West Phila. Bronze Co., Inc.

West Phila. Bronze Co., Inc., a Pennsylvania-based for-profit manufacturer, supplies pipe flanges, valve and pipe fittings, and fabricated metal components to the Department of the Navy as both a prime contractor (42% of recent awards) and subcontractor to Electric Boat Corporation (58% of recent awards). The vendor does not hold SBA set-aside certifications and competes full-and-open; all recent prime and sub work is unrestricted.

West Phila. Bronze is a specialized supplier to naval shipbuilding and logistics pipelines. The vendor's recent prime award history is sparse — a single $6,007.50 purchase order from the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime in December 2025 for pipe flanges with ultimate completion in April 2026 — but the subcontractor footprint is concentrated and recurring. The vendor has executed eleven sub-awards under Electric Boat Corporation since 2022, covering weapon cradle roller leaf spring fasteners, streamlined couplings and stowage modifications on ballistic missile submarines (SSBN 826 and successor hull numbers), SSN 804 construction support, and ashore telephone system modifications. Dollar magnitudes on individual sub-awards are not disclosed in the source, but the combined potential value across all 19 awards (prime and sub combined) is $506 thousand, with $969 thousand obligated — a pattern suggesting invoiced performance exceeds initial estimates or that multiple smaller mods have accumulated beyond initial booking.

Customer concentration is absolute: the Department of the Navy (nine awards) and the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (two awards) account for 95% of awards by count and 100% of combined potential value. Within the Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command drives the majority (seven awards, $275 thousand combined potential value). The vendor sits on a single Navy indefinite delivery contract (N0038388C4006) with one task order recorded.

Activity has been intermittent and declining. After one award in 2018, the vendor executed six awards in 2022 (coinciding with SSBN 826 construction ramp-up), then three in 2023, one in 2024, and two in 2025. The category concentration reflects this shipbuilding exposure: engineering services dominate (eight awards), followed by ship building and repairing (three awards) and metal valve and pipe fitting manufacturing (three awards combined across two NAICS codes). By federal procurement classification, hose, pipe, tube, and railing fittings account for four awards.

West Phila. Bronze operates as a deep-supply specialist to Electric Boat rather than as a broad federal prime, with no parent government-wide vehicles, GWACs, or idiq platforms in the source data. The vendor's federal footprint is a function of Electric Boat's submarine construction schedule and logistics modifications, not independent Navy prime relationships.