Polar King International, Inc.

Polar King International, Inc., a woman-owned small business manufacturer of commercial and industrial refrigeration equipment based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, operates as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, delivering walk-in coolers, freezers, refrigerated trailers, and related cold-storage systems to federal agencies. The company competes predominantly under full-and-open and Total Small Business set-aside designations, with no concentration in 8(a) or other SBA programs.

Polar King's federal footprint spans 131 distinct customer agencies across a broad range of civilian, military, and correctional sectors. The top-five customer agencies by award count account for 25% of recent awards and include the Department of the Army (60 awards, $496 thousand combined potential value), Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (17 awards, $956 thousand), Defense Logistics Agency (14 awards), Department of the Navy (13 awards, $474 thousand), and Department of the Air Force (13 awards, $197 thousand). By potential-value ranking, the distribution shifts significantly: GSA Federal Acquisition Service anchors the portfolio with 6 awards carrying $43.8 million in combined potential value—a placeholder-ceiling artifact of the Multiple Award Schedule vehicle itself—followed by Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence (8 awards, $1.3 million), USDA ARS (17 awards, $956 thousand), NOAA (7 awards, $743 thousand), and the Navy's Atlantic Fleet (8 awards, $632 thousand). The divergence reflects Polar King's high-volume, lower-transaction-value posture on GSA Schedule task orders against scattered larger one-off purchases from defense logistics and agency-specific platforms.

Polar King sits on two parent GSA vehicles: Federal Supply Schedule GS07F9038G (240 task orders, $9.4 million combined potential value) and the broader Multiple Award Schedule (97 task orders, $8.8 million), with additional presence on Federal Supply Schedules GS07F6454A and GS07F4315A. All recent work flows through these GSA Schedule delivery orders and purchase orders; the vendor carries no IDIQ, GWAC, or single-award BPA capacity.

Recent representative prime work includes a $97,404 delivery order from the U.S. Forest Service, Region 2, on April 20, 2026, for a walk-in cooler with increased snow-load roof specifications at Black Hills National Forest; a $129,335 Total Small Business set-aside delivery order from the U.S. Forest Service, Region 5, on February 15, 2026, for two walk-in tree seedling coolers supporting San Bernardino and Eldorado National Forests' reforestation initiatives; a $242,443 delivery order from the Navy's Atlantic Fleet (U.S. Fleet Forces Command) on January 27, 2025, for a polar king freezer at a naval installation in Groton, Connecticut; and a $260,931 delivery order from USDA's National Office on September 24, 2024, for BIL-BAR seed coolers supporting agricultural programs. The category concentration reflects this vertical: 241 awards fall under Other Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing NAICS, 352 awards are coded to Refrigeration Equipment PSC 7300, and the remainder span Kitchen Equipment, Trailers, Food Service Equipment, and Laboratory Equipment.

Activity has remained stable to declining—five awards in 2022 rising to 15 in 2023 and 2024, then tapering to 13 in 2025 and 4 through early 2026. The recompete cliff is minimal: only 4 awards totaling $351 thousand face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating limited near-term recompete exposure.

Polar King subcontracts minimally (1% of recent awards) and only on defense industrial base programs. Recent sub work includes support to Pantexas Deterrence, LLC, on the Pantex Plant management and operation contract (April 2026) and three sub-awards to National Steel and Shipbuilding Company on Navy T-AO 206 and T-AO 208 replenishment oiler programs (March 2024 and November 2024) for non-specialty materials procurement—a posture suggesting Polar King supplies capital equipment components to large defense primes rather than serving as a systems integrator or services provider.

Manufacturer of walk-in coolers and freezer. Units are delivered ready to operate, and are fully constructed and tested prior to delivery. Specialize in custom units, including; modular construction, hazardous locations, and pharmaceutical cold storage.