Wel-Fab Defense LLC

Wel-Fab Defense LLC, doing business as Wel-Fab, is a small-business manufacturer of specialized military containers, collapsible equipment, and fabricated metal products that operates as a prime contractor (100% of awards) supplying the Defense Logistics Agency and other Department of Defense entities. Based in Rancocas, New Jersey, with operations also at Mt. Holly and Westampton, New Jersey, Wel-Fab is a partnership or limited liability partnership registered as both a small agricultural cooperative and a for-profit manufacturer of goods, classified under NAICS 332439 (Other Metal Container Manufacturing) and PSC 81 (Specialized Shipping and Storage Containers).

Wel-Fab's customer concentration is extreme. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Construction and Equipment division accounts for 863 awards and $42.2 million of the vendor's combined potential value across its 1,172 total awards — representing 89% of award count and 66% of dollars. The remaining customer base spans 37 agencies but carries minimal volume; the next-largest customers by dollars are the General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service ($8.5 million across 5 awards), the Department of the Air Force ($1.3 million across 42 awards), and the Department of the Air Force Air National Guard ($1.2 million across 21 awards). This skew reflects Wel-Fab's core mission: supplying standardized and specialized containers — C-141 non-pressurized containers, C-17 main containers, special containers under various National Stock Numbers, weapon containers, nose landing gear containers, collapsible equipment, and decontamination tent components — to DLA's inventory system through high-volume, low-dollar purchase orders.

Wel-Fab's work spans full-and-open and set-aside competitions; a minority of awards carry Total Small Business Set-Aside designations, while the majority are unrestricted. Recent representative work includes a $235,370 Total Small Business set-aside purchase order (October 2025) for special containers with expedited five-day delivery to Air Force installations, a $309,450 unrestricted award (June 2023) from Air Force Global Strike Command for B-1B and C-130 tire containers, a $249,997 award (July 2023) from Army Training and Doctrine Command for weapon-mounted integrated day/night sight equipment kits, and a $137,180 award (September 2023) from U.S. Air Forces Europe and Africa for decontamination tent lids.

Wel-Fab's primary vehicles are indefinite delivery contracts. The largest is Indefinite Delivery Contract SP050002D0036 (314 task orders, $53 thousand combined value), a low-ceiling arrangement typical of DLA's construction and equipment supply chain. The vendor also places work under the Federal Supply Schedule GS15F0030J (98 task orders, $2.3 million) and a generic Multiple Award Schedule (59 task orders, $4.4 million). Additionally, Wel-Fab holds seats on IDCs SPM8ED09D5001 (28 task orders, $5.5 million) and SPM8ED13D0001 (28 task orders, $811 thousand).

Activity has remained stable year over year, with 10 to 16 awards per year from 2022 through 2025. The recompete cliff over the next twenty-four months is negligible — only one award ($24 thousand) reaches ultimate completion within that window, indicating minimal near-term vehicle or contract recompete exposure. Wel-Fab's sub footprint is minimal: three sub-awards to Arcticom, LLC (supporting Army National Guard chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, explosive missions via a Consequence Management Support Center Services IDIQ) and one to HII Mission Technologies Corp (BIG SAFARI design and development for HERESEY pod kit tooling and manufacturing). The vendor's capability profile remains narrowly focused on DLA construction and equipment procurement — standardized and specialized containers dominate the award count and dollars, with collapsible equipment, fabricated metal products, and niche aircraft-support items (tire containers, racks) rounding out the portfolio. SAM.gov registration since February 2002 establishes a twenty-plus-year track record as a qualified source within DLA's supply system.