Don Elthon

Don Elthon, doing business as Elthon Enterprises, a veteran-owned small business sole proprietorship based in Falls Church, Virginia, manufactures and supplies wood products, hardware, and specialized military equipment to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor across firm fixed-price delivery orders and indefinite delivery contracts. The vendor competes under both Total Small Business set-asides and full-and-open competition, with recent awards split roughly evenly between the two postures.

Elthon Enterprises' customer concentration is heavily weighted toward a single federal buyer. The Defense Logistics Agency and its subordinate components account for 98 percent of recent awards and 96 percent of combined potential value. Within DLA, the Troop Support Construction and Equipment division dominates, placing 736 awards worth $4.4 million combined potential value. The Land and Maritime and Aviation components follow with 183 awards ($2.8 million) and 144 awards ($2.1 million) respectively. This extreme concentration reflects Elthon Enterprises' role as a recurring consumables and specialized equipment supplier to DLA's core logistics operations, with no meaningful diversification into other agencies.

The vendor's product footprint centers on wood plugs, wood wedges, wood blocks, and chocks for military construction and equipment maintenance applications, along with hardware, test equipment, and specialized components such as signal paddles, pneumatic system test sets, drawing boards, and vehicular floor and body parts. Representative prime work includes a $16,085 delivery order from DLA Construction and Equipment for wood plugs under a Total Small Business set-aside (October 2025), a $37,632 full-and-open delivery order from DLA Land and Maritime for vehicle floor and body components (September 2025), and a $15,546 full-and-open delivery order from DLA Aviation for a pneumatic system test set (September 2025).

Elthon Enterprises holds five active single-award indefinite delivery contracts with DLA components valued collectively at approximately $1.25 million in ceiling authority. The most significant parent vehicles are older IDCs established under contract numbers SPE8E620D0011 (156 task orders, $161 thousand), SPE8E621D5001 (111 task orders, $159 thousand), and SPE8E622D5001 (79 task orders, $203 thousand), alongside newer contracts awarded in mid-2025 and 2026: a $350,000 wood wedges IDC with DLA Construction and Equipment (June 2026, Total Small Business set-aside), a $250,000 pneumatic system test sets IDC with DLA Aviation (July 2025, no set-aside), a $249,999.99 wood plugs IDC with DLA Construction and Equipment (September 2025, Total Small Business set-aside), and a $350,000 pneumatic system test sets IDC with DLA Aviation (November 2025, Total Small Business set-aside). Most delivery orders under these vehicles fall in the $1,000 to $15,000 range.

Activity has declined modestly year over year—141 awards in 2022 to 57 in the first seven months of 2026—reflecting either slower ordering tempo or maturation of a transactional relationship. All awards are direct prime work with no identified subcontractors; Elthon Enterprises operates and executes its entire DLA portfolio as a sole proprietor. The vendor has been registered in the System for Award Management since October 2001, anchoring a supply relationship with DLA spanning more than two decades. Award dollars obligated to date total $4.5 million against a combined potential value of $10.1 million across the full portfolio, indicating approximately 44 percent execution rate and $5.6 million in unfunded ceiling authority.