Elisha Webb & Son Company

Elisha Webb & Son Company, a woman-owned small business manufacturer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, supplies specialized marine and industrial rigging equipment, hardware, and lighting products to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on Defense Logistics Agency purchase orders and indefinite delivery contracts. The company operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards) and competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements; several recent awards carry total small business set-aside designations, but the majority of the vendor's footprint reflects non-set-aside competitive awards.

Elisha Webb & Son is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation and manufacturer of goods. The company's concrete capability portfolio centers on wire rope clamps and saddle configurations, shackles, snap hooks, cargo hooks, turnbuckles, rope thimbles, incandescent and navigational lighting products, ship's bells, strainers, seals, swivels, clevis assemblies, locks, and related metal fittings and fasteners. Representative recent prime work includes a $28.5 million purchase order from DLA Aviation for wire rope clamps (October 2025), a $12.7 million order from DLA Land and Maritime for ball valves (October 2025), and a $14.3 million order from DLA Aviation for 64mm kinetic rope (August 2025). The company holds multiple indefinite delivery contracts with DLA components valued at $250,000 each, including a single-award IDC worth $350,000 through February 2031 (awarded February 2026, Total Small Business set-aside) and contracts covering navigational lighting, incandescent lamps, turnbuckles, wire rope clamps, and related commodities.

Customer concentration is extreme and narrowly focused on Defense Logistics Agency divisions. DLA Aviation accounts for 535 awards (approximately 48% of the total footprint) and $6.7 million of combined potential value; DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment brings 199 awards and $1.6 million; DLA Land and Maritime accounts for 179 awards and $1.4 million; and DLA Troop Support Hardware represents 151 awards and $1 million. These four DLA subdivisions account for 96% of all awards and 96% of combined potential value. The Department of the Navy's Military Sealift Command contributes minimal volume (2 awards, $33 thousand). The concentration reflects a deep, sustained supplier relationship with DLA spanning award data back to the early 1980s.

Activity has remained relatively stable over the past five years: 64 awards in 2022, 40 in 2023, 57 in 2024, 41 in 2025, and 6 in 2026 (partial year). The combined potential value across all 1,122 awards totals $11.2 million, with $6.9 million obligated (61% of combined potential value). Recompete exposure is minimal; only 1 award completes in the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $8 thousand).

The vendor's product footprint clusters across five NAICS categories: All Other Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (214 awards), Hardware Manufacturing (195 awards), Motor Vehicle Electrical and Electronic Equipment Manufacturing (147 awards), Electric Lamp Bulb and Part Manufacturing (90 awards), and Vehicular Lighting Equipment Manufacturing (47 awards). Top PSC categories include Fittings for Rope, Cable, and Chain (248 awards), Electric Vehicular Lights and Fixtures (235 awards), and Hardware, Commercial (191 awards).

Performance occurs exclusively at the vendor's Philadelphia facility for direct delivery to DLA depots within the continental United States and overseas consolidation points. The vendor maintains no identified subcontractor relationships and operates as a pure manufacturing prime, with all work performed in-house.

ROPE, WIRE ROPE, SLINGS, BLOCKS, HARDWARE ROPE AND WIRE ROPE FABRICATIONS. INHOUSE WIRE ROPE SWAGER. ROPE SPLICING AND WIRE SWAGING DONE ON PREMISES.