Federal contractor · BLAINE, WA

LISTER CHAIN & FORGE INC

LISTER CHAIN & FORGE INC received $5.7M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 46 awards (+8.5% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $45.2M. Its largest customer was U.S. Coast Guard ($4.3M).

Obligations · FY2026
$5.7M
New awards
46
Sole-source
7.9%
Single offer
5.1%
UEI
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Other than small business

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 3.6MFY2017
  2. 3.4MFY2018
  3. 4.1MFY2019
  4. 5.9MFY2020
  5. 3MFY2021
  6. 5.7MFY2022
  7. 5.6MFY2023
  8. 2.7MFY2024
  9. 5.3MFY2025
  10. 5.7MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. 15 awards
  2. 28 awards
  3. 3 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$5.1M89%
  2. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$580.7K10%
  3. Equipment maintenance$31K0.5%

Where the work was performed

  1. Norfolk city, VA$141.4K2.5%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition13%
    US 39% · $746.4K
  • Sole-source awards7.9%
    US 30% · $456.3K
  • Single-offer competitions5.1%
    US 8.7% · $290.1K
  • Urgency justifications0.5%
    US 5.1% · $31K

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

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Department of Defense · 2 awards
  2. Department of Homeland Security · 1 awards

Exclusions in SAM.gov

Records of the SAM.gov exclusions list (parties debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment or otherwise excluded) matched to this recipient by its Unique Entity ID or CAGE code.

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Largest awards

  1. U.S. Coast Guard· Whatcom County, WA· Other equipment & supplies· Nov 18, 2025 – Nov 18, 2025· 70Z08426FDL950002
  2. U.S. Coast Guard· Whatcom County, WA· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 28, 2026 – Sep 28, 2026· 70Z08426FDL950197
  3. U.S. Coast Guard· Whatcom County, WA· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 24, 2026 – Sep 24, 2026· 70Z08426FDL950189
  4. Department of the Navy· Whatcom County, WA· Other equipment & supplies· May 21, 2026 – May 21, 2026· N3943026F4024
  5. U.S. Coast Guard· Anne Arundel County, MD· Equipment maintenance· Dec 27, 2024 – Jan 13, 2026· 70Z08025CMECP0004
  6. U.S. Coast Guard· Whatcom County, WA· Other equipment & supplies· May 7, 2026 – May 7, 2026· 70Z08426FDL950035
  7. U.S. Coast Guard· Baltimore city, MD· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 21, 2026 – Sep 21, 2026· 70Z04026P60023Y00
  8. Defense Logistics Agency· Whatcom County, WA· Other equipment & supplies· Mar 27, 2026 – Mar 27, 2026· SPE4A626PK508

Subawards

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

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Teaming partners

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

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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. COLUMBUS MCKINNON CORP$9.2M+26% in FY2026
    GETZVILLE, NY · 5 entities · 64% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Coast Guard · Forging and stamping
  2. CFMW, LLC$4.7M+123% in FY2026
    WASHOUGAL, WA · 34% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Coast Guard · Forging and stamping
  3. HANES SUPPLY, INC.$9.1M−51% in FY2026
    BUFFALO, NY · 17% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Spring and wire product manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Other fabricated metal product manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Hardware manufacturing+1 more

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.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

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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.