Don Elthon

Don Elthon, operating 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 (DLA) as a prime contractor across delivery orders and indefinite delivery contracts. Elthon Enterprises competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements; while several contracts carry Total Small Business set-aside designations, the vendor's recent activity shows strength in unrestricted competition across DLA components.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on wood products—plugs, wedges, blocks, and dowels—and ancillary hardware and military logistics items including signal paddles, boat paddles, test equipment cases, protective screens, and specialized components such as pneumatic system test sets and floor/body/vehicular parts. Representative work includes a $16,085 delivery order for wood plugs under DLA Construction and Equipment's indefinite delivery contract (Sept 2025), a $37,632 delivery order for vehicular floor and body components under DLA Land and Maritime (Sept 2025), a $15,546 delivery order for a pneumatic system test set from DLA Aviation (Sept 2025), and a $68,297 delivery order for vehicular parts from DLA Land and Maritime (Nov 2023). Across prime work, the vendor holds five active indefinite delivery contracts with DLA components, including a $350,000 single-award IDC with DLA Aviation established Nov 2025, two $250,000 single-award IDCs with DLA Aviation (Oct 2025, July 2025), and two contracts at $249,999.99 each with DLA Construction and Equipment (Sept 2025, May 2024), representing cumulative ceiling authority of approximately $1.35 million.

Customer concentration is heavily concentrated in DLA's construction and supply operations. The top five funding agencies account for 98 percent of awards: DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment leads with 713 awards worth $4 million combined potential value, followed by DLA Land and Maritime (166 awards, $2.8 million), DLA Aviation (141 awards, $2.1 million), DLA Troop Support Hardware (51 awards, $245 thousand), and DLA Troop Support Medical (9 awards, $109 thousand). All customer concentration by both award count and potential value points to a single customer—the Defense Logistics Agency—across multiple internal components, indicating tight operational coupling with DLA's supply chain.

Activity has declined year over year, from 141 awards in 2022 to 14 awards through mid-2026. The vendor places the majority of task orders through five parent indefinite delivery vehicles: IDC SPE8E620D0011 (156 task orders, $161 thousand combined potential value), IDC SPE8E621D5001 (111 task orders, $159 thousand), IDC SPE8E622D5001 (79 task orders, $203 thousand), IDC SPE8E619D0003 (64 task orders, $129 thousand), and IDC SPE8E624D5001 (45 task orders, $190 thousand). These five vehicles account for the preponderance of the vendor's delivery order activity and anchor the relationship with DLA's various components.

Elthon Enterprises operates as a sole proprietor with no identified subcontractors and no sub-award activity; all 1,098 awards in the source footprint are prime awards. The vendor has been registered in the System for Award Management since October 2001 and carries veteran-owned small business (VOSB) designations. Award values cluster in the $2,000–$20,000 range, reflecting DLA's reliance on the vendor for routine consumable supplies and specialized equipment fulfilled through standing IDC vehicles rather than full-and-open solicitations. The primary product categories tracked in the source are Engineered Wood Member Manufacturing (428 awards), Hardware Manufacturing (89 awards), and Measuring/Controlling Device Manufacturing (66 awards), with PSC concentration in Lumber and Related Basic Wood Materials (515 awards) and Marine and Commercial Hardware (104 awards combined).