Indefinite Delivery Contract SPE60225D0481

Calumet Montana Refining, LLC (doing business as M R C) was awarded a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract by the Defense Logistics Agency Energy on September 26, 2025, with a ceiling value of $3,348,510.80 and a performance period through September 30, 2026. The contract procures aviation turbine fuels and naval distillate products, specifically JP-5, Jet A, JA-1, and F-76, to support Department of Defense fuel requirements across the Rocky Mountain, West Coast, and Offshore regions. The contractor, a specialty petroleum products manufacturer located in Great Falls, Montana, will deliver these refined petroleum products through various transportation modes including tanker, barge, truck, railcar, and pipeline to supply critical fuel resources for military aviation and naval operations. No set-aside designation was used for the awarded contract, allowing the contractor to compete in an unrestricted environment as a prime contractor.

The underlying procurement opportunity was initially posted as a pre-solicitation notice on November 12, 2024, with responses due by December 12, 2024, and was structured as a total small business set-aside solicitation. The government sought to procure estimated annual quantities of aviation turbine fuels ranging from 89 million to 626 million gallons under an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity vehicle with fixed-price economic price adjustment terms, designating approximately 31 percent of fuel quantity for small business concerns. Despite the pre-solicitation notice targeting small business participation and Women-Owned Small Business considerations, the contract was ultimately awarded to Calumet Montana Refining without a small business set-aside, indicating either a change in procurement strategy or competitive circumstances that resulted in the unrestricted award to the single awardee under the Defense Logistics Agency Energy's bulk petroleum products program.