Uline Inc.

Uline Inc., doing business as Uline, a Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin-based for-profit distributor of shipping, packaging, and industrial supplies, operates as a prime contractor on approximately 4,010 federal purchase orders (99% of recent awards) across 238 customer agencies, with no SBA set-aside certifications and no participation in government-wide contract vehicles or IDIQs. The vendor competes exclusively on full-and-open, commercial-items bases—every award in the source carries "No Set-Aside Used" designation.

Uline's federal footprint consists entirely of small-dollar purchase orders for tangible goods. The top capability categories, by award count and PSC coding, center on office supplies (595 awards), medical and surgical instruments and supplies (645 awards), packaging and packing bulk materials (344 awards), bags and sacks (299 awards), and miscellaneous items (358 awards). Representative named work includes a $72.5 thousand Naval Strategic Systems Programs order for fifty-five-gallon steel drums; a $90 thousand FEMA contract for rolling coolers in support of Typhoon Marwar; a $59.9 thousand USDA Office of Operations contract for warehouse packing supplies; multiple $20–35 thousand Department of State contracts for plastic pallets, furniture, ICASS shelving, and shipping supplies; recurring $10–27 thousand Department of Health and Human Services BioWatch inventory lab supplies orders; and serial small orders from the Drug Enforcement Administration for evidence analysis supplies, gloves, and packaging materials. A $36.6 thousand Coast Guard Aviation Logistics Center order for industrial steel shelving, modular drawer cabinets, and plastic stackable bins exemplifies the vendor's core product mix—warehouse organization and logistics consumables.

Customer concentration is broad but shallow. The top five agencies by award count—GSA Federal Acquisition Service (135 awards), the Department of the Army (68 awards), DEA (60 awards), Bureau of Prisons Federal Medical Center Lexington (57 awards), and the Smithsonian Institution (57 awards)—account for only 9% of the total award base. When ranked by combined potential value, the concentration shifts only slightly: DEA leads with $447 thousand across 60 awards; the Department of State Bureau of African Affairs follows with $429 thousand across 29 awards; the Indian Health Service places third with $394 thousand across 42 awards; the Smithsonian and the FBI Headquarters Division round out the top five. This pattern reflects the vendor's business model: many small orders across many agencies rather than large prime contracts or anchoring vehicles.

Uline holds no named seats on GWACs, agency-wide IDIQs, or GSA Schedules in the source. Instead, the vendor operates under five departmental and agency-specific Blanket Purchase Agreements: GS02F14192 (19 task orders), H9225417D0001 (17 task orders), GS02F11121 (15 task orders), DJDEAHQ050020BPA (13 task orders, $4 thousand combined potential), and DJD10HQA0022 (12 task orders, $48 thousand combined potential). These BPAs are small-ticket vehicles—the largest combines only $48 thousand in potential value across 12 orders. Uline's access to federal purchasing derives from commercial-items procurement regulations and open-market purchase-order authority, not from exclusive or preferred contractor vehicles.

Activity has been steady but modest. Awards averaged 57–58 per year from 2022 through 2023, then declined to 43 in 2024 and 41 in 2025, with only 12 awards recorded to date in 2026. Combined potential value across all 4,054 awards is $15.6 million, with $12.8 million obligated (82% execution rate). Five awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months and combined potential value of $99 thousand—a negligible recompete exposure for a vendor of Uline's scale and order volume.

Uline's subcontractor footprint is minimal: 44 sub-awards (1% of recent work) placed under major primes including Lockheed Martin Corporation, General Dynamics Information Technology Inc., Sierra Nevada Company LLC, Penn Power Group LLC, Serco Inc., and Environmental Quality Management Inc. Sub work consists of shipping supplies, packaging materials, office furniture, storage equipment, and industrial consumables—identical to the prime product mix. Sub engagement is transactional and project-specific rather than strategic.

Uline operates as a commercial distributor without federal contracting infrastructure—no IDIQ leadership, no teaming alliances, no cost-plus or T&M engagement models. The vendor's federal business is order-driven, low-margin commodity supply across a broad federal customer base. This posture reflects both Uline's market position (established commercial brand with nationwide logistics) and the nature of federal demand for routine office, packing, and warehouse supplies. The vendor is a reliable, low-touch supplier of tangible goods rather than a systems integrator, program manager, or professional-services provider.