Charter Communications Holdings LLC

Charter Communications Holdings LLC, doing business as Charter Communications, is a large for-profit telecommunications and cable television provider competing as a prime contractor (95% of recent awards) in full-and-open federal procurements without set-aside protections. Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, Charter operates through parent Charter Communications Inc. and regional subsidiaries including Spectrum Northeast LLC, Spectrum Gulf Coast LLC, and Spectrum Mid-America LLC. The company delivers cable television, high-speed internet, and telecommunications infrastructure services to federal agencies across 28 customer organizations, anchored by recurring purchase orders and blanket purchase agreements for basewide cable and internet connectivity at military installations, federal correctional facilities, and civilian agency offices.

Charter's federal customer base concentrates across Department of Justice agencies (Drug Enforcement Administration and Bureau of Prisons account for 27 of the company's 91 recent awards) and the Department of Defense, with the Department of Veterans Affairs and Environmental Protection Agency rounding out active relationships. By potential dollar value, however, the top five customers diverge sharply from award count: the Department of the Air Force dominates at $600 thousand combined potential value across two awards, followed by VA-VHA Veterans Integrated Service Networks 8, 23, and 20 with $466 thousand, $220 thousand, and $88 thousand respectively. The Air Force's $600 thousand represents two significant Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity blanket purchase agreements for basewide cable, internet, and telecommunications services; these IDIQs anchor Charter's largest single vehicle footprint. An Air Force blanket purchase agreement (BPA FA481421A0006) has generated nine task orders carrying $183 thousand in combined potential value.

Recent representative work spans quarterly spectrum cable service purchase orders to the U.S. Penitentiary Leavenworth (multiple awards ranging from $1,026 to $5,236 per quarter throughout 2024–2026), BPA calls from the U.S. Marine Corps for basewide cable and internet services ($31 thousand and $15 thousand respectively), and a sole-source purchase order to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for cable and internet service at its New York regional office ($32 thousand). Charter also provided television subscription services to VA-VHA VISN 8 in Tampa, Florida ($20 thousand) and internet services to the U.S. Coast Guard's National Maritime Law Enforcement Academy in Washington under a five-year purchase order with a $18.9 thousand ceiling. Award activity has declined year over year (seven awards in 2022 to two in 2026 year-to-date), with only one award reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete. Charter subcontracts minimally—only five sub-awards appear in recent data, including a General Dynamics Information Technology technology-refresh services engagement and four sub-grant fiber-placement-and-splicing awards from county-level infrastructure connectivity recipients.

The company's federal footprint concentrates in two NAICS codes: Cable and Other Subscription Programming (32 awards) and Wired Telecommunications Carriers (36 awards across three related classifications), reflecting its core service delivery profile. Primary PSC categories follow suit—IT and Telecom (Telecommunications and Transmission and Other IT and Telecommunications account for 24 awards, with satellite communications and network-as-a-service procurement adding 15 more). Charter competes predominantly for ongoing operational telecommunications needs at federal installations rather than IT modernization or infrastructure transformation work; the typical award cycle runs quarterly or annually, with low individual ceiling values and high repeat business from the same installations year after year.