Connect International Group LLC

Connect International Group LLC, a minority-owned, Black American-owned sole proprietorship and self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Laveen Village, Arizona, supplies telecommunications and logistics support services to the Department of the Navy and U.S. Agency for Global Media as a prime contractor operating exclusively in full-and-open procurements with no set-aside usage across its recent federal footprint.

The vendor's award footprint is narrow and recent. Seven total prime awards spanning the past thirteen years (first award in 2013, next activity in 2025–2026) carry combined potential value of $543 thousand, with $293 thousand obligated to date. The Department of the Navy dominates both volume and dollars — three awards across Navy components (the office of Naval Supply Systems Command, U.S. Fleet Forces Europe-Africa, and a general Navy purchase order) account for $509 thousand combined potential value. The largest single award is a $256,750 firm fixed-price purchase order from the Navy dated April 13, 2026, for tax exoneration documentation services requiring direct engagement with the Federal Government of Somalia and Federal Member States to secure approvals from multiple Somali ministries; work is performed in Djibouti with completion scheduled for April 21, 2027. The U.S. Agency for Global Media (and its Voice of America division) accounts for the remainder — three awards totaling $30 thousand, and one additional $4 thousand award. Connect International holds a Blanket Purchase Agreement from Naval Supply Systems Command (ceiling $250 thousand, effective January 6, 2025 through January 5, 2030) for SIM card procurement and serves as a vendor on two Voice of America BPAs under which two task orders valued at $30 thousand combined have been placed.

One award — the $256,750 Navy tax exoneration contract — reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and represents the primary recompete exposure. The vendor's category concentration spans telecommunications equipment manufacturing, telecommunications reseller services, and management consulting, with work performed primarily in Djibouti and direct engagements in Somalia. Connect International has not held any federal IDVs, GWACs, or parent contract vehicles beyond its assigned seat on the two Voice of America BPAs and the Naval Supply Systems Command SIM card BPA.