17Th ST Photo Supply, Inc.

17Th ST Photo Supply, Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Wantagh, New York, supplies photographic and audiovisual equipment to federal agencies as a prime contractor exclusively through the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and related blanket purchase agreements. The company competes in open competition without set-aside restrictions on the majority of work, though several of its largest IDV contracts and task orders carry small-business or woman-owned small-business set-aside designations.

17Th ST Photo Supply operates across two major vehicle positions anchoring its revenue model. The Defense Media Activity awarded a $99 million single-award BPA (extended through September 2028) for cameras, lenses, televisions, projectors, and video equipment to support military media production and content distribution. The Naval Sea Systems Command holds a $5.16 million single-award BPA (through June 2028) for cameras and accessories supporting ship maintenance, training, and operations. Across these IDVs and the underlying GSA MAS contract, the vendor has issued over 1,700 task orders totaling $697.3 million in combined potential value. Representative recent work includes a $441,255 order from Defense Media Activity for 70-200mm camera lenses, a $130,512 call for Panasonic projectors, a $99,000 order for maritime industrial base cameras and accessories from Naval Sea Systems Command, and numerous sub-$50,000 delivery orders across federal civilian agencies for cameras, projectors, thermal imaging systems, protective cases, batteries, memory cards, and accessories from manufacturers including Nikon, Canon, Sony, Pelco, GoPro, and Kowa.

Customer concentration is extreme and skewed by one massive outstanding award. The Department of Homeland Security Chief Procurement Officer accounts for $500.4 million (97% coverage of potential value) across just 40 awards, but the source data does not clarify whether this represents a single large vehicle, multiple orders, or a data aggregation artifact. Excluding DHS, the Defense Media Activity (63 awards, $177.1 million) and GSA Federal Acquisition Service (158 awards, $17.1 million) emerge as the true operational customer base. By award count, GSA FAS places the most orders (158 awards), followed by the Marine Corps (120 awards, $1.5 million) and Naval Sea Systems Command (76 awards, $5.7 million). Across all 356 distinct customer agencies, the vendor draws orders from Army, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, Defense Logistics Agency, State Department, Interior, Veterans Affairs, NASA, FBI, and dozens of other federal departments and agencies.

Activity trajectory has declined sharply. The vendor averaged 69 awards annually from 2022–2024 (highs of 91 in 2023, lows of 33 in 2022), but only 52 awards were placed in 2025 and just 6 year-to-date through March 2026. Over 2,144 total prime awards in the source, the vendor has obligated only $29.4 million (4% of the $724.5 million combined potential value), indicating a significant portion of ordered work remains unfulfilled. This low invocation rate, combined with the declining award trajectory, may reflect either seasonal ordering patterns, the long tail of small-value delivery orders, or reduced customer demand. No recompete cliff data is provided in the source.

The vendor's product portfolio is narrowly specialized. Top NAICS categories are Quick Printing (1,529 awards), Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing (221 awards), and Photographic Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers (114 awards). Top PSC codes underscore the focus: Photographic Equipment and Accessories (589 awards), Cameras, Still Picture (501 awards), and Motion Picture Cameras (99 awards). The range is broad within that domain—cameras and lenses of all formats, televisions, projectors, thermal imaging, tactical lighting, memory cards, batteries, protective cases, and audio equipment—but the vendor does not engage in systems integration, software, services, or consulting work. All work is direct-fulfillment supply of commercial off-the-shelf equipment.

17Th ST Photo Supply maintains zero subcontract activity in the source data; 100% of the 2,144 awards are prime contracts, indicating the vendor fulfills all orders directly from its Wantagh, New York facility without subcontracting relationships. The company has operated in the federal marketplace for over two decades and holds a GSA MAS contract dating to at least 2001.

17th Street Photo has been one of New York's leading sources for camera equipment for both the professional and amateur since 1992.