Audacy Operations, LLC

Audacy Operations, LLC, a subsidiary of Entercom Communications Corp., delivers radio and digital advertising services to federal agencies as a prime contractor and sub-recipient on health-equity grant programs, competing without set-aside designation in a market dominated by small-dollar purchase orders. Audacy is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and operates as a for-profit entity classified primarily under NAICS 541810 (Advertising Agencies) and PSC codes for management support and advertising services.

The vendor's federal footprint reflects two distinct business lines: direct advertising contracts with law enforcement, military, and veterans agencies, and sub-award participation in CDC-funded HIV prevention and surveillance programs routed through Los Angeles County. On the advertising side, Audacy's recent prime work includes a $625 thousand firm-fixed-price contract with the Veterans Integrated Service Network 1 (awarded September 2022, ultimate completion September 2025) for radio advertising on the Red Sox Radio Network supporting New England VA healthcare outreach; a $100 thousand FBI Headquarters Division hate crime reporting campaign BPA call (August 2021); a $81.2 thousand Total Small Business set-aside purchase order from the Louisiana Air National Guard for recruitment advertising (October 2025, completion March 2026); and smaller purchase orders from the Drug Enforcement Administration for opioid-prevention and community-summit digital media campaigns ranging from $1 thousand to $19.4 thousand. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has placed two awards totaling $60 thousand for radio recruitment and commercial-production work.

Customer concentration centers heavily on health-equity and law-enforcement messaging. The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention accounts for 22 awards (55% of the award count by the top-customers-by-award-count metric), but those are sub-grant allocations through Los Angeles County under HIV surveillance and prevention programs, not direct DEA or FBI awards. By direct-agency count, the Drug Enforcement Administration has placed five awards ($50 thousand combined potential value), the FBI Headquarters Division two awards ($200 thousand combined potential value anchoring the potential-value ranking), the Air National Guard two awards ($121 thousand combined potential value), and NIAAA two awards ($60 thousand combined potential value). Twelve distinct federal agencies have issued work across the 2021–2026 window, but activity is heavily skewed: 83% of awards concentrate in the top five customer agencies.

Activity spiked sharply in 2023 with twenty awards, declined to twelve in 2024 and three in 2025, and has returned to one award in 2026. The vendor holds a single named vehicle position: the FBI Headquarters Division Blanket Purchase Agreement 15F06721A0003651, which carried one task order worth $100 thousand. One award ($19.4 thousand DEA radio and device display advertisement services, April 2026) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months; recompete exposure is minimal in dollar terms. The vast majority of Audacy's federal work carries no set-aside designation, with the exception of the October 2025 Louisiana Air National Guard recruitment campaign marked Total Small Business. On the grant side, Audacy serves as a sub-recipient under Los Angeles County's CDC-funded HIV prevention programs, having received multiple sub-awards from May 2024 back through April 2023 for work labeled as "Integrated HIV Surveillance and Prevention Program for Los Angeles County" and "Integrated HIV Programs for Health Departments to Support Ending the HIV Epidemic in the United States."

Parent company Entercom Communications Corp. is a broadcast media holding company, and Audacy's federal positioning reflects that lineage: the vendor's capability set is tightly bounded to radio and digital media placement, public-awareness campaign execution, and targeted advertising production for federal agencies addressing opioid prevention, hate crime reporting, military recruitment, and veteran services outreach. Work is performed in Philadelphia and subordinate broadcast markets (Hyattsville, Maryland; Middle City West, Pennsylvania; San Francisco; Gretna, Louisiana; and elsewhere). The $7.7 million in combined dollars obligated across the portfolio substantially exceeds the $1.1 million in combined potential value, indicating that many of these small purchase orders have been fully executed and invoiced across the five-year window.