Thomas W Raftery Inc.

Thomas W Raftery Inc., a small business manufacturer of custom window treatments based in Hartford, Connecticut, supplies draperies, blinds, roller shades, and related textile window coverings to the Department of Defense and other federal agencies as a prime contractor on GSA Multiple Award Schedule delivery orders, with 100% of recent awards as prime work and a consistent posture of competing under total small business set-asides.

The vendor operates as a Subchapter S Corporation and has been registered in the System for Award Management since 2002. Its capability portfolio centers on manufacturing and installation of draperies, blackout curtains, roller shades, and custom textile window coverings for military dormitories, barracks, and base facilities. Representative recent work includes a $639,236 delivery order from Navy Installations Command (September 2025) for roller shades across five buildings at Naval Air Station Pensacola; a $575,327 order from Navy Installations Command (July 2024) for furnishings and additional funding at NAS Pensacola Building 3910; a $950,879 firm fixed-price delivery order from Navy Installations Command (June 2024) for furnishings and fire suppression identification changes at Naval Station Great Lakes; and a $398,045 order from Navy Installations Command (September 2025) for furnishings and soft goods at Naval Base Ventura County. The vendor also holds a $187,351 delivery order from the Engineering and Support Center (July 2026) for rollershades at Marine Corps Base Yorktown under the GSA MAS.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward Navy Installations Command and Army Corps of Engineers facilities, which together account for approximately 58% of recent awards by count. Navy Installations Command dominates volume at 153 awards with $10.8 million combined potential value, while the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Support Center Huntsville has issued 151 awards worth $4.1 million combined. However, GSA Federal Acquisition Service anchors the dollar concentration with 38 awards generating $70.7 million combined potential value—a dramatic divergence from volume concentration that reflects GSA's role as the contracting office managing the Multiple Award Schedule vehicle through which most of Thomas W Raftery's work flows. The Department of the Air Force, Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons, United States Marine Corps, and Department of Veterans Affairs round out the active customer set.

The vendor's vehicle position is entirely concentrated on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and related Federal Supply Schedules. The source identifies 441 task orders against Federal Supply Schedule GS03F6019D (combined potential value $6.1 million) and 213 task orders against the Multiple Award Schedule itself (combined potential value $13.7 million), with additional volume under Federal Supply Schedules GS00F3327A (62 task orders) and miscellaneous IDIQs (Indefinite Delivery Contracts 1PIC344698 and 4600000569 carrying 44 and 31 task orders respectively). This vehicle concentration signals that Thomas W Raftery competes almost exclusively through GSA's pre-competed schedule contracts, with delivery orders issued by customer agencies rather than through open competition.

Recent activity shows a volatile but rising trend: 7 awards in 2022, 3 in 2023, 11 in 2024, and 12 in 2025, with 2 awards in 2026 year-to-date. Thirteen awards (combined potential value $2.9 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and represent near-term recompete exposure. The vendor's cumulative portfolio spans 975 prime awards (zero sub-awards) with $91.4 million combined potential value and $37 million in obligated dollars (40% execution rate). Award categories are heavily concentrated in drapery and curtain mills (NAICS 31411, representing 454 awards) and related textile finishing operations, with draperies, awnings, and shades (PSC D311) accounting for 666 awards.

Thomas W Raftery carries minimal subcontract exposure; the source identifies only two sub-awards, both in May 2022 from BL Harbert International LLC for window treatments, representing a negligible portion of the vendor's federal footprint. The vendor operates predominantly as a direct supplier to federal end-users via GSA's acquisition vehicle, without significant teaming relationships or prime-contractor dependencies.

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.