United Equipment, Inc.

United Equipment, Inc., a Henrico, Virginia-based Subchapter S corporation, manufactures specialized aerospace and defense components for the federal government as a prime contractor, with a footprint dominated by small-business set-aside purchases from the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation. The company is a small business with no ownership designations beyond its corporate structure; it competes across both set-aside (Total Small Business) and full-and-open categories, with set-asides recurring across roughly one-third of its prime award portfolio.

United Equipment's capability portfolio centers on precision-manufactured aviation spare parts and materials for military aircraft maintenance and readiness across all U.S. armed forces branches. The company manufactures electrical insulation tape, aircraft window panels and windshield assemblies, electrical contact brushes, terminal lugs and assemblies, aircraft flooring, liquid sight glass, observation windows, chin rests, and related aerospace components. Representative work includes a $82,250 firm fixed-price purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command (February 2025) for 4-inch Schedule 80 insulation tape manufactured to MIL-I-19166C specifications for delivery to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine; a $86,800 purchase order from DLA Aviation (March 2024) for 310 aircraft window panels under National Stock Number 1560010048905; and a $144,382.50 delivery order from DLA Aviation (January 2025) for electrical contact brushes with completion targeted for April 2025.

Customer concentration is acute and heavily skewed to a single agency. DLA Aviation accounts for 1,199 awards (80% of the 1,490-award portfolio) with $41 million in combined potential value—roughly 80% of the total $51.1 million portfolio. DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment places a distant second with 72 awards ($5.1 million). Naval Sea Systems Command accounts for 14 awards ($734 thousand). The top five customer agencies by award count cover 96% of all awards; by potential value, the top five cover 92%. This concentration—both in volume and dollars flowing from a single customer—reflects United Equipment's role as a preferred small-business supplier to DLA Aviation's aviation logistics mission.

United Equipment holds twelve active Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Aviation, each a single-award vehicle with ceiling values ranging from $249,999.99 to $1,553,175 and performance periods extending through 2025 to 2030. Recent IDC awards include a $1,553,175 single-award contract for electrical contact brushes (December 2024, completing December 2029), a $430,287 total small business set-aside for terminal lugs (September 2024, completing September 2029), a $350,000 total small business set-aside for general aviation spare parts (December 2025, completing December 2027), and a $250,000 total small business set-aside for aircraft window panels (January 2025, completing January 2030). These vehicles enable DLA Aviation to issue streamlined delivery orders for routine procurements without separate competitive solicitations. The top five named IDV vehicles (by task order count) show delivery order activity ranging from 20 to 27 orders per vehicle, with combined potential values typically in the $62 thousand to $142 thousand range per vehicle, indicating high-velocity, low-touch ordering patterns characteristic of commodity aviation spare parts procurement.

United Equipment competes exclusively as a prime contractor; no subcontract activity appears in the source. The company does not appear to hold positions on government-wide acquisition contracts, multiple-award indefinite-delivery vehicles across agencies, or GSA schedules; its business model is built on direct IDC relationships with DLA Aviation and spot-buy purchase orders from DLA subordinate commands and Naval Sea Systems Command.

Award activity has been stable over the past five years, with 56 to 72 awards per year from 2022 through 2025, declining to 4 awards in the first four months of 2026 (a seasonal artifact reflecting the early portion of the fiscal year). Twelve awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months with combined potential value of $173 thousand, representing minimal recompete exposure relative to the $51.1 million portfolio—most of the company's active IDCs extend through 2027 or later, providing a multi-year pipeline without near-term cliff risk.

The company has been registered in the System for Award Management since September 2001 and operates from Henrico, Virginia. Work is performed at the contractor's facility in Richmond or Henrico, Virginia; one Naval Sea Systems Command award specified performance at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine. The product mix is heavily weighted to electrical insulation materials (619 awards across the portfolio) and airframe structural components (611 awards), with niche concentrations in electrical contact brushes, terminal lugs, and plastics fabrication. The award data spans from 1981 to present, but recent activity (2022 onward) represents a stable, low-single-digit-million-dollar-per-year revenue footprint from federal contracting, all routed through DLA Aviation and its subordinate commands or Navy platforms.

United Equipment forms, machines, and fabricates aircraft structures specializing in floor panels and windows. The company is able to fabricate plastic, wood, and metal products. United Equipment manufactures several electrical components and is a proprietary distributor of electrical insulation tapes.