Matthew Warren, Inc.

Matthew Warren, Inc., doing business as Western Wire Products Company, manufactures precision wire-formed fasteners and military-specification hardware components as a prime contractor to the Defense Logistics Agency, competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements with occasional Total Small Business set-aside awards. The company is a for-profit manufacturer based in Fenton, Missouri, with secondary operations in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is a subsidiary of Matthew Warren Inc. (parent entity MW Industries).

Western Wire Products Company's federal footprint centers exclusively on DLA hardware procurement. Over the past five years, the vendor has secured 453 prime awards valued at approximately $1.9 million in combined potential value, with $1.5 million obligated (75% of potential). The capability portfolio is narrowly specialized: cotter pins, lock pins, hairpin cotter pin assemblies, and related wire-formed fasteners that support military aircraft maintenance, vehicle sustainment, and weapons systems logistics. Representative recent awards include a $41,034.24 Total Small Business purchase order from DLA Aviation (April 2025) for 1,096 units of cotter pins under a Request for Quotation solicitation; a $19,796 Total Small Business purchase order from DLA Aviation (April 2024) for cotter pins; and two single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Land and Maritime, each valued at $250,000, awarded in March 2025 and July 2025 for cotter pin hardware with an estimated four orders per year and one-year terms.

Customer concentration is entirely within DLA. The top five DLA subdivisions account for 100% of awards: DLA Aviation leads by award count (160 awards, $516 thousand combined potential value), followed closely by DLA Troop Support Hardware (163 awards, $483 thousand). DLA Land and Maritime, despite only ten awards, ranks second by potential value at $508 thousand, anchored by the two recent IDCs. DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment carries 87 awards ($252 thousand), and the parent DLA entity accounts for 31 awards ($84 thousand). The two rankings diverge notably—DLA Aviation and Troop Support Hardware dominate volume but Land and Maritime's two high-ceiling IDCs drive dollar concentration. Activity has grown year over year (20 awards in 2022 to 36 in 2025), with most awards being small firm fixed-price purchase orders ranging from under $200 to approximately $41,000.

The vendor holds two active Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Land and Maritime, each at $250,000, awarded in March 2025 and July 2025. Beyond these IDCs, Western Wire Products Company does not appear on government-wide vehicles, GWACs, or multi-award contract platforms; virtually all awards are individual purchase orders or delivery orders issued directly by DLA divisions. Set-aside posture is mixed but sparse—the majority of awards carry no set-aside designation, but a small recurrent subset are designated Total Small Business, including the $41,034.24 and $19,796 DLA Aviation awards noted above and a $23,733.60 lock pin award (June 2023). The vendor competes as a small business but does not hold recognized 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or WOSB certifications in the source data.

The company operates as a pure prime contractor with no subcontract footprint in the source. All 453 awards are prime contracts or prime IDCs; no sub-awards appear. Manufacturing is performed in-house at facilities in Fenton, Missouri (primary) and Charlotte, North Carolina (secondary). Primary NAICS coding is 332510 (Hardware Manufacturing), which accounts for 396 of 453 awards; secondary NAICS include 332618 (Other Fabricated Wire Product Manufacturing, 39 awards) and 332722 (Fastener, Button, Needle, and Pin Manufacturing, 15 awards). All awards fall under PSC "Nails, Machine Keys, and Pins."

Western Wire Products Company's federal footprint reflects a stable, specialized vendor with narrow customer concentration, limited vehicle diversity, and consistent transaction patterns typical of a small manufacturer serving DLA's routine hardware replenishment mission. The recent addition of two $250,000 IDCs with DLA Land and Maritime represents the highest-value contract vehicles in the portfolio and signals potential for larger or multi-year procurement relationships beyond the historical pattern of small individual purchase orders.