Autocares Rico SA

Autocares Rico SA, a Spanish for-profit bus operator based in San Fernando, Cádiz, and operating through its Rico Bus division, provides daily commute and special-education student transportation services and commercial bus services to Department of Defense activities in Spain exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards). The vendor competes full-and-open with no set-aside designations across all federal work, holding three significant IDVs spanning student transportation, naval personnel support, and visiting-ship crew movements at Naval Station Rota and outlying areas.

Customer concentration is extreme and inward-facing to defense Spain operations. The Department of Defense Education Activity accounts for $59.7 million (88% of combined potential value) across 54 awards, while the broader Department of the Navy — fragmented across Fleet Forces Command (Atlantic), Installations Command, Naval Supply Systems Command, and Military Sealift Command — represents the remaining customer base with materially smaller individual task orders ($70 thousand to $789 thousand). The split reflects two distinct business lines: a $15.5 million single-award IDC with DoDEA through January 2030 driving the bulk of dollar concentration, and dozens of smaller BPA calls from Navy entities ranging from $981 to $34 thousand per transaction.

The DoDEA vehicle (Indefinite Delivery Contract N3319100D1166) anchors the portfolio with 60 task orders and a $15.5 million ceiling for student school daily commute and special-education transportation in Rota and Sevilla through January 2030. Task orders in this vehicle average in the high six-figure range and typically cover quarterly or semi-annual transportation blocks; recent delivery orders include $917.6 thousand (November 2025, through July 2026), $898.5 thousand (November 2024, through July 2025), and $324.8 thousand (August 2024, through October 2024). A multiple-award Blanket Purchase Agreement (N6817122A6008) with Navy Installations Command, awarded March 2, 2026, with a $350 thousand ceiling through March 2031, carries 30 task orders for commercial bus services to visiting ships personnel. A single-award BPA with Naval Supply Systems Command ($250 thousand ceiling, September 2027) and an Indefinite Delivery Contract with Installations Command (HE128009D0015, $5.6 million, 11 task orders) round out the vehicle footprint. Autocares Rico operates exclusively in Spain; place of performance for all work is Rota, Sevilla, or Naval Station Rota and outlying areas.

Activity trajectory shows decline from peak volumes. Awards per year fell from 17 in 2022 to 7 in 2026 (as of August 2026), with modest recent activity — nine awards in 2025 and seven year-to-date in 2026. Only one award with ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months (the August 2026 DoDEA delivery order, $387 thousand, completing October 31, 2026) appears in the recompete cliff, indicating the vendor's major vehicle ceiling ($15.5 million DoDEA IDC) extends well beyond the immediate horizon. Combined obligated dollars ($27.1 million) already exceed the stated ceiling; the source notes this total spans the contractor's entire federal portfolio, suggesting obligation rates fluctuate with operational demand.

NAICS concentration aligns with bus transportation: School and Employee Bus Transportation and Charter Bus Industry each account for 48 awards, with 50 awards mapped to Truck, Utility Trailer, and RV Rental and Leasing. PSC coding is dominated by Passenger Motor Charter (149 awards) and Motor Passenger Transportation (32 awards). The vendor operates no subcontract footprint and holds no positions on government-wide vehicles or commercial catalog contracts; all work flows directly from Navy and DoDEA contracting offices in Spain. Autocares Rico registered in the System for Award Management in 2009 and competes consistently in the federal marketplace without small-business designations, reflecting a foreign-owned commercial transportation enterprise focused on serving U.S. military communities abroad.