Art-Craft Optical Company, Inc.

Art-Craft Optical Company, Inc., a Rochester, New York-based for-profit manufacturer of specialized military optical equipment, supplies aircrew sunglasses, optical frames, corrective lenses, and related accessories to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Troop Support Medical as a prime contractor on an $18 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC SPE2DE24D0023) established June 27, 2024, and running through June 2029. The company competes full-and-open with no socioeconomic set-aside designation across its federal footprint.

Art-Craft Optical's customer concentration is extreme and narrow. The DLA Troop Support Medical accounts for 5,845 of 5,874 recent awards (99.5% of volume) and $87.1 million of the $1.09 billion combined potential value across all awards in the source data. This concentration reflects a single-award IDC model where Art-Craft Optical serves as the exclusive supplier of specialized optical equipment—AIRCREW, AFF-OP (Aircrew Affiliation-Operational), AFF-DR (Aircrew Aviator Frame-Deployment Ready), and AFF-JS series sunglasses, frames, and related components—through the DLA's Electronic Catalog (ECAT) system. Secondary customers include the Department of the Air Force Air Education and Training Command (9 awards, $73 thousand), the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons (9 awards, value not specified in source), and the Department of the Navy (2 awards totaling $6 thousand), representing less than 1% of volume and dollars. The source data spans 1988 to April 2026, but activity has accelerated sharply: Art-Craft received 229 awards in 2022, 319 in 2023, 536 in 2024, 450 in 2025, and 111 through mid-April 2026, reflecting the high-volume, low-dollar-value nature of delivery orders under the current IDC.

The parent vehicle landscape is dominated by five DLA IDCs. The most active is SPM2DE14D7560 (2,064 task orders, $6.2 million combined potential value), followed by SPE2DE19D0015 (1,686 task orders, $6.2 million), the current SPE2DE24D0023 (827 task orders, $3 million), SPM2DE09D7539 (667 task orders, $5.4 million), and SPM20004D7521 (316 task orders, $2.6 million). These are all DLA Troop Support Medical single-award vehicles under which Art-Craft Optical holds exclusive supply relationships. Art-Craft holds no position on GWACs, GSA Schedules, or other government-wide vehicles; the entire footprint is built on legacy and current sole-source DLA medical supply IDCs.

Art-Craft Optical has no recorded subcontract activity; all 5,874 awards show the company as prime contractor. Representative recent work includes a $27,266 delivery order from December 8, 2025, for AIRCREW AFF-JS series eyewear; a $23,191 order from March 16, 2026, for WALTER brand optical items; a $19,231 order from September 29, 2025, for AIRCREW AFF-DR frames; and numerous smaller orders (many under $2,000) issued weekly throughout 2025 and early 2026. Delivery orders are priced fixed-price with economic price adjustment and completed within days to weeks. All work is performed at the company's Rochester facility; no offshore or remote fulfillment is noted.

NAICS coding in the source reflects Art-Craft's product and distribution mix: 5,248 awards under Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers (89%), 588 under Ophthalmic Goods Merchant Wholesalers (10%), 11 under Ship Building and Repairing, and smaller counts under Ophthalmic Goods Manufacturing (10 awards) and apparel. PSC coding similarly shows 5,086 awards under Laboratory Equipment and Supplies, 441 under Medical and Surgical Instruments and Supplies, and 336 under Ophthalmic Instruments, Equipment, and Supplies. The merchant wholesaler and lab-equipment PSC framing suggests Art-Craft's role as distributor and assembler of optical products as much as manufacturer.

Art-Craft Optical operates as a pure single-award supplier model. It holds no visible exposure to recompete risk within the 24-month window in the near term because the current SPE2DE24D0023 IDC does not expire until June 2029, and the source provides no indication of competitive recompete activity. However, the historical succession of DLA IDCs (SPM2DE14D7560, SPE2DE19D0015, SPM2DE09D7539, SPM20004D7521) shows that Art-Craft has cycled through four prior single-award vehicles—each presumably ending and renewing—suggesting a pattern of sole-source awards and potential renewal or recompete at five- to seven-year intervals. The company has been registered in SAM.gov since July 2001 and has maintained unbroken delivery order volume through successive IDC transitions, positioning it as the DLA's established and exclusive supplier of specialized military optical equipment for aircrews and medical operations.