Non-Lethal and Blank Fire Training Ammunition 2012-2017

The Department of Homeland Security Federal Law Enforcement Training Center awarded a Master IDIQ for non-lethal marking and blank fire training ammunition on November 15, 2012, with ordering closed as of May 14, 2018.

This vehicle is no longer active for new orders. The ordering period ended eight years and two months ago, and the combined task-order potential value of $4.6 million has been fully obligated across 49 delivery orders issued between December 2012 and May 2018.

Scope consists entirely of non-lethal training ammunition: 9mm FX marking cartridges, 9mm man-marker rounds (MMR), 5.56mm man-marker rounds, and related calibers in red and blue variants. Task orders specify unit quantities ranging from thousands to hundreds of thousands of rounds per order, with firm fixed-price structures and typical completion windows of two to five months.

Competition concentrated heavily on two primes. General Dynamics Ordnance And Tactical Systems – Simunition Operations, Inc. held 34 orders valued at $3.3 million (71% of potential value), while UTM LIMITED held 15 orders valued at $1.3 million (29%). No other primes competed under this vehicle.

Demand originated across eight agencies but skewed sharply toward DHS internal customers. The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center placed 31 orders ($2.1 million), followed by DHS Chief Procurement Officer (4 orders, $1.4 million), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (6 orders, $139 thousand), and Transportation Security Administration (3 orders, $402 thousand). Interior Department National Park Service Pacific West Region placed 2 orders totaling $3 thousand. All 49 task orders carried no set-aside designation.

Order volume peaked in 2015 with 12 awards, declining to 3 awards in 2018 as the vehicle approached expiration. Individual task-order values ranged from $676 to $794.7 thousand, with the largest single order issued September 17, 2014 to General Dynamics (marking charges for CBP, $794.7 thousand).

The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), Glynco, Georgia, has awarded a Master IDIQ for different calibers of non-lethal marking and blank fire cartridges for law enforcement firearms training courses.