Cel Oil Products Corp

Cel Oil Products Corp, doing business as X-Cel Oil Products Corp, is a woman-owned small business based in North Charleston, South Carolina that supplies petroleum products—number 2 fuel oil, white diesel, unleaded gasoline, and related fuels—to federal agencies as a prime contractor on individual purchase orders, with no involvement in subcontracting work.

The vendor has maintained federal contracting registration since April 2002 and operates as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation. Cel Oil Products competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements; while a small fraction of recent awards carry Total Small Business set-asides (notably from 2021 through mid-2023), the majority of purchase orders do not use set-aside designations. The company holds woman-owned small business status, a characteristic designation across its federal footprint.

Cel Oil's customer concentration is extreme and stable. The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), a component of the Department of Homeland Security, accounts for 294 of the vendor's 504 total prime awards and $4.2 million of the $7 million combined potential value—58% of awards and 60% of dollars by the top-customer measure. The next four customers—US Coast Guard (79 awards, $555 thousand), Defense Logistics Agency (33 awards), Army South Carolina National Guard (19 awards, $86 thousand), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (16 awards, $144 thousand)—collectively represent 30% of awards but only 24% of potential value, underscoring FLETC's dominance. The top five customers account for 88% of recent awards and 84% of combined potential value. This concentration reflects Cel Oil's role as a recurring fuel supplier to FLETC's Charleston facility, with purchase order awards typically ranging between $1,000 and $28,000 per contract and short performance periods (often one to two months).

Recent activity shows consistent volume rather than growth. The vendor received 29 awards in 2022, 28 in 2023, 28 in 2024, 25 in 2025, and 6 through June 2026. The source data reflects 504 awards across the vendor's full federal footprint, with combined potential value of $7 million against obligated dollars of $15.5 million—a figure that exceeds potential value because many older, smaller purchase orders have been fully invoiced and closed. Only one award (combined potential value $29 thousand) faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete exposure in the near term.

Cel Oil operates on a small set of parent vehicles. The Defense Logistics Agency Energy IDCs—DLA60082D4158 and DLA60081D4019—carry 7 task orders combined; the GSA vehicles SP060004D0204 and SP060004D4004 carry 5 task orders combined, with SP060008D0356 generating $478 thousand in combined potential value across 2 task orders. These vehicles represent the backbone of non-FLETC activity.

The vendor's capability portfolio is narrowly focused: petroleum product distribution and on-demand fuel delivery to support boiler operations, vehicle fleets, and backup generator requirements at federal facilities in the Charleston region and, to a lesser extent, across the Southeast and nationally through DLA supply channels. Representative work includes individual purchase orders with FLETC for $28,662 (June 2026, boiler fuel operations), $21,939 (March 2024, boiler fuel), and $20,515 (May 2024, number 2 fuel oil), as well as a $4,846 purchase order with NOAA (September 2022) for backup generator fuel at the Charleston Laboratory. The vendor categorizes primarily under NAICS 424720 (Petroleum and Petroleum Products Merchant Wholesalers) and PSC 4720 (Fuel Oils), reflecting a straightforward commodities supplier posture with no engineering, integration, or value-added service component.