Whit's Electric Supply Company, Inc.

Whit's Electric Supply Company, Inc., doing business as Whits Electric Supply, is a minority-owned, Black American-owned small disadvantaged business headquartered in Houston, Texas that supplies industrial components and mechanical parts to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) as a prime contractor on purchase orders and indefinite delivery contracts — 100% of its federal award footprint is prime work, with all activity routed through DLA divisions.

The vendor operates exclusively within the Defense Logistics Agency supply chain, with 1,070 awards spanning the past twenty-five years concentrated across five DLA divisions. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime division dominates the portfolio with 506 awards carrying $1.8 million combined potential value — roughly 70% of the vendor's total award dollar exposure. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Hardware division places 322 awards valued at $88 thousand, while DLA Aviation accounts for 120 awards worth $303 thousand. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Construction and Equipment and Troop Support Subsistence divisions round out the customer base with 85 and 23 awards respectively. Across all DLA divisions, Whit's Electric Supply moves small-lot industrial components: hose assemblies (nonmetallic and preformed), filter elements, valves (check and vacuum regulating), mounting brackets, cylinders (actuating and diesel heads), cable assemblies, wear plates, springs, pins, elbows, clamps, retaining rings, and wire rope — with individual purchase-order values typically ranging from under $100 to $50 thousand. Representative recent work includes a $49.8 thousand Total Small Business set-aside purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime (April 2025) for actuating cylinders, a $42.9 thousand Total Small Business set-aside delivery order from DLA Land and Maritime (October 2024) for 660 filter elements, and a $40.6 thousand Total Small Business set-aside purchase order from DLA Construction and Equipment (August 2023) for cable reels.

The vendor holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with DLA Land and Maritime, valued at $250 thousand, awarded in January 2022 for filter element provision and designated as a Total Small Business set-aside. Activity peaked in 2022 with 38 awards, declined sharply in 2023 (6 awards), recovered to 14 in 2024 and 25 in 2025, and shows only one award (February 2026) in the current fiscal year. Of the 1,070 total awards in the source data, roughly two-thirds carry no set-aside designation, while the remainder are designated as Total Small Business set-asides — the IDC itself and multiple purchase orders ($49.8 thousand in April 2025, $42.9 thousand in October 2024, $40.6 thousand in August 2023, $36.7 thousand in March 2022, and $25.4 thousand in May 2024) reflect the vendor's repeated qualification for small-business reserve work within DLA. The combined potential value across all awards is $2.6 million, with $2 million (75%) obligated, indicating consistent invoicing against a small but stable base of repeat orders. Performance occurs at the vendor's Houston location across all contracts.

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