Torqhoist, Inc.

Torqhoist, Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Shaker Heights, Ohio, supplies specialized electrical, mechanical, and material handling components to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor operating predominantly on unrestricted, full-and-open purchase orders with the Defense Logistics Agency. The company is a Subchapter S Corporation that competes without set-aside designations on nearly all awards, though it carries a woman-owned small business designation and has occasionally received total small business set-aside orders.

Torqhoist's federal footprint is heavily concentrated within the Defense Logistics Agency, which accounts for 94% of recent awards across three divisions. The top three customers by award count are DLA Land and Maritime (1,175 awards, $1.8 million combined potential value), DLA Aviation (457 awards, $1.2 million), and DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (447 awards, $2.4 million). The customer rankings by potential value diverge slightly: DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment leads by dollars despite holding fewer awards than Land and Maritime, signaling that Construction and Equipment orders trend larger while Land and Maritime places higher volume through smaller individual purchase orders. The company has served 60 distinct federal customer agencies, but DLA dominance is overwhelming—the top five customers account for 94% of awards and supply concentration reflects a deep, sustained buyer-supplier relationship rather than diversified federal market exposure.

Torqhoist's capability portfolio centers on industrial components spanning electrical switches, relays, transformers, power supplies, circuit breakers, and contactors alongside mechanical material handling equipment including wire rope hoists, slings, shackles, lifting lugs, and fastening systems. Representative work includes a $18,998 wire rope hoist delivery order from DLA Construction and Equipment (September 2025), a $19,726 grip hoist total small business set-aside from Naval Sea Systems Command (April 2025), and a $13,199 power inverter small business set-aside from DLA Land and Maritime (August 2024). The company also holds a $250,000 indefinite delivery contract with DLA Land and Maritime for power supply products, awarded April 2020 as a total small business set-aside, under which DLA has issued delivery orders totaling $5,117. Work is performed in Cleveland, Ohio, with award dates spanning from 2004 to April 2026.

Activity has been volatile year over year—100 awards in 2022, 160 in 2023, 169 in 2024, dropping to 107 in 2025, with only eleven awards recorded through April 2026. The combined potential value across all 2,433 awards sits at $11.6 million, with $7.8 million obligated (67% realization rate). Individual purchase order values typically range from under $100 to approximately $20,000, with the largest single awards clustering in the $15,000 to $20,000 range. The vendor sits on the General Services Administration Multiple Award Schedule with 117 task orders valued at $1.8 million combined, signaling an ancillary civilian-agency channel, though DLA dominates the footprint.

NAICS concentration reflects Torqhoist's product mix: Overhead Traveling Crane, Hoist, and Monorail System Manufacturing (194 awards), All Other Miscellaneous Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing (172 awards), and Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing (146 awards) lead the category distribution. Top PSC codes align—Winches, Hoists, Cranes, And Derricks (204 awards), Converters, Electrical, Nonrotating (189 awards), and Switches (106 awards) dominate procurement taxonomy. Torqhoist operates as a pure prime contractor; the source reports zero subcontract awards, indicating the company sources components and does not serve as a prime to other vendors in this dataset.

TorqHoist's current management has been in place for over 30 years and has extensive expertise in hoisting, lifting and material handling applications. We are distributors of specialty lifting and hoisting products.