Federal spend by industry (NAICS)

How much does the federal government spend under NAICS 423840 (Industrial Supplies Merchant Wholesalers), and who wins the contracts?

Name: Industrial Supplies Merchant Wholesalers (NAICS 423840) — federal contract spending
Creator: Fonteum
License: https://www.usa.gov/government-works

Federal prime-contract spending under NAICS 423840 (Industrial Supplies Merchant Wholesalers), as the public record states it — total obligated, the contractors who win the work, the agencies that buy it, and the fiscal-year trend, stated as exact dated facts with their source, never a score or label. Confirm the full picture at USASpending.gov →

The federal government has $519,112 obligated across 20 prime-award actions on file to 7 contractors under NAICS 423840 (Industrial Supplies Merchant Wholesalers), on the prime-award records Fonteum currently holds. Every figure is an exact USASpending.gov fact — no score, no label; confirm the full picture at USASpending.gov.

At a glance

$519,112

Obligated across prime awards on file

Prime-award actions on file

Distinct contractors

Distinct awarding agencies

Top contractors — largest recipients of Industrial Supplies Merchant Wholesalers awards

Contractor	Award actions	Obligated	Share of obligated $
PRIMUS GROUP, INC., THE	4	$330,328	63.6%
DASHTI SANAT LOGISTICS AND GE NERAL CONTACTING	1	$60,000	11.6%
HANES SUPPLY, INC.	1	$59,670	11.5%
SEATTLE BARREL CO	11	$45,700	8.8%
CHCH, INC.	1	$14,521	2.8%
KALOTECH, INCORPORATED	1	$6,000	1.2%
KLA INTERNATIONAL, INC.	1	$2,894	0.6%

Top 7 of 7 contractors on file, by obligated dollars. A high obligation is an exact fact, not an endorsement. Each named contractor links to its canonical federal contractor record.

Source: USASpending.gov award record. Confirm current status at SAM.gov →

Who buys Industrial Supplies Merchant Wholesalers — top awarding agencies

Awarding agency	Award actions	Obligated	Share of obligated $
Department of Homeland Security	5	$333,222	64.2%
Department of Defense	15	$185,891	35.8%

Source: USASpending.gov award record. Confirm current status at SAM.gov →

Set-aside reliance

How much of the federal spending under Industrial Supplies Merchant Wholesalers runs through a small-business or socioeconomic set-aside vehicle — an exact ratio of public dollars, not an eligibility determination.

Obligations via set-aside vehicles

Set-aside award actions

Total award actions on file

Source: USASpending.gov award record. Confirm current status at SAM.gov →

Obligations by fiscal year (the YoY trend)

Federal fiscal year	Award actions	Obligated
FY2016	1	$60,000
FY2015	1	$58,859
FY2014	2	$107,867
FY2013	1	$86,011
FY2012	2	$98,111
FY2011	2	$6,194
FY2010	6	$76,170
FY2009	3	$16,300
FY2008	2	$9,600

Federal fiscal years run October 1 – September 30. Showing the most recent 9 of 9 years with award actions on file.

Source: USASpending.gov award record. Confirm current status at SAM.gov →

Largest awards on record

Award ID (PIID)	Awarding agency	Signed	Obligated	Award type
HSSS0114J0188	Department of Homeland Security	2014-06-24	$101,867	DELIVERY ORDER
HSSS0113J0134	Department of Homeland Security	2013-05-31	$86,011	DELIVERY ORDER
HSSS0112J0321	Department of Homeland Security	2012-09-26	$83,590	DELIVERY ORDER
W56KGZ16P7004	Department of Defense	2016-06-25	$60,000	PURCHASE ORDER
N6230610P4001	Department of Defense	2010-01-04	$59,670	PO

Prime-award actions only — sub-award (subcontract) records are not ingested. Confirm the full award history at USASpending.gov →

Source: USASpending.gov award record. Confirm current status at SAM.gov →

What this NAICS code covers

NAICS 423840 is Industrial Supplies Merchant Wholesalers in the North American Industry Classification System — the standard the federal government uses to classify what it buys. The U.S. Small Business Administration sets a small-business size standard (a receipts or employee threshold) per NAICS code, used to decide who qualifies for small-business set-asides.

Reference	Source
NAICS 423840 definition	U.S. Census Bureau (NAICS 2022)
Small-business size standard for NAICS 423840	U.S. Small Business Administration

How to read this profile

This page reports exact public-record facts and assigns no score or label. An obligated-dollar figure is an exact sum over USASpending.gov prime awards on the records Fonteum currently holds; it is a bounded slice of the federal corpus, not a completeness claim, and it is not a budget or forecast. Contractors are named only as the neutral recipients of public awards. The award footprint fills in as the federal award-archive backfill runs.

Related federal-contracting evidence

Reviewed by the Fonteum Government Contracts Desk. Federal procurement records analysts. This study reports exact regulatory facts — an award's signed date and an exclusion's active window, each sourced to SAM.gov and USASpending.gov. It makes no determination of wrongdoing and assigns no score.

Sources: USASpending.gov prime awards (U.S. Government Works, public domain) for the spending figures; U.S. Census Bureau (NAICS 2022) for the industry title; U.S. Small Business Administration for the size standard. Confirm any current figure at usaspending.gov. Canonical record: https://fonteum.com/gov/naics/423840. Industry data as of 2026-08-06.