Swiss Pattern Corp.

Swiss Pattern Corp., doing business as Swiss Pattern, is a small business aerospace components manufacturer based in Santa Ana, California, that supplies specialized aviation and aircraft structural parts to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor. The company operates across full-and-open and total small business set-aside delivery orders under multiple indefinite delivery contracts, with 100% of its recent award footprint as prime work—no subcontractor role.

Swiss Pattern's capability portfolio centers on precision manufacturing of aircraft structural and protective components for military aircraft maintenance and logistics across all Department of Defense service branches. Representative work includes delivery orders from DLA Aviation for structural panels ($34,600 purchase order, March 2025), air conditioning duct assemblies ($20,900 delivery order, October 2025), windshield and sill padding assemblies ($12,096 delivery order, February 2026), trim assemblies and siderails ($12,750 delivery order, February 2026), plenum assemblies ($8,100 delivery order, September 2025), and protective covers and radomes. Order values typically range from under $1,000 to over $20,000 per task order. The company also holds work with DLA Land and Maritime (Defense Logistics Agency's supply chain entity) and DLA Troop Support for hardware and construction-equipment components.

Customer concentration is extreme and deliberate: DLA Aviation accounts for 1,605 of 1,839 total awards (87% of award count) and $30.3 million of $38.8 million combined potential value (78% of dollars). DLA as a whole—Aviation, Land and Maritime, Troop Support, and Construction and Equipment subdivisions—represents 96% of recent awards and 94% of combined potential value. The remaining customer agencies (DLA, other DLA components) collectively account for fewer than 100 awards. This concentration reflects Swiss Pattern's positioning as a dedicated small business supplier within the DLA Aviation logistics supply chain rather than a competitive multi-agency vendor.

Swiss Pattern holds thirteen active or recently completed indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Aviation, each with ceiling values ranging from approximately $249,999.99 to $350,000 and performance periods extending through 2025 to 2030. The company's most recent IDC award—a $350,000 total small business set-aside contract granted October 15, 2025, extending through October 7, 2030—demonstrates DLA Aviation's continued confidence and represents the platform through which the vendor exercises hundreds of individual firm fixed-price delivery orders and purchase orders annually. Five other IDCs are visible in the source, all single-award vehicles with total small business set-asides, ceiling values around $250,000, and performance through mid-2029 or later. Swiss Pattern competes both under set-aside designations (total small business) and open delivery order calls under these broader IDC vehicles, with the majority of individual task orders carrying no set-aside.

Activity has remained steady: 122 awards in 2022, 143 in 2023, 138 in 2024, and 108 in 2025; only 15 awards are recorded in 2026 to date (reflecting the April 8, 2026 cutoff in the source). The recompete cliff shows 41 awards with ultimate completion dates inside the next twenty-four months and combined potential value of $256 thousand—modest in absolute terms but representative of the high-frequency, low-dollar transactional nature of Swiss Pattern's DLA Aviation work. No recompete announcements or award protests are evident in the source.

Swiss Pattern operates as a prime contractor exclusively; the source contains no evidence of subcontractor relationships or sub-award work. The vendor manufactures components in-house at facilities in Santa Ana and Long Beach, California, and performs firm fixed-price delivery orders without identified major subcontractors, positioning itself as a direct producer rather than a systems integrator or prime-with-subs model.

Top NAICS concentration is 1,436 awards under 336413 (Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing) and 295 under 336411 (Aircraft Manufacturing). Top PSC is Airframe Structural Components (1,472 awards), reflecting the vendor's narrow but deep specialization. The company is not recorded as 8(a), SDVOSB, WOSB, HUBZone, or other SBA-designated set-aside category; it qualifies as a small business under the SBA size standard for its NAICS code and competes on that basis.

PLASTIC CONSTRUCTION: COMPOSITE, HONEYCOMB, PHENOLIC, EPOXY, POLYESTER, THERMOPLASTIC, UTILIZING HAND LAY-UP, VACUUM BAG, AUTOCLAVE. SHEET METAL FORMING, WELDING, RIVETING. AUTOCLAVE PROCESSING.