Specialty Cable Corp

Specialty Cable Corp, a for-profit manufacturer of electrical wire and cable products headquartered in Wallingford, Connecticut, supplies defense-grade electrical components as a prime contractor to the Defense Logistics Agency. The vendor competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements with no recurring set-aside posture, though a small subset of recent awards carry Total Small Business designations.

Specialty Cable Corp's federal footprint is extraordinarily concentrated. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime division accounts for 227 of 256 total awards (89% of the award count) and $2.1 million of the $2.2 million combined potential value (95% of dollars). The vendor holds a secondary position with DLA Aviation (3 awards, $13 thousand), followed by minimal exposure at the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons United States Penitentiary Marion ($14 thousand on a single award), the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Army. Within DLA itself, the vendor operates under a handful of indefinite delivery contracts—notably DLA50090D0079 (2 task orders) and single-task-order vehicles DLA50087C0151, DLA50088C0339, and Navy contract N6660488C1717—but these vehicles are order-generation mechanisms rather than strategic leverage points; purchase orders are the predominant contract type.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on electrical wire, power cable, and specialty cable products manufactured at its Wallingford facility and delivered to DLA distribution depots nationwide for maintenance, repair, and overhaul of defense systems. Representative work includes a $101,803 firm fixed-price purchase order (April 2025) for 533 units of electrical wire; a $45,082.94 purchase order (August 2024) for qualified-products-list power cable; a $35,630 award (August 2025) for 10,000 unit feet of electrical power cable; and a $114,159.50 purchase order (December 2021) for electrical wire. The top NAICS categories reflect the manufacturing base: Other Aluminum Rolling, Drawing, and Extruding (143 awards), Other Communication and Energy Wire Manufacturing (45 awards), and Copper Rolling, Drawing, Extruding, and Alloying (28 awards). PSC coding confirms wire-and-cable focus: 251 of 256 awards fall under Wire And Cable, Electrical.

Activity has remained roughly flat year over year—ranging from 19 awards in 2022 to 27 in 2023, then settling to 26 in 2024 and 24 in 2025—with only 4 awards recorded in 2026 so far. The vendor operates entirely as a prime contractor (100% of awards); no subcontract footprint appears in the source. Combined obligated dollars ($2.8 million) exceed combined potential value ($2.2 million) by 27 percent, indicating that the vendor has drawn down inventory against awarded ceiling values, a common pattern for commodity suppliers on recurring purchase orders.

A Manufacturer of highly engineered Wire & Cable products for Military & Commercial Aerospace applications. We are a Flight Critical, QPL Manufacturer of many Mil-Spec Wires & Cables, including M27500 cables. We also manufacture High & Low Temperature Medical Cables, High Performance Audio Cables & Thermocouple Cables, Signal Cables & Instrumentation Cables.