Midvale Group, Inc.

Midvale Group, Inc. Midvale Environmental Division, doing business as Midvale Group Inc., is a woman-owned small business based in St. Louis, Missouri that distributes specialized starch-acrylic blast media to the federal government as a prime contractor on full-and-open and small-business-set-aside purchase orders and indefinite delivery contracts. The vendor operates as a subsidiary of Midvale Industries Inc., also woman-owned, and competes predominantly in unrestricted and Total Small Business set-aside categories; no awards in the source carry 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or EDWOSB designations.

Midvale Group's capability footprint is narrow and product-specific: it acts as the exclusive authorized distributor for Archer Daniels Midland's eStrip GPX Type VII corn starch-g-acrylic blast media and related recycling services, engineered bio-based abrasives used for aircraft, vessel, and equipment maintenance and coating removal without substrate damage. Representative prime awards include a $9.9 million multiple-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Ogden Air Logistics Complex (awarded March 2025) covering Type VII starch-g-acrylic blast media and recycling services for Hill Air Force Base; a $1.465 million single-award indefinite delivery contract with the U.S. Coast Guard (September 2021–September 2023) for recurring blast media procurement; and multiple firm-fixed-price purchase orders from the Coast Guard ranging from roughly $65,000 to $441,000 for individual shipments of corn starch or wheat starch blast media to the Aviation Logistics Center in Elizabeth City, North Carolina and facilities in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Customer concentration is extremely high and skewed toward maritime and Air Force maintenance operations. The Coast Guard accounts for 86 awards and $19.3 million in combined potential value (34% of the total); the Ogden Air Logistics Complex (Air Force Materiel Command) holds 25 awards and $13.7 million (24%); and Air Education and Training Command accounts for 46 awards and $2.7 million (5%). Together, these three customers represent 73% of awards and 63% of combined potential value. The concentration reflects Midvale's position as the sole approved distributor for a branded, engineered product with limited substitutability in federal maintenance workflows.

Midvale holds five active indefinite delivery contracts with the Coast Guard—HSCG3812D800001 (19 task orders, $3.3 million), HSCG3810D800001 (18 task orders, $1.1 million), HSCG3806D500010 (14 task orders, $4.8 million), HSCG3816D800001 (14 task orders, $1.1 million), and HSCG3807D800011 (10 task orders, $4.4 million)—that serve as the parent vehicles for recurring delivery orders. The recent $9.9 million Ogden BPA represents a newer vehicle capturing Air Force demand.

Activity has remained modest and stable—three to six awards annually over the past five years—with 219 total awards since 2004 and $56.6 million in combined potential value. Of that, $18.6 million (33%) has been obligated. The vendor competes as a 100% prime contractor with no subcontract footprint in the source. Award categories are heavily concentrated in abrasive product manufacturing (125 awards) and abrasive materials procurement (183 awards by PSC code), reflecting Midvale's narrowly defined role as a specialized distributor rather than a diversified supplier or integrator. The vendor's competitive position depends on maintaining exclusive distributor status for Archer Daniels Midland's proprietary starch-acrylic formulations and delivering to federal maintenance schedules with full traceability and compliance documentation.