Basic Commerce & Industries Inc.

Basic Commerce & Industries Inc., doing business as B C I, a minority-owned, Subcontinent Asian American small business based in Moorestown, New Jersey, delivers systems engineering, technical analysis, and program management services to the Department of the Navy and federal civilian agencies as a prime contractor (84% of recent awards), with particular depth in surface Navy combat systems, aviation weather systems, radar technology, and integrated logistics support.

B C I competes predominantly in full-and-open competitions without set-aside designations across its recent prime portfolio, though the vendor holds two small-business set-aside vehicles: a $25 million SBIR Phase III IDIQ with the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command for man-portable Doppler radar system development and support, and a $6.96 million single-award indefinite delivery contract with Naval Information Warfare Systems Command for hazardous weather detection and display capability systems. The company's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the Navy. The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command anchors the portfolio with 118 awards worth $10.29 billion in combined potential value—97% of B C I's total pipeline. Naval Information Warfare Systems Command adds 41 awards worth $48.2 million. The Federal Aviation Administration Technical Center, the second-largest customer by count, represents 68 awards worth $180.9 million, supporting aviation weather research, NextGen Weather Processor development, and weather observation initiatives. The Department of the Army trails with six research, development, and engineering awards worth $12.7 million, plus one $25 million SBIR Phase III IDIQ for radar systems. Across all named federal agencies, B C I serves 21 distinct customer organizations.

B C I's recent activity has accelerated sharply. Awards-per-year volume jumped from eight in 2022 to a peak of 41 in 2024, with 13 in 2025 and seven so far in 2026. Nine awards carrying combined potential value of $146.9 million will reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, exposing the vendor to near-term recompete risk. The largest single award is a $94.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order issued by Naval Sea Systems Command on June 1, 2026, under the Seaport Next Generation (Seaport-NXG) contract vehicle, running through November 30, 2031, for technical systems safety engineering analysis and management support across surface Navy combat and weapon systems. B C I holds 39 delivery orders under Seaport-NXG with combined potential value of $235.7 million, establishing this Navy-administered vehicle as the largest dollar vehicle in the portfolio. Additional significant prime contracts include a $6.96 million HWDDC systems and support contract awarded by Naval Information Warfare Systems Command in January 2026, and multiple delivery orders under the $25.68 million FAA Technical Center single-award IDIQ for aviation weather technical and engineering support (running through December 2026), where recent task orders span NextGen Weather Processor development, terminal precipitation measurement systems, and cloud services for aviation weather, with individual orders ranging from $353 thousand to $1.4 million.

B C I also holds a newly awarded $151 billion multiple-award indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract under the Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, effective December 29, 2025, through December 28, 2035, for advanced multi-domain defense research, development, prototyping, systems engineering, and production support. An initial delivery order for five hundred dollars was placed at award. The other top vehicles include Navy indefinite delivery contracts N6554002D0002 (77 task orders, $2.1 million combined potential value), N6554099D0079 (30 task orders, unspecified value), and N6600115D0061 (24 task orders, $5.2 million), plus the FAA Technical Center's Indefinite Delivery Contract DTFACT16D00001 (37 task orders, $43.1 million).

B C I operates predominantly as a prime builder of its own delivery teams. Across SCI-reported prime service contracts, subcontractor labor represents an average of 4 percent of total contractor hours, and only 24 named subcontractors appear across the SCI-reportable prime footprint. However, B C I also sits as a significant subcontractor to large defense primes. The vendor subcontracts heavily to BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services Inc. on Aegis weapon system and combat system engineering, test and evaluation, logistics, production, acquisition, cybersecurity, and management—with amendments dated into April 2026 covering multiple overseas and allied nation task systems. B C I also subs to Lockheed Martin Corporation on Aegis international program training and curriculum development and on AEGIS baseline development and certification efforts. Additional prime partners include Saab Inc. (software upgrade work for naval programs), Life Cycle Engineering Inc. (hull, mechanical, and electrical logistics support for surface ships and submarines), HII Fleet Support Group LLC (integrated logistics support for naval ship classes), Noblis MSD LLC (fleet new construction and in-service logistics support), Valkyrie Enterprises LLC (technical manuals and maintenance plan development for Navy hull and auxiliary systems), Delta Resources Inc. (C5I systems and warfare systems engineering support), Kilgore Flares Company LLC (option exercise support), Patchin Soluble Integrated Inc. (EPICS large contract support), and Research & Engineering Development LLC (human systems engineering follow-on support). The subcontract work spans warfare systems, combat systems modernization, and shipboard logistics support, positioning B C I as a critical technology partner in Navy modernization.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue from prime federal service contracts above the $150 thousand threshold grew from $18.4 million in FY2023 (81.9 FTEs) to $24.6 million in FY2024 (105 FTEs). However, the SCI dataset captures only a narrow slice of federal services work; the same period shows SCI-derived FTE counts climbing to 239 total FTEs across all records (prime and sub combined) in FY2024, reflecting substantial unreported work volume likely comprising classified contracts, products, goods, and non-SCI-reportable arrangements. Government-paid hourly rates for SCI-reportable prime labor run from a tenth-percentile floor of $97.96 per hour through a median of $106.24 per hour, to a ninety-percentile ceiling of $121.38 per hour, positioning the vendor in a mid-market technical services rate band. The engineering-services NAICS category dominates the portfolio with 245 awards; research-and-development services account for 74 awards across life sciences, physical, and engineering domains. Top performance specification codes center on engineering and technical support (201 awards) and defense research and development services (43 awards combined).

ENGINEERING MATERIAL SUPPLY, ENGINEERING SYSTEM INTEGRATION, COMPUTER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE, ENGINEERING CONSULTANCY; ELECTRICAL, MECHANICAL AND CIVIL; SOFTWARE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, TESTING, VERIFICATION AND MAINTENANCE, SYSTEM ANALYSIS, MODELING AND SIMU