Potter Oil & Tire Co Inc.

Potter Oil & Tire Co Inc., operating as Potter Oil And Tire Co Division, supplies bulk petroleum products—diesel fuel, automotive gasoline, fuel-grade ethanol, and biodiesel—to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor under Total Small Business set-asides. Based in Aurora, North Carolina, the company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation registered in SAM since May 2002 and competes almost exclusively under set-aside vehicles, with 100 percent of awards as prime contractor work and no sub-award footprint.

The vendor's customer concentration is extreme and deliberate. The Defense Logistics Agency Energy funds 523 of 616 total awards (85 percent of the portfolio) and carries $67.7 million of the $73.4 million combined potential value (92 percent). The remaining customer base—the Department of the Interior National Park Service Southeast Region, the US Agency for Global Media, and the Department of the Army North Carolina Army National Guard—accounts for 93 awards with combined potential value of $793 thousand. Potter Oil & Tire operates in two primary NAICS categories: Petroleum and Petroleum Products Merchant Wholesalers (318 awards) and Petroleum Refineries (283 awards), with PSC codes dominated by Fuel Oils (336 awards) and Liquid Propellants and Fuels, Petroleum Base (253 awards).

The vendor holds two active indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Energy. A January 1, 2026 total small business single-award IDIQ ceiling-valued at $9.6 million, running through October 31, 2028, covers fuel delivery across nine southeastern states (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, and South Carolina) for diesel, automotive gasoline, jet fuel, biodiesel, and specialty fuel oils on a fixed-price basis with economic price adjustment. An earlier Indefinite Delivery Contract (SPE60520D8524) carries $955 thousand in combined potential value across 138 task orders. The vendor also places orders under two smaller blanket purchase agreements: INP14PA00019 (21 task orders, $151 thousand) and INP13PA00062 (11 task orders, $96 thousand). A legacy DLA Fuel Products Purchase vehicle (2013–2016) accounts for 198 historical task orders valued at $5 million.

Activity has grown modestly over the past five years—24 awards in 2022 to 41 in 2025—with a slight pullback to 30 awards year-to-date in 2026. Recent representative awards include a $35,752.43 delivery order for diesel fuel (April 8, 2026), a $33,370.43 diesel order (April 13, 2026), a $30,653.18 diesel delivery order (April 14, 2026), and a $23,648.18 automotive gasoline order (April 15, 2026), all under Total Small Business set-asides with fixed-price structures and economic price adjustments. The company obligated $33.6 million of its $73.4 million combined potential value across all awards (46 percent), indicating active draw-down against its contract vehicles. Potter Oil & Tire has no identified recompete cliff or strategic vulnerability in the near term; the January 2026 IDIQ award extends the vendor's DLA Energy presence through October 2028 and resets the small-business reserve footprint that anchors all recent acquisition activity.