Colonial Oil Industries, Inc.

Colonial Oil Industries, Inc., doing business as Colonial Oil Industries, supplies diesel fuel, automotive gasoline, ethanol, and petroleum distillates and residuals to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor under a single-award indefinite-delivery contract with no overall set-aside designation, though the underlying solicitation carries 430 small business set-aside line items and 50 service-disabled veteran-owned small business set-aside line items.

Colonial Oil Industries is a small business based in Savannah, Georgia, structured as a for-profit corporate entity. The vendor competes in full-and-open procurement; all recent awards carry no set-aside designation at the delivery order level, though the parent IDIQ contract structure incorporates small business and SDVOSB set-aside allocations. The company operates exclusively as a prime contractor on its federal fuel portfolio, with minimal subcontract activity—only one historical fuel delivery sub-award to Weeks Marine, Inc. for harbor dredging support in Palm Beach, Florida (April 2025).

Colonial Oil Industries' federal footprint is almost entirely concentrated in bulk petroleum distribution. The Defense Logistics Agency Energy is the overwhelming customer, representing 98% of awards (2,425 awards, $180.1 million combined potential value) across a portfolio of 2,543 total awards spanning 1980 to April 2026. The company holds a single-award IDIQ contract (SPE60522D4009) with DLA Energy, awarded September 30, 2022, with a ceiling of $89,019,490.29 extending through July 31, 2027. Under this vehicle alone, Colonial Oil Industries has received 1,883 task orders valued at $41.6 million combined potential value—the vast majority as delivery orders issued in rapid succession with fixed-price pricing and economic price adjustment terms, individual order ceilings ranging from approximately $2,100 to over $414,000, and ultimate completion dates typically within days to weeks of award. Throughout 2025 alone, the company received over 200 delivery orders under this parent contract. A second IDIQ (SPE60521D8526) generated 475 task orders valued at $11 million; a third (SPE60521D4013) generated 63 task orders valued at $1.8 million. Ancillary customers include the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers (16 awards, $1.9 million), Department of the Navy (14 awards), Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons (5 awards, $80 thousand), and Department of Homeland Security US Coast Guard (2 awards, $43 thousand).

Activity has been heavy and volatile. The past five years show 410 awards in 2022, 795 in 2023, 694 in 2024, 420 in 2025, and 85 year-to-date in 2026 (through April 15). Combined potential value across all awards stands at $186.1 million, with $88 million (47% of potential value) obligated to date. The NAICS concentration is extreme: 2,447 awards (96% of the portfolio) fall under NAICS 324110 (Petroleum Refineries), with 11 under Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction and 2 under Support Activities for Oil and Gas Operations. Procurement Service Code distribution shows 1,794 awards coded to Fuel Oils (PSC 9130) and 733 to Liquid Propellants and Fuels, Petroleum Base (PSC 9410).

Place of performance spans Savannah, Georgia (operational headquarters and primary distribution base) and Garden City, Georgia, with delivery locations across multiple states to support DLA Energy distribution to military installations and federal civilian agencies. The company's federal contracting footprint dates to October 1980 in the source data, indicating decades of sustained federal fuel supply work. Colonial Oil Industries operates with no documented subcontractor involvement on its prime fuel delivery contracts, positioning itself as a direct supplier of bulk petroleum commodities rather than a logistics integrator or reseller.