Showa Chemical Industry Co.,Ltd.

Showa Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., a Japanese chemical manufacturer headquartered in Okinawa, supplies bulk chemicals, water treatment chemicals, and swimming pool maintenance products to the U.S. Marine Corps and Air Force as a prime contractor under full-and-open-competition blanket purchase agreements with no set-aside designations.

Showa Chemical operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) across three federal customer agencies. The Marine Corps dominates the footprint, accounting for 48 awards totaling $5.2 million in combined potential value — roughly 83% of the vendor's federal work. The Department of the Air Force Pacific Air Forces holds a secondary BPA for swimming pool chemicals valued at $150 thousand through September 2028, and the Department of the Navy placed two smaller awards. Showa Chemical's capability portfolio centers on sodium hypochlorite, water treatment supplies, chlorine, alkalies, and related bulk industrial chemicals delivered to military installations throughout the Pacific region, with all performance taking place in Japan. Representative work includes a $249,996 Marine Corps BPA call for bulk chemicals (March 2026), a $130,043 call for water treatment chemicals (January 2026), and a $73,429 call for swimming pool and facility maintenance chemicals (August 2024).

Showa Chemical holds two primary vehicles anchoring its Marine Corps business. The dominant vehicle is Blanket Purchase Agreement M6740022A0024, a $2.348 million single-award BPA established June 2022 and running through June 2027, which has generated 32 task orders totaling $2.6 million in combined potential value since July 2022. Individual order values range from approximately $15,816 to $249,314. A secondary BPA (M6740022A0001) valued at $118,061 and now closed generated five task orders totaling $80 thousand from October 2021 through June 2022. The Air Force Pacific Air Forces vehicle, a $150 thousand single-award BPA for swimming pool chemicals, runs through September 2028 and has generated three documented task orders.

Activity has declined materially in recent years. Awards per year dropped from 14 in 2023 to nine in 2024, then to two in 2025 and two in 2026 year-to-date. Of the 54 total awards in the source data (spanning back to 2002), a combined potential value of $250 thousand faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, exposing minimal recompete exposure in that window. Combined potential value across all awards stands at $6.3 million, with $3.3 million obligated to date (53% of potential). The vendor's federal footprint is narrowly concentrated: top NAICS codes are Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing (40 awards) and Alkalies and Chlorine Manufacturing (4 awards); top PSC codes are Chemicals (46 awards) and related chemical product and equipment categories. Showa Chemical's customer concentration and vehicle structure indicate a mature, stable supply relationship with USMC logistics in the Pacific theater, competing in full-and-open procurements rather than set-asides and maintaining no subcontract relationships in its federal work.