Alco Investment Company

Alco Investment Company, doing business as Alaskan Copper & Brass Co., supplies specialized metal products and components—tubing, pipe fittings, plates, sheets, bars, and copper-nickel alloys—to the Department of the Navy as a prime contractor on firm-fixed-price purchase orders, competing full-and-open with no set-aside designation on most awards but under Total Small Business set-asides on roughly 40% of recent work. The vendor is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Kent, Washington, self-certified as a small disadvantaged business and a child entity of Alco Investment Company (also self-certified small disadvantaged). The vendor maintains SAM registration dating to March 2002 and operates across primary NAICS categories focused on fabricated pipe and pipe fitting manufacturing, iron and steel pipe and tube manufacturing, and copper rolling and extruding.

Naval Sea Systems Command dominates the customer footprint. The top five customer agencies account for 82% of recent awards by count and 93% by combined potential value, with Naval Sea Systems Command anchoring the portfolio at 571 awards and $3.2 million combined potential value. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime ranks second at 80 awards and $745 thousand combined potential value, followed by Naval Supply Systems Command with 48 awards and $661 thousand combined potential value. The Department of the Navy Military Sealift Command and Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Construction and Equipment round out the top five. Concentration is extreme and mono-customer by dollar: Naval Sea Systems Command represents roughly 59% of combined potential value across all 988 awards in the source, and Navy agencies collectively represent over 85% of potential value. The vendor places task orders under several IDIQs, including N0018906D0136 (3 task orders, $23 thousand), DLA70082C0085 (2 task orders), and N0018184C0082 (2 task orders), though the majority of work flows through spot purchase orders rather than standing vehicles.

Recent activity shows growth to 26 awards in 2024 and 22 in 2025, with only 5 awards year-to-date in 2026 reflecting the snapshot date of 15 October 2026. The vendor faces minimal recompete pressure in the next twenty-four months, with only 1 award completion due in that window at $10 thousand combined potential value. As a subcontractor, Alco works to Vigor Works LLC on low-rate initial production vessel materials (awarded January 2026), to Vigor Marine LLC on multiple post-shakedown availabilities and vessel deliveries including the USNS Earl Warren and USNS Guadalupe for copper-nickel fittings and tubing (June and September 2025), to Marinette Marine Corporation on FFG(X) guided missile frigate construction for copper-nickel fittings (July 2024), and to National Steel and Shipbuilding Company on coded repair material for USS James E. Williams (April 2024). Pacmar Technologies LLC represents a sub relationship across multiple SBIR Phase II and Marine Corps expeditionary logistics technology efforts (awards spanning March through June 2024). The subcontract work aligns with the prime footprint—specialized metal components for naval shipbuilding and vessel maintenance—with sub awards representing only 2% of the overall count (20 of 988 total awards).

The vendor's capability portfolio concentrates on naval-grade specialty metals: copper-nickel alloys (particularly 90/10 CU-NI per MIL-T-16420), aluminum alloys (including 5456-H116 per ASTM B928), stainless steel tubing (316L per ASTM A240), and seamless tubing meeting technical data package specifications. Representative prime work includes a $68,516 purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command in July 2024 for aluminum alloy plate (1/4-inch thick, 5 feet by 10 feet, ASTM B928/B928M), a $171,990 total small business set-aside in March 2022 for plates to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, and a $122,251 total small business set-aside in April 2022 for copper-nickel plates. The vendor also supplies commodity-scale metal bars, reducers, pipe flanges, couplings, and sheet metal stock across PSC codes dominated by pipe, tube, and rigid tubing (354 awards), hose, pipe, tube, lubrication, and railing fittings (313 awards), and nonferrous base metal plate and sheet products (96 awards). Performance locations span Kent, Washington (primary), Portsmouth, Virginia, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, and foreign locations including Mexico, Pennsylvania, Germany, and Austria.