Unifirst Corporation

Unifirst Corporation (doing business as Unifirst Corp), a Nashville, Tennessee-based subsidiary of Massachusetts-headquartered Unifirst Corporation, provides rental, cleaning, and maintenance of specialized protective equipment and textiles to the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs as a prime contractor on small, single-award indefinite delivery contracts and delivery orders. The vendor competes full-and-open with no set-aside designations across its federal footprint.

Unifirst's federal capability portfolio centers on arc flash rated personal protection equipment rental and cleaning services for high-voltage electrical environments, plus shop towel laundering and facility textile management at military installations. Recent representative work includes a $700 thousand single-award indefinite delivery contract with the Department of the Army Installation Management Command Southeast Region (award date September 30, 2025, ultimate completion September 29, 2030) for rental and cleaning of arc flash rated PPE at Department of Defense facilities throughout the Southeast, with an initial $94.2 thousand delivery order issued for services at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Unifirst also subcontracts on a shop towel laundering task under Beyond New Horizons, LLC on the Test Operations and Sustainment II program at the Arnold Engineering Development Complex, providing pick-up, cleaning, delivery, and replacement of shop towels through September 30, 2025.

The vendor's current federal footprint is highly concentrated with the Department of the Army Installation Management Command Southeast Region, which anchors 100% of combined potential value across four total awards (two prime, one sub). The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration and the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command account for the remaining awards. Activity is limited to three prime awards issued since 2015; the most recent activity clusters in 2025 with one delivery order (the $94.2 thousand Fort Campbell task) facing recompete within the next twenty-four months. The parent Unifirst Corporation carries a broader federal contracting record with multiple agencies including the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of the Interior, and the U.S. Coast Guard, but the Nashville subsidiary shown here operates as a single-location, narrowly focused provider of specialized textile and protective equipment services to Southeast Region military installations.