Steelmasters Of Columbus Inc.

Steelmasters Of Columbus Inc., a woman-owned small business manufacturer headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, supplies precision-engineered defense components—vehicular structural parts, mechanical assemblies, brackets, fasteners, and ordnance-related hardware—to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor across 2,615 federal purchase orders and indefinite delivery contracts. The vendor competes predominantly full-and-open against all qualified sources; approximately 40% of recent awards carry total small business set-asides, but the majority are non-set-aside procurements.

Steelmasters' entire federal footprint traces to a single customer: the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), which accounts for 98% of the company's 2,615 awards. DLA Land and Maritime dominates, with 2,195 awards and $20.4 million in combined potential value—about 86% of Steelmasters' total portfolio. DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment contributes 161 awards and $923 thousand; DLA Aviation, 97 awards and $532 thousand; and DLA Troop Support Hardware, 18 awards and $27 thousand. The top NAICS categories center on ordnance accessories manufacturing (298 awards), mechanical power transmission equipment (208 awards), motor vehicle parts (186 awards), armored vehicle components (184 awards), and motor vehicle body manufacturing (174 awards). Top PSCs reflect the same concentration: vehicular cab, body, and frame structural components (311 awards), miscellaneous vehicular components (273 awards), power transmission equipment (214 awards), and vehicular furniture and accessories (168 awards).

The company's recent awards include a $23.4 thousand DLA Land and Maritime purchase order for structural channels (April 15, 2026), an $81.6 thousand order for shield assemblies supporting small arms and ordnance operations (January 8, 2026), a $66.3 thousand DLA Aviation order for adapter hooks (November 18, 2025), and a $47.6 thousand order for protective shield assemblies (November 28, 2025). Steelmasters maintains six active single-award indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Land and Maritime, each valued at $350 thousand and running through 2026–2027, covering vehicle body panels, hub caps, trailer drawbars, vehicle door handles, turn signal shields, and emergency handles. Four of the six are designated total small business set-asides; two are full-and-open. These IDCs generate an estimated two to twelve task orders annually per vehicle, with guaranteed minimum quantities per order and delivery windows of 70–176 days.

Activity averaged 164 awards per year over 2022–2024, declined to 137 in 2025, and has dropped to 44 year-to-date in 2026 (as of April 15). Twenty awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $422 thousand, representing recompete exposure. The vendor has registered with the System for Award Management since September 2001 and carries over 100 prior prime federal contract awards in total portfolio history. All work is performed at the Columbus, Ohio facility, with deliveries distributed to DLA depots throughout the continental United States and international consolidation points. Steelmasters does not appear in the source data as a subcontractor on any federal contracts; the vendor's footprint is entirely prime.

ALL TYPES OF MACHINED AND/OR FABRICATED PARTS, SUCH AS WELDMENTS, ASSEMBLIES, STAMPINGS, DIES, PATTERNS, FIXTURES, SMALL QUANTITIES OR PRODUCTION; CNC LATHES AND MILLING MACHINES; SHEARING, BENDING, WELDING OF ALL TYPES; WE WORK WITH ALL METALS. ALSO CNC