Sea Wire & Cable Inc.

Sea Wire & Cable Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Madison, Alabama, manufactures and supplies military-specification electrical wire, cable assemblies, backshells, connectors, and related interconnect products to federal defense and civilian agencies as a prime contractor (95% of awards) and subcontractor. The company operates as a Subchapter S corporation and competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements, with a recurring posture on total small business set-asides across the Defense Logistics Agency, U.S. Coast Guard, and Bureau of Prisons.

Sea Wire & Cable holds over 2,800 prime awards spanning three decades, with recent work anchored by high-volume, low-dollar purchase orders from the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (1,430 awards, $15.1 million combined potential value). The company manufactures and procures qualified products list electrical wire and cable under National Stock Numbers, with concrete recent examples including a $81,000 small-business-set-aside delivery of 1,250 feet of military-specification electrical wire (NSN 6145012062230) to DLA Land and Maritime, a $67,489.50 total-small-business-set-aside procurement of Isodyne-manufactured MH-65T helicopter backshells for the U.S. Coast Guard, a $66,680.05 small-business-set-aside delivery of 50,000 feet of mixed cable and wire for Coast Guard MH-60T helicopters, and a $64,900 small-business-set-aside order for 2,000 linear feet of special-purpose cable (NSN 6145012290032) to DLA Land and Maritime. The company also supplies wire and cable to federal correctional institutions, with a $26,180 small-business-set-aside order for the United States Penitentiary Marion and a $25,929.72 non-set-aside delivery of mixed electrical components to Federal Correctional Institution Phoenix.

Customer concentration is extreme and driven by DLA volume. The top five funding agencies account for 77% of award count, with DLA Land and Maritime dominating both metrics (1,430 awards, $15.1 million potential value), followed by the U.S. Coast Guard (133 awards, $3.3 million), DLA Aviation (256 awards, $1.6 million), and two Bureau of Prisons facilities (241 and 236 awards combined). Award volume has declined materially: 209 awards in 2022 fell to 15 in 2026 through April, reflecting the transactional nature of small-dollar DLA task orders that characterize the portfolio.

Sea Wire & Cable holds five active Indefinite Delivery Contracts. A $6.5 million Blanket Purchase Agreement with the U.S. Air Force Materiel Command Test Center for aircraft wire and cable products (multiple award, small-business set-aside, five-year performance through January 2030) represents the vendor's largest single vehicle. Three DLA Land and Maritime single-award IDCs each valued at $250,000 cover electrical wire, radio frequency cables, and power cables respectively, with anticipated volumes of 12 task orders annually per contract and 78-day delivery requirements. A fourth DLA IDC for $350,000 (single award, total small business set-aside, awarded November 2025) procures connectors and receptacles with eight anticipated orders annually. An IDC expiring March 2025 for radio frequency cables has been replaced by the new vehicle structure.

The subcontract footprint reflects supplier status to major defense primes rather than project work. Sea Wire & Cable subcontracts to Lockheed Martin on MH-47G Block II postproduction modification engineering, fabrication, and installation work, supplying twisted-pair double-shielded cables, backshells, and connectors. The vendor supplies connectors to Raytheon on Patriot firing units and AN/TPY-2 radar production work for foreign military sales. Boeing awards cover MQ-25 Unmanned Carrier Aviation System common aerospace commodities and B-52 Commercial Engine Replacement Program rapid prototyping materials. BAE Systems, Defense Systems and Solutions, and DRS Sustainment Systems round out the sub-tier work, primarily materials and components for aircraft, radar, and ground systems.

Set-aside posture is material to volume. The vendor qualifies for total small business set-asides and woman-owned small business (WOSB) set-asides, and pursues both aggressively; roughly 40% of recent prime awards carry a small-business or WOSB set-aside designation. The remaining 60% compete full-and-open against all responsible sources, indicating the vendor is price-competitive outside protected channels. Only three awards face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, creating minimal recompete cliff exposure; the portfolio is steady-state procurement across multiple small IDCs and blanket purchase agreements rather than contract vehicles at risk of recompete.

SEA specializes in supplying wire, cable, tubing, termination sleeves, cable ties, EMI/RFI backshells, and other cable assemblies for the most demanding electronic applications. To provide fast service and to meet a wide range of client needs, the company currently stocks over 11,000 items and over 60 million feet of wire in its modern 80,000-square-foot facility. These products are available 24 hours a day, which is why SEA Wire and Cable, Inc. has amassed over 4,800 customers around the world.