Exotic Rubber & Plastics Corp

Exotic Rubber & Plastics Corp, a for-profit Subchapter S manufacturer headquartered in Wixom, Michigan, supplies precision-molded and fabricated rubber and plastics components to defense agencies as a prime contractor (84% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor on major vehicle-platform programs. The vendor competes in full-and-open procurements with no set-aside category participation in prime work, though one small-business purchase order appears in the historical record. Exotic Rubber & Plastics registered with SAM.gov in 2002 and operates manufacturing facilities in Wixom and New Hudson, Michigan.

Exotic Rubber & Plastics' customer concentration is heavily Navy-anchored. The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command accounts for 72 awards (59% of the award count) carrying $2.6 million in combined potential value, driven by a single-award indefinite delivery contract (N0016415DGT06) established in December 2022 with a $500 thousand ceiling running through December 2027. The top five customer agencies cover 74% of recent awards, with the United States Marine Corps (23 awards, $190 thousand), the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (18 awards, $122 thousand), the Army Materiel Command Contracting Command Detroit Arsenal (2 awards, $558 thousand), and DLA Aviation (13 awards, $101 thousand) rounding out the set. The ranking by potential value highlights a single Army damper contract: a $558 thousand firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded September 25, 2025, by ACC Warren for manufacture and delivery of vehicular dampers (NSN 2540-01-692-2291), completing September 25, 2026, represents recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months.

Recent capability work demonstrates the vendor's role as a precision-parts supplier. Under the Navy NAVSEA indefinite delivery vehicle, Exotic Rubber & Plastics has delivered barrel clips, barrel holders, butt cups, and shelving — small arms accessories for deployable armories supporting U.S. naval vessels — in delivery orders ranging from $514 for MK19 grenade launcher butt cups (December 2022) to $26,155 for clip assemblies and shelving (June 2025). A January 2026 delivery order valued at $3,813 covered barrel clips and butt cups for dual delivery to West Bath, Maine and Nellis Air Force Base. The vendor also supplied 15 Parker Hannifin diagnostic testers ($48,330) to support the Army's Bradley A4 fighting vehicle testing program through the PEO Ground Combat Systems acquisition center (November 2022). Top NAICS categories align with the product mix: All Other Rubber Product Manufacturing (49 awards), All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing (45 awards), and Military Armored Vehicle, Tank, and Tank Component Manufacturing (33 awards), with corresponding PSC dominance in Rubber Fabricated Materials (54 awards) and Plastics Fabricated Materials (50 awards).

Exotic Rubber & Plastics' subcontractor footprint places it into major vehicle programs. BAE Systems Land and Armaments holds the bulk of subcontracting volume — twenty awards from June 2023 through May 2026 covering AMPV production early-order material, Bradley A4 follow-on production, and self-propelled howitzer systems engineering — with a subset of orders explicitly supporting Ukraine efforts. General Dynamics Land Systems accounts for four subcontracts on M1 Abrams family vehicle manufacturing and Trophy-ready kits for current-year production. These subs are material-supply and component-manufacturing work feeding into production-rate expansion and platform modernization initiatives.

Activity accelerated sharply in 2025 (28 awards) after three years of sparse volume (3–7 awards annually), driven by recurring Navy delivery orders under the NAVSEA indefinite delivery contract and rising subcontractor engagement with BAE Systems and General Dynamics. The combined obligated amount ($5.8 million) exceeds the combined potential value ($4.4 million), indicating invoicing against ceiling contracts has exceeded stated ceilings or represents overbilling risk management. With only one award ($558 thousand) completing in the next twenty-four months, near-term recompete pressure is minimal, but the vendor's reliance on the Navy NAVSEA indefinite delivery contract and BAE Systems subcontracting relationships creates concentration risk.