322212: Folding Paperboard Box Manufacturing

Federal buyers in this code spent $223.90M across 9,629 awards from FY2001 to FY2026, sold through 72 distinct vendors. The largest buyer by far is GSA's Federal Supply Schedule office, with 6,386 awards worth $152.52M. Most of the rest comes from GSA regional and acquisition offices and from Treasury's U.S. Mint and Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The notice data does not say which specific products these buyers wanted, or whether purchases ran through schedules, open market orders, or other vehicles. Buyers in this code appear to favor a small number of standing channels over many open competitions.

The award sizes and competition picture point toward caution. The median award is only $1.2K, so most purchases are small, and the average is far above that because a few large awards sit at the top. Only 72 vendors won anything over more than two decades, which suggests a concentrated field. Set-aside coding is mostly "none recorded" or "NONE" (9,457 of 9,629 awards). Small business set-asides (SBA) account for 165 awards, and the rest are a handful of service-disabled veteran, 8(a), HUBZone-type, and women-owned codes, each with one to four awards. Active notices are zero, so there is no open solicitation to pursue today. A firm deciding whether to pursue this code would be weighing a thin current pipeline against a long record of small, repeat purchases through a few channels. The notice does not state whether a firm needs a schedule contract or other vehicle to compete for the larger awards.

Over the next year, watch the eight contracts worth a combined $702.6K that end within 12 months, since their expiration may open recompetition or follow-on buying. Watch whether GSA's schedule office keeps its dominant share and whether any new notices appear, because zero active notices today means the pipeline is empty on paper. Watch also whether set-aside coding changes, since the SBA-coded awards are the only sizable pool of set-aside work shown. The data does not give future budget levels or planned solicitations, so any forecast beyond these items would be outside what the record shows.