World Airmotive Supply Corp

World Airmotive Supply Corp, a small business Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Black Mountain, North Carolina with operations in Clayton, New Jersey, supplies standardized aviation and industrial fasteners, hardware components, and mechanical parts to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor across purchase orders and indefinite delivery contracts. The vendor competes predominantly full-and-open but holds Total Small Business set-asides on three active Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), each carrying $250,000 ceilings.

World Airmotive's federal footprint centers almost entirely on DLA, which accounts for 100% of tracked awards across three divisions. DLA Aviation leads by award volume at 476 purchase orders ($1.6 million combined potential value), while DLA Land and Maritime anchors the dollar value at 143 awards worth $5.6 million combined potential. DLA Troop Support Hardware accounts for 147 awards ($201 thousand). A single GSA Federal Acquisition Service award ($500 thousand) represents the only non-DLA customer in the recent award history. The vendor holds one active commercial schedule line with GSA.

Concrete capability work reflects World Airmotive's specialization in standardized defense supply-chain hardware. Representative awards include a $120,549 DLA Land and Maritime total small business set-aside purchase order (October 2025) for 2,195 lubrication fitting units; a $70,069 DLA Aviation total small business set-aside order (March 2024) for self-locking hexagon nuts; and a $60,550 DLA Aviation purchase order (May 2025) for gun barrel reflectors. The bulk of work consists of sub-$10,000 firm fixed-price purchase orders for discrete fastener and component replenishment across PSC codes emphasizing screws (197 awards), nuts and washers (176 awards), hose and pipe fittings (60 awards), and bolts (56 awards). NAICS concentration runs to 332710 (Bolt, Nut, Screw, Rivet, and Washer Manufacturing; 410 awards) and 332510 (Hardware Manufacturing; 140 awards).

World Airmotive sits on three active single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA. Two IDCs with DLA Aviation carry $250,000 ceilings each for setscrews (awarded September 2023, ultimate completion September 2024) and close tolerance screws (awarded August 2023, ultimate completion August 2024); one IDC with DLA Land and Maritime holds a $250,000 ceiling for angle brackets (awarded January 2026, ultimate completion January 2027). These vehicles enable automated small purchase ordering and establish pre-negotiated pricing for routine component replenishment across DLA depots, domestic and overseas.

Activity trajectory shows significant concentration in prior years—288 awards in 2023 and 185 in 2022—with a marked drop to 26 awards in 2024, 55 in 2025, and only 15 through March 2026. This decline likely reflects the maturation of standing IDCs reducing the need for individual purchase orders; the vendor supplies against contract vehicles rather than competing new awards frequently. The recompete cliff presents minimal near-term exposure: 14 awards complete within twenty-four months with only $16 thousand combined potential value at risk.

World Airmotive holds no subcontract footprint and competes exclusively as a prime vendor. The vendor is federally registered since February 2002 and operates without reported sub-tier engagements across the visible award history. Set-aside posture is mixed: the three active IDCs are designated Total Small Business set-asides, but the vast majority of individual purchase orders (roughly 95% of transaction volume) carry no set-aside designation, indicating full-and-open competition on transactional orders while leveraging small business reserve vehicles for longer-term supply agreements.

Customer concentration is stark and sustainable: DLA represents essentially 100% of the award base, making World Airmotive a specialized defense logistics supplier rather than a diversified federal contractor. The sole GSA award represents potential diversification pathway but carries minimal current footprint. Recompete risk is low owing to the standing IDC structure and the commodity nature of fastener and hardware procurement, which rarely faces discontinuation absent vendor performance failure.