The Voto Manufacturers Sales Company

The Voto Manufacturers Sales Company, doing business as Voto Sales, supplies industrial hardware and rigging components — primarily wire rope assemblies, shackles, chains, swaging sleeves, slings, and rope terminals — to the Defense Logistics Agency as a small business prime contractor across 1,566 awards totaling $67.7 million in combined potential value over the past four decades.

Voto Sales is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Steubenville, Ohio, with a facility in Wintersville, Ohio where all work is performed. The company competes exclusively full-and-open across its customer base; none of its recent awards carry socioeconomic set-asides, though seven single-award indefinite delivery contracts underlying the customer footprint are designated as Total Small Business set-asides. The vendor's NAICS profile is concentrated in other fabricated wire product manufacturing (622 awards) and miscellaneous fabricated metal products (265 awards), with PSC codes dominated by chain and wire rope (815 awards) and rope-cable fittings (363 awards).

Customer concentration is absolute and unyielding. The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation accounts for 1,120 of 1,403 tracked awards (80% of the portfolio) and $51.1 million of $64.5 million in combined potential value (79% of dollars). The next four DLA divisions — Land and Maritime, Troop Support Construction and Equipment, the DLA parent organization, and Troop Support Hardware — together represent 283 awards and $13 million, leaving approximately 10% of the portfolio across 23 other federal agencies. DLA Aviation's dominance across both award-count and dollar rankings reflects the vendor's position as a dedicated supplier of rigging hardware for military aircraft, vehicle, and weapons-system maintenance across DLA's global supply chain.

Voto Sales' vehicle position is anchored to seven single-award indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Aviation, each valued at approximately $250,000 and awarded between September 2021 and February 2022 with performance periods extending through early 2027. These IDCs serve as the containerized vehicle for the majority of the vendor's task orders, which range from sub-thousand-dollar purchase orders to delivery orders exceeding $40,000. Representative work includes a $32.4 million delivery order for wire rope assemblies awarded December 17, 2023, with completion targeted May 22, 2026; a $28.4 million delivery order for the same product line awarded March 23, 2025; and a $40.2 million delivery order for wire rope assemblies awarded June 14, 2023, with completion through July 9, 2025. The vendor also places orders under a blanket purchase agreement (GS06F5VOTE) carrying 87 task orders, and several other smaller IDCs with varying dollar values and completion dates through 2027.

Activity has remained consistent year over year, with 73 awards in 2022, 62 in 2023, 81 in 2024, and 50 in 2025 (annualized rate suggests approximately 100 awards likely by year-end 2025). The recompete cliff is minimal — only two awards totaling $75,000 in combined potential value complete within the next twenty-four months, reflecting the extended performance periods built into the vendor's underlying seven-contract IDC portfolio and their staged completion dates through 2027.

Voto Sales operates as a 100% prime contractor with no recorded sub-award footprint in the source data. The vendor has been registered in the System for Award Management since April 2002 and maintains ISO certification, positioning itself as an established supplier within DLA's procurement ecosystem for specialized industrial hardware components essential to military asset sustainment. The company's federal contracting relationship with DLA spans more than two decades with consistent, high-volume task order issuance, indicating entrenched customer reliance on Voto Sales' inventory, lead times, and compliance posture for mission-critical rigging and fastening products.