Tab Hardware, Inc.

Tab Hardware, Inc., doing business as Tab Hardware Inc., manufactures and supplies specialized aviation hardware and fasteners — pin-rivets, blind rivets, bolts, nuts, screws, and related components — to the Department of Defense as a woman-owned small business prime contractor, holding a portfolio of 1,379 purchase orders and indefinite delivery contracts with combined potential value of $6.7 million across Defense Logistics Agency and Navy customer bases.

Tab Hardware is a for-profit corporation headquartered in Long Beach, California, and holds woman-owned small business and woman-owned business certifications. The vendor's federal work concentrates on PSC 5305 (rivets, 917 awards), PSC 5310 (nuts and washers, 208 awards), and related fastener categories under NAICS 332722 (Bolt, Nut, Screw, Rivet, and Washer Manufacturing) and NAICS 332720 (Hardware Manufacturing). All work is performed at the Long Beach facility. Tab Hardware competes predominantly in full-and-open procurement — the vast majority of recent awards carry no set-aside designation — though the vendor holds three indefinite delivery contracts with Defense Logistics Agency Aviation carrying small-business and HUBZone set-aside designations at $250,000 ceiling value each.

Customer concentration is sharply skewed toward Defense Logistics Agency components. The top five funding agencies account for 89% of the award count: Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (518 awards, $2.9 million combined potential value), Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Construction and Equipment (365 awards, $1.6 million), Defense Logistics Agency (190 awards, $922 thousand), Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command (83 awards, $23 thousand), and Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command (71 awards, $39 thousand). The top three customers by dollars — all DLA components — represent 84% of combined potential value. Recent representative work includes a $78,125 Total Small Business set-aside purchase order from the U.S. Coast Guard (April 24, 2025) for self-locking nuts for MH-60T helicopter maintenance; a $23,900 Total Small Business delivery order from DLA Aviation (August 21, 2024) for close-tolerance screws; a $15,200 delivery order from DLA Aviation (August 19, 2025) for pin-rivets; and recurring small orders ($500–$9,657) from DLA Aviation for blind rivets, bolts, screws, and collars spanning 2022 through mid-2026.

Tab Hardware holds at least three single-award indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Aviation, each with $250,000 ceiling value. The contracts cover PIN-RIVET (Total Small Business set-aside, ultimate completion February 2, 2023; subsequently appears to remain active through recurring delivery orders), RIVET,BLIND (no set-aside, February 2023 completion), and PIN-RIVET (HUBZone small business set-aside, February 2023 completion). Delivery orders under these IDCs range from $145 to $6,643.50 for common aerospace fasteners, with performance locations spanning Long Beach and various DLA consolidation points domestically and overseas.

Activity has been steady but modest. The vendor received 43 awards in 2022, declining to 24 in 2023 and holding flat at 23 in both 2024 and 2025, with 10 awards recorded in 2026 year-to-date. Combined obligated dollars across all awards reach $5.5 million (83% of combined potential value), indicating substantial performance execution. Tab Hardware maintains no subcontractor relationships in the source data; all 1,379 awards are prime contractor positions. The vendor operates exclusively in the fastener supply and distribution channel for defense logistics, with no presence in higher-value systems integration, engineering, or modernization work.