Cable Specialties, Inc.

Cable Specialties, Inc. (doing business as Cable Specialties), a Fort Myers, Florida-based for-profit Subchapter S corporation, manufactures and supplies specialty electrical cable, fiber-optic assemblies, and nonmetallic seals to federal agencies as a prime contractor on small-business purchase orders. The vendor operates exclusively in prime roles—fifty recent awards across a thirty-five-year federal footprint—competing full-and-open without set-aside designations, though recent work carries small-business preference.

Cable Specialties' capability portfolio centers on wire and cable manufacturing and assembly. Primary work spans capability trunk cable (multi-conductor, shielded, and bundled configurations meeting UL2464 specifications), custom-manufactured fiber-optic video cable and stage controller trunk cable, nonmetallic seals and gasket materials, and electrical insulators and insulating materials. Representative recent awards include a $94,391.93 purchase order from NASA's Shared Services Center at the John C. Stennis Space Center for 2,860 feet of eight-bundled multi-conductor capability trunk cable (August 2026, FOB Destination with two-week delivery), a $850,970 firm-fixed-price purchase order from the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime for nonmetallic seals (February 2023), and a custom fiber-optic video and stage controller trunk cable order from NASA Shared Services Center (April 2022, $38,288.82).

Customer concentration tracks heavily toward defense and federal logistics customers. The top five funding entities account for 70% of recent awards by count: the Department of the Army Materiel Command Contracting Command Redstone Arsenal leads with twelve awards and $52 thousand combined potential value, followed by the Department of the Army (nine awards), the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (six awards, $3 thousand combined potential value), and the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons facilities (eight awards total, $19 thousand combined potential value). NASA Shared Services Center anchors potential-value rankings with three awards carrying $156 thousand in combined potential value—a higher per-award magnitude than Army or Navy work. Cable Specialties places task orders under one indefinite-delivery contract (4600000663). Recent activity remains minimal—one award in 2026 following years of sparse volume (two in 2021, one each in 2022 and 2023)—with one award ($94 thousand) scheduled for completion within the next twenty-four months. The vendor's combined dollars obligated ($743 thousand) exceed combined potential value ($238 thousand) by a factor of 3.1, indicating previous obligation patterns that exceed ceiling values on small-dollar purchase orders.