Bell And Howell, LLC

Bell And Howell, LLC, operating as Bell & Howell Mail And Messaging Technologies Co, is a Durham, North Carolina-based for-profit limited liability company that manufactures and maintains mail processing automation equipment and software for federal agencies as a prime contractor (82% of recent awards) and subcontractor. The vendor competes full-and-open across its prime footprint with no SBA set-aside designations at the prime contract level, though recent BPA calls have carried Total Small Business set-aside designations.

Bell & Howell's federal capability centers on hardware and software maintenance, parts supply, and technical support for specialized mail automation systems — inserters, sorters, and card personalization equipment — deployed across civilian agencies. Recent representative work includes a $28.5 million definitive contract awarded by the Internal Revenue Service on August 1, 2023 for hardware and software maintenance of mail inserters at Ogden, Utah and Detroit locations through January 31, 2028; an $8.1 million IRS maintenance contract for inserter operations at Detroit and Ogden sites from February 2022 through July 2023; a $1.03 million Department of Veterans Affairs definitive contract awarded October 1, 2022 for service, maintenance, and technical upgrades to Phillipsburg Mailstar mail handling equipment through September 30, 2027; and a $388,440 U.S. Census Bureau purchase order for Gunther Champion software support services through September 30, 2027. The vendor also holds a multiple-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with an unnamed Headquarters Division (ceiling $27,888, through March 26, 2030), against which two task orders have been issued — a $27,888 Total Small Business set-aside maintenance call awarded March 27, 2025 and a $29,282 full-and-open equipment and software support call awarded March 27, 2026.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Internal Revenue Service, which accounts for 14 awards carrying $52 million in combined potential value — 96% of the vendor's total dollar pipeline. The Department of Commerce's U.S. Census Bureau places the second-largest order volume (18 awards) but carries only $795 thousand in combined value, reflecting a pattern of smaller parts and maintenance calls. The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Selective Service System, and the Department of Veterans Affairs complete the active customer set, with USCIS and FBI driven by subcontract work rather than prime awards.

The vendor sits on three named indefinite delivery vehicles: Indefinite Delivery Contract 70SBUR24D00000002 (7 task orders), Blanket Purchase Agreement 15F06725A0000260 (2 task orders, $57 thousand), and Indefinite Delivery Contract 70SBUR19D00000001 (2 task orders). Awards per year show volatility — nine in 2022, declining to three in 2023, rebounding to nine in 2024, then softening to five in 2025 and three in 2026 — with five awards carrying $30 million in combined potential value completing within the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete risk. In its subcontractor role, Bell & Howell performs maintenance, consumables supply, and optional testing for card personalization system equipment at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services production facilities in Corbin, Kentucky and Lee's Summit, Missouri under General Dynamics Information Technology as prime, with nine sub-awards issued between February 2024 and February 2026. Performance locations span Durham and North Chicago for the vendor's own operations and multiple federal sites (Ogden, Detroit, Holtsville, Memphis, Corbin, Lee's Summit, Hines) for customer-sited maintenance work.

We provide mailing equipment, service and software solutions as well as service and software upgrades.