Elite Laundry Company

Elite Laundry Company, doing business as Care Enterprises, provides commercial laundry, dry-cleaning, and linen services to federal healthcare facilities and educational institutions as a prime contractor operating exclusively in non-set-aside and set-aside markets. The company is a Native American-owned, minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business and Subchapter S Corporation headquartered in Gallup, New Mexico, with a twenty-year federal contracting history registered in SAM since 2007.

Elite's customer base is heavily concentrated in Indian Health Service programs. The Indian Health Service accounts for 278 awards (71% of the portfolio) worth $33.7 million in combined potential value, followed by the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Education (36 awards, $1.5 million) and the Bureau of Indian Affairs Navajo Region (48 awards, $542 thousand). This concentration reflects Elite's specialization in serving Native American communities across the Navajo Nation and surrounding states in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. The top five customer organizations by award count represent 95% of all awards.

Elite's capability portfolio centers on on-site and mobile laundry operations, dry cleaning, and linen management for healthcare facilities, boarding schools, and community schools. Representative work includes a $1.61 million Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise (ISBEE) set-aside contract with IHS for laundry and dry-cleaning services at Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility (second option year exercised February 2024, through December 2026); a $1.97 million Total Small Business set-aside purchase order with IHS for housekeeping, laundry, and dry-cleaning services at Gallup Indian Medical Center (five-year term, June 2022 through May 2027); a $774,900 ISBEE set-aside modification with IHS for laundry services at Kayenta Health Center (July 2025, first option year through July 2027); a $480,975 firm fixed-price definitive contract with IHS for commercial laundry and dry-cleaning services at Hopi healthcare facility in Polacca, Arizona (January 2026 through January 2031); and multiple smaller purchase orders ($27 thousand to $406 thousand) across IHS health centers and Bureau of Indian Education schools.

Elite places work under five primary IDIQs managed by IHS and the Department of the Interior. The largest is HHSI245201500005I, which carries 41 task orders worth $3.6 million combined potential value. Four additional IDIQs (HHSI242200910050I with 55 task orders, INA17PC00071 with 32 task orders, HHSI242201400018I with 25 task orders, and INA11PC00466 with 22 task orders) collectively account for the remainder of the vehicle footprint. Elite operates exclusively as a prime on these vehicles with no subcontractor involvement across the portfolio.

Activity has declined over the past five years. Elite received 15 awards in 2022, declining to 8 in 2023, 9 in 2024, 3 in 2025, and 2 in 2026. Fifteen awards (combined potential value $5.8 million) face ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months and will enter recompete. Elite's most recent award was a $135,000 purchase order with IHS for housekeeping and laundry services at Tsaile, Arizona (August 1, 2026, completion July 31, 2027).

Elite competes across both full-and-open and set-aside categories. Set-aside work is distributed across Total Small Business, ISBEE, and Buy Indian designations, reflecting the vendor's Native American ownership and small disadvantaged business status. Approximately 65% of visible awards carry set-aside designations, with the remainder awarded on full-and-open or no-set-aside basis. The vendor's core NAICS coding is 812320 (Drycleaning and Laundry Services except Coin-Operated), which represents 346 of 389 awards; secondary NAICS coding includes 561990 (All Other Support Services, 28 awards) and 412320 (Medical Laboratories, 9 awards).