CFE Equipment Corporation

CFE Equipment Corporation, doing business as CFE, is a Norfolk, Virginia-based material handling equipment supplier competing as a prime contractor on full-and-open and set-aside federal procurements, with a customer base dominated by Naval Facilities Engineering Command and a portfolio split between equipment sales, rentals, and maintenance services.

CFE operates primarily through the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and holds substantial blanket purchase agreements with the Department of the Navy, including a $7.5 million BPA with Naval Facilities Engineering Command for forklift rentals (running through July 2026) and a $9 million BPA on record. The company's recent award activity shows growth — four awards in 2023, four in 2024, and nine in 2025 — with total federal exposure of $39.2 million combined potential value across 678 awards since 1980 and $12.5 million in obligated dollars. CFE competes under both Total Small Business set-asides and full-and-open designations; recent set-aside work includes a $43,808 delivery order from the Missouri National Guard for a Unicarriers stand-up rider electric forklift (August 2025) and a $74,649 delivery order to the DC National Guard for two forklifts (March 2025), while full-and-open work encompasses a $76,164 purchase order from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for reach and pneumatic electric forklifts (February 2025) and a $68,604 delivery order from Federal Correctional Institution Englewood for food service forklifts (July 2026).

Customer concentration is acute. The Department of the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Command anchors 70% of awards by count (338 awards, $24 million combined potential value) and 64% of dollars. The Department of the Navy broadly (including Naval Sea Systems Command and Naval Installations Command) represents the vast majority of CFE's federal footprint. Secondary customers include the Department of the Army Test and Evaluation Command, the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and scattered civilian agencies such as the Patent Office, State Department, and Bureau of Prisons. Remaining exposure spans procurement agencies (GSA), correctional facilities (Federal Bureau of Prisons), and defense commands (Air Force, Global Strike Command).

CFE's vehicle position rests on two Navy indefinite delivery contracts (N4008506A1252 with 131 task orders and N6247001A6029 with 106 task orders), two Navy BPAs (N4008513A7763 with 84 task orders and N4008511A0050 with 51 task orders), and the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (84 task orders, $2.8 million combined potential value). The Navy vehicles carry the vast bulk of transaction volume and dollars. Only three awards face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $141 thousand), representing minimal recompete exposure in that window. CFE's capability portfolio centers on industrial machinery merchant wholesale (303 awards), equipment rental and leasing (132 awards), and materials handling machinery manufacturing and repair (104 awards), with PSC concentration in lease or rental of miscellaneous and materials handling equipment (419 awards combined). Recent representative contracts include a $31,526 delivery order from GSA Federal Acquisition Service for a four-wheel electric forklift (November 2025), a $23,543 delivery order from the National Gallery of Art for forklift delivery (September 2024), and maintenance and repair orders from the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security ($3,219.65 in June 2024, $2,733.17 in November 2023).

CFE holds two subcontract positions: forklift rental services to Valiant Global Defense Services Inc. under a Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction Security Cooperation Engagement Program support contract (July 2025 through June 2026) and global security engineering and supply-chain products to General Dynamics Information Technology Inc. (July 2025 onward). Both subs are recent and modest in scope relative to the prime-contract footprint. CFE's federal presence, established since SAM registration in October 2001, centers on equipment supply and logistics support for Navy installations and federal civilian facilities with minimal competition exposure outside the Navy's established BPA and IDIQ vehicles.