Peckham Vocational Industries, Inc.

Peckham Vocational Industries, Inc., doing business as Peckham, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit vocational rehabilitation organization headquartered in Lansing, Michigan, manufactures military apparel, textiles, and protective equipment for federal defense agencies while providing employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities. The organization operates as an AbilityOne nonprofit agency and competes across full-and-open federal procurements without set-aside restrictions, holding a dominant position in military clothing and textiles manufacturing for the Defense Logistics Agency's Troop Support division.

The vendor's portfolio centers on concrete production of cold weather military apparel — jackets, shirts, undershirts, drawers, caps, survival vests, and harnesses — supplied primarily under indefinite delivery contracts to the Defense Logistics Agency. Representative recent work includes a $4.3 million delivery order from DLA Troop Support for cold weather Army combat uniform coats (March 2026), a $2.5 million order for cold weather drawers (March 2026), and a $760.8 thousand delivery order for cold weather shirts (April 2026). Peckham also executes large definitive contracts: an $882.5 million Bureau of Consular Affairs award to staff and operate the National Passport Information Center through September 2030 (September 2025), a $182.5 million Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command contract for Organizational Clothing and Individual Equipment program cleaning, repair, warehousing, and distribution through August 2030 (August 2025), and a $58.6 million Office of the Chief Information Officer contract for Tier 1 help desk support to the Client Experience Center (March 2024). The organization also provides third-party logistics and freight services, performs janitorial and custodial work at federal facilities, and delivers workforce development and homelessness prevention services through federal grants.

Customer concentration is extreme. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Clothing and Textiles division anchors 929 awards (73% of recent count) with $2.14 billion combined potential value — more than 25 times the next-largest customer. DLA Disposition Services, the broader DLA, Army Materiel Command (TACOM), and the Department of Agriculture's Office of the Chief Information Officer round out the top five by dollars. This concentration reflects Peckham's specialized role as a primary military apparel manufacturer: 1,362 of the vendor's 1,910 tracked awards fall under PSC Clothing, Special Purpose, and the top NAICS categories are men's and boys' cut and sew apparel manufacturing and contracting (369 and 183 awards respectively).

Peckham holds approximately 13 active indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Troop Support Clothing and Textiles, ranging from $616.9 thousand to $70.6 million in ceiling value, all single-award, non-competitive vehicles. Representative IDIQs include a $70.6 million cold weather undershirts contract (June 2022 through June 2027), a $60.2 million cold weather drawers vehicle (April 2022 through April 2027), a $50.2 million coats and combat-pattern apparel contract (March 2026 through March 2031), an $18.9 million cold weather drawers contract (May 2025 through April 2029), and multiple $8–13 million vehicles for cold weather shirts, jackets, and undershirts. Outside DLA, Peckham holds a $1.7 million GSA Public Buildings Service IDIQ for janitorial and related services at the Charles E. Chamberlain Federal Building in Lansing, Michigan (February 2025 through January 2027), and multiple Federal Supply Schedule positions.

The activity trajectory shows contraction after a 2022 peak. Annual award counts dropped from 113 (2022) to 45 (2023), recovered slightly to 48 (2024), and have normalized to 45 (2025) and 12 (2026 year-to-date). This pattern reflects Peckham's shift from large numbers of smaller delivery orders toward fewer, larger definitive contracts and IDIQs — the 2022 count includes hundreds of small DLA delivery orders under $1 million, while 2025–2026 activity is concentrated on major definitive awards and IDIQ recompetes. Within the next 24 months, 27 awards totaling $150.8 million in potential value will reach ultimate completion, representing significant recompete exposure, particularly across DLA Troop Support clothing and textiles IDIQs and the Army TACOM and Consular Affairs definitive contracts.

SCI-reportable invoicing (covering federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold) totaled $355.9 million across FY2022–FY2024, with the vendor self-performing substantially all labor. FY2022 invoicing was minimal ($380 thousand, 11.3 FTEs); FY2023 surged to $123.5 million across 1,155 FTEs; FY2024 reached $232 million across 1,263 FTEs. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, median government-paid hourly rates ran around $53.03/hr, with rates ranging from $25.61/hr (10th percentile) to $132.31/hr (90th percentile), reflecting a mix of production labor, logistics specialists, and professional services roles. The vendor subcontracts minimally, with an average sub-hours share of 3% across prime contracts and only eight named subcontractors reported in SCI. Peckham subcontracts to CGS Administrators, LLC for Medicare Jurisdiction J15 call center staff augmentation and claims processing support (September 2024, December 2022), and receives grant sub-awards from the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (HOPES program implementation, September 2025) and the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity (AmeriCorps formula programs).

Peckham's federal grant footprint spans workforce development and homelessness. As a recipient, the organization has received $3.05 million under the Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration's Reentry Employment Opportunities program (CFDA 17.270) for justice-involved youth and young adult workforce services in Lansing and Flint, Michigan (July 2025 through December 2028); a $2 million Cooperative Agreement under the same program (March 2025 through August 2028); $138.8 thousand under HUD's Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267) for rapid rehousing and homelessness prevention (August 2025 through July 2026); and $132.7 thousand under the same CoC program (August 2024 through July 2025, and August 2023 through July 2024). A prior $2 million grant from DOL under the same REO authority (February 2023 through July 2026) addressed corrections-involved youth employment and violence mitigation in Lansing and Flint. The organization operates Peckham Nonprofit Housing Corporation as a named subsidiary.

Peckham competes exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards); the three sub-award records in the source represent two call center staff augmentation subcontracts and one grant sub-award role. The vendor manufactures goods at its Lansing, Michigan facility and operates a third-party logistics warehouse in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This profile—dominant position in a narrow DoD apparel manufacturing niche, extreme customer concentration on one division of one agency, absence of subcontracting depth, and large definitive contracts at recompete risk—positions Peckham as a specialized, high-volume federal supplier with limited diversification outside military textiles and dependent on continued DLA procurement demand.