Whipp & Bourne Associates LLC

Whipp & Bourne Associates LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, manufactures and supplies circuit breakers and related electrical infrastructure components to the Department of the Navy as a prime contractor on full-and-open competitive purchase orders, with secondary work supporting naval repair operations at distributed locations.

Whipp & Bourne is structured as a limited liability partnership and holds concurrent SBA designations as a service-disabled veteran-owned business (SDVOSB), self-certified small disadvantaged business (SDB), veteran-owned business (VOB), and Asian-Pacific American-owned minority business. The company competes entirely without set-aside protection — all 127 awards in the source carry no set-aside designation — and operates under NAICS 335313 (Switchgear and Switchboard Apparatus Manufacturing), with secondary coding in metal valve and pipe fitting and miscellaneous machinery manufacturing. PSC coding is dominated by circuit breakers (PSC 5925), with minimal volume in hand tools and switches.

Customer concentration is extreme and represents a single-customer dependency. Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) accounts for 116 of 127 awards (91% of total count) and $10.1 million of the $10.3 million combined potential value. Four other Navy entities and the Defense Logistics Agency account for the remaining 11 awards and $182 thousand combined; all customer agencies are within the Department of Defense. Recent representative work includes a $876,518.82 firm fixed-price purchase order from NAVSUP awarded December 31, 2025, for circuit breaker supply (NSN 7H-5925-013282053, Technical Data Package Version 004) with performance at Virginia Beach and completion by September 25, 2028; a $516,704.51 purchase order from NAVSUP awarded November 26, 2025, for circuit breaker repair and modification services (six units, NSN 7H-5925-013366879) with Virginia Beach performance and completion by November 18, 2027; and a $52,601.10 repair order from US Pacific Fleet Forces awarded December 16, 2025, for USS Paul Hamilton (DDG 60) gas turbine generator circuit breaker repair, performed in San Diego with completion by April 30, 2026. The largest single award in the portfolio is a $431,852 circuit breaker supply contract awarded June 8, 2022, with completion targeted July 30, 2025.

Award velocity has declined materially. The source shows seven awards in 2021, nine in 2022, eight in 2023, two in 2024, and seven in 2025 — a trough in 2024 followed by partial recovery. Five awards (combined potential value $766 thousand) carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months and therefore face recompete exposure. The vendor has no subcontract footprint — all 127 awards are prime awards with zero sub-award activity. All contract work is firm fixed-price purchase orders with no parent vehicle or IDIQ structure; awards are standalone solicitations issued by NAVSUP procurement offices. Performance occurs at the contractor's Virginia Beach facility or at Navy locations including San Diego for repair work. The company operates as a manufacturing and repair vendor directly in the Navy's supply chain rather than as a services integrator or systems contractor.