Tiem Engineering Corp Inc.

Tiem Engineering Corp Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of electronic components and electrical hardware based in Yorkville, Illinois, operates as a prime contractor supplying specialized parts to the Defense Logistics Agency with a $20.2 million combined potential value across 1,325 recent federal awards. The company competes full-and-open, with no SBA set-aside designations in its corporate posture, though individual task orders carry set-aside designations — roughly 8% of its award count uses total small business set-asides. Tiem Engineering manufactures electrical leads, cable assemblies, wiring harnesses, indicator lights, connector receptacles, switch assemblies, adapter assemblies, warning lights, panel components, and related specialized electronic hardware, with primary NAICS codes concentrated in Other Electronic Component Manufacturing (310 awards), Electric Lamp Bulb and Part Manufacturing (132 awards), and Electronic Connector Manufacturing (88 awards).

Customer concentration is extreme and single-agency dependent: the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) accounts for 94% of awards by count and 93% of combined potential value across its component divisions. DLA Aviation alone represents 697 awards valued at $12.2 million, and DLA Land and Maritime contributes 375 awards at $5.1 million, with the remainder split among DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (104 awards, $1.4 million) and smaller DLA units. This concentration reflects Tiem Engineering's role as a volume supplier of low-to-moderate-value commodity electronic parts rather than a systems integrator or prime on major programs. Representative work includes a $75,638.70 purchase order for warning lights (DLA Construction and Equipment, awarded September 2024), a $67,443.60 delivery order for cable assemblies (DLA Aviation, awarded August 2023), a $134,286.25 purchase order for warning lights under total small business set-aside (DLA Construction and Equipment, February 2024), and routine ordering of electrical leads, connectors, and associated components in the $1,000–$30,000 range across multiple 2024–2025 purchase orders.

Tiem Engineering holds three active indefinite delivery contracts (IDCs) with DLA divisions: a $250,000 cable assembly IDC with DLA Land and Maritime (single award, total small business set-aside, issued February 2025, performance through February 2026); a $250,000 mixed-component IDC with DLA Aviation (single award, no set-aside, November 2024–November 2029); and a legacy $250,000 cable assembly IDC with DLA Aviation (total small business set-aside, terminated July 2025, awarded July 2023). These three vehicles account for the majority of Tiem Engineering's parent contract structure. Tiem Engineering places delivery orders and purchase orders against these IDCs at a volume of approximately 50–70 awards annually (2022–2025 trend), with 17 awards recorded in 2026 through mid-April.

Activity has remained flat to slightly rising: 50 awards in 2022 to 70 in 2025, with obligated dollars at $12.6 million (62% of potential value), indicating consistent quarterly ordering across DLA depots. Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is minimal — 13 awards totaling $176 thousand face completion, a low-risk posture compared to the annual flow of new orders. Tiem Engineering operates exclusively as a prime contractor; no subcontractor relationships appear in the source data. The company's footprint is narrow by design: it supplies DLA exclusively across nine customer entities (primarily DLA Aviation and Land and Maritime), manufactures low-complexity commodity components (electrical leads, cables, lights, connectors) with PSC codes concentrated in Miscellaneous Electric Power and Distribution Equipment (323 awards) and Electric Lamps (137 awards), and competes on small orders in full-and-open procurements and DLA-reserved set-asides without holding a seat on government-wide vehicles such as GWACs or BPAs outside its three active DLA IDCs.

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