The Delaware Paint Company LTD

The Delaware Paint Company LTD, a Hispanic American-owned, minority-owned small disadvantaged business and Subchapter S Corporation based in Plain City, Ohio, manufactures and distributes paint brushes, paint rollers, roller covers, coatings, primers, and related painting supplies to the federal government as a prime contractor. The vendor competes across both full-and-open and total small business set-aside categories, with set-asides accounting for a material share of recent awards.

The Delaware Paint Company LTD's federal footprint is dominated by a single customer: the Defense Logistics Agency's Construction and Equipment division accounts for 1,915 of the vendor's 1,995 total awards (98% of award count) and $38.8 million of the combined potential value across all awards. Secondary customers include the Department of the Army Materiel Command TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (10 awards, $3.4 million), the GSA Federal Acquisition Service ($676 thousand), the Department of the Interior National Park Service Midwest Region ($537 thousand), and the DLA's Land and Maritime and Aviation divisions. This concentration in DLA Construction and Equipment is decisive: the vendor is fundamentally a DLA Troop Support supplier, not a diversified federal contractor.

Capability work is straightforward commodity supply. Representative recent awards include a $175.3 million purchase order (February 2024) for 3,939 paint brushes under total small business set-aside; a $76.5 million firm fixed-price purchase order (August 2025) for paint roller covers; a $73 million delivery order (July 2025) for paint rollers; and a $49.8 million delivery order (October 2025) for paint roller covers. The vendor also holds a $250,000 Indefinite Delivery Contract with DLA's Land and Maritime division for paint shaker agitators, and was awarded a new single-award IDC on July 15, 2025, valued at $6.53 million with a five-year term running through July 2030, for paint brushes and related painting supplies and equipment under total small business set-aside. Eight delivery orders totaling approximately $194.8 million have already issued under that new IDC between late July and late August 2025.

The vendor's primary vehicle position sits on DLA Troop Support IDCs: the five largest parent vehicles by task-order count are all DLA indefinite delivery contracts (Indefinite Delivery Contract SPE8E917D0002 with 278 task orders, $962 thousand; SPE8E920D0005 with 233 task orders, $2 million; SPE8E925D0003 with 34 task orders, $517 thousand; SPE8E716D0003 with 7 task orders, $331 thousand; SPE8EG17D0066 with 6 task orders, $812 thousand). The newly awarded $6.53 million Construction and Equipment IDC will anchor future award activity.

Award activity has remained stable at 148–172 awards per year over the past five years, with 51 awards recorded in 2026 so far (reflecting a partial-year snapshot). The recompete cliff in the next twenty-four months shows minimal exposure: thirteen awards with combined potential value of $151 thousand reach ultimate completion within that window. The vendor's primary NAICS categories are Broom, Brush, and Mop Manufacturing (852 awards) and Paint and Coating Manufacturing (694 awards), with paint and artists' brushes as the dominant PSC category (1,164 awards).

The Delaware Paint Company LTD operates as a pure prime contractor: all 1,994 of its tracked awards are prime, with a single identified sub-award to Asrc Federal Facilities Logistics, LLC for an epoxy coating kit in January 2024. The vendor is SAM.gov registered since 2009 and has no identified teaming relationships anchoring its go-to-market posture. Its competitive position rests on cost and reliability as a small-disadvantaged supplier of standard painting consumables to a single dominant customer operating under multiple indefinite delivery vehicles. The June 2024 source material cited a $250,000 IDC with DLA's Land and Maritime division; the July 2025 new IDC award signals continued confidence in the vendor's ability to execute commodity supply at scale, though the concentration in one customer division and one product category (brushes, rollers, coatings) creates significant customer-concentration risk should DLA sourcing strategy shift.

Small business industrial coatings company specializing in epoxy, urethane and polyaspartic floor systems, secondary containment and corrosion resistant paints, primers and coatings. Member NACE, SSPC C-10 Certified