Pape' Material Handling Inc.

Pape' Material Handling Inc., doing business as Pape' Material Handling, is a Washington-based forklift rental and leasing vendor operating as a subsidiary of The Pape Group, Inc., that serves the Department of the Navy and other federal agencies as a prime contractor across 1,099 delivery orders and indefinite delivery contracts with no set-aside designations. The vendor competes in full-and-open competition and holds no SBA small-business certifications.

The vendor's federal footprint is almost entirely concentrated in forklift and material handling equipment leasing and rental. Over the past five years, Pape' Material Handling has received 123 awards with a combined potential value of $91.7 million, of which $38.3 million has been obligated. Work centers on short-term and long-term forklift rentals in multiple tonnage classes—3-ton, 7-ton, 10-ton, and 17-ton models—supporting naval shipyard operations, maintenance, and logistics in the Puget Sound region. Recent representative delivery orders from Naval Sea Systems Command include a $217,800 order for forklift rentals supporting X98 and X99 Refueling Class Destroyer evolutions at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (December 2025), a $345,600 order for mixed-fleet forklift rentals over 12 months (March 2025), a $231,350 lease for five 3-ton, three 7-ton, two 10-ton, and one 17-ton forklift (September 2025), and a $129,450 order for forklift rental services in Tacoma, Washington (January 2026). The vendor also delivered one non-standard asset—a $92,700 rotating telehandler lease (May 2025)—and one purchase order from the Department of the Army for a Combilift 3-wheeled multi-directional forklift valued at $105,230 (December 2023).

Customer concentration is extreme: Naval Sea Systems Command accounts for 815 awards worth $83.2 million in combined potential value, representing 91% of the vendor's federal footprint by dollar magnitude and 74% by award count. The next-largest customer, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, holds 158 awards worth $2.5 million. The remaining tier includes Naval Installations Command (33 awards, $22 thousand), Naval Air Systems Command (20 awards, $207 thousand), and US Pacific Fleet Forces (19 awards, $327 thousand). The vendor serves 20 distinct customer agencies total.

Pape' Material Handling holds five active parent indefinite delivery contracts with NAVSEA. The largest is Indefinite Delivery Contract N4523A23D5717, a single-award vehicle with a $7.498 million ceiling running through September 2028 under the Materiel Distribution and Transportation (CMD) program, against which 74 task orders carrying $6.5 million in combined potential value have been issued. A second IDC (N0040609D9042) has generated 336 task orders worth $6 million in combined potential value. Indefinite Delivery Contract N4523A18D1300 has supported 60 task orders worth $4.9 million. A third single-award contract (N0040605D5091) issued 173 task orders worth $2.3 million. Pape' Material Handling also operates under the Material Handling Equipment and Aerial Work Platforms vehicle for 120 task orders worth $4 million.

Activity has declined from a peak of 34 awards in 2024 to 26 in 2025 and 13 so far in 2026, reflecting reduced NAVIS task-order velocity. Thirteen awards carrying combined potential value of $941 thousand are scheduled to complete within the next twenty-four months. The vendor's awards are categorized under NAICS 334120 (Other Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment Rental and Leasing) for 760 awards and NAICS 333924 (Industrial Truck, Tractor, Trailer, and Stacker Machinery Manufacturing) for 277 awards, with the preponderance of work coded to PSC 7360 (Lease or Rental of Equipment—Materials Handling Equipment) at 1,011 awards. The vendor's subcontract exposure is minimal: three sub-awards from Electric Boat Corporation for material procurement in support of ship control backfit upgrade activities (July–August 2024).

Pape' Material Handling is wholly owned by The Pape Group, Inc., a for-profit corporation headquartered in Eugene, Oregon, operating under the trade name Pape Exchange and holding over 1,100 federal awards across a broader equipment rental and sales portfolio. Within the federal footprint captured here, Pape' Material Handling functions as a focused material handling equipment lessor with no named subsidiaries and no notable teaming or sub-contracting relationships beyond the Electric Boat Corporation work noted above.