Elastec Inc.

Elastec Inc., doing business as Elastec / American Marine, manufactures and supplies environmental spill response equipment, oil containment booms, skimmer systems, and specialized maritime vessels to federal agencies as a prime contractor under the SBA HUBZone set-aside program. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in Carmi, Illinois, with SBA HUBZone certification. Elastec operates overwhelmingly as a prime contractor — 96% of recent awards are prime contracts, IDVs, and grants — and competes across both full-and-open and HUBZone set-aside categories, with set-aside designations appearing on roughly half of recent awards.

Customer concentration is extreme and singular. The Department of the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Command dominates both by award count and by dollars: 105 awards (57% of all awards across the 68-agency customer base) carrying $40.4 million in combined potential value (70% of the $57.6 million total portfolio). This concentration is anchored by a $33.332 million Blanket Purchase Agreement against the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, signed August 1, 2024, running through July 31, 2026, for environmental spill response equipment supporting the Omnibus Spill Response Program at Naval Construction Battalion Center Port Hueneme, California. The BPA is set aside for total small business. Elastec has issued ten call orders under this BPA since the award date, ranging from $17,920 (Call Order 014, December 2025) to $741,294.54 (Call Order 011, September 2025). The second-tier customer, GSA Federal Acquisition Service, carries only 8 awards but $9 million in potential value — attributable to task orders placed under Elastec's seat on the Federal Supply Schedule (GS07F0002I, 156 task orders, $4.8 million). The Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard follows with 32 awards and $1.1 million combined potential value, and the Marine Corps and Navy Installations Command round out the top five by dollars. The concentration signal is unmistakable: Elastec is a single-customer vendor in practice, with NAVFAC representing 70% of portfolio value.

Recent activity shows spike-and-plateau behavior. Awards per year climbed from 7 in 2022 to 25 in 2024, then declined to 11 in 2025 and 6 in the partial 2026 year to date. In the next twenty-four months, five awards carrying combined potential value of $1.3 million face ultimate completion and recompete exposure — a moderate cliff relative to the $57.6 million total portfolio, but within the 2026 completion window lie the critical NAVFAC OSRP BPA call orders, which are renewable and recurring by design rather than terminal procurements. Elastec's primary vehicle footprint splits between the NAVFAC BPA (anchoring most Navy dollars) and the Federal Supply Schedule and Multiple Award Schedule (GS and GSA MAS task orders, $4.8 million and $43.1 million respectively, across 156 and 73 call orders). The GSA MAS carries the second-largest order count and combines high volume with modest per-order magnitude.

Elastec's subcontractor footprint is light. The source names fourteen sub-awards since 1998, with recent activity showing Elastec supplying PermaFence oil containment booms to Manson / Connolly Seal Beach JV (multiple call orders in April 2024) and providing OHMSETT oil response equipment to Applied Research Associates, Inc. (July 2024) for testing support. Elastec also subcontracts maintenance and operations services to ASRC Communications LTD. for air-station operations support (October 2024) and contributes IRBM targets and environmental covers to Northrop Grumman (May 2017 and February 2023). Sub-award volume (4% of portfolio) is negligible relative to prime work.

Federal grant footprint is minimal. A single $993,520 Project Grant from the Rural Business Cooperative Services (USDA) under the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP, CFDA 10.876) was awarded May 13, 2024, with completion by May 13, 2026, to fund renewable energy systems and energy efficiency improvements at Elastec's manufacturing facility in Illinois. This is a recipient grant, not a sub-award.

Elastic's capability portfolio is narrow and specialized. Primary PSC framing shows 94 awards in Hazardous Material Spill Containment and Clean-Up Equipment (the dominant PSC), 47 in Pontoons and Floating Docks, 23 in Waste Disposal Equipment, and 18 in Miscellaneous Ship and Marine Equipment. Representative work includes NAVFAC OSRP BPA calls for oil containment booms with rubberizer pads for heavy-oil bilge applications (multiple 2024–2026 call orders, ceiling values ranging $17,920 to $741,294); a $375,620.70 spill response boat delivery to Air Force Space Command's 45th Civil Engineering Squadron at Patrick Space Force Base, Florida (September 2025); an $85,225.20 Army Corps of Engineers purchase order for a Ruffwater Screen and Turbidity Curtain system with multiple screen units for field research (October 2025, awarded under sole-source special notice recognizing Elastec's unique capability); a $261,567.39 river boat replacement for Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, National Park Service (June 2023, HUBZone set-aside); a $135,341.73 trash-skimmer catamaran for Naval Support Activity Annapolis harbor cleaning (Naval Sea Systems Command, August 2023); and a $249,448 purchase order from NAVFAC for production of an ROV Skimmer Version 2.0 and skimmer attachment (June 2024, firm fixed price through August 2027). Elastec also manufactures non-spill maritime and disposal equipment: a $7,205 Drug Terminator incinerator for Air Combat Command (August 2024) and $22,248.09 in incinerator parts for the Army Corps of Engineers dredge Hurley (July 2024, total small business set-aside).

Elastec's federal market position is a textbook HUBZone small-business specialization in a narrow product category serving a dominant single customer with recurring, rolling call orders. The vendor's 96% prime posture and light sub footprint signal minimal teaming exposure. The critical recompete window is not the formal recompete cliff (which shows only $1.3 million in the next twenty-four months) but the structural renewal cycle of the NAVFAC OSRP BPA itself, now signed through July 2026.

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