Thomas W Raftery Inc.

Thomas W Raftery Inc., a Hartford, Connecticut-based manufacturer of custom window treatments and soft goods, operates as a prime contractor on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), competing almost exclusively in full-and-open delivery orders across 67 distinct federal agencies with a portfolio of 979 prime awards totaling $92.3 million in combined potential value. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation and small business that competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides, with roughly $37.9 million in combined dollars obligated (41% of combined potential value across the recent award footprint).

Raftery manufactures and installs draperies, blackout curtains, roller shades, blinds, and related textile window coverings for military facilities, federal buildings, and federal agency installations. Representative prime work includes a $648,146 delivery order (September 2025) from the Navy Installations Command for roller shades across five buildings at Naval Air Station Pensacola under MAS; a $950,879 delivery order (June 2024) from Navy Installations Command for window treatments and fire-suppression identification changes at Naval Station Great Lakes; a $575,327 delivery order (July 2024) from Navy Installations Command for furnishings at NAS Pensacola Building 3910; and a $339,736 delivery order (July 2026) from the Army Corps of Engineers for multi-building drapery installation at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. Recent smaller orders include a $124,003 delivery order (October 2026) for soft goods at Naval Base Coronado and a $120,970 delivery order (October 2026) for draperies at Camp Kinser, Japan, both under MAS and set for completion in October 2027.

Customer concentration is moderate but heavily skewed toward the defense and facility-management sector. The top five customer agencies by award count account for 57% of recent awards, led by the Department of the Navy Installations Command (151 awards, $9.8 million combined potential value) and the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Support Center Huntsville (151 awards, $4.1 million combined potential value), followed by the Department of the Air Force (146 awards, $274 thousand combined potential value), the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons (77 awards), and GSA Federal Acquisition Service (38 awards). However, by potential-value concentration, GSA Federal Acquisition Service dominates with $70.7 million across 38 awards — a significant 76% of total combined potential value — reflecting Raftery's primary reliance on GSA schedule vehicles as the contracting and billing mechanism, even when underlying customers are military installations. Navy and Army customers account for $13.9 million combined (15% of total) despite high award counts, indicating smaller individual delivery orders.

Raftery's vehicle position is tightly concentrated on GSA MAS delivery orders. The vendor places 441 task orders under Federal Supply Schedule GS03F6019D ($6.1 million combined potential value), 219 task orders under the broader Multiple Award Schedule category ($14.6 million combined potential value), 62 task orders under Federal Supply Schedule GS00F3327A, and 44 and 31 task orders respectively under two indefinite delivery contracts (1PIC344698 and 4600000569). The GSA MAS is the sole vehicle type across the entire footprint — Raftery does not compete on GWACs, agency-wide IDIQs, or BPAs outside the GSA schedule system, limiting its pursuit posture to pre-competed GSA schedule pricing and delivery-order competitions.

Activity has been relatively flat over the past five years (7 awards in 2022, 3 in 2023, 11 in 2024, 12 in 2025, and 8 in 2026 year-to-date), with cumulative awards spanning back to November 1980. Only 15 awards (combined potential value $2.9 million) reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal recompete cliff exposure in the near term. The vendor's NAICS concentration is heavy in soft goods and textile manufacturing — Curtain and Drapery Mills (454 awards), Curtain and Linen Mills (223 awards), and Blind and Shade Manufacturing (10 awards) — with corresponding PSC concentration in Draperies, Awnings, and Shades (672 awards) and Textile Fabrics (97 awards).

Raftery operates as a prime contractor on virtually all awards (979 of 981 total, or 100% of prime-vs-sub split), with only two sub-award instances on record: window treatment work under BL Harbert International LLC in May 2022. The company does not subcontract materially and does not bring external subs to its team — it performs window treatment manufacturing and installation in-house across locations including Hartford, Connecticut (primary manufacturing base), San Diego, California, and overseas sites such as Japan and Italy. Performance locations span domestic military installations nationwide (Naval Stations, Marine Corps Air Stations, Air Force bases) and OCONUS sites at Camp Kinser Japan, Naval Station Naples Italy, and other overseas facilities.

MANUFACTURER OF DRAPERIES, BEDSPREADS, MINI BLINDS, SHADES AND RELATED WINDOW TREATMENTS. Manufacturere of privacy cubicle curtains for VA Hospitals. CAPABLE OF MAKING RUSH ORDERS. LARGE INVENTORY OF IN STOCK GOODS. BEEN IN THE CONTRACT WINDOW COVERING MARKET FOR 60 YEARS. HAVE A GSA CONTRACT. SELL TO COLLEGES, HOSPITALS.