YKK (U.s.a.) Inc.

YKK (U.S.A.) Inc. Government Industry Business Group Division manufactures domestically produced zippers, fasteners, and textile components for the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons as a prime contractor, operating exclusively under a small-business-set-aside posture on its core federal business. The company is headquartered in Macon, Georgia, and operates as a for-profit manufacturer of goods with no identified subcontractor relationships; all 1,372 recent awards in the source record are prime deliveries.

YKK's federal footprint is concentrated on a single customer with exceptional depth. The Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons accounts for substantially all awards and dollar value: the Bureau's Central Office issued 137 awards worth $23.4 million combined potential value, Federal Correctional Institution Manchester issued 129 awards worth $3 million, and additional individual facilities (Greenville, Miami, Waseca, and others) account for the remainder. Across these entities, 38 percent of YKK's recent award count flows to Bureau of Prisons locations, and 62 percent of combined potential value is concentrated there. YKK's capability portfolio is narrowly focused: NAICS 339993 (Fastener, Button, Needle, and Pin Manufacturing) covers 1,238 of 1,372 awards; PSC Textile Fabrics and Notions and Apparel Findings together account for 1,334 awards. The company supplies zippers, slide fasteners, snap fasteners, barrel locks, and D-rings for military clothing, prison uniforms, and correctional facility equipment under the UNICOR program, which employs incarcerated individuals. All products are required to be 100 percent domestically manufactured in compliance with Berry Amendment requirements.

YKK holds a $10.345 million single-award indefinite delivery contract with the Bureau of Prisons Central Office, established May 2024 with performance through May 2027, designated as a total small business set-aside. This IDC is the primary delivery vehicle: the source identifies five parent IDCs, with the $10.345 million contract generating 184 task orders worth $2.9 million combined potential value and an older $332,098 contract generating 166 task orders worth $2.9 million. Recent delivery orders under the main IDC range from approximately $10,000 to $254,470, with fixed-price pricing and economic price adjustment provisions. Place of performance centers on Manchester, Kentucky and Macon, Georgia, with administrative oversight at the Bureau of Prisons Central Office. Individual Federal Correctional Institutions (Manchester, Oakdale, Edgefield, Miami, and others) also issue direct delivery orders against the IDC.

Activity has declined slightly year over year — 33 awards in 2022, declining to 5 awards in 2026 (through early July) — though the trajectory reflects a shift from high-volume small orders to consolidation under the larger IDC vehicle awarded in May 2024. Only 4 awards carrying $179 thousand combined potential value face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing minimal recompete exposure in that window. The company's narrow customer concentration and single-product-category focus (fasteners and textile components) create significant dependence on Bureau of Prisons procurement and UNICOR manufacturing demand, with no identified diversification into other federal agencies or product lines.