Cascade Designs Inc.

Cascade Designs Inc., operating through its Global Health Division as Cascade Designs East LLC, manufactures and sells specialized outdoor equipment and tactical gear to the Department of Defense and other federal agencies as a prime contractor (99% of awards) and occasional subcontractor. The company is a for-profit manufacturer headquartered in Seattle, Washington, competing predominantly full-and-open across its prime footprint with recurring small-business set-asides on individual purchase orders and IDIQs.

Cascade Designs' federal portfolio centers on four product categories: multi-fuel backpacking stoves, snowshoes and snowshoe repair kits, rescue equipment bags, and portable field showers, with secondary lines in water filtration systems, binding and strap assemblies, and fuel bottles. Representative prime work includes a $241,571 total small-business set-aside purchase order from DLA Clothing and Textiles for 1,150 assault snowshoes (February 2025), a $120,535 total small-business set-aside delivery order from DLA Subsistence for 500 multi-fuel stoves (May 2024), and a $99,770 firm fixed-price delivery order from DLA Clothing and Textiles for pack liners and assault equipment (November 2025). The company also holds a current single-award indefinite delivery contract with DLA Clothing and Textiles ceiling at $1,496,557.50 (awarded October 2025, running through October 2028) and three expired or expiring IDCs with DLA Subsistence each valued at $250,000 (December 2021, November 2023, and December 2023 awards).

Customer concentration is heavily Defense Logistics Agency–driven. By award count, DLA Troop Support Subsistence leads with 378 awards ($3.5 million combined potential value), followed by DLA Clothing and Textiles with 143 awards ($54 million) and DLA Construction and Equipment with 100 awards ($24.5 million) — together accounting for 39% of all awards. By dollar value, the ranking diverges sharply: GSA Federal Acquisition Service anchors the top position with $70.9 million across 32 awards, followed by DLA Clothing and Textiles ($54 million), DLA Construction and Equipment ($24.5 million), Army Materiel Command Sustainment Command ($22.6 million), and Marine Corps ($12.7 million). These five agencies represent 89% of combined potential value. DLA remains the dominant operational customer, but GSA's consolidated value through federal supply schedule vehicles reflects a significant secondary revenue stream.

Vehicle positioning is fragmented across GSA and DLA IDC structures. The top parent vehicles by task-order volume include the Sports, Promotional, Outdoor, Recreation Trophies and Signs schedule (219 task orders, $16.6 million), DLA IDCs SPE3SE21D5488 (156 task orders, $239 thousand) and SPE3SE19D5347 (117 task orders, $126 thousand), and GSA Schedule V797P3058M (140 task orders, $102 thousand). The vendor's product categories map to PSC Hospital Furniture, Equipment, Utensils, and Supplies (684 awards), Food Cooking, Baking, and Serving Equipment (384 awards), and Individual Equipment (216 awards).

Activity declined sharply in 2024 and early 2025. The vendor received 26 awards in 2022, 30 in 2023, 17 in 2024, 22 in 2025, and 2 through mid-April 2026. Combined potential value across all 1,787 awards totals $208.3 million, with $103.4 million (50%) obligated. Cascade Designs subcontracts occasionally through Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc., delivering multi-fuel stoves, water filters, fuel bottles, snowshoes, and field hygiene equipment under DLA prime contracts (nine sub awards from January 2023 through January 2025). The subcontract footprint is minimal — 10 awards (1% of total) — and appears tactical rather than strategic.

Cascade Designs competes almost entirely on full-and-open terms across DLA vehicle families, with roughly 40–50% of individual DLA purchase orders and delivery orders designated as total small-business set-asides. The vendor's set-aside posture is opportunistic rather than foundational; no 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or WOSB designations appear in the source. The federal market footprint reflects a lean, high-volume vendor model focused on reproducible manufactured goods flowing through DLA's subsistence and clothing-textiles pipelines, with secondary penetration of GSA civilian federal schedules. Recompete risk is low because most awards are discrete purchase orders and delivery orders with 2–4 month performance windows rather than multi-year IDCs; IDCs carry modest ceilings ($250,000–$1.5 million) and annual recompete cycles.