Dry Box, Inc.

Dry Box, Inc., a veteran-owned, small disadvantaged business based in Chehalis, Washington, manufactures, modifies, and rents specialized shipping containers, CONEX boxes, modular office spaces, and refrigerated storage units to federal agencies as a prime contractor (89% of recent awards), competing predominantly in full-and-open and small business set-aside procurements rather than under reserved vehicles or socioeconomic carve-outs.

The company operates as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation with primary NAICS categories anchored in metal container manufacturing (Other Metal Container Manufacturing: 11 awards; Prefabricated Metal Building and Component Manufacturing: 5 awards) and PSC framing centered on specialized shipping and storage containers (13 awards) and container modification work (6 awards). Dry Box's federal footprint spans 37 total awards with combined potential value of $527 thousand across 17 distinct customer agencies, though combined dollars obligated ($633 thousand) exceed potential value, reflecting the company's pattern of delivering fixed-price purchase orders that run to completion.

Customer concentration clusters around natural-resource and operational-support agencies. The top five customers by award count account for 59% of recent awards: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Northern Region (6 awards, $73 thousand), the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region (5 awards, $76 thousand), the Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard (5 awards, $46 thousand), the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (3 awards, $23 thousand), and the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (3 awards, $51 thousand). The potential-value ranking diverges slightly — the Department of the Navy Pacific Fleet Forces anchors 80% of combined potential value through a single $164,400 CONEX chiller rental award from November 2021 — but the primary concentration remains Forest Service regional operations, where Dry Box delivers post-fire restoration storage, wildland incident-support caches, and facility storage across full-and-open and small business set-aside procurements.

Representative prime work includes a $38,050 total small business purchase order from the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region for native seed storage supporting post-fire restoration (October 2023); a $22,200 total small business award from Naval Sea Systems Command for an 8-by-20-foot modular container office in Bayview, Idaho (August 2023); and a $20,700 total small business award from the Interior Department Region 1 Northern Region for three shipping containers to support the National Park Conservation and Networking Forum (August 2024). Recent 2025–2026 work includes a $17,000 definitive contract with the Coast Guard for container relocation from North Bend to Newport, Oregon (April 2026) and a $13,650 purchase order from the Coast Guard for CONEX box transfer to Air Facility Newport (November 2025).

Activity has been intermittent — two awards in 2022, five in 2023, and two each in 2024, 2025, and 2026 — with only one award ($17 thousand) facing ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months. As a subcontractor, Dry Box provides container rental and stevedoring support to an unnamed prime for DOD cargo import-export terminal services (January 2026) and leases facility space to GE Renewables US LLC for generator rewind manufacturing support (December 2023 and November 2023). The company carries no seat on government-wide vehicles, IDIQs, or BPAs, competing on agency-specific purchase orders and small business set-asides routed through regional forest service, maritime, and scientific-support procurement channels.

rent and sell new and used steel shipping containers, storage containers and cargo containers. Modifiy shipping containers with doors, windows, vents, lock boxes ect.