Bushtex Inc.

Bushtex Inc., a Gilbert, Arizona-based woman-owned small business, supplies satellite communications equipment, airtime services, internet connectivity, and field technical support to civilian federal agencies as a prime contractor (93% of recent awards). The company holds SBA certifications as a Women-Owned Small Business and Self-Certified Small Disadvantaged Business with minority-owned (Asian-Pacific American) designations, and operates as a Subchapter S corporation. Bushtex competes predominantly in full-and-open and small-business-set-aside categories; roughly 40% of recent prime awards carry woman-owned small business or total small business set-asides.

Customer concentration is extreme and State Department–specific. The Department of State's regional bureaus account for the vast majority of activity by award count: the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, the Bureau of Information Resource Management, the Bureau of African Affairs, and the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs collectively represent 91 awards (66% of total recent awards), with combined potential value of roughly $20.4 million. Bushtex also works with the General Services Administration (1.5% of awards by count but 99% of potential value), the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the U.S. Geological Survey. The massive dollar concentration is driven by two indefinite delivery vehicles on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule: a $10.8 million Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Bureau of Information Resource Management (effective through September 15, 2026) and a $500 thousand Federal Supply Schedule contract (through December 1, 2029). A third vehicle, the $4.5 million SATCOM REACH Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Department of State's Bureau of Information Resource Management (awarded March 15, 2024, completion date September 14, 2025), anchors State Department task order activity; 87 task orders under this BPA carry $7.4 million in combined potential value.

Bushtex's capability footprint centers on satellite communications infrastructure and remote connectivity. Prime awards cover Ku-band and C-band satellite space segment procurement, Iridium and BGAN satellite phone provisioning, SIM card activation and renewal, Starlink and Starshield internet service resale, satellite terminal and ground-station equipment leasing (including motorized antenna systems in the 3.8–9 meter range, priced $14,508–$56,130 monthly), temporary field facilities deployment, field technician dispatch, travel support, and satellite communications program management labor. Representative named awards include a $1.98 billion delivery order from the Bureau of Information Resource Management for Starshield service (completion November 13, 2025, placed September 16, 2024 under MAS), a $4.5 million SATCOM phone renewal BPA call through the U.S. Embassy in Accra, Ghana (May 30, 2025), a $385,512 woman-owned small business BPA call from the Bureau of African Affairs for satellite communications services (September 16, 2025), and a $336 thousand total small business set-aside purchase order from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for BGAN Inmarsat satellite telephone and IP communications services spanning fixed office to austere locations (February 10, 2025, completion February 9, 2030). The GSA Schedule labor portfolio includes three nonclearable roles—Project Engineer ($140.49/hr, bachelor's degree, 8 years experience), Technical Staff ($98.35/hr, bachelor's degree, 4 years experience), and Engineering Technician IV ($70.25/hr, associate degree, 4 years experience)—spanning satellite communications systems integration, equipment configuration, and field operations support across the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and U.S. territories.

Activity trajectory shows explosive growth concentrated in 2024 and early 2025. Awards per year jumped from 1 in 2018 to 89 in 2024, with 36 awards in 2025 and 4 recent awards in 2026 (through mid-June). Twenty-one awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $2 million and face recompete. SCI-reported service-contract invoicing shows minimal large-contract activity: no invoiced revenue recorded as prime in FY2022 or FY2023, with roughly 7.4 FTEs recorded across SCI-reportable work in FY2022 and 2.8 FTEs in FY2024 as a subcontractor. The gap between SCI absence and the $91 million in obligated dollars reflects Bushtex's business model: the majority of recent awards are goods procurements (satellite equipment, SIM cards, internet service subscriptions) and equipment-leasing arrangements that fall outside the SCI reporting threshold.

Bushtex operates primarily as a prime contractor but maintains a secondary subcontractor footprint under General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and CACI Inc. on defense programs. Named subcontract work includes satellite communications and Ku-band space segment support, satellite terminal labor and leasing under General Atomics' U.S. Marine Corps Joint Systems Integration Lab training exercises (multiple task orders, January 2023 through July 2025), and IT management services and other direct costs under CACI (October 2024 and July 2024). The sub footprint is small relative to prime work and concentrated on two primes. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Bushtex uses zero average subcontractor hours, meaning delivery is almost entirely performed by the vendor's direct staff.

The $8.63 billion combined potential value across 138 awards reflects outsized vehicle ceilings. The two GSA vehicles alone ($10.8 million BPA and $500 thousand Schedule contract) account for $11.3 million in statutory ceiling value, but the $1.98 billion Starshield delivery order dominates the aggregate. However, obligated dollars tell a more realistic utilization story: only $91 million (1% of potential value) has been obligated to date, indicating these are indefinite, task-order-driven vehicles where actual spend lags announced ceilings substantially. Recent activity remains concentrated in smaller tactical orders under State Department BPAs—most ranging from $883 to $385 thousand—rather than drawdowns against the large GSA ceilings.

Woman, minority-owned small business, GSA Schedule with 20 years experience specializing in customized satellite communication solutions worldwide - efficiently, quickly, and in realtime.