Firstkem LLC

Firstkem LLC, doing business as Firstkem, supplies frozen sealants, adhesives, tapes, and aerospace maintenance materials to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on blanket purchase agreements and indefinite delivery contracts, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides on Air Force and Army platforms. The Greer, South Carolina-based limited liability company operates as a small business focused on adhesive manufacturing and industrial preservative compounds for military aircraft sustainment and munitions production.

Customer concentration is extreme and Air Force-anchored. The Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex (an Air Force Materiel Command facility supporting aircraft maintenance at Tinker Air Force Base) accounts for 26 awards and $83.4 million of the $92.6 million combined potential value across Firstkem's prime footprint—90% of dollars across 77% of recent awards. The Department of the Army Materiel Command's Communications Electronics Command and Joint Munitions Command together account for $8.1 million in potential value across six awards. GSA Federal Acquisition Service rounds out the top five with ten awards under the Multiple Award Schedule worth $502 thousand. The divergence between award-count and potential-value rankings reflects the Air Force's deployment of large blanket purchase agreements ($3 million to $34.6 million ceilings) against smaller individual task orders.

Firstkem holds six active blanket purchase agreements with the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex anchoring the vehicle footprint. The $34.6 million frozen sealant BPA (awarded September 2022, extended through September 2025) generated five task orders totaling $1.5 million; the $27.5 million frozen sealant BPA (awarded January 2024, running through January 2030) is the largest standing vehicle and has generated six task orders worth $2.8 million; a $7 million 3M adhesive BPA (April 2024, extending through April 2029) and a $3.8 million CYTEC frozen material BPA (January 2023, through January 2028) also feed task orders. Additional vehicles include a $6.6 million hazardous materials sealant BPA with Army Materiel Command Communications Electronics Command (running through November 2028), a $1.2 million single-award indefinite delivery contract with Joint Munitions Command for AFT and FWD sealant kits (awarded June 2025, through June 2030, total small business set-aside), and a $500,000 GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract for commercial coatings, removers, adhesives, and sealants (awarded May 2024, through May 2029). Recent representative work includes a $558,603 BPA call for CYTEC frozen sealants to Tinker Air Force Base (September 2025), a $1.24 million call for frozen sealants under Air Force QPL specifications including AMS-S-8802 and MIL-PRF-81733 (July 2025), a $267,240 3M adhesive BPA call (June 2025), and a $72,157 delivery order for AFT sealant kits to Letterkenny Munitions Center (March 2026).

Activity peaked in 2022 at sixteen awards but has remained in the 13-14 range annually since 2023, with four awards recorded year-to-date in 2026. Firstkem competes predominantly under total small business set-asides on Air Force platforms (most task orders carry that designation) and full-and-open on Army and GSA vehicles. The company subcontracts on defense aerospace programs: DRS Sustainment Systems engaged Firstkem for sealant supply on Tunner Loader support work (two sub-awards in 2025), The Boeing Company used Firstkem for common aerospace commodities on the Missile Defense Agency Ground-Based Midcourse Defense development and sustainment contract (two sub-awards in 2024-2025), and Marvin Engineering engaged Firstkem for chemicals and adhesives on an IGF vehicle depot overhaul (January 2024). Award concentration by PSC runs heavily to preservative and sealing compounds (21 awards) and adhesives (11 awards), with secondary exposure in office supplies (9 awards) and paints (4 awards), reflecting Firstkem's role as a specialty logistics supplier for military aircraft maintenance rather than a full-scale aerospace prime.