U.s. Materials Handling Corporation

U.S. Materials Handling Corporation, doing business as US Materials Handling Corp, is a women-owned small business headquartered in Utica, New York, that designs, fabricates, installs, and tests material handling equipment and storage systems for federal military installations as a prime contractor under Total Small Business set-asides exclusively. The company competes entirely within the set-aside category and holds no parent vehicle positions; it operates on individual purchase orders and definitive contracts, predominantly with the Air Force.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on mechanized material handling systems (MMHS), vertical lift modules, pallet racks, mezzanines, mobile storage units, cabinet workstations, bin shelving, carousel storage systems, conveyor equipment, industrial furniture, and specialized equipment such as wall-mounted jib cranes, dock ramps, and bridge cranes. Representative work includes a $2.22 million definitive contract from Air Force Materiel Command for the design, fabrication, installation, and testing of a pallet rack and vertical lift module storage aid system at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico (awarded September 2025, completion September 2026); a $1.354 million AFLCMC storage aids system for the 628th Logistics Readiness Squadron at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, including pallet racks, mobile aisles, cantilever racks, mezzanines, and conveyors (awarded June 2024, completion September 2026); and a $830,850 MMHS storage system for Building 160 at Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico featuring design, fabrication, installation, and testing services (awarded May 2023, completion May 2024). Work also spans smaller purchase orders for equipment such as forklift batteries, electric walking forklifts, vertical carousel units with bins, and industrial workbenches.

Customer concentration is extreme and Air Force–centric. The Air Force Materiel Command Lifecycle Management Center at Wright Patterson Air Force Base commands 89 awards valued at $31.5 million combined potential value (71% of the prime footprint), with the broader Air Force accounting for 55 additional awards at $1.8 million. The top five customer entities cover 63% of all awards and 86% of combined potential value. The Army and Army Materiel Command components (Joint Munitions Command, TACOM Life Cycle Management Command) collectively contribute 51 awards at $1.5 million potential value. Civilian and other defense agencies (Defense Logistics Agency Distribution, Naval Sea Systems Command, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Naval Research) account for a small remainder. Within Air Force awards, the Lifecycle Management Center's storage-aid-system work dominates both volume and dollars; Air Force Sustainment Center (Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex), Air Mobility Command, and Aeronautical Systems Center route smaller orders for shelving, cabinet workstations, and equipment delivery.

Activity has remained flat to declining. The vendor recorded 312 total awards in the source data spanning back to 1995, with recent annual volume at 9–14 awards per year (2022–2025) and only 2 awards recorded for 2026 to date. Combined potential value across all awards stands at $44.5 million, though combined dollars obligated total $54.7 million (indicating completed and past contracts at higher values than the remaining pipeline). Only 2 awards with combined potential value $3.6 million face ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal recompete exposure in that window. The NAICS concentration is deep: Conveyor and Conveying Equipment Manufacturing (NAICS 333922) covers 97 awards; All Other Miscellaneous General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing accounts for 44 awards. Primary Service Code is Miscellaneous Materials Handling Equipment (151 awards).

The vendor operates as a 100% prime contractor with no subcontract footprint in the source data. Place of performance is distributed across military installations nationwide, with the Utica, New York headquarters serving as the primary performance location for equipment fabrication and delivery; onsite installation and testing occurs at customer facilities including Air Force bases (Kirtland, Luke, Wright Patterson, Bangor, Shepherd Field, Minneapolis St. Paul, Niagara Falls, Cannon, Little Rock), Army depots (Tobyhanna, West Point, Camp Ripley), and defense distribution centers (Jacksonville, Corpus Christi, Mechanicsburg). The company maintains SAM.gov registration since February 2002 and is structured as a Subchapter S Corporation.

PRODUCTS: CONVEYORS, WAREHOUSE TRUCKS SELF & NON SELF PROPELLED, WINCHES, HOISTS, CRANES, PORTABLE BUILDINGS, CONTAINERS, PACKAGING CONTAINERS, CABINETS, LOCKERS, BINS, SHELVING, FREIGHT ELEVATORS, CARTS, PLATFORM TRUCKS, CASTERS, MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS