R-Way Gasket & Supply Co Inc.

R-Way Gasket & Supply Co Inc., a small business manufacturer headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, supplies gaskets, O-rings, rubber strips, packing materials, flat washers, seals, and related sealing components to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor operating predominantly in full-and-open and Total Small Business set-aside procurements.

R-Way is a for-profit corporation specializing in the manufacture of critical sealing components under primary NAICS 336411 (Aircraft Manufacturing) and PSC 5330 (Packing and Gasket Materials). The vendor has been registered with the System for Award Management since February 2002 and does not hold SBA designations such as 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or WOSB; it competes as a small business in set-aside vehicles and full-and-open procurements without preferential designation. Recent awards reflect a mix of Total Small Business set-asides and competitive procurements with no set-aside, indicating the vendor pursues both categories across its federal portfolio.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed to the Defense Logistics Agency. DLA Land and Maritime accounts for 2,747 awards and $27.8 million in combined potential value, representing the overwhelming majority of R-Way's federal business. DLA Troop Support Hardware follows with 3,283 awards but only $3.6 million in combined potential value—a pattern reflecting high-volume, low-dollar transaction orders. The Department of the Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command is the third-largest customer with 825 awards and $2.3 million combined potential value. These three customers account for roughly 97% of award count. The Department of the Army Materiel Command Contracting Command Redstone Arsenal, however, anchors significant potential value at $26.6 million across 136 awards, indicating larger individual orders despite lower volume. DLA Land and Maritime dominates both award count and dollar ranking, creating substantial customer concentration risk.

R-Way holds five active Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA, with ceiling values of $250,000 to $350,000 each. The most recent IDC, awarded April 6, 2026, carries a $350,000 ceiling on a Total Small Business set-aside through April 6, 2027, procuring gaskets, O-rings, rubber strips, and related sealing components for military equipment maintenance across continental United States and overseas locations. A second $350,000 single-award IDIQ awarded March 24, 2026, carries no set-aside designation and runs through March 24, 2027. Earlier vehicles include a $350,000 Total Small Business IDIQ awarded January 8, 2026, and two $250,000 IDCs awarded in 2025 (one with DLA Aviation, one with DLA Land and Maritime). These vehicles typically anticipate four delivery orders per year with guaranteed minimum quantities. Beyond DLA, R-Way also holds contract vehicles through Army Contracting Command, as evidenced by the top parent vehicle line showing IDC W911N217D0023 (36 task orders, $35 thousand combined potential value) and BPA W911N222A0019 (33 task orders, $72 thousand combined potential value).

Activity has declined from 733 awards in 2022 to 135 awards year-to-date in 2026, reflecting a multi-year contraction. The five-year trend shows 733 (2022), 525 (2023), 500 (2024), 454 (2025), and 135 (2026 partial), indicating structural or customer-driven demand reduction. Combined potential value across all awards is $61.9 million, with $10.5 million obligated (17% realization rate), characteristic of a vendor with large ceiling-based IDIQs and many small individual POs against standing contracts.

R-Way's federal award footprint is 100% prime contracts and IDIQs with no recorded subcontract activity in the source data. The vendor operates as a direct supplier to DLA and NAVSEA rather than as a subcontractor to larger primes. Award types are predominantly purchase orders and delivery orders issued under standing IDIQs and blanket purchase agreements, reflecting DLA's strategy of issuing routine replenishment calls for commodity sealing components. Representative awards include a $26,141.40 DLA Land and Maritime purchase order for spiral wound gaskets (January 6, 2026), a $31,140 Total Small Business purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command for neoprene rubber (March 10, 2026), and a $7,780 NAVSEA purchase order for rubber sheet (March 4, 2026). Individual transaction values typically range from under $100 to roughly $35,000, with occasional larger procurements anchoring the potential-value ranking.

R-Way's capability portfolio centers on stamped, molded, and fabricated gaskets, O-rings, seals, rubber strips, packing materials, and precision fasteners such as flat washers and spacer rings. The vendor manufactures to military specifications and supports military aviation, land, maritime, medical, and troop support programs. All work is performed at the vendor's Philadelphia facility or overseas sub-locations as required by DLA distribution points.