The A.r.k. Enterprises. Inc.

The A.r.k. Enterprises. Inc., a woman-owned small business manufacturer based in Polk Township, Missouri, supplies environmental safety and hazardous materials management products to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor, with 100% of its federal awards as a prime and zero subcontract work. The company manufactures spill containment equipment, absorbent materials, and cleanup kits—including spill containment socks, absorbent pillows, hazardous sorbents, oil sorbents, and spill clean-up kits—delivered through single-award indefinite delivery contracts and firm fixed-price purchase orders and delivery orders. A.r.k. Enterprises competes predominantly outside set-asides; across its 220 prime awards, only approximately 6 carry a total small business set-aside designation, with the remainder issued full-and-open or without set-aside.

Customer concentration is extreme. The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation accounts for 212 awards (96% of the portfolio) with $5.8 million in combined potential value, supported by nine single-award indefinite delivery contracts each valued at $250,000 and extending through 2029 or 2030. Six of the nine IDCs carry total small business set-aside designations. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime has issued 3 awards for $8 thousand, and the Defense Logistics Agency itself 2 awards, representing the balance of the source data. This concentration reflects A.r.k. Enterprises' role as an established single-source vendor for DLA Aviation's environmental safety supply chain supporting Department of Defense logistics and facility operations worldwide.

The vendor's active parent vehicles are the nine IDCs with DLA Aviation, each $250,000 ceiling with performance periods through 2029 or 2030. The top five individual IDCs by task-order volume span spill containment socks, hazardous sorbent materials, spill clean-up kits, and absorbent pillows, with between 4 and 15 task orders per vehicle. Award volume has grown from 11 in 2022 to 26 in 2025, with 2 awards recorded year-to-date in 2026. Recent representative work includes a $33,925.75 total small business set-aside purchase order in July 2025 for hazardous material sorbents, a $55,222 delivery order in February 2025 for spill clean-up kits, and a $16,310.56 total small business set-aside delivery order in November 2025 for spill containment socks. Individual task orders typically range from $200 to $35,000 with compressed performance timelines of one to two months, reflecting operational urgency for critical safety supplies at military installations and logistics facilities.

The combined potential value across all 220 awards stands at $6 million, with $2.3 million obligated to date (38% realization). The vendor's product focus maps tightly to PSC 4160 (Hazardous Material Spill Containment and Clean-Up Equipment and Material), which accounts for 218 of 220 awards; primary NAICS concentration falls under Nonwoven Fabric Mills (152 awards), reflecting the absorbent materials component of the product portfolio. A.r.k. Enterprises has maintained an active federal contracting footprint since at least 1998, with SAM.gov registration dating to 2002, and demonstrates reliable performance sufficient to sustain multiple long-term IDCs and continuous task-order flow from a single customer agency.

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