Tabb Textiles Co Inc.

Tabb Textiles Co Inc., a for-profit textile manufacturer headquartered in Opelika, Alabama, manufactures woven cotton and polyester fabrics, sheeting materials, and textile tapes for federal correctional facilities as a prime contractor across delivery orders and indefinite-delivery vehicles. The company competes predominantly under total small business set-asides on approximately half its active awards and full-and-open on the remainder, with no subcontract footprint.

Tabb Textiles' federal business concentrates almost entirely on the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons and the Federal Prison Industries (UNICOR) program. The vendor supplies cotton poplin and polyester fabrics for inmate clothing manufacturing at the Federal Correctional Institution in Oakdale, Louisiana; sheeting materials and bedding textiles for the Federal Correctional Institution in Terre Haute, Indiana; and boxer fabrication and related materials supporting the bureau's operations. Recent representative work includes a $922,248 total-small-business-set-aside poly fabric delivery order (December 2025), a $1,013,310 cloth delivery order for Oakdale UNICOR (May 2024), a $306,408 sheeting delivery order for Terre Haute with Pakistani-sourced materials waiver (May 2026), and a $92,000 boxer fabrication order (June 2026). Tabb Textiles also supplies polyester flat textile tape through the General Services Administration's blanket purchase agreements for direct delivery to military and civilian customers.

Customer concentration is acute. The Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Central Office accounts for 198 awards valued at $67.1 million (61% of combined potential value); the GSA Federal Acquisition Service represents 145 awards at $11 million; and the Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Institution Oakdale accounts for 77 awards at $11 million. Together, the top five customer agencies represent 89% of potential value. The top four customer relationships dominate: the Central Office and the two correctional facilities (Oakdale and Terre Haute combined) anchor roughly $86 million of the vendor's $110 million portfolio.

Tabb Textiles holds three primary indefinite-delivery vehicles: a $30.4 million total-small-business-set-aside IDIQ awarded October 5, 2021 (ultimate completion October 4, 2026) for cotton and polyester fabrics supporting the Oakdale inmate clothing program; a $4.615 million single-award IDIQ awarded August 6, 2022 (ultimate completion August 5, 2026) for sheeting materials at the Terre Haute facility; and a $5.5 million single-award blanket purchase agreement with GSA Federal Acquisition Service (awarded September 29, 2022, ultimate completion November 23, 2022) for polyester flat textile tape for military and civilian delivery. The three vehicles anchor approximately $40 million in potential value and drive continuous task-order activity across the portfolio.

Activity has declined sharply from a peak of 161 awards in 2022 to 13 in 2026 year-to-date, reflecting the mature, steady-state nature of established UNICOR supplier relationships and the cyclical nature of delivery-order issuance under the standing IDIQs rather than new contract wins. Three awards totaling $690 thousand face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete exposure limited to individual delivery orders rather than material vehicle loss. Tabb Textiles operates entirely as a prime contractor with no identified subcontractors, performing all work at its Opelika, Alabama facility. The vendor has served the Bureau of Prisons continuously since 2002 and operates exclusively in textile manufacturing for federal institutional use, with no diversified capability portfolio or customer base outside the correctional-facility supply chain.

Tabb is a manufacturer of linens,bedding and clothing for institutional use. We are also a supplier of fabrics to correctional industries and industries for the blind.