Blue Origin, LLC

Blue Origin, LLC, doing business as Blue Origin Florida LLC, operates as a prime contractor delivering commercial space launch services, lunar payload delivery, and advanced aerospace technology development to federal agencies — primarily NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense — with no set-aside designations across a $29.3 billion combined potential value portfolio. The company is a for-profit limited liability corporation based in Merritt Island, Florida, and operates as a subsidiary of Blue Origin Washington, LLC. Blue Origin competes exclusively on full-and-open procurements across NAICS 481212 (Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation) and related aerospace manufacturing and research categories; the vendor holds no federal contract awards as a subcontractor and functions entirely as a prime.

Blue Origin's federal footprint centers on space launch services and lunar logistics. The company holds four delivery orders under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) IDIQ totaling $543.1 million in combined potential value, including a $234.2 million delivery order from Johnson Space Center (task order CX-2A, May 26, 2026, performance through August 30, 2027) and a $234.2 million parallel delivery order (task order CX-2B, same dates) for lunar payload delivery to the lunar surface at Merritt Island, Florida. Additional CLPS work includes a $56.1 million task order from Johnson Space Center (task order CS-7, September 16, 2025) and an $18.6 million delivery order from Glenn Research Center (task order CT-3, July 24, 2024). Blue Origin also executes national security space launch services under two major Space and Missile Systems Center vehicles: a $200 million delivery order under the National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 2 IDIQ (April 14, 2025, El Segundo, California) and a $5 million task order under the National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1 IDIQ (June 14, 2024). The company holds two primary IDIQ vehicles: the $2.386 billion National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 2 single-award contract running through April 2033, and the $5.6 billion National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1 multiple-award IDIQ through June 2029, both issued by Space and Missile Systems Center. Blue Origin also operates under the Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) Launch Services IDIQ from Kennedy Space Center (no ceiling specified, through January 2032), which has generated $302 million in two task orders including a $300 million umbrella delivery order for VADR services (March 29, 2023) and a $2 million delivery order for the ESCAPADE mission (February 9, 2023).

Customer concentration tilts heavily toward NASA Kennedy Space Center (4 awards, $15.3 billion) and Space and Missile Systems Center (7 awards, $9.18 billion), collectively representing most of the vendor's potential value, with Johnson Space Center (4 awards, $4.72 billion) and Armstrong Flight Research Center (1 award, $45 million) adding additional NASA activity. These four agencies account for 100% of combined potential value across the portfolio. Blue Origin also holds a $151 billion multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract from the Missile Defense Agency for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program (January 21, 2026, through December 2035), with an initial $500 task order issued January 21, 2026, and a $16.187 million Other Transaction prototype agreement from the Office of the Secretary of Defense (April 15, 2026, through April 2029).

Supporting capability development includes a $4.39 million firm fixed-price definitive contract from NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (April 30, 2025) to develop and assess end-to-end logistics and mobility architectures for lunar surface operations under NextSTEP-2, and a $1.37 million competitive definitive contract from the Air Force (August 1, 2025) under the Rocket Experimentation for Global Agile Logistics (REGAL) program for point-to-point space transportation demonstration. Blue Origin also holds a $45 million multiple-award IDIQ from NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center (November 4, 2024, through February 2029) for Flight Opportunities Program 4 flight and payload integration services using the New Shepard reusable suborbital launch system at Van Horn, Texas, and a $5.648 million Other Transaction IDV from DARPA (December 5, 2024) for rapid recycled rocket structures enabled by friction stir additive manufacturing. A $250 thousand purchase order from NASA Shared Services Center (August 20, 2024) covers Access to Space trade studies for the Geostationary Littoral Imaging and Monitoring Radiometer (GLIMR) instrument.

Eight awards (combined potential value $994.7 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure, including the two May 2026 CLPS delivery orders (August 2027 completion) and the April 2025 National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 2 $200 million delivery order (April 2027 completion). Recent activity has grown from one award in 2022 to six awards in the calendar year 2026 (through May), with five awards placed in 2025 and eight in 2024. The Service Contract Inventory dataset captures only limited Blue Origin activity — a strict subset above the $150,000 reporting threshold on federal service contracts — showing $17.1 million in SCI-reportable invoiced revenue across FY2023–FY2024 (FY2023: $6.8 million, FY2024: $10.3 million) delivered by roughly 4.4 to 6.6 FTEs; median government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reported prime contracts ran around $881/hr, with senior labor pricing through $1,003/hr. The SCI dataset excludes goods, products, classified contracts, and the vast majority of Blue Origin's federal revenue, which derives from launch services and hardware delivery orders under IDIQs rather than labor-hour service contracts. Blue Origin operates entirely through prime contracts and brings no named subcontractors into its federal delivery model; across SCI records, the vendor performed 100% of labor hours in-house with zero sub-hours share. The company maintains no recorded federal subcontract positions and does not serve as a feeder supplier to other primes.