Whit's Electric Supply Company, Inc.

Whit's Electric Supply Company, Inc., doing business as Whits Electric Supply, supplies industrial components and mechanical parts to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor on purchase orders and indefinite delivery contracts, competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements without set-aside designations despite self-certification as a minority-owned, Black American-owned small disadvantaged business. The Houston, Texas-based for-profit company has accumulated 1,076 prime awards over twenty-five years of federal contracting, with recent activity dominated by small-dollar purchase orders and sporadic larger awards under a handful of single-award indefinite delivery vehicles.

Whit's Electric Supply's customer base is highly concentrated with the Defense Logistics Agency across all divisions. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime accounts for 509 awards and $1.8 million in combined potential value (47% of all awards, 67% of total dollars); DLA Aviation claims 121 awards and $304 thousand; DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment holds 87 awards and $266 thousand; and DLA Troop Support Hardware commands 322 awards and $88 thousand. Combined, these five DLA customer nodes represent 99% of Whit's Electric Supply's recent award count and 93% of combined potential value. The vendor has no subcontract footprint and does not hold positions on government-wide acquisition contracts or broad-based multiple-award schedules.

Capability is grounded in discrete industrial-supply categories. The company procures fasteners (bolts, nuts, screws, rivets, washers—233 awards across primary NAICS 332722), nonmetallic hose and tubing assemblies (57 awards, hose fittings and connectors—87 awards), filtration components (filter elements are a recurring item class), mechanical parts (cylinders, valves, wear plates, springs), cable and wire assemblies, and miscellaneous motor-vehicle and electronic components. Representative recent awards include a $49.8 thousand Total Small Business set-aside purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime on April 7, 2025, for actuating cylinders; a $42.9 thousand Total Small Business order from DLA Land and Maritime on October 28, 2024, for 660 units of filter elements; and a $40.5 thousand Total Small Business purchase order from DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment on August 18, 2023, for cable reels. Most awards are sub-$5,000 firm fixed-price purchase orders issued under DLA's transactional procurement cadence; larger awards ($15,000–$50,000) are sporadic.

Whit's Electric Supply holds three single-award indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Land and Maritime, each with a $250,000 ceiling and designated as Total Small Business set-asides. One IDC covers filter elements and was established January 4, 2022, with ultimate completion January 4, 2023; the source references two additional active IDCs for hose assemblies and grooved pulleys, also valued at $250,000 each. These vehicles anchor the company's recurring DLA relationship and serve as the vehicle foundation for task order issuance. The broader IDC portfolio shows minimal utilization—the highest-performing parent vehicle (SPE4A617D6285) carries only 13 task orders totaling $16 thousand.

Activity trajectory is volatile and shows recent decline. The company averaged 16 awards per year from 2022 through 2025, spiking to 38 in 2022 and falling to 7 in the first seven months of 2026. Combined potential value across all 1,076 awards stands at $2.7 million with $2 million obligated (75% obligation rate), a ratio consistent with active fulfillment. The recompete cliff over the next twenty-four months carries minimal exposure—only 2 awards with ultimate completion dates in that window, combined potential value $14 thousand—reflecting the short performance periods typical of DLA purchase orders (three to six months) and the age of the IDC portfolio (established 2022, expiring 2023).

Whit's Electric Supply competes full-and-open on DLA transactional procurements despite self-certification as a small disadvantaged business; approximately 96% of recent awards carry no set-aside designation, though the company has received Total Small Business set-aside designations on specific filter-element and cylinder orders. The vendor's competitive posture is reactive rather than proactive—responding to DLA's Request for Quote solicitations for specific national stock numbers and fulfilling standing IDC task orders—with no evidence of pursuit of broader federal vehicles or customer expansion beyond DLA's seven-division footprint.

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