Aerodescargas Fronterizas, S.C.

Aerodescargas Fronterizas, S.C., a for-profit international organization based in Tijuana, Mexico, provides aerial pest-control and sterile insect-release services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a prime contractor under full-and-open competition, with no small business set-aside designations across its federal footprint. The vendor operates exclusively under USDA contract vehicles and serves only APHIS (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) as a customer.

Aerodescargas Fronterizas specializes in fixed-wing aircraft operations, pilot services, and government-supplied aircraft modification with insect-release equipment for transboundary fruit-fly control along the U.S.-Mexico border. The vendor maintains commercially licensed pilots with minimum 800 total flight hours and 200 pilot-in-command hours, operates GPS and flight-logging systems including AG-NAV Guia Gold tracking, and maintains compliance with Mexican aviation regulations. Concrete recent work includes a $351,771.20 firm-fixed-price delivery order (awarded August 1, 2025, ultimate completion July 31, 2026) for aerial sterile fruit-fly release in Reynosa, Mexico; a $212,097.60 delivery order for similar operations in Tijuana under the same award date; and a $313,149.12 delivery order issued August 1, 2026 for Reynosa aerial release with completion targeted for July 31, 2027.

Customer concentration is absolute: 100% of awards fund APHIS programs split between the Marketing and Regulatory Programs Business Services division (10 awards, $4.8 million combined potential value) and the International Services and Trade Support Team (6 awards, $3.5 million combined potential value). The vendor holds two parent IDCs: Indefinite Delivery Contract 12639520D0034 (11 task orders, $2 million combined potential value), which was the primary vehicle through mid-2025, and Indefinite Delivery Contract 12639525D0046 (3 task orders, $877 thousand combined potential value), awarded August 1, 2025 and running through July 31, 2030 at a $2.88 million ceiling. Activity has remained relatively flat at one to three awards per year across the 2022–2026 period, with only one award facing ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $313 thousand). The vendor operates purely as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint. Work is performed in Mexico (Tijuana and Reynosa) under NAICS 488490 (Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation) and PSC codes for air freight and other transportation services.