Van Matre Lumber Company, Inc.

Van Matre Lumber Company, Inc., a for-profit lumber manufacturer and merchant wholesaler headquartered in Fontana, California, supplies dimensional lumber and plywood materials to federal construction and facility-maintenance contractors, operating primarily as a subcontractor (20% of recent awards as a prime, 80% as a sub). The vendor has no SBA set-aside certifications in the source material and competes on full-and-open awards, with historical activity spanning construction projects, prison facility maintenance, and naval engineering work.

Van Matre's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons, which accounts for 68 of the vendor's 114 total awards across all time periods in the source. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command (23 awards) and the Department of the Army (7 awards) round out the top three, covering 94% of recent award volume. By potential value, the Federal Correctional Institution Terminal Island (a subordinate DOJ entity) anchors the top position with 6 awards valued at $65 thousand combined, though the portfolio's total combined potential value across all 114 awards is only $78 thousand—a figure substantially below obligated dollars ($1.2 million), indicating mature, completed contracts rather than forward-pipeline work. Most recent activity consolidates in 2021, when 23 awards were recorded; no awards have been issued since September 2021 (nearly five years ago).

Van Matre's material supplied product lines fall into two primary NAICS categories: Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction (23 awards) and Lumber, Plywood, Millwork, and Wood Panel Merchant Wholesalers (7 awards). Across PSC coding, the vendor's work splits between Plywood and Veneer (46 awards) and Lumber and Related Basic Wood Materials (38 awards). The largest named subcontract footprint appears under Manson Construction Co, for which Van Matre supplied lumber materials on the P443 DB Construction Pier 6 Replacement project at Naval Base San Diego beginning in September 2021. Work is procured through vehicles including the Waterfront MACC IV (9 task orders), Indefinite Delivery Contract DAKF0495D0016 (7 task orders), and Indefinite Delivery Contract DJU4600004186 (5 task orders, $65 thousand combined potential value). The absence of new awards since 2021 and the sub-$100-thousand combined potential-value posture suggest the vendor operates as a commodity materials supplier to construction primes rather than a prime contractor pursuing federal growth; no recompete or pipeline exposure is evident in the recent record.

Lumber, Plywood, Pallets, Skids