The Belting Company Of Cincinnati

The Belting Company of Cincinnati, doing business as Belting Co of Cincinnati, is a small business manufacturer and prime contractor supplying nonmetallic bushings, flexible shaft couplings, rigid shaft couplings, electro-mechanical actuators, and related mechanical power transmission components to the Department of Defense's Defense Logistics Agency, competing on a full-and-open basis without set-aside designations across the bulk of its federal work. The Cincinnati, Ohio-based company operates as a for-profit corporate entity with 582 federal prime awards spanning two decades, all awarded directly to Belting Co of Cincinnati with no recorded subcontract footprint.

The vendor's customer concentration is extreme and heavily weighted toward DLA logistics divisions. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime accounts for 349 awards (61% of total) with $16.5 million in combined potential value, while DLA Aviation holds 145 awards (25% of total) with $2.3 million combined potential value. These two DLA divisions alone represent 96% of all awards and 98% of combined potential value. Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command, DLA Troop Support Hardware, and DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment round out the active customer set but represent single-digit percentages. Belting Co has held two small-business-set-aside Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA — one with DLA Land and Maritime capped at $250,000 (Ultimate Completion Date October 16, 2024) and one with DLA Aviation capped at $250,000 (Ultimate Completion Date September 11, 2026) — but the vast majority of delivery orders awarded against these IDCs and other vehicles carry no set-aside designation.

Award work is granular and logistics-focused. Representative recent delivery orders include a $824,000 coupling assembly from DLA Land and Maritime (awarded December 13, 2022, completed December 26, 2024); a $76,239 flexible shaft coupling delivery order from DLA Land and Maritime (October 8, 2024); and a $15,186.60 nonmetallic bushings delivery order from DLA Aviation (May 28, 2026). Pricing across all work is firm fixed price, with individual delivery orders ranging from sub-thousand-dollar components to mid-five-figure component sets. Place of performance spans Cincinnati, Ohio and Florence, Kentucky. Belting Co's catalog footprint cuts across mechanical power transmission, focusing on torque converters and speed changers (189 awards per PSC code), motors and electrical components (54 awards), bushings and spacers (37 awards), and related bearing and gear products. Top NAICS categories include Speed Changer, Industrial High-Speed Drive, and Gear Manufacturing (142 awards) and Motor and Generator Manufacturing (52 awards).

Activity has declined sharply from peak volumes. The vendor recorded 29 awards in 2021, 14 in 2022, 7 in 2023, 6 in 2024, and 1 award in 2026 (through May), signaling a downward trajectory over the past five years. Combined potential value across all 582 awards totals $21.6 million, with $14.1 million obligated (65% execution rate). The most recent award dates to May 28, 2026. Belting Co operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no recorded subcontract activity — the vendor neither subs to larger primes nor receives sub-awards from other contractors. It holds position on multiple DLA Indefinite Delivery Contracts, including SPE4A617D6738 (17 task orders, $85 thousand combined potential value), SPE4A618D5942 (13 task orders, $64 thousand combined potential value), and SPE7MX20D0116 (13 task orders, $1 million combined potential value), but these vehicles carry modest individual order values reflecting DLA's just-in-time procurement model for maintenance and logistics spares.