Federal contractor · YONGES ISLAND, SC

METAL TRADES, LLC

METAL TRADES, LLC received $1.3M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 11 awards (−95% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $103.9M. Its largest customer was Department of the Army ($1.3M).

Obligations · FY2026
$1.3M
New awards
11
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.2%
UEI
F8CDPL2GPP32
Parent company
METAL TRADES INC
Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 5.2MFY2017
  2. 20.5MFY2018
  3. 10.7MFY2019
  4. 468.1KFY2020
  5. 6.8MFY2021
  6. 13.7MFY2022
  7. 11MFY2023
  8. 10.2MFY2024
  9. 24.1MFY2025
  10. 1.3MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Army$1.3M100%
    11 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Equipment maintenance$1.3M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Charleston County, SC$1.3M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition0.2%
    US 39% · $2,000
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions0.2%
    US 8.7% · $2,000
  • 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. MODULAR CAUSEWAY SYSTEM PONTOON MODULES STATEMENT OF WORK$7.3M
    Department of the Army· Charleston County, SC· Equipment maintenance· Sep 16, 2025 – May 7, 2026· W912CH25FA132
  2. LANDING CRAFT MECHANIZED 8542$5M
    Department of the Army· Charleston County, SC· Equipment maintenance· Sep 30, 2025 – Jun 9, 2026· W912CH25FA191
  3. LANDING CRAFT UTILITY - 2026 PROGRAMMED REPAIRS$4.3M
    Department of the Army· Charleston County, SC· Equipment maintenance· Jul 2, 2025 – May 7, 2026· W912CH25FA059
  4. PROGRAMMED REPAIRS TO THE LANDING CRAFT UTILITY - 2004$4.1M
    Department of the Army· Charleston County, SC· Equipment maintenance· Sep 16, 2024 – Mar 9, 2026· W912CH24FL189
  5. MODULAR WARPING TUG - 04 UNPROGRAMMED REPAIRS$3.6M
    Department of the Army· Charleston County, SC· Equipment maintenance· Jun 4, 2025 – May 28, 2026· W912CH25FA047
  6. LANDING CRAFT MECHANIZED 8558 ON CONDITION CYCLICAL MAINTENANCE$1.4M
    Department of the Army· Charleston County, SC· Equipment maintenance· Jun 12, 2025 – Apr 2, 2026· W912CH25FA050
  7. PROGRAMMED DRY-DOCKING, CLEANING, PAINTING, AND REPAIRS TO THE U.S. ARMY RESERVE VESSEL LANDING CRAFT MECHANIZED (LCM) 8541$1.4M
    Department of the Army· Charleston County, SC· Equipment maintenance· Jun 10, 2025 – May 11, 2026· W912CH25FA052
  8. LANDING CRAFT UTILITY - 2030 PROGRAMMED REPAIRS$363.7K
    Department of the Army· Charleston County, SC· Equipment maintenance· Jul 1, 2025 – Mar 16, 2026· W912CH25FA070

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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

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

Companies it pays

1 company · $600.8K reported

  1. STEVENS TOWING CO INC$600.8K
    HOLLYWOOD, SC · 1 subaward · Ship and boat building

Primes that pay it

No prime reported paying it.

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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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 2 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. SUPERIOR MARINE WAYS, INC$31.7M−100% in FY2026
    SOUTH POINT, OH · 89% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Ship and boat building
  2. SOUTHWEST SHIPYARD LP$35.1M−96% in FY2026
    CHANNELVIEW, TX · 89% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Ship and boat building
  3. GUNDERSON MARINE LLC$50.9M+30% in FY2026
    PORTLAND, OR · 89% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Ship and boat building

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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.