Western Metal Supply Company, Inc.

Western Metal Supply Company, Inc., doing business as Western Metal Supply Co Inc., is a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business based in Escondido, California, that designs, manufactures, and installs pre-engineered metal structures and secure facilities for the federal government as a prime contractor (97% of recent awards), competing predominantly through full-and-open procurements and total small business set-asides on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and Air Force IDIQs.

The company operates manufacturing and installation facilities in California and North Carolina, serving forty distinct federal agencies over a fifteen-year award history. Western Metal Supply's core capability portfolio centers on aircraft protective structures (pre-engineered steel sunshades, side skirts, and reflective tape for F-35 and other tactical aircraft), sensitive compartmented information facilities (SCIFs) in fixed and containerized form, prefabricated secure buildings, and related installation and engineering services. Concrete recent work includes a $2.16 million Air National Guard total small business set-aside delivery order (April 2026) for nine F-35 aircraft sunshades at Westfield, Massachusetts; an $837,778 FEMA Region 2 SCIF at Naval Weapon Station Earle, New Jersey, under GSA Schedule (September 2026); a $651,642 Customs and Border Protection containerized SCIF at Del Rio, Texas, under GSA Schedule (September 2023, extended through January 2026); and a $594,360 Air Combat Command sunshade order for Seymour Johnson Air Force Base (September 2023). The company also holds a $23.8 million Air Force Air Combat Command IDIQ for pre-engineered steel aircraft sunshades and related services, from which it has received thirteen delivery orders totaling approximately $6.9 million, and recently won a $3.44 million five-year total small business set-aside Indefinite Delivery Contract (September 2025) for up to fourteen F-35 sunshades with an initial $1.23 million task order placed by Air National Guard.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to the Air Force enterprise. The top five customer agencies account for 50% of awards and 67% of combined potential value, with the Department of the Air Force Air Combat Command anchoring the portfolio at 21 awards and $30.9 million combined potential value. Air National Guard places the second-highest dollar share at $17.3 million across ten awards, followed by Air Force Materiel Command at $6.4 million across eleven awards. This Air Force dominance spans multiple sub-commands and organizational boundaries but reflects a unified customer base within DoD. Non-Air-Force work includes FEMA SCIF orders, Department of the Interior National Park Service contracts, Army Corps of Engineers work, Department of the Army Security Assistance and Forces Command procurement, Naval Air Warfare Center secure facilities, Marine Corps SCIF containers, U.S. Customs and Border Protection shelters, and U.S. Marshals Service facility repairs.

Western Metal Supply places nearly all work through the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (35 task orders, $21.7 million combined potential value), supplemented by direct Air Force IDIQs. The $23.8 million Air Combat Command IDIQ (FA480921D0008, thirteen task orders) and a $3.44 million Air National Guard five-year Indefinite Delivery Contract (awarded September 2025) provide the primary vehicle pipeline for aircraft sunshade work. Smaller IDIQs and schedule vehicles support SCIF and secure facility delivery orders from FEMA, Army, Navy, and CBP. Category concentration is pronounced: 83 awards fall under NAICS 332311 (Prefabricated Metal Building and Component Manufacturing), with leading PSC codes for prefabricated and portable buildings (29 awards) and installation of prefabricated structures and scaffolding (13 awards).

Activity has contracted significantly in recent years — ten awards in both 2022 and 2023, dropping to three in 2024 and five in 2025 before rebounding slightly to four in 2026. Combined potential value across all 109 awards totals $93.5 million, with $59.5 million obligated (64% realization rate). Only four awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying $4 million in combined potential value, indicating minimal recompete cliff exposure in the near term. Western Metal Supply subcontracts to Leidos, Inc. as a sub-awardee on Army procured-goods orders (three sub-awards between October 2024 and March 2026 under a multi-year task order arrangement), representing a small minority of total activity. The vendor's federal footprint is almost entirely prime work, with approximately $59.5 million in actual obligated revenue signaling sustained prime-contractor status across civilian and defense installations focused on aircraft protection, secure communications infrastructure, and prefabricated facility solutions.

Western Metal Supply provides general construction of installation and fabrication of metal buildings, aircraft shelters, metal sunshades, carports, handrails, mezzanines, warehouse facilities, intallation of solar panel systems (P/V) and A&E services.