Carter Machinery Company, Incorporated

Carter Machinery Company, Incorporated, doing business as Carter Machinery Co Inc., operates as a prime contractor supplying Caterpillar equipment, parts, maintenance services, and technical training to federal agencies across defense, civilian, and overseas infrastructure missions without set-aside designations. A subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc. headquartered in Salem, Virginia, the company competes predominantly on full-and-open procurements and holds no SBA certifications in the source record.

Carter Machinery's federal footprint centers on Caterpillar-branded generator maintenance, engine repair, equipment rental, and diesel engine components for Navy ships, Coast Guard vessels, Army installations, and federal facilities. Representative recent work includes a $802,288.83 five-year firm fixed-price contract with Veterans Integrated Service Network 5 (awarded January 2026) for DC VAMC generator preventative maintenance with 24/7 emergency response and load bank testing of seven Cummins units; a $2,132,597.22 power plant upgrade in Baghdad, Iraq for the Bureau of Overseas Building Operations (awarded September 2024); a $983,969.99 preventive maintenance and load bank testing contract for 17 emergency diesel generators at Martinsburg VA Medical Center with a base year plus four option periods (awarded October 2024); and a $65,764.00 Caterpillar training instructor support engagement with Army Training and Doctrine Command (awarded March 2025). The company also delivers Warrant Officer Basic Course training covering engine maintenance and hydraulic/pneumatic systems repair through multiple awards with TRADOC, including a $197,292.00 contract (awarded October 2024) designated as Total Small Business.

Customer concentration spans 74 federal agencies, with the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime dominating by award count (104 awards, $1.1 million combined potential value) but the Department of the Army leading by dollar value. The Army accounts for $3 million combined potential value across 17 awards; Army TRADOC adds $2.5 million across 10 awards. The Bureau of Overseas Building Operations contributes $2.4 million across 13 awards, and the Coast Guard (67 awards) carries $1.5 million. These five customers account for 33 percent of combined potential value and about 50 percent of award count.

Prime awards constitute 72 percent of Carter Machinery's recent portfolio, with the company holding two blanket purchase agreements: a $12 million 10-year BPA with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 (awarded August 2025) for heavy equipment maintenance and repair across twelve states and territories, with individual purchase order caps of $2,500 per call, and a $3 million Department of the Army BPA (awarded October 2023) for construction equipment spare parts through October 2026. The largest parent vehicles are an Indefinite Delivery Contract (SPE7LX21D0087) with 70 task orders, the Complex and Non-Complex Maintenance contract for Norfolk-based surface combatant and amphibious ship work (12 task orders), and a W91QF521D0001 IDC with $1.4 million combined value (6 task orders). The company also sits on multiple Naval Ship Repair Association and Army contract vehicles, placing task orders for generator maintenance, equipment rental, and parts supply.

Carter Machinery operates predominantly as a prime (72 percent of awards), though it subcontracts to larger defense primes including Marine Hydraulics International, East Coast Repair & Fabrication, Atlantic Diving Supply (frequent sub-partner for engine components, turbochargers, injectors, and cylinder heads), Huntington Ingalls (carrier overhaul and nuclear support), and Metro Machine (ship repair availabilities). Across SCI-reportable service contracts, the vendor generated zero invoiced revenue in FY2024 and reported zero FTEs in both FY2022 and FY2024, indicating that its federal work is predominantly goods, equipment, and product-based rather than reportable services.

Activity has grown substantially — from 18 awards in 2022 to 108 in 2024 — before moderating to 61 in 2025 and 9 year-to-date in 2026. Only five awards face completion within the next twenty-four months with combined potential value of $830 thousand, presenting limited near-term recompete exposure. Carter Machinery's award portfolio spans primarily Caterpillar engines, generators, engine components, and equipment under NAICS categories emphasizing Other Engine Equipment Manufacturing (125 awards), machinery repair and maintenance (52 awards), and ship repair (48 awards), with PSC codes anchored to diesel engines, generators, and electrical equipment maintenance.