Federal contractor · CERES, CA

CERTIFIED STAINLESS SERVICE INC.

CERTIFIED STAINLESS SERVICE INC. received $8.5M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 63 awards (−40% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $267M. Its largest customer was Defense Logistics Agency ($5.4M).

Obligations · FY2026
$8.5M
New awards
63
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Small business
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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

3 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $8.5M in FY2026 together.

  1. CERTIFIED STAINLESS SERVICE INC.CERES, CA · Family page
    $8.5M
  2. CERTIFIED STAINLESS SERVICE, INC.BAKERSFIELD, CA
    $0
  3. CERTIFIED STAINLESS SERVICE, INC.FAIRBANKS, AK
    $0

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 12.5MFY2017
  2. 22.3MFY2018
  3. 41MFY2019
  4. 29.3MFY2020
  5. 20.8MFY2021
  6. 36.7MFY2022
  7. 43.4MFY2023
  8. 38.4MFY2024
  9. 14.1MFY2025
  10. 8.5MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Defense Logistics Agency$5.4M64%
    23 awards
  2. Federal Acquisition Service$2.7M31%
    32 awards
  3. Department of the Army$208.9K2.5%
    3 awards
  4. Department of the Air Force$63.7K0.7%
    2 awards
  5. Forest Service$50K0.6%
    1 awards
  6. National Park Service$37.5K0.4%
    1 awards
  7. Bureau of Land Management$34.5K0.4%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$5.5M65%
  2. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$3M35%

Where the work was performed

  1. Stanislaus County, CA$8.3M98%
  2. Pennington County, SD$50K0.6%
  3. Barnstable County, MA$37.5K0.4%
  4. Johnson County, MO$36.5K0.4%
  5. Pima County, AZ$27.2K0.3%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition0.0%
    US 39% · $0
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $0
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Largest awards

  1. BULK FUEL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM (BFDS)$30.9M
    Department of the Army· Stanislaus County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 15, 2022 – Dec 19, 2025· W56HZV22F0395
  2. 8510125148!WATER TRAILER$4.4M
    Defense Logistics Agency· Stanislaus County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 7, 2023 – Oct 2, 2025· SPE8EC23F0772
  3. 8510956992!NON CODE TRAILER$1.2M
    Defense Logistics Agency· Stanislaus County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Oct 17, 2024 – Jan 9, 2026· SPE8EC25F0059
  4. 8511702661!WATER TRAILER$1.1M
    Defense Logistics Agency· Stanislaus County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Oct 16, 2025 – Oct 16, 2025· SPE8EC26F0054
  5. 8512006741!WTR SMITRLR$821.8K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Stanislaus County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Mar 27, 2026 – Mar 27, 2026· SPE8EC26F0381
  6. 8511686023!SEMI TRACTOR$578.4K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Stanislaus County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Oct 8, 2025 – Oct 8, 2025· SPE8EC26F0027
  7. 8509999825!WATER TRUCK$573.3K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Santa Clara County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Jul 13, 2023 – May 28, 2026· SPE8EC23F0598
  8. 8511679356!DUMP TRUCK$563K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Stanislaus County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Oct 8, 2025 – Oct 8, 2025· SPE8EC26F0008

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

1 company · $494.7K reported

  1. ATLANTIC DIVING SUPPLY, INC.$494.7K
    VIRGINIA BEACH, VA · 1 subaward · Other miscellaneous manufacturing

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 16 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. LINK-BELT CRANES, L.P., LLLP$32.2M−50% in FY2026
    LEXINGTON, KY · 2 entities · 47% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Agriculture, construction, and mining machinery manufacturing
  2. GARSITE PROGRESS, LLC$34.4M−58% in FY2026
    KANSAS CITY, KS · 5 entities · 47% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Agriculture, construction, and mining machinery manufacturingArmy · Motor vehicle body and trailer manufacturing
  3. M-B COMPANIES, INC$28.4M−84% in FY2026
    NEW HOLSTEIN, WI · 44% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Agriculture, construction, and mining machinery manufacturing

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.