Clayton Associates Inc.

Clayton Associates Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation based in Lakewood, New Jersey, supplies industrial consumables and maintenance equipment—abrasive discs, webbing straps, coupling components, air cleaner intakes, cable assemblies, vacuum storage equipment, and related spare parts—to defense and civilian federal agencies as a prime contractor across the full competitive landscape with no socioeconomic set-aside designations on its footprint.

Clayton's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward Defense Logistics Agency divisions and the General Services Administration. The top five funding agencies by award count account for 62 percent of recent awards, led by the GSA Federal Acquisition Service (1,538 awards, $12.6 million combined potential value) and DLA Land and Maritime (607 awards, $17.7 million). However, the dollars tell a different story: DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment anchors the portfolio with 164 awards carrying $86.8 million combined potential value—predominantly large delivery orders for vacuum-tote storage equipment valued at $683 thousand to $2.75 million each. DLA Land and Maritime places many smaller purchase orders (coupling halves, webbing straps, lever lock-release assemblies, mounting brackets, air cleaner intakes, cable assemblies, and filter elements) ranging from $1.5 thousand to $211 thousand. GSA awards are high-volume, low-value BPA calls and delivery orders for abrasive discs and vacuum cleaner bags, typically under $1 thousand per order. DLA Aviation carries $6.9 million in potential value across 95 awards, mostly cable assembly and aircraft repair kit procurements in the $20 thousand to $85 thousand range.

Clayton's vehicle position centers on GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) vehicles. The Federal Supply Schedule GS07F8188B alone carries 1,421 task orders for $6.6 million, and the standard Multiple Award Schedule handles 1,172 task orders for $3.7 million—together representing the bulk of the small-order flow from GSA and Coast Guard customers. Clayton also executes against several single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Land and Maritime, DLA Aviation, and DLA Construction and Equipment that anchor larger dollar volumes. Recent IDC wins include a $2.88 million DLA Land and Maritime small-business-set-aside contract (awarded July 21, 2025, through July 2028) for lever lock-release assemblies, HEPA clamp assemblies, webbing straps, and push switches; a $1.92 million DLA Aviation contract (June 27, 2025, through June 26, 2030) for cable assemblies, power, electric; a $1.39 million DLA Aviation contract through April 3, 2025 for cable assemblies; and two 2026 DLA Land and Maritime single-award IDCs worth $350 thousand each for webbing straps and mounting brackets.

Activity has contracted sharply. Clayton received 541 awards in 2022, 410 in 2023, 155 in 2024, 80 in 2025, and only 13 in the first half of 2026. Only three awards face completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying $1.9 million in combined potential value—a low recompete cliff by dollar magnitude, though the trajectory decline raises questions about pipeline sustainability. The vendor operates almost entirely as a prime (100 percent of 4,719 awards) with minimal subcontract exposure; one sub-award appears in the source: a ManTech Advanced Systems International task order for ALECS tools (May 12, 2026).

Clayton's capability framing is product-centric and transactional. Representative work spans abrasive discs for Coast Guard MH-60T and MH-65 helicopter maintenance (multiple $3 thousand to $45 thousand delivery orders); air cleaner intakes and HEPA clamp assemblies for DLA depots (orders from $25 thousand to $58 thousand); webbing straps and lever lock-release assemblies for military supply chain operations (orders from $3 thousand to $211 thousand); cable assemblies, power, electric for DLA Aviation (orders from $85 thousand to $179 thousand); and large-dollar vacuum-tote storage equipment for Defense Logistics Agency Construction and Equipment (orders from $683 thousand to $2.75 million). Most awards are firm fixed-price purchase orders and delivery orders with 90- to 180-day completion windows. Recent geographic scope includes Lakewood, New Jersey as place of performance with deliveries to DLA Distribution facilities (Cherry Point, San Diego, W1A8), overseas DLA depots, and Coast Guard and Air Force installations in the continental United States and Germany.

Clayton competes full-and-open; no awards carry small-business, 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or WOSB set-asides across its prime footprint, despite holding one small-business-set-aside IDC with DLA Land and Maritime. The vendor sits on no GWACs and maintains no visible teaming relationships in the source. Its federal contracting history spans since at least 2001 (SAM.gov registration date cited in award narratives), but the recent contraction in award volume and the dominance of low-value BPA calls suggest Clayton may be losing share in its core GSA abrasive-disc and vacuum-equipment markets, possibly to larger or more specialized competitors, even as it sustains deep relationships with DLA for industrial components and spare parts.