VH Blackinton & Co Inc.

VH Blackinton & Co Inc., based in North Attleborough, Massachusetts, manufactures law enforcement badges, shields, lapel pins, credentials, and related security insignia as a prime contractor to federal law enforcement and security agencies. The company competes full-and-open across a broad federal customer base with no set-aside designation; nearly all awards (100% of the 419 recent prime awards) are placed outside small business, 8(a), HUBZone, or other reserved categories, reflecting its position as an established sole-source or noncompetitive supplier in specialized credentialing.

VH Blackinton's customer concentration is dominated by law enforcement and security agencies rather than a single departmental buyer. The top five customers by award count account for 26% of awards: the Drug Enforcement Administration (29 awards, $1.1 million), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (24 awards, $3.6 million), the DHS Chief Procurement Officer (20 awards, $1.1 million), the Transportation Security Administration (19 awards, $13.5 million), and the Department of the Army (15 awards, $15 thousand). However, the dollar picture is driven by a different set of customers. The Secret Service anchors the portfolio with 11 awards worth $45 million combined potential value, followed by the TSA (19 awards, $13.5 million), the Bureau of Prisons Central Office (8 awards, $5.5 million), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (24 awards, $3.6 million), and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (5 awards, $2.8 million). Together these five customers account for 85% of all combined potential value across the portfolio.

Recent representative awards include a $1.32 million firm fixed-price purchase order from Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued September 30, 2026, for law enforcement shields issued to newly hired Office of Professional Responsibility personnel, performing through June 29, 2027; a $1.29 million delivery order from the Secret Service (September 30, 2025) for law enforcement badge kits under a single-award indefinite-delivery contract with completion through September 29, 2030; a $909.5 thousand purchase order from the Bureau of Diplomatic Security (October 1, 2025) for DS special agent shields and lapel pins completing December 31, 2027; and a $421 thousand delivery order from the Bureau of Prisons (October 11, 2022) for RCA individual staff badges, lanyards, and wallets performing through September 30, 2027.

VH Blackinton holds a deep portfolio of parent vehicles and single-award BPAs across its federal customer base. The company maintains a $4.67 million single-award indefinite-delivery contract with the Secret Service (awarded September 30, 2025, completing September 29, 2030) for law enforcement badges, with one delivery order for $1.29 million issued concurrently. It also holds a $3 million single-award indefinite-delivery contract with the Bureau of Prisons (October 11, 2022, completing September 30, 2027) for RCA badges and related items, under which seven delivery orders were issued collectively totaling approximately $2.6 million. VH Blackinton sits on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule with 44 task orders worth $4.7 million combined potential value. Additional single-award BPAs include a $494.3 thousand agreement with the U.S. Marshals Service (October 1, 2023, completing September 30, 2028), a $418.7 thousand DEA badge BPA (August 16, 2023, completing August 13, 2027), a $663.6 thousand VA Law Enforcement Training Center badges BPA under MAS (August 22, 2022, completing August 21, 2027), and a $500 thousand Navy Criminal Investigative Service BPA (December 15, 2023, completing December 17, 2026). The company also holds a $9.9 million multiple-award Transportation Security Administration indefinite-delivery contract reserved for total small business (awarded June 1, 2023, completing May 31, 2026), though VH Blackinton competes this vehicle without a small business designation.

Activity has moderated in recent years. The vendor recorded 21 awards in 2022, declining to 15 in 2023, 10 in 2024, recovering to 16 in 2025, and only 4 year-to-date through late September 2026. Sixteen awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $5 million and face recompete risk. All categories—Badges and Insignia (286 awards), Miscellaneous Items (50 awards), and Miscellaneous Alarm, Signal, and Security Detection Systems (16 awards)—reflect the company's specialization in law enforcement and security identification products.

MANUFACTURER AND DESIGNER OF UNIFORM BADGES; INSIGNIA; NAMEBARS; MEDALS; COMMEMORATIVE BADGES; AWARDS; LAPEL PINS; BAND UNIFORM INSIGNIA; FRATERNAL REGALIA; MARKSMANSHIP MEDALS;AND LUCITE EMBEDEMENTS. ALL MANUFACTURED IN OUR SECURE FACTORY.