Defense Logistics Agency Recognizes 24 Industry Partners for Business Excellence at Conference in Ohio

FORT BELVOIR, Va., June 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Defense Logistics Agency honored 24 industry partners, customers and individuals June 28 during its Business Alliance Award ceremony.

DLA Director, Navy Vice Adm. Alan S. Thompson, presented the annual awards during the DLA Industry Conference and Exhibition being held at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio, June 27-30.

The awards recognized those who have demonstrated outstanding efforts to partner with DLA and improve the agency's mission – providing supplies and services to America's warfighters.

Industry representatives and DLA customers were recognized in eight categories:

Vendor Excellence: Awarded to large, small, small disadvantaged, women-owned small businesses, service disabled, veteran-owned small businesses, and historically underutilized business zone small businesses that have demonstrated overall excellence in superior product quality, on-time delivery, superior customer service, reliability, dependability, consistency and accuracy.

• Essner Precision Manufacturing, Fort Worth, Texas (small business)
• Cardinal Health, Inc., Dublin, Ohio (large business)
• J&P Khamken Industries, Inc., Montgomery, Ala. (small disadvantaged business)
• First Light Lighting, Inc., Meridian, Miss. (women-owned small business)
• Jamaica Bearings Company, New Hyde, N.Y. (service disabled, veteran-owned small business)
• Pima Valve, Inc., Chandler, Ariz. (historically underutilized business zone, small business)

Innovative Business Performer of the Year: Awarded to large, small, small disadvantaged, women-owned, service disabled, veteran-owned, and historically underutilized business zone small businesses that have undertaken risks associated with innovative business practices such as shared production, electronic commerce, prime vendor contracts and quick response time, and have demonstrated overall excellence in superior product quality, on-time delivery, superior customer service, reliability, dependability, consistency and accuracy.

• Logistics Specialties, Inc., Layton, Utah (small business)
• Optima Batteries, Inc., Golden, Colo. (large business)
• Source One Distributors, Inc., Wellington, Fla. (small disadvantaged business)
• Sage Energy Trading, LLC, Tulsa, Okla. (women-owned small business and historically underutilized business zone small business)
• Hammer Inc., Diamondhead, Miss. (service disabled, veteran-owned small business)

New DLA Contractor of the Year: Awarded to a large or small business that contracted for the first time with DLA, and has demonstrated overall excellence in superior product quality, on-time delivery, superior customer service, reliability, dependability, consistency and accuracy.

• Earlbeck Gases & Technologies, Baltimore, Md. (small business)

Outstanding Readiness Support: Awarded to large, small, small disadvantaged, women-owned, service disabled, veteran-owned, and historically underutilized business zone small businesses that have provided extraordinary customer support, service or product during a crisis situation and have demonstrated overall excellence in superior product quality, on-time delivery, superior customer service, reliability, dependability, consistency and accuracy.

• Brown Helicopter, Pensacola, Fla. (small business)
• Sol Petroleum, Port-au-Prince, Haiti (large business)
• Hontek Corporation, South Windsor, Conn. (small disadvantaged business)
• Accent Controls, Inc., Riverside, Mo. (women-owned small business)
• Tactical & Survival Specialties, Inc., Harrisonburg, Va. (service disabled, veteran-owned small business)
• Niche, Inc., New Bedford, Mass. (historically underutilized business zone, small business)

Outstanding Ability One Program Vendor: Awarded to non-profit agencies – NIB (National Industries for the Blind, employing the blind) or NISH, (employing persons with severe disabilities) – that exemplify overall excellence in superior product quality, on-time delivery, superior customer service, reliability, dependability, consistency and accuracy.

• Lions Industries for the Blind, Inc., Kinston, N.C.  (NIB)
• Cottonwood Inc., Lawrence, Kan. (NISH)

Recognized Cost Saver: Awarded to a business for its extraordinary efforts that resulted in cost savings to the government through a reduction in material costs throughout the performance period of a contract. These savings are measured by the reductions in the cost of items to the government, reduced profit margins, reduced overhead, and/or other tangible areas of savings that ultimately leads to DLA reducing its material costs to its customers.

• DOD Surplus, LLC, Scottsdale, Ariz.  (large business)

Customer of the Year: Awarded to the Department of Defense customer organization and the non-Department of Defense customer organization that exemplifies the highest degree of professionalism, and meets or exceeds criteria in one or more of the following categories: vendor excellence, innovative business performer or outstanding readiness support to DLA.

DoD Customer

• 401st Army Field Sustainment Brigade, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan

Non-DoD Customer

• Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration and Federal Energy Management Program, Oak Ridge, Tenn.

Commander's Choice Award: Awarded to the non-DLA individual whose dedication and commitment to the DLA mission affects the quality of life for U.S. men and women in uniform.

• Navy Cmdr. Craig P. Laws, Naval Air Systems Command, Arlington, Va.

As a Department of Defense combat support agency, DLA provides the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, other federal agencies, and joint and allied forces with a variety of logistics, acquisition and technical services. The agency sources and provides nearly 100 percent of the consumable items America's military forces need to operate, from food, fuel and energy, to uniforms, medical supplies, and construction and barrier equipment. DLA also supplies more than 80 percent of the military's spare parts.

Headquartered at Fort Belvoir, Va., DLA has about 27,000 employees worldwide and supports about 1,900 weapon systems. For more information about DLA, go to www.dla.mil, www.facebook.com/dla.mil or http://twitter.com/dlamil.

SOURCE Defense Logistics Agency

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