Raco Steel Co

Raco Steel Co, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Markham, Illinois, supplies sheet metal, coil steel, and system furniture components to the federal Bureau of Prisons as a prime contractor across 757 awards valued at $56.5 million. The vendor operates exclusively on full-and-open federal procurement, with work performed at its Harvey, Illinois fabrication facility.

Raco Steel competes across two distinct capability areas grounded in its award footprint: sheet metal fabrication and supply (including precision re-squared blanks, leveled sheets, and slit coil) and system furniture components (office and institutional furnishings for correctional facility outfitting). Recent representative work includes a $101,667 total-small-business purchase order from Federal Correctional Institution Milan in June 2026 for sheet metal fabrication, a $444,003 total-small-business delivery order to FCI Milan in October 2023 for system furniture components, and a $592,149 fixed-price-with-economic-price-adjustment delivery order to FCI El Reno in December 2021 for coil steel (also total-small-business set-aside).

Customer concentration is extreme and single-agency dependent. The top five funding offices account for 99 percent of awards; the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons dominates across all rankings. FCI El Reno (381 awards, $24.5 million) and FCI Milan (198 awards, $11.1 million) together anchor 77 percent of the dollar value. The Bureau of Prisons Central Office ($12.5 million across 49 awards) ranks second by dollar magnitude but third by award count—reflecting a mix of larger blanket purchase agreements and smaller individual task orders. FCI Terminal Island ($4.3 million, 91 awards) and FCI Pekin ($422 thousand, 29 awards) constitute the remainder of active work.

Raco Steel operates under five primary indefinite-delivery vehicles, all within the Bureau of Prisons contracting structure. Indefinite Delivery Contract 15UC0C18D00001697 carries 200 task orders valued at $20.5 million; contract DJU4600003798 carries 175 task orders for $11.9 million; contract DJU4600004287 carries 138 task orders for $1.4 million. These vehicles drive the majority of Raco's federal work and reflect established procurement relationships rather than competitive set-asides or rotating vehicle platforms. The vendor does not appear on GSA Schedules, GWACs, or government-wide IDIQs.

Activity has remained consistent at 36–48 awards per year over the past five years (2022–2026), with modest year-to-date volume in 2026 (13 awards in the first half). The recompete cliff is negligible—only one award with a completion date in the next twenty-four months carries $36 thousand in potential value—indicating the vendor's established relationship with the Bureau of Prisons involves routine renewal and expansion of orders rather than competitive recompete risk.

The vendor operates 100 percent as a prime contractor with no documented subcontract footprint. Raco Steel delivers work directly to Bureau of Prisons facilities without teaming arrangements or sub-engagement. The award portfolio spans primary NAICS categories 332117 (Iron and Steel Mills) and 332122 (Sheet Metal Work Manufacturing), with PSC concentration in plate, sheet, strip, and foil products (218 awards) and office furniture (142 awards).