Patterson Pope, Inc.

Patterson Pope, Inc., a small business Subchapter S corporation based in Charlotte, North Carolina, manufactures and delivers storage, shelving, and filing solutions to federal agencies as a prime contractor (96% of recent awards), with specialized focus on high-density automated storage systems, vertical lift modules, and weapons racks for Department of Defense and other federal facilities.

Patterson Pope competes predominantly on full-and-open procurements without set-aside designation—the majority of recent awards carry no set-aside language—though a material subset (roughly one-third of named awards) are designated Total Small Business. The vendor holds a subsidiary, Central Business Equipment CO., also a Subchapter S corporation, but the source does not indicate a distinct operating or capability division between parent and subsidiary.

Customer concentration centers on Air Force and Army commands. The top five customers by award count account for 24% of recent awards and include the Department of the Air Force Air Education and Training Command (12 awards, $1.3 million combined potential value), Department of the Air Force Air Combat Command (12 awards, $956 thousand), Department of the Air Force Air Mobility Command (13 awards, $911 thousand), Army Special Operations Command (7 awards, $2.5 million), and US Special Operations Command (11 awards, $227 thousand). By dollar value, Army Special Operations Command anchors the top position at $2.5 million across seven awards, followed by AETC at $1.3 million. Patterson Pope has served 73 distinct federal agencies across the portfolio, signaling broad customer reach rather than concentration risk, though defense logistics and military facilities dominate the named work.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on manufactured goods—Spacesaver and Hanel high-density storage systems, vertical lift modules, weapons racks, shelving, and lockers—with installation and maintenance services as secondary deliverables. Representative prime work includes a $520 thousand firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Army in June 2023 for Spacesaver flooring retrofit and high-density small arms rack system at the National Infantry Museum in Columbus, Georgia; a $268 thousand sole-source contract from Army Contracting Command–Detroit Arsenal in September 2024 for fabrication, delivery, and installation of a Spacesaver high-density small arms rack system at Fort Moore, Georgia; a $530 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from Army Special Operations Command effective April 2026 for maintenance of a Hanel lean vertical lift module storage system at Fort Liberty, North Carolina; and a $406 thousand small business set-aside from Air Education and Training Command in September 2022 for replacement of 352 mixed-sex cages in a student cage room at Pope Field, North Carolina.

Activity has been episodic and declining. The vendor received 11 awards in 2022, 21 in 2023, 5 in 2024, 7 in 2025, and 4 in 2026 year-to-date. Only one award (combined potential value $204 thousand) faces ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and is therefore subject to recompete, limiting near-term pipeline exposure relative to the broader footprint.

Patterson Pope operates predominantly as a prime contractor delivering its own products and services; the prime-vs-sub split is 96% prime, 4% sub. In its subcontractor role, Patterson Pope delivers shelving installation and equipment storage solutions to Lockheed Martin on multiple task orders tied to facility logistics and equipment staging, and to Vectrus Systems and BL Harbert International on storage and locker provision at military installations including Fort Benning, Georgia and Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida. Service Contract Inventory captures minimal activity—one SCI record in FY2024 as a named subcontractor with 0.1 FTEs—indicating that most Patterson Pope federal revenue flows through goods procurement and product installation rather than labor-intensive service contracts above the $150,000 SCI threshold.

The vendor's awards span 99 NAICS classifications centered on Showcase, Partition, Shelving, and Locker Manufacturing (99 awards), with secondary categories in commercial equipment merchant wholesale (23 awards) and office furniture manufacturing (16 awards). The corresponding PSC footprint groups under Cabinets, Lockers, Bins, and Shelving (80 awards) and Office Furniture (31 awards). This concentration in tangible goods manufacturing and distribution, rather than services or systems integration, distinguishes Patterson Pope as a specialized products vendor competing on price, technical fit, and delivery across a large customer base rather than as a strategic IT or professional-services partner.