Gladding Braided Products LLC

Gladding Braided Products LLC, a for-profit limited liability company and manufacturer of specialized braided textile products headquartered in South Otselic, New York, operates as a prime contractor supplying fibrous rope, cord, twine, wire braid, tape, lacing, and tying materials to the Department of Defense — primarily the Defense Logistics Agency — under firm fixed-price purchase orders across both set-aside and full-and-open competitions. The vendor is a small business that competes across both total small business set-aside and unrestricted procurements, with approximately 40 to 50 percent of its federal awards carrying small business set-aside designations, demonstrating competitive capability in both restricted and unrestricted channels.

Gladding Braided Products' federal footprint is intensely concentrated in DLA procurement. The top funding agencies by award count account for 99 percent of recent awards, overwhelmingly dominated by DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (1,226 awards, $18.4 million combined potential value), followed by DLA Land and Maritime (119 awards, $996 thousand), and DLA with no subdivision (49 awards, $5 thousand). By potential value, the same concentration holds: DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment anchors $18.4 million, while DLA Troop Support Hardware contributes $1 million and DLA Land and Maritime $996 thousand. The top five customers represent 98 percent of combined potential value. Gladding's product portfolio is grounded in representative examples including a $237.8 million total small business set-aside purchase order (February 2024) from DLA Troop Support for 5,000 units of fibrous cord; a $99.37 million open-competition order (November 2025) for 5,698 units of fibrous rope to DLA Distribution W1A8; a $63.27 million total small business set-aside order (September 2025) for 3,632 units of fibrous rope; and a $66.85 million open-competition order (April 2024) for 3,889 units of fibrous rope. The vendor also maintains a $250 thousand indefinite delivery contract with DLA Land and Maritime for fibrous twine procurement, set aside for small businesses, which generates recurring task order activity.

Activity has remained steady year over year, with 77 awards in 2022, 86 in 2023, 78 in 2024, 63 in 2025, and 15 recorded in 2026 to date (a partial year). Combined potential value across all 1,449 awards totals $21 million, though combined dollars obligated reach $26.2 million, indicating that invoiced performance has exceeded ceiling values on some orders. Gladding Braided Products operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100 percent of awards) with no subcontract footprint in the source data. The vendor holds several named indefinite delivery contracts as parent vehicles — IDC DLA50092D0258 (11 task orders), IDC SPM8E010D5L46 (6 task orders, $34 thousand combined potential value), IDC SP050098D0020 (3 task orders), and others — each generating discrete purchase orders for specialized textile products. NAICS concentration reflects the vendor's core business: Rope, Cordage, Twine, Tire Cord, and Tire Fabric Mills accounts for 952 awards, with Rope, Cordage, and Twine Mills covering 265 more. PSC code 8512 (Fiber Rope, Cordage, And Twine) dominates at 1,340 awards. Gladding's manufacturing heritage traces to 1816, positioning it as a domestic textile supplier with over two centuries of operational continuity supporting U.S. military logistics and supply chain requirements. The vendor competes routinely under both set-aside and open-market procurement channels, with recurring delivery windows of 30 to 200+ days, indicating responsive manufacturing and reliable fulfillment of DLA's construction, equipment, and operational material needs across CONUS and overseas distribution centers.

WE BRAID CORD, ROPE, TWINE AND WIRE OUT OF A WIDE VARIETY OF YARNS, FIBERS, AND WIRES. THE MOST COMMON FSC'S WE CAN DO FALL UNDER 4020 & 6145.