Plymkraft, Inc.

Plymkraft, Inc. Columbian Specialty Products DIV (doing business as Plymkraft Inc.), a for-profit manufacturer based in Newport News, Virginia, manufactures fibrous rope, fast rope assemblies, and specialty cordage products for the U.S. military and federal supply agencies as a prime contractor exclusively. The vendor operates as a small business and competes under small-business set-aside designations on its parent Indefinite Delivery Vehicle with the Army, though individual task orders under that IDV and spot purchases through the Defense Logistics Agency carry no set-aside designation.

Plymkraft's customer concentration is extreme and heavily weighted toward a single contracting vehicle. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Construction and Equipment accounts for 106 awards (67% of the recent footprint) valued at $3.1 million in combined potential value, driven primarily by low-dollar spot purchases and standing orders for rope and cordage. The Department of the Army Materiel Command TACOM Life Cycle Management Command represents the second major customer with 11 awards valued at $6.1 million — substantially higher per-order value than DLA work — and anchors Plymkraft's highest-value work: fast rope assemblies and hardware kits for Army rappelling and climbing operations. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Hardware division rounds out the top tier with nine awards valued at $271 thousand. Together, these three customer segments represent 92% of recent awards by count and 100% of combined potential value.

Plymkraft's primary parent vehicle is Indefinite Delivery Contract W56HZV-20-D-0096, a small-business set-aside award to TACOM Life Cycle Management Command issued in September 2020 with a potential value of $3.86 million through 2025. The vendor has drawn five task orders under this vehicle, valued at $563 thousand in combined potential value. Recent representative work includes a $128.8 thousand delivery order from TACOM for fast rope hardware and supplies (September 2023), a $27.2 thousand delivery order for 35 fast rope assemblies at 60-foot length (September 2024), and a $20.95 thousand Total Small Business purchase order from the Defense Construction and Equipment agency for fibrous rope (December 2025). A secondary IDV, Contract W56HZV-14-D-0104, has yielded three task orders valued at $450 thousand.

Activity has remained minimal in recent years — two awards in 2020, one in 2022, one in 2023, and two each in 2024 and 2025 — with 157 total awards across a twenty-four-year source span. The combined potential value across all recent awards stands at $9.5 million, of which $7.1 million (75%) has been obligated. The vendor's NAICS footprint is dominated by Rope, Cordage, and Twine Mills (75 awards), with PSC coding concentrated on Fiber Rope, Cordage, and Twine (152 awards). Plymkraft operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract activity and no subsidiary or parent-company teaming relationships cited in the award record; the vendor is itself listed as a division of Unicord Corp in some award narratives.

3 STRAND and 8 STRAND CORDAGE PRODUCED TO MILITARY SPECIFICATION, FAST ROPES, NYLON ROPES, POLYESTER ROPES, POLYPROPYLENE ROPES, PLAITED ROPES.