 awards), fabricated pipe and fitting manufacturing (285 awards), and industrial valve manufacturing (244 awards), covering PSC code 53 (Hardware, Commercial and related categories).