Stainless Shapes Inc.

Stainless Shapes Inc., headquartered in Elgin, Illinois, supplies metal bars, sheets, plates, structural shapes, and specialized alloy components to the Defense Logistics Agency and NASA as a prime contractor operating under a Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) certification and self-certified small disadvantaged business status. The vendor competes predominantly in full-and-open and total small business set-aside procurements, with a secondary footprint in woman-owned small business set-asides; across its recent award portfolio, set-aside designations appear on roughly 40% of purchase orders, with the remainder competed on unrestricted basis despite the vendor's WOSB eligibility.

Stainless Shapes' federal business is narrowly concentrated in metallic materials supply. The vendor delivers carbon steel, stainless steel, aluminum alloy, copper alloy, and nickel alloy stock in standard industrial forms—metric and imperial bar, plate, sheet, strip, structural angle, beam, and specialized fastener-grade materials—cut to specification and delivered FOB destination or to government facilities. Representative work includes a $268 thousand total small business set-aside purchase order from Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Construction and Equipment (December 2025) for metal plates under NSN 9515015714464 with completion September 2026; an $83.5 thousand total small business set-aside from DLA Aviation (September 2025) for stainless steel bars 2.25 inches OD, 10-12 feet length, completion February 2026; and a $36 thousand total small business set-aside from DLA Troop Support (August 2025) for sheet metal totaling 155 units across two NSNs, completion January 2026. Purchase order values typically range from $500 to $50 thousand, with occasional larger awards exceeding $100 thousand.

Customer concentration is extreme and tilted toward DLA. Defense Logistics Agency and its sub-components account for 100% of recent prime awards tracked in the source: DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (862 awards, $4.3 million combined potential value), DLA main (761 awards, $4.5 million), DLA Land and Maritime (131 awards, $1.1 million), and DLA Aviation (89 awards, $709 thousand). NASA Langley Research Center represents the sole non-DLA customer, with 31 awards totaling $382 thousand combined potential value. Award count and dollar rankings align—DLA is both the volume leader and the financial anchor.

The vendor holds a 100% total small business set-aside Blanket Purchase Agreement with NASA Langley Research Center (80LARC25AA004, awarded March 24, 2025, five-year term through March 23, 2030) for metallic materials—sheet, plate, and bar stock of aluminum alloys, carbon steels, copper alloys, nickel alloys, and stainless steels. Individual call orders may not exceed $5 million; calls under $100 thousand are processed via credit card. One call order for $869 was placed April 15, 2025, and completed April 22, 2025. The prior BPA vehicle (80LARC20A0007) generated 28 task orders totaling $381 thousand. With DLA, the vendor operates as a standing supplier through rolling purchase orders without identified parent IDIQs; awards are structured as discrete firm-fixed-price purchase orders issued against DLA's procurement authority for standardized metal stock.

Activity volume has remained steady at 194–259 awards per year over 2022–2024, declining to 216 in 2025 and dropping to 94 through July 2026 (a partial-year figure); the vendor's award footprint spans from March 2015 forward. Recent recompete exposure is minimal: only three awards (combined potential value $99 thousand) carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, indicating low near-term pressure from contract renewals or recompetitions. The combined potential value across all 1,876 recent awards is $11 million, with $10.5 million obligated (96% of potential), reflecting a highly executed portfolio with minimal unobligated ceiling.

NAICS and PSC posture confirm commodity materials supply: top NAICS codes are Iron and Steel Forging (658 awards), Iron and Steel Mills and Ferroalloy Manufacturing (354 awards), and Rolled Steel Shape Manufacturing (317 awards). Top PSCs are Bars and Rods (875 awards), Plate, Sheet, Strip, Foil, and Leaf (438 awards), and Plate, Sheet, Strip, and Foil; Nonferrous Base Metal (229 awards). The vendor operates as 100% prime contractor—no subcontract footprint appears in the source.

Stainless Shapes Inc. maintains a subsidiary named Stainless Shapes, Inc., also carrying WOSB and small disadvantaged business certifications. The parent structure does not alter the operational footprint or customer relationships documented above.