Charm-Tex, Inc.

Charm-Tex, Inc., doing business as Charm-Tex Inc., manufactures and supplies institutional textiles, hygiene products, and consumable goods to federal correctional facilities and other civilian agencies as a prime contractor, competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements with no SBA set-aside designation across its majority footprint. The Brooklyn, New York-based for-profit manufacturer has received 731 prime awards totaling $17.1 million in combined potential value over three decades, with $10.8 million obligated as of the source date, and operates as a 100% prime contractor with no subcontract exposure.

Charm-Tex's capability portfolio centers on correctional-facility-specific goods: inmate clothing and uniforms (general population, special housing unit, and emergency release configurations), bedding and mattresses (including built-in-pillow variants with sealed-seam vinyl covers), sanitation and hygiene products (toilet paper, soap, shampoo, deodorant, toothbrushes, towels, washcloths), laundry supplies and detergent, and institutional items such as blankets, sheets, and socks. Recent representative work includes a $103.3 thousand delivery order from Federal Correctional Complex Florence (May 2026) for inmate hygiene items under GSA MAS; a $99.9 thousand delivery order from Federal Correctional Complex Forrest City (May 2024) for special housing unit items under GSA MAS; a $290.7 thousand delivery order from Federal Correctional Complex Forrest City (May 2023) for laundry items under GSA MAS; and a $110.9 thousand purchase order from Federal Correctional Complex Victorville (September 2022) for inmate clothing and mattresses set aside for small businesses.

Customer concentration is extreme. The top five Bureau of Prisons facility-level customers account for 212 awards (29% of total) with combined potential value of $3.6 million, led by Federal Correctional Complex Beaumont (55 awards, $569 thousand), Federal Correctional Complex Coleman (43 awards, $522 thousand), and Federal Correctional Complex Forrest City (42 awards, $1.8 million). By potential-value ranking, however, GSA Federal Acquisition Service dominates with 20 awards worth $5.8 million — reflecting Charm-Tex's GSA MAS seat — followed by the same three Bureau of Prisons facilities. The tension between rankings signals that GSA MAS task orders carry substantially higher dollar values per award than individual facility purchase orders. Combined, GSA FAS and the top four Bureau of Prisons facilities account for approximately 55% of combined potential value.

Charm-Tex operates primarily under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, where 136 task orders carry $3.2 million in combined potential value. The vendor also sits on two active Blanket Purchase Agreements with the Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs Great Plains Region (GS07FSQCHA and GS07FSQCRM, each with 4 task orders), facilitating supply of correctional facility items to tribal facilities. A third parent vehicle, Indefinite Delivery Contract HSCECR12D00002, carries 12 task orders worth $44 thousand.

Activity has remained flat to declining over the past five years (34 awards in 2022, 16 in 2023, 23 in 2024, 17 in 2025, 17 in 2026). The recompete landscape is moderate: individual purchase orders and delivery orders typically carry completion dates of 60 to 180 days from award, meaning the vendor faces continuous rolling recompete cycles at individual Bureau of Prisons facilities rather than a concentrated cliff. The vendor's SAM registration has been active since February 2002 and carries an expiration date of December 2026.

Charm-Tex competes under full-and-open and total-small-business-set-aside designations across its footprint, with set-aside awards representing approximately 40% of recent transaction volume. The vendor specializes in serving the Bureau of Prisons' distributed procurement model, where dozens of individual correctional facilities place recurring small-dollar purchase orders and delivery orders for consumable and replacement goods. Performance is conducted from the vendor's Brooklyn manufacturing and distribution facility, with place of performance listed as Brooklyn, New York for all awards in the source. The vendor's primary NAICS categories are Other Hosiery and Sock Mills (138 awards), Other Household Textile Product Mills (78 awards), and All Other Miscellaneous Textile Product Mills (68 awards), with secondary concentration in Soap and Other Detergent Manufacturing (47 awards). By product service code, Personal Toiletry Articles (91 awards), Clothing Special Purpose (87 awards), and Toilet Soap, Shaving Preparations, and Dentifrices (78 awards) lead the portfolio. Charm-Tex's federal customer base extends across 72 distinct agencies, though the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons accounts for the vast majority of both volume and dollars; other customers include Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, and the Federal Medical Center system.