# Atlantic Industrial Coatings **Atlantic Industrial Coatings** is a Virginia-based industrial coatings firm — highway culverts, pipes, roofs, chemical and water storage tanks — with **no swimming-pool portfolio and no prior federal contracting history** that received the no-bid contract to renovate and repaint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Its qualification was personal: the firm had worked on swimming pools at [[Donald Trump]]'s golf club, and Trump vouched for it in the Oval Office as his "pool guy." The award ran $6.9M (April 3, 2026) → $13.1M with overruns, at a ~20% profit margin vs. the 6–12% federal norm. See [[Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Renovation]] and [[Spending Gap - Efficiency Rhetoric vs. the No-Bid Reflecting Pool Contract]]. > Status: stub — expand with FPDS/SAM.gov award records and corporate history.