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 predominantly as a prime contractor (95% of recent awards). The company competes across full-and-open and set-aside procurements, with woman-owned small business (WOSB) designations recurring across much of the prime footprint and total small business set-asides anchoring a meaningful share of recent work.

The vendor's customer base concentrates heavily on the Defense Logistics Agency. DLA Land and Maritime accounts for 1,447 awards carrying $15.8 million in combined potential value—more than two-fifths of the company's total award footprint by dollar count. The next tier includes DLA Aviation (259 awards, $2.2 million), the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Coast Guard (137 awards, $3.5 million), and two Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons facilities: Federal Correctional Institution Phoenix (241 awards, $1.4 million) and United States Penitentiary Marion (88 awards, $1.2 million). Together, the top five customers account for 77% of award count and 61% of potential value. This concentration reflects Sea Wire & Cable's core business: supplying small-dollar, high-frequency purchase orders and delivery orders for standard and custom electrical components to military supply chains, rather than large prime contracts.

Sea Wire & Cable holds three active single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Land and Maritime, each valued at $250,000, covering electrical wire, radio frequency cables, and connectors respectively, with anticipated delivery frequencies of 12 task orders annually and 57–105 day lead times. The company also holds a $6.5 million multiple-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the U.S. Air Force Materiel Command Test Center (awarded January 20, 2025, running through January 2030) for aircraft wire and cable products under a total small business set-aside with a DO-A1 Defense Priorities and Allocation System rating. Recent BPA calls on this vehicle carried values of $493,227.48 (June 2025, aircraft wire and cable) and $198,400 (July 2026, aircraft instrumentation cable). Additionally, the company holds newer single-award IDCs awarded in May and November 2026 with $350,000 ceilings each for textile electrical sleeving and connectors/receptacles under DLA Land and Maritime total small business set-asides.

Activity has declined markedly. The company recorded 209 awards in 2022, declining to 42 in 2026 (partial year), with 2025 at 102 awards. However, combined dollars obligated across the full portfolio ($39.7 million) slightly exceed combined potential value ($39.4 million), indicating consistent cash collection. Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is modest: six awards totaling $613 thousand in combined potential value face ultimate completion within that window.

Sea Wire & Cable subcontracts to major defense primes on specialized electrical component sourcing. Recent sub-awards span Lockheed Martin (H-47ER Block II helicopter cables, twisted-pair connectors, backshells), Boeing (MQ-25 and B-52 common aerospace commodities, RAMP Phase 2 procurement), Raytheon (AN/TPY-2 radar wire, Patriot systems for foreign military sales), BAE Systems (MK 41 VLS mechanical design, canister production), and Defense Systems and Solutions (V-22 management materials, UH-60M Australia program). The sub-award work typically involves supplying wire, cable, connectors, and backshell components to support aircraft modification, production, and sustainment contracts.

The company's award portfolio concentrates in wire, cable, and connector manufacturing. The top Product Service Code categories are Wire and Cable, Electrical (1,353 awards), Connectors, Electrical (577 awards), and Electrical Insulators and Insulating Materials (314 awards). Representative prime work includes Coast Guard MH-60T helicopter backshells and special-purpose cable (multiple awards valued $26 thousand to $92 thousand), DLA power cables and radio frequency cables (individual orders ranging from $3,000 to $110,250), and Bureau of Prisons cable and wire (orders from $15 thousand to $31 thousand). The company has also supplied specialized items such as dust and moisture boots, textile sleeving, and marking systems. All named prime work is domestic, performed primarily in Triana, Alabama, with place-of-performance deliveries to DLA distribution depots, Coast Guard facilities, and federal correctional institutions across CONUS and overseas.

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.