USTRANSCOM Universal Service Contract-8

The Department of the Army Materiel Command Surface Deployment and Distribution Command established this Master IDIQ on February 2, 2016, to procure international ocean cargo transportation and distribution services for global force deployment, sustainment, and redeployment. The vehicle's ordering period closed on August 31, 2019, and no new task orders may be placed against it, rendering it unavailable for new pursuit.

The vehicle is closed to new ordering as of 2019 and should not be pursued for business development purposes. While 896 task orders were awarded under the vehicle and $2.5 billion in combined potential value was fully obligated, all ordering authority expired nearly seven years ago. Recent task order activity, though sparse, reflects residual completion and administrative actions: only two orders were awarded in 2025, eleven in 2024, and nine in 2023, compared to 42 in 2021. Most recent awards, such as HTC71116DW014-HTC71125F7556 (April 2025, $134,975.76) and HTC71116DW013-HTC71125F7310 (February 2025, $14,300), are minimal in value and represent tail activity against an exhausted vehicle.

Task orders funded ocean and intermodal transportation services for consolidated shipments executed by decentralized ordering officers, with pricing fixed or fixed-price-with-economic-price-adjustment structures and individual order values typically ranging from several hundred dollars to several million dollars. The largest single order on record was HTC71116DW002-HTC71122F8938 (July 2021) to $4,079,121.12.

Competition concentrated among five ocean carriers: Maersk Line, LIMITED (65 orders, $612 million combined potential value), American President Lines, LLC (62 orders, $544.4 million), Liberty Global Logistics LLC (65 orders, $259.4 million), American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier, LLC (56 orders, $228.4 million), and Matson Navigation Company, Inc. (44 orders, $187.6 million). These five primes held 73 percent of combined potential value across 29 total awardees. Customer demand concentrated almost exclusively within the Surface Deployment and Distribution Command, which placed 853 of 896 orders.

All 896 task orders carried no set-aside designation, reflecting unrestricted competition among qualified ocean carriers.

As a component command of the United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC) has a requirment to provide ocean terminal, commercial ocean liner and distribution services to deploy, sustain and redeploy US forces on a global basis. As such, this Master IDIQ is for providing international cargo transportation and distribution services using ocean common or contract carriers, as defined in the Shipping Act of 1984, offering regularly scheduled commercial liner service for requirements that may arise in any part of the world, including service covered by the Jones Act.