The Sherwin-Williams Company

The Sherwin-Williams Company, operating as Sherwin-Williams, supplies military-specification paints, epoxy coatings, primers, and related maritime coating materials to the Department of the Navy and Department of Homeland Security as a prime contractor competing in full-and-open procurement, with no small business set-asides across its federal footprint.

Sherwin-Williams is a for-profit manufacturer of paints and coatings headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, with a Honolulu, Hawaii subsidiary (UEI QWLQRJFLKJ69) that serves as the operational point of contact for Navy and Coast Guard purchase orders. The vendor competes without set-aside protection and operates across primary NAICS 325510 (Paint and Coating Manufacturing) and PSC group Paints, Dopes, Varnishes, and Related Products, with secondary exposure in merchant wholesale and retail distribution channels. The corporate structure includes a parent entity (UEI GAJ1F3WQCWY5) headquartered in Cleveland that holds federal contract vehicle authority.

Customer concentration is extreme and Navy-focused. The top two customers account for 98% of recent awards and 100% of combined potential value: the Naval Sea Systems Command (123 awards, $824 thousand combined potential value) and the United States Pacific Fleet Forces (56 awards, $766 thousand combined potential value). The Department of Homeland Security US Coast Guard contributes 13 awards ($143 thousand), while smaller Navy sub-offices and the Air National Guard round out the portfolio. Award activity reflects steady small-order procurement — 200 total awards spanning from May 2002 to December 2025 with combined potential value of $1.7 million against obligated dollars of $2.8 million, indicating repeated call-downs against standing supply contracts or IDCs. Recent awards include a $1,686.32 epoxy coating purchase order from NAVSEA (July 2025), a $13,053.80 paint supply order from the Coast Guard for CG45614DD vessel maintenance (October 2024), and multiple sub-thousand-dollar orders for primers, epoxy kits, and protective coatings throughout 2024–2025. The source references two significant Indefinite Delivery Contracts with NAVSEA valued at over $6.7 million (combined) that anchor logistics and storage operations in support of naval ship maintenance, including strategic submarine infrastructure preservation.

The vendor maintains a single named subcontract relationship as a supplier to ASRC Federal Facilities Logistics, LLC on a painting services task order (April 2024), but operates almost exclusively as a prime supplier rather than as a defense contractor subcontractor. Activity over the past five years shows modest growth (three awards in 2021 to six in 2025) driven by transactional purchase orders rather than new contract vehicle wins.