ESP Inc.

ESP Inc., doing business as Express Systems & Peripherals, is a woman-owned small business based in Jackson Township, New Jersey, that supplies specialized IT networking hardware and industrial data communication components to the federal government as a prime contractor on small-purchase purchase orders, with 99% of its 148 federal awards in prime role. The vendor competes predominantly full-and-open on Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) and Department of Homeland Security contracts rather than under set-aside vehicles, though recent Coast Guard and US Cyber Command awards carry Total Small Business or competitive small-business set-aside designations.

ESP's capability portfolio centers on distributing Perle brand Ethernet servers, console servers, switching equipment, signal converters, interface units, and related spare parts for military and maritime systems. Concrete examples include a $96,875 Coast Guard purchase order (March 2025) for 125 Perle IOLAN SDS4 4-Port Secure Device Servers with MIL-STD packaging compliance; a $83,250 Coast Guard award (April 2024) for 111 of the same servers; an $18,403.78 US Cyber Command Total Small Business purchase order (September 2025) for Perle console servers and associated software to support Fort Meade operations; and a $6,634.18 DLA Land and Maritime contract (September 2024) for electronic switch assemblies—representative of the vendor's role as a components distributor rather than a systems integrator.

Customer concentration is highly fragmented across defense logistics and maritime agencies. The top five customers by award count (DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment, DLA Land and Maritime, DLA Aviation, Naval Sea Systems Command, and US Coast Guard) account for 78% of the 148 awards but generate only $891 thousand of the combined $5.6 million potential value—a signal that ESP's business model consists of numerous small-dollar purchase orders rather than large-dollar prime contracts. By potential-value ranking, concentration inverts: GSA Federal Acquisition Service anchors the portfolio with $4 million across just two awards (likely GSA Multiple Award Schedule delivery orders), while DLA Land and Maritime ($304 thousand across 26 awards) and the US Coast Guard ($301 thousand across 7 awards) represent the largest customer dollar values. This divergence reflects a high-volume, low-touch transactional posture.

ESP holds 17 task orders under GSA's Multiple Award Schedule, generating $606 thousand in combined potential value—the vendor's only material vehicle footprint. One entry references a Basic Ordering Agreement and another an Indefinite Delivery Contract (SPE7M820D60VA with $8 thousand potential value), but the source does not detail these vehicles' scope or issuing agencies. The vendor does not appear on major GWACs or governmentwide IDIQs.

Activity has declined sharply in recent years: nine awards in 2022, eighteen in 2023, seventeen in 2024, nine in 2025, and six through September 2026. Combined potential value obligated across all 148 awards stands at $1.4 million (25% of the $5.6 million combined potential value), indicating that much of the portfolio represents unfulfilled or low-probability ceiling values on small purchase orders. No material recompete cliff is evident in the source data.

Top NAICS categories in the award portfolio are Electronic Computer Manufacturing (19 awards) and Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals (15 awards), with PSC codes dominated by Information Technology Input/Output and Storage Devices (21 awards). The vendor does not appear to sub-contract; the source reports only one sub-award and no named prime contractors. ESP's award history spans from January 2005 to September 2026, indicating twenty-one years of federal vendor status, but the recent trajectory shows volume and dollar value erosion rather than growth momentum.

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