Direct Charter Service, Inc.

Direct Charter Service, Inc., a small business headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, provides propeller aircraft operations and airborne threat simulation support to the Naval Air Warfare Center as a prime contractor under a single-award Total Small Business Indefinite Delivery Contract. The company operates exclusively as a prime (100% of recent awards) with no subcontracting footprint, competing under the Total Small Business set-aside on its parent IDV and across a mix of set-aside and full-and-open delivery orders.

Direct Charter Service holds a single, dominant customer relationship: the Department of the Navy's Naval Air Warfare Center accounts for all 12 awards in the source data, representing the full $37.5 million in combined potential value. The company's entire federal footprint flows through Indefinite Delivery Contract N0042124D0006, a $27.7 million, five-year Total Small Business IDV awarded March 28, 2024, with an ordering period extending through March 26, 2029. Since initial award, the Naval Air Warfare Center has issued eleven task orders under this IDV, ranging from approximately $5,500 to $4.2 million in individual ceiling value. Representative work includes a $4.2 million Year 1 fixed-monthly delivery order for Contracted Air Services issued August 28, 2024; a $4.2 million four-month CLIN 0002 modification issued August 28, 2025; a $327,800 delivery order supporting the Contracted Naval Air Warfare Program issued August 28, 2025; and a $46,976 delivery order for propeller aircraft operations issued March 16, 2026. Task orders support multiple naval commands including Commander, Naval Air Forces, the Surface Warfare Development Command, and the Contracted Naval Air Warfare Program, with work performed in Broomfield and Westminster, Colorado. Pricing structures are predominantly firm fixed-price, with one cost-plus-no-fee order, and individual orders fund specific Contract Line Items (0001 through 0007) within the master IDV framework.

Activity has grown from four awards in 2024 to seven in 2025, with one award in 2026. Of the twelve awards, seven carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months with combined potential value of $5.2 million, creating recompete exposure as those orders mature. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $9.8 million, representing 26% of combined potential value, indicating substantial remaining ordering capacity under the parent IDV. Direct Charter Service's capability portfolio is narrowly focused on naval aviation support — all twelve awards fall under NAICS code 5411 (Other Nonscheduled Air Transportation) and PSC Transportation/Travel/Relocation — Air Charter — with no diversification across customer agencies or service lines visible in recent federal work.