Pennsylvania Apparel, L.L.C.

Pennsylvania Apparel, L.L.C., doing business as Ashland Sales And Service Company, manufactures and supplies military apparel—principally men's shirts and related outerwear—to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) as a prime contractor on delivery orders under indefinite-delivery vehicles. The company is a self-certified small disadvantaged business (SDB) and a for-profit limited liability company headquartered in Olive Hill, Kentucky, operating as a subsidiary of Pennsylvania Apparel LLC (also doing business as Pennselyvania Apparel), an SDB parent company based in Ambler, Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Apparel's federal footprint is tightly concentrated in a single customer and product line. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Clothing and Textiles division accounts for 533 of 671 recent awards (96% of award count) and $448.3 million of the $549 million combined potential value (82% of dollars). The remaining activity flows to the broader Defense Logistics Agency organization, the Department of the Air Force, and the Department of the Army through six distinct awards. Pennsylvania Apparel competes exclusively under full-and-open procurement; the source records no set-aside designations across the award footprint, though the company's self-certified SDB status qualifies it for federal preference considerations. The top three parent indefinite-delivery contracts—SPM1C108D1033 (57 task orders, $313.7 million), SPE1C121D1465 (120 task orders, $13.4 million), and SPE1C114D1007 (124 task orders, $9 million)—anchor the delivery-order pipeline. These vehicles allow DLA Troop Support to issue multiple delivery orders as needed to meet fluctuating military clothing demands.

Award activity has grown substantially over the past five years: 10 awards in 2022 to a peak of 50 in 2024, with recent deceleration to 27 in 2025 and 5 awards (as of mid-July 2026). This trajectory reflects DLA's use of Pennsylvania Apparel as a standing supplier across a portfolio of small purchase orders and larger production runs. Representative delivery orders include a $1.235 million award (November 2025) for men's shirts under the $17 million SPE1C121D1465 vehicle, a $1.063 million award (June 2025) for the same product, and a $863 thousand award (April 2025)—all under full-and-open competition with no set-aside designation. Smaller test purchases and routine replenishment orders—often valued between $55 and $700 per delivery order—constitute the bulk of the award volume. Only one award faces ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $1.2 million), indicating a limited near-term recompete exposure relative to the vendor's overall pipeline.

The vendor's capability footprint is defined by apparel manufacturing NAICS codes: Men's and Boys' Cut and Sew Apparel Manufacturing dominates with 146 awards, followed by Women's, Girls', and Infants' Cut and Sew Apparel Manufacturing (125 awards) and Men's and Boys' Cut and Sew Other Outerwear Manufacturing (94 awards). Product Service Code coverage mirrors this distribution, with Outerwear, Men's accounting for 464 of recent awards, Outerwear, Women's for 108, and Clothing, Special Purpose for 95. All manufacturing work is performed in Olive Hill, Kentucky. The company holds no visible subcontract footprint and serves no role as a supplier to other prime contractors in the source data; it operates exclusively as a direct prime supplier to DLA.

Pennsylvania Apparel's federal revenue base is substantial and durable but narrowly leveraged. Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $469.9 million (86% of combined potential value), indicating strong conversion and consistent fulfillment. The vendor has maintained a presence in the DLA Troop Support supplier base since at least 1994 and has successfully scaled from 10 awards annually in 2022 to 50 in 2024, establishing itself as a critical supplier of military apparel to the Defense Department. However, the extreme concentration in a single customer (DLA) and a single product category (men's shirts and outerwear) creates both a stable, repeatable revenue stream and a vulnerability to changes in DLA procurement posture or competitive pressure from other apparel vendors.