JL Darling, LLC
Fife, WA Part of Pennington Ritr Holdco LLC
- UEI
- H5J4MFXDYVG3
- CAGE
- 0YVL7
- Primary NAICS
- 322230 Stationery Product Manufacturing
- SAM.gov registration
- Active through
Company facts
- FY2025 rankings
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Its parent company, Chickasaw Nation, ranks:
- Self-certified in SAM.gov
- Entity structure
- Corporate Entity (Not Tax Exempt)
- Other NAICS codes in SAM.gov
- Corporate family
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Parent
Dallas, TX
P4CEHE7EDS71
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Parent
Dallas, TX
P4CEHE7EDS71
- SAM.gov registration date
- Physical address
- 2614 Pacific Hwy E, Fife, WA 98424, USA
- Website
- riteintherain.com
- Founded
- 1916
- Employees
- 51-250
- Estimated annual revenue
- $10M-$50M
- Industry
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- Materials
- Paper & Forest Products
- Paper Products
- SIC code
- 26 Paper & Allied Products
- Profiles
Registration and certifications come from SAM.gov and the SBA; company details from public web sources. Updated .
Contract obligations by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Obligated |
|---|---|
| FY2027 To date | $641,557 |
| FY2026 | $13,582,360 |
| FY2025 | $9,824,494 |
| FY2024 | $8,903,518 |
| FY2023 | $6,888,955 |
Top agencies by obligations
| Rank | Agency | Obligated, FY2026–FY2027 | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | General Services Administration | $14,076,457 | |
| 2 | Defense Logistics Agency | $121,065 | |
| 3 | Department of Justice | $26,396 |
Contract vehicles
Expired vehicles (1)
Contract awards
| Award | Agency | Obligated | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pen, all weather | Federal Acquisition Service | $148 | |
| Pen, all weather | Federal Acquisition Service | $739 | |
| Book, field | Federal Acquisition Service | $59 | |
| Pad, all weather not | Federal Acquisition Service | $154 | |
| HIP cover | Federal Acquisition Service | $981 |
Latest 5 listed here. See the rest on GovTribe.
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About the company
JL Darling, LLC, a tribally owned, minority-owned limited liability company based in Fife, Washington, manufactures water-resistant writing supplies and tactical field equipment for federal civilian and defense agencies as a prime contractor entirely on GSA's Multiple Award Schedule, operating without set-asides and competing under full-and-open MAS procurement rules. The vendor is a subsidiary of parent entity Pennington Ritr Holdco LLC, also tribally owned and minority-owned, and operates the commercial "Rite in the Rain" brand across its federal business.
JL Darling's federal footprint is dominated by an extraordinary volume of small task orders placed against a single $35.2 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement established with GSA Federal Acquisition Service on April 5, 2022, completing April 4, 2027. The vendor manufactures all products directly at its Tacoma, Washington facility and has issued approximately 141,690 individual BPA calls across 137 distinct customer agencies since award. The product scope covers water-resistant field notebooks (4.625 by 7.250 inches, 32-pound paper, tan cover, field-flex bound), all-weather pens (refillable and non-refillable variants), tactical planners and memo books, spiral notebooks, field binders, specialized tactical kits (FIST kits, kneeboard kits, operations board kits, operator armband kits, trifold kits), loose-leaf paper, calendar pages, and polydura field desks. All contracts carry fixed-price pricing with economic price adjustment and typical delivery timelines of two to three weeks from award to completion. Representative recent awards include $64,740 for field completion planners (October 2, 2026), $54,931.64 for tactical kits (October 2, 2026), and $20,677.86 for tactical kits (October 2, 2026), among hundreds of concurrent task orders.
Customer concentration is extreme. GSA Federal Acquisition Service accounts for 85,550 awards (96% of the vendor's total award count) with combined potential value of $269.7 million (93% of total potential value). Defense customers rank distantly second: the Department of the Army places 8,151 awards worth $4.5 million, and the Marine Corps places 654 awards worth $576 thousand. This concentration reflects JL Darling's positioning as the dominant supplier of water-resistant tactical stationery to the federal government's civilian procurement apparatus. Recent weekly task order volume from GSA FAS has exceeded 140 individual calls per week, with order values ranging from under $100 items to multi-thousand-dollar kits.
Activity has sustained at approximately 10,000 awards per year over the past five years (2022: 10,690 awards; 2023: 9,949; 2024: 10,344; 2025: 9,047; 2026: 8,497 through October 12). The combined potential value across all 103,968 awards totals $298.4 million, with $119.9 million obligated (40% realization rate). The parent BPA's ultimate completion date of April 4, 2027 represents the critical recompete event for the vendor, positioning a $35.2 million opportunity under significant competitive pressure, as the MAS vehicle remains full-and-open and JL Darling's dominant market share is visible to all competitors.
JL Darling operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards) on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule under the Office Products, Supplies Services and Technology vehicle and the broad Stationery and Record Forms and Information Technology Supplies PSC categories, with no subcontract footprint. The top parent vehicle is the Multiple Award Schedule itself, under which 148,682 task orders worth $217.9 million have been placed. Product classification spans Office Supplies and Stationery Stores (56,480 awards), Stationery Product Manufacturing (46,615 awards), and related manufacturing NAICS codes. The vendor competes entirely without set-asides and faces no recompete cliff within the next twenty-four months beyond the April 2027 parent BPA expiration.
Quick answers
Is JL Darling, LLC registered in SAM.gov?
Yes. JL Darling, LLC's SAM.gov registration is active through May 11, 2027.
Which contract vehicles does JL Darling, LLC hold?
JL Darling, LLC holds a place on 2 federal contract vehicles, including MAS.
How much has JL Darling, LLC received in federal contracts?
Federal contracts obligated $9,824,494 to JL Darling, LLC in fiscal year 2025 and $39,840,884 in fiscal years 2023 through 2027.
How does JL Darling, LLC rank among federal contractors?
JL Darling, LLC's parent company, Chickasaw Nation, ranked #1 in PSC 7530, #3 in NAICS 32223 and #5 in NAICS 3222 in FY2025.
What is JL Darling, LLC's most recent federal award?
JL Darling, LLC's most recent federal contract award is Pen, all weather (47QSSC27F0HL5), from Federal Acquisition Service, on October 22, 2026.
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