Tri-Star Labels, Inc.

Tri-Star Labels, Inc. Tri-Star Labels Inc. Division manufactures and supplies identification and labeling products to the federal government as a small business prime contractor under total small business set-asides, with headquarters in Mount Vernon, New York. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation competing predominantly under small business set-asides, reflecting its posture across the prime footprint.

Tri-Star's federal work centers on concrete identification and labeling goods: automated data processing supplies (labels, ribbons), electrical insulation tape, reflective tape, identification markers, decals, plastic sheets, and luminous sheeting. Recent representative prime work includes a $1,541,460.60 single-award indefinite delivery contract with Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services (awarded September 27, 2023, running through September 26, 2032) for ADP supplies, labels, ribbons, tapes, insulation materials, identification markers, decals, and reflective tape products; two $250,000 single-award IDCs with DLA Aviation for electrical insulation tape (awarded January 23, 2024, and April 23, 2024, each running through 2028–2029); and numerous delivery orders and purchase orders to DLA components and other Defense Department agencies, individually ranging from under $500 to roughly $50,000.

Customer concentration is extreme and narrow. Across 1,881 prime awards (95% of footprint covered), the top five customers account for all meaningful revenue. Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Construction and Equipment dominates with 1,277 awards and $5.2 million combined potential value; Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services follows with 354 awards and $5.1 million; DLA Aviation holds 84 awards and $1.9 million; the National Archives and Records Administration accounts for 40 awards and $378 thousand; and the Naval Supply Systems Command manages 27 awards and $166 thousand. The top two DLA organizations (Troop Support and Disposition Services) together represent roughly 87% of all awards and account for over $10 million of the $14.2 million in combined potential value. Both ranking methods align—volume and dollars track together—signaling that Tri-Star is a consistent, routine supplier to these two DLA components rather than an occasional large-dollar vendor.

Tri-Star holds positions on five named indefinite delivery contracts. The $1,541,460.60 DLA Disposition Services contract has generated 170 task orders valued at $1.2 million combined; the DLA Aviation $250,000 contract (SP451019D0009) has produced 98 task orders ($314 thousand); a third IDC (SP451023D0024) has generated 82 task orders ($211 thousand); and two additional vehicles with the National Archives and Records Administration have produced 13 and 12 task orders respectively. Task orders issued against these vehicles are typically firm-fixed-price, complete within 30 to 60 days of award, and range from several hundred dollars to roughly $20,000 per order.

Activity has declined modestly year over year—from 97 awards in 2022 to 61 in both 2024 and 2025, with only 23 awards recorded in 2026 (the source snapshot extends only three months into the year). The $14.2 million in combined potential value and $6 million in obligated dollars (42% realization) reflect a small, steady supplier footprint of routine logistics orders rather than large contract vehicles or aggressive growth trajectory. Tri-Star does not serve as a subcontractor on other contractors' awards; 100% of its recorded activity is prime.

The vendor competes entirely within Defense Logistics Agency commodity procurement—small-order, on-demand deliveries of consumable identification and labeling materials to military installations, defense facilities, and federal logistics centers across the continental United States. Place of performance is consistently Mount Vernon, New York (and occasionally Lindenhurst, New York). The business model reflects DLA's mission to supply military logistics on an as-needed basis: Tri-Star manufactures standardized products, holds standing IDVs with ceiling values between $250,000 and $1.54 million, and fulfills delivery orders within weeks to meet routine operational demand.