Brown, Donald

Brown, Donald, doing business as D Brown Construction, is a sole proprietorship specializing in industrial furnace relining and maintenance services for the Navy as a prime contractor exclusively under small-business set-asides. Based in Elmer, New Jersey, the company operates across NAICS 74161 (Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment Repair and Maintenance) and PSC categories centered on furnace maintenance and rebuild services, delivering all work directly without major subcontractors.

D Brown Construction's entire federal footprint—100% of 45 awards totaling $4.8 million in combined potential value—derives from two Navy customer agencies, with absolute concentration at Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), which accounts for 40 awards and $4.6 million. The remaining five awards and $130 thousand come from the United States Pacific Fleet Forces. This concentration reflects a single-vendor, single-customer relationship: NAVSEA has issued D Brown Construction furnace relining and maintenance orders continuously since at least 2006, with work performed at the Naval Facilities and Engineering Systems Command facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Elmer, New Jersey location.

D Brown Construction holds a $2.59 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with NAVSEA (N6449824D4012), effective through July 11, 2027, under which five task orders totaling $768 thousand in combined potential value have been issued. Representative delivery orders include a $295,870 furnace relining award issued May 13, 2026 (completion December 30, 2026), a $183,830 Year 1 FB-21 furnace relining order from March 6, 2025, and a $130,280 delivery order from January 15, 2026 for relining and open-and-inspect services on seven Inductotherm coreless induction furnaces. All work carries either Total Small Business or no set-aside designations; the company competes on small-business set-asides across its prime portfolio. The vendor operates with firm fixed-price structures and no material subcontractor footprint.

Activity has remained low and episodic over the past five years—three awards in 2022, one in 2023, three in 2024, one in 2025, and three in 2026—with only two awards (combined potential value $330 thousand) reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating minimal recompete exposure in the near term. The relationship with NAVSEA is long-standing and specialized: the source characterizes D Brown Construction as a sole-source vendor holding critical expertise in industrial furnace maintenance and relining services that sustains NAVSEA's engineering, construction, and maintenance of Navy vessels and combat systems.