T.r. Machine, Inc.

T.r. Machine, Inc., the T.r. Machine, Inc. Division, is a woman-owned small business manufacturer of precision-machined hardware components for military defense applications, operating as a prime contractor on a discrete-delivery model through an indefinite delivery contract with the Defense Logistics Agency. The Davis, Illinois-based company competes in full-and-open procurements across hardware manufacturing categories, with no recurring set-aside designation at the individual purchase-order level despite holding a total small business set-aside underlying indefinite delivery vehicle.

T.r. Machine manufactures concrete mechanical hardware—spacer rings, washers, bushings, bearings, sleeves, pins, fasteners, adapters, couplings, shafts, valve components, and precision-engineered retainers—for military aviation, maritime, and land-based equipment platforms. The company's federal footprint is dominated by small discrete purchase orders ranging from under $1,000 to over $37,000. Representative recent awards include a $37.2 million bearing sleeve procurement (award date January 2, 2026, completion May 4, 2026, DLA Aviation), a $28.9 million flat washer order (award date September 10, 2025, completion June 21, 2026, DLA Aviation, total small business set-aside), a $23.7 million bearing sleeve delivery (award date September 26, 2025, completion January 26, 2026, DLA Aviation), and a $14.3 million shouldered shaft procurement (award date December 2, 2025, completion February 2, 2026, DLA Land and Maritime, total small business set-aside). Across the recent award portfolio, individual orders cluster in the $1,000–$10,000 range with completion windows of three to twelve months.

Customer concentration is extreme and concentrated within DLA. The top five customers account for 100% of awards tracked in the source. DLA Aviation anchors the portfolio at 1,693 awards worth $5.9 million combined potential value; DLA Land and Maritime follows with 1,015 awards valued at $2.4 million; and DLA Troop Support Hardware rounds out the active set at 731 awards worth $1.7 million. The remaining two named customers—DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (123 awards, $314 thousand) and the Department of the Army Materiel Command TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (23 awards, $145 thousand)—represent marginal activity. T.r. Machine has zero subcontract volume and carries no prime position on parent vehicles beyond its own single-award indefinite delivery contract. The company does not sit on GWACs, BPAs, or government-wide vehicles; its footprint is anchored entirely to discrete delivery orders issued under its own DLA Aviation indefinite delivery vehicle.

T.r. Machine's parent vehicle is a five-year, $250,000 total small business set-aside indefinite delivery contract with DLA Aviation, awarded June 2, 2022, and effective through June 1, 2027. This vehicle was initially solicited for spacer rings and related precision-machined hardware components and serves as the contracting mechanism through which DLA Aviation issues individual purchase orders without reopening competition. The source records approximately 1,693 individual delivery orders and purchase orders issued under this IDC across DLA Aviation, with orders distributed across dozens of hardware part numbers and operational divisions.

Activity has remained relatively flat year over year: 215 awards in 2022, 182 in 2023, 229 in 2024, 206 in 2025, and 45 awards captured through mid-2026 in the source data. Awards per year suggest steady small-purchase volume rather than growth trajectory. Twenty-one awards (combined potential value $99 thousand) reach completion within the next twenty-four months and face potential recompete in that window. Because T.r. Machine operates predominantly on discrete purchase orders under a single underlying indefinite delivery contract rather than on competitively awarded full-and-open contracts, recompete risk is concentrated on the June 1, 2027 expiration of the five-year DLA Aviation IDC itself. At that date, the vehicle will either be recompeted or extended, shifting the entire $250,000 ceiling and associated delivery-order authority.

The company's category concentration reflects its manufacturing specialization. The top NAICS categories are Hardware Manufacturing (617 awards), Bolt, Nut, Screw, Rivet, and Washer Manufacturing (558 awards), Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (500 awards), Ball and Roller Bearing Manufacturing (474 awards), and Mechanical Power Transmission Equipment Manufacturing (213 awards). The top PSC categories track similarly: Bearings, Plain, Unmounted (457 awards), Nuts and Washers (381 awards), Hardware, Commercial (283 awards), Bushings, Rings, Shims, and Spacers (268 awards), and Miscellaneous Power Transmission Equipment (242 awards). T.r. Machine competes in small-purchase, commodity-hardware space where price, quality, delivery speed, and inventory availability drive award decisions rather than technical differentiation or strategic vehicle positioning.

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