Shipping, Packaging and Packing Supplies (FSS-81-I-B)

This GSA Master Schedule for shipping, packaging, and packing supplies established by GSA Federal Acquisition Service on August 15, 1996, is closed to new ordering as of October 9, 2023. The vehicle is effectively inactive and should be skipped in favor of successor schedules; the most recent task order was placed in May 2021, more than five years ago.

Awarded task orders span corrugated boxes, packing tape, cushion wrap, poly tubing, reclosable bags, pallet covers, strapping materials, foam rolls, shrink wrap, and reusable shipping containers. The portfolio includes 11 subcategories covering maintenance and repair of containers, wrapping and strapping materials, hazmat packaging, RFID-enabled packaging, and specialized items such as aluminum foil and wooden pallets.

Connecticut Container Corp. dominates the vehicle by order count with 38,803 awards totaling $128.7 million in combined potential value, followed by Independent Metal Strap Co Inc. (7,987 orders, $30.4 million) and M-Pak, Inc. (5,792 orders, $58.3 million). When ranked by potential value, Sea Box, Inc. leads with $150.1 million across 427 orders, suggesting larger individual order sizes. The top five primes collectively hold approximately 69 percent of the combined potential value.

Ordering is heavily concentrated at GSA Federal Acquisition Service (42,256 orders, $73.3 million potential value), which serves as both contracting office and customer. Army organizations—Materiel Command TACOM Life Cycle Management Command, the Department of the Army broadly, and Army Central Command—collectively place significant orders. The Marine Corps and a broader set of 449 distinct customer agencies constitute the remainder. Approximately 58 percent of all task orders are placed by the top five customers.

All task orders are competitively awarded with no set-asides; roughly 84 percent of orders carry no set-aside designation, with small business orders representing less than 4 percent of the portfolio.

Task order values range from small individual calls at twenty-nine dollars to deliveries exceeding $126,000, with typical delivery orders between $30,000 and $80,000. Combined task-order potential value stands at $600.7 million, though actual dollars obligated have reached $643.5 million—107 percent of potential—reflecting overages on certain orders. Ordering peaked in 2019 with 22,849 task orders but declined sharply to just 4 orders by 2021, signaling the vehicle's practical closure well before the formal termination date.

Bags, Sacks, Cartons, Crates, Packaging And Packing Bulk Material