Ostrom Painting & Sandblasting, Inc.

Ostrom Painting & Sandblasting, Inc., a small business based in Rock Island, Illinois, is a prime contractor delivering protective coatings, painting, sandblasting, airfield rubber removal, and infrastructure maintenance services to the Department of Defense under total small business set-asides and full-and-open competition. The company competes predominantly under small business set-asides across its IDIQs and holds no subcontractor footprint—all 1,885 recent awards are prime contracts or IDVs. Its capability portfolio centers on surface preparation and protective coating application at military installations, with concrete work including interior and exterior building painting, airfield runway marking and rubber removal, parking lot striping, and specialized painting on dormitories, administrative facilities, and hangar structures.

Ostrom's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward Army and Air Force facility maintenance. The top five funding agencies by award count (74% coverage) are the Department of the Air Force with 705 awards totaling $1.2 million, Air Mobility Command with 265 awards ($22.2 million), Air Combat Command with 204 awards ($26.5 million), Defense Finance and Accounting Service with 109 awards ($2.6 million), and the Department of the Army with 108 awards ($6.1 million). By potential value, however, the ranking diverges sharply: the Department of the Army Installation Management Command Southeast Region dominates with 69 awards worth $135.3 million combined—more than five times the dollar exposure of the next customer. This signals that while Air Force places more individual orders, Army IMCOM-Southeast anchors the vendor's large-dollar IDV work at Fort Lewis and other installations in Washington state.

Ostrom holds five named IDVs with combined ceilings exceeding $40 million. The largest is a $24.5 million single-award total small business IDIQ with the Defense Southeast Region (awarded January 2026, through December 2030) for protective coatings at multiple base locations including Joint Base Lewis-McChord. A second $9.75 million IDIQ was awarded by Global Strike Command in November 2025 through November 2035. The Air Combat Command awarded a $4.9 million protective coating IDIQ at Minot Air Force Base (August 2024–July 2029), under which Ostrom has executed fourteen task orders totaling approximately $827,500 for building painting, airfield runway work, and dormitory services. Air Force Special Operations Command issued a $1 million IDIQ at Cannon Air Force Base (July 2024–July 2029) for protective coating and painting, with four delivery orders awarded to date. The Air Mobility Command's $3.1 million single-award IDIQ (September 2021–March 2027) covers airfield rubber removal and paint striping at Joint Base Charleston in the Carolinas, with four delivery orders totaling roughly $1.7 million issued through September 2024. Recent activity shows a stable to slightly declining trajectory: 31 awards in 2022 declining to 10 awards year-to-date in 2026. Seven awards worth $6 million in combined potential value are completing within the next twenty-four months, representing moderate recompete exposure concentrated in current vehicle renewals.

Ostrom subcontracts minimally; the source names only four sub-awards across its portfolio spanning 1985–2026. These are recent: July 2025 and April 2025 sub work with Razor Consulting Solutions, Inc. on airfield paint/rubber removal and road striping (8(a) set-aside work), and earlier subs with PMR Services LLC (March 2023, interior and exterior painting) and again Razor (September 2022, traffic light work). This profile indicates Ostrom operates almost exclusively as a prime, with rare teaming or pass-through arrangements.

By NAICS, Ostrom's 946 awards (about half its total) fall under NAICS 238320 (Painting and Wall Covering Contractors), with secondary exposure in NAICS 234110 (Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction) and lighter presence in heavy civil and facilities support. By PSC, the largest category is Maint-Rep-Alt/Misc Bldgs (342 awards), followed by Maint-Rep-Alt/Other Admin Bldgs (184 awards), and then scattered smaller PSC categories. The company's federal footprint spans active duty Air Force bases (Minot, Ellsworth, Cannon, Dover, Joint Base Charleston), Army installations (Fort Lewis, Fort Drum), and Air Reserve bases (Grissom), signaling a broadly distributed operational posture across CONUS military infrastructure. All work is firm fixed-price, executed under standard small business set-aside vehicles or full-and-open task orders, and scheduled for completion at individual installation locations rather than centralized or consolidated work sites.