Southern Steel Products LLC

Southern Steel Products LLC, a small-business partnership headquartered in Gadsden, Alabama, supplies steel and aluminum materials and fabrication services to the Department of the Army as a prime contractor exclusively under total small-business set-asides. Established in 2005, the company operates across iron and steel manufacturing and fabricated metal-product NAICS categories, with work concentrated in plate, sheet, strip, and foil materials (PSC 5310 family) and semi-finished steel products (PSC 9330 family).

Southern Steel's federal footprint is functionally mono-customer: TACOM Life Cycle Management Command accounts for 32 of 34 awards (97% of recent awards, $426 thousand of $435 thousand combined potential value), leaving minimal exposure to other agencies. The sole non-TACOM award is a $6 thousand purchase order from the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Institution Talladega. All work flows through small-business set-aside purchase orders ranging from $6 thousand to $24.6 thousand, with no parent IDVs, GWACs, or BPAs in the source data. Representative awards include a $24.6 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order (December 2025) for steel punch plate, a $14.8 thousand order (December 2022) for aluminum grating, and a $19.7 thousand order (July 2021) for assorted steel materials, all supporting Army vehicle programs including M1 tank systems and performed to military specifications.

Activity is sporadic: two awards in 2021, one in 2022, none recorded in 2023 or 2024, and one in 2025. Since 2019, Southern Steel has accumulated over $150 thousand in federal contract value. All 34 awards are prime work; the company has no recorded sub-award footprint. The vendor competes exclusively under total small-business set-asides and does not appear on government-wide vehicles or multi-agency BPAs. The concentrated TACOM relationship and small transaction sizes position Southern Steel as a commodity materials supplier for Army vehicle programs rather than a systems integrator or engineering-services prime.