Empire Hospitality LLC

Empire Hospitality LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Vancouver, Washington, delivers temporary lodging, meals, transportation, and applicant management services to federal agencies as a prime contractor on 710 awards (99% of recent activity). The company competes predominantly full-and-open rather than set-aside—only a small fraction of its awards carry set-aside designations—and holds a self-certified SDB posture across its portfolio.

Empire's customer concentration is extreme and singular. The Department of the Army Headquarters Office of the Secretary dominates both volume and dollars: 206 awards (55% of the recent award count tracked in the top-customer block) worth $1.04 billion in combined potential value, representing 91% of the vendor's total potential value portfolio. This concentration anchors almost entirely to a single parent vehicle, the MEPS Applicant Management Services $181 million multiple-award IDIQ (Indefinite Delivery Contract W9124D18D0003), under which Empire holds 48 task orders worth $99.9 million. A second Army IDIQ (W9124D12D0052) carries 77 task orders worth $100.1 million. Together, these two vehicles represent the majority of Empire's federal footprint. Representative recent awards include a $2.82 million delivery order for Sacramento MEPS applicant management services (May 2026), a $3.74 million delivery order for Seattle MEPS applicant management services (April 2025), and a $3.1 million delivery order for New York MEPS applicant management services (April 2025)—all firm-fixed-price delivery orders with no set-aside designation under the Army MEPS IDIQ.

Beyond Army MEPS work, Empire maintains secondary relationships with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (65 awards, $18.5 million), the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (18 awards, $42 million—notably a $15.5 million San Diego lodging definitive contract from June 2022), the Department of the Air Force Air National Guard (55 awards, $4.7 million), and the Department of the Air Force Research Laboratory (6 awards, $10.2 million). Empire also sits on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (157 task orders, $9.3 million) and holds several single-award and multiple-award BPAs with the Air National Guard ($250 thousand to $750 thousand ceilings) and a single-award BPA with the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center ($691,920, awarded November 2025). A recent addition is a $3 million ATF hotel lodging IDIQ awarded September 2025.

Empire's capability portfolio is narrowly defined: it is fundamentally a hospitality and lodging logistics vendor. The MEPS work comprises the preponderance of its dollar value and involves providing temporary lodging, meals, transportation, and administrative support services for military applicants processing through Military Entrance Processing Stations nationwide at locations including Knoxville, Spokane, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, Anchorage, Buffalo, San Jose, Houston, and dozens of others. FEMA work centers on disaster recovery housing resources property management and temporary shelter support following hurricanes and declared disasters. Air Force Research Laboratory and Air National Guard work involves lodging for personnel attending training assemblies, aerospace medicine programs, and drill events. The company characterizes itself (and award documents confirm) as providing "comprehensive hospitality services including temporary lodging, meals, transportation, and property management support to federal agencies."

Empire operates at significant scale. The vendor reported 715 total awards in recent federal activity, with 20 awards in 2026 (year-to-date through June), 36 in 2025, 53 in 2024, 45 in 2023, and 37 in 2022—indicating sustained high transaction volume despite slight year-over-year decline. Combined potential value across all awards is $1.22 billion, though only $201.4 million (16%) has been obligated. This gap reflects the nature of the MEPS IDIQ and similar indefinite-delivery vehicles, which carry high ceilings but deliver funding via task order. Twenty-five awards are scheduled for completion within the next twenty-four months with combined potential value of $53.3 million, representing modest recompete exposure relative to the total portfolio but concentrated in the MEPS vehicle space where Empire faces renewal risk.

Empire Hospitality operates with named subsidiaries, including Empire Hattiesburg LLC, Empire Birmingham LLC, Empire Biloxi LLC, Empire Jackson Ridgeland LLC, and Empire Ridgeland LLC—suggesting geographic or operational segmentation, likely aligned with FEMA disaster recovery regions or MEPS facility clusters. The subsidiary structure may facilitate property management, compliance with state lodging regulations, or operational separation for disaster housing programs. The vendor's top NAICS codes reflect its core mission: Hotels (except Casino Hotels) and Motels (411 awards), Lessors of Residential Buildings and Dwellings (170 awards), and Travel Arrangement Services (64 awards). The company subcontracts minimally—only 5 awards (1%) are sub-awards, indicating Empire performs nearly all work directly as prime.

Empire's federal market position is narrow but entrenched. It is a single-customer-dependent vendor with Army accounting for 85% of potential value and MEPS work representing the strategic heartland of its business. This posture carries both strength—long-standing relationships with Army recruitment infrastructure and recurring annual funding—and vulnerability, as the MEPS IDIQ represents a single recompete event that could reshape the vendor's entire portfolio. The company's ability to scale operations across dozens of MEPS locations, manage disaster housing property during hurricane seasons, and maintain compliance with Federal lodging standards demonstrates operational maturity, but the lack of diversification across customer agencies and mission areas makes Empire a specialized play in the federal hospitality services space.