Carter Machinery Company, Incorporated

Carter Machinery Company, Incorporated Chesapeake Construction Division operates as a prime contractor delivering equipment repair services, material handling equipment procurement, and heavy machinery parts supply to federal agencies on a full-and-open, non-set-aside basis. The division is a subsidiary of Carter Machinery Company, Incorporated, a for-profit corporation headquartered in Salem, Virginia, with the Chesapeake Construction Division based in Chesapeake, Virginia. The parent company has a 26-year federal contracting footprint spanning 162 prime awards across 20 distinct customer agencies, with no subcontract work in the source data.

Carter Machinery's capability portfolio centers on Caterpillar equipment dealer services — equipment sales, repair, maintenance, parts supply, and technical support — anchored in heavy machinery serving military installations and federal logistics operations. Concrete recent work includes a $395,235 firm fixed-price purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command (April 2023) for turbo superchargers delivered to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center; a $153,087 definitive contract from the Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District (September 2022) for bulldozer repair at Craney Island in Chesapeake, Virginia; a $101,250 purchase order from the Coast Guard (April 2022) for D398 diesel engines; and a $87,580 purchase order from the Coast Guard (February 2026) for a Caterpillar Model D60-4LC diesel generator set (55 kilowatt prime output, 254/440-volt, three-phase, 60 hertz). Recent task orders also reflect smaller-value repair and maintenance work: a $31,370 purchase order from Defense Logistics Agency Distribution (March 2026) for Terex TFC 45 reach stacker repair at DLA Distribution Norfolk, and a $4,671 Naval Sea Systems Command purchase order (September 2024) for equipment inspection and hydraulic cylinder repair services.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to Navy commands. The Department of the Navy accounts for 48 awards through Naval Facilities Engineering Command, 44 awards across the broader Department of the Navy, and 11 awards through Naval Construction Forces, with these three lines combining for $1.9 million in combined potential value. The Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard (5 awards, $603 thousand), Naval Sea Systems Command (9 awards, $471 thousand), and the Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District (10 awards, $242 thousand) round out the top five customers by potential value, together representing 86% of combined potential-value concentration. By award count, the top five customers account for 77% of all awards.

The parent company historically operated under a single indefinite delivery contract (N6247001A6017) carrying 70 task orders, though the combined potential value on that vehicle is substantially lower ($10 thousand) than the cumulative value across transactional purchase orders. Activity over the past five years has been sparse — one award in 2021, two in 2022, one in 2023, three in 2024, and two in early 2026 — with combined potential value of $3.4 million against $4.7 million obligated across 162 awards, indicating that prior-year purchases and modifications have driven actual invoicing above quoted ceilings. The bulk of awards fall under two NAICS categories: Other Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment Rental and Leasing (88 awards) and Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment Repair and Maintenance (27 awards), reflecting the company's posture as an equipment dealer and service provider rather than a general contractor or systems integrator.