Cutter Lumber Products

Cutter Lumber Products Inc. Division manufactures and supplies heat-treated wooden pallets and material handling equipment to the federal government as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides, with 1,351 federal prime awards valued at $262.3 million across the Defense Logistics Agency. The firm is an Asian-Pacific American-owned, for-profit manufacturer based in Livermore, California, competing predominantly under small business set-aside vehicles rather than full-and-open procurement.

The company's federal footprint is narrowly concentrated within Defense Logistics Agency programs. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Construction and Equipment division accounts for 894 awards (66% of the award count) valued at $173.9 million, while the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Hardware division accounts for 228 awards valued at $78.3 million. Together, these two DLA subdivisions represent 83% of all awards and 96% of combined potential value. The Department of the Treasury's United States Mint and the Defense Logistics Agency Distribution and other DLA entities round out the customer base with minor dollar exposure. The concentration signal is strong and uniform across both award-count and dollar rankings — Cutter Lumber is functionally a single-customer vendor to the Defense Logistics Agency.

Cutter Lumber's capability portfolio centers on manufacturing wood pallets that meet ANSI MH1-2016 Part 9 and ISPM 15 heat-treatment standards, in addition to wooden gates and related material handling equipment. Representative work includes a $42.493 billion IDIQ awarded July 1, 2025 (single award, total small business set-aside, completion June 30, 2030) covering supply of standardized pallets across 14 Defense Distribution Depots nationwide; a $34.833 million IDIQ awarded January 17, 2023 (single award, total small business set-aside, completion January 16, 2025, now superseded) under which the vendor issued numerous delivery orders ranging from $7,400 to over $900,000; and multiple individual purchase orders and delivery orders throughout 2024–2026 valued between $10,000 and $720,000 for material handling pallets and wooden gates to DLA facilities.

Cutter Lumber holds two parent IDIQ vehicles. The most recent, SPE8EF23D0006 (awarded July 2025), carries a $42.493 million ceiling and runs through June 2030; 127 task orders have been issued against it valued at $7.6 million. The prior IDIQ (SPE8EF17D0002, awarded January 2023, expired January 2025) carried a $34.833 million ceiling; 321 task orders valued at $19.7 million were issued under it. Cutter Lumber also appears on historical IDIQ vehicles including SPM8EF12D0004 (373 task orders, $19.2 million) and SPM53006D0005 (223 task orders, $30.1 million), reflecting a mature, continuous supply relationship with DLA spanning multiple contract cycles.

Award activity has been steady but declining. The vendor received 42 awards in 2022, peaked at 55 in 2023, held at 54 in 2024, dropped to 41 in 2025, and recorded 22 awards through mid-April 2026. The current IDIQ ceiling of $42.493 million (awarded July 2025, expiring June 2030) represents a material increase over the prior $34.833 million vehicle, signaling government confidence in the vendor's delivery track record but also reflecting the vendor's complete dependence on DLA's material-handling requirements and budget authority.

Cutter Lumber competes 100% as a prime contractor; there is no subcontract activity in the source data. The vendor does not sub to larger primes and does not employ subs on its own DLA IDIQ awards. Award set-aside posture is predominantly total small business set-asides, particularly on the two most recent IDIQ vehicles and the bulk of delivery orders issued thereunder; scattered full-and-open delivery orders also appear in the portfolio, suggesting DLA issues task orders under both set-aside and unrestricted competitive procedures against the same IDIQ vehicle.

The top NAICS category is Conveyor and Conveying Equipment Manufacturing (724 awards), followed by Wood Container and Pallet Manufacturing (332 awards), reflecting the vendor's pallet-centric product line. The primary PSC is Miscellaneous Materials Handling Equipment (1,276 awards), with minor exposure to Lumber and Related Basic Wood Materials and Fencing, Gates, and Components. Place of performance is primarily Livermore, California (the vendor's manufacturing facility) and subordinate delivery to 14 Defense Distribution Depots across the continental United States, with occasional performance in Corpus Christi, Texas, and other DLA distribution locations.

WOODEN PALLETS, BOXES, SKIDS.