Hawthorne Global Aviation Services LLC

Hawthorne Global Aviation Services LLC, a for-profit limited liability company based in North Charleston, South Carolina, procures and delivers aviation turbine fuel meeting Joint Aircraft Authorization specifications to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor, competing full-and-open with no set-aside designations.

The vendor operates exclusively under a single-award indefinite delivery contract with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Energy valued at $2,531,149.99, awarded July 1, 2023, and running through March 31, 2027. The IDC covers fixed-price delivery of aviation turbine fuel across nine southern states—Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas—with economic price adjustment provisions. All work is performed at the vendor's North Charleston location. The contract was solicited under SPE607-23-R-0202 with a February 3, 2023, deadline and evaluated using lowest-price technically acceptable criteria for approximately 192.7 million gallons of fuel delivery over the four-year period. Representative delivery orders include a $5,940.01 award on December 4, 2025; a $7,064.03 award on March 30, 2026; and a $5,757.36 award on December 4, 2025, all for JAA-specification turbine fuel.

Customer concentration is absolute: DLA Energy accounts for all 6,696 awards in the vendor's footprint across the source data period (2017 forward), representing the full $14.9 million combined potential value. The vendor has received 128 delivery orders in 2026 alone through mid-April, sustaining an active order frequency of roughly 15 to 25 delivery orders per month. Combined dollars obligated total $5.7 million, representing 38 percent of combined potential value across all orders. Activity declined from 1,153 awards in 2022 to 993 in 2025, suggesting potential year-to-date slowdown or seasonal ordering variation. The vendor holds no other parent vehicles and operates as a pure sole-source supplier under this single IDC; all awards are delivery orders issued under contract SPE607-23-R-0202 and subordinate IDC variants. Recent task-order activity confirms the vendor's continued engagement as the active fuel supplier for DLA Energy's southern region into the second quarter of 2026. The vendor maintains no documented subcontract relationships and derives its entire federal footprint from DLA Energy delivery orders, positioning it as operationally dependent on IDC recompete upon March 31, 2027, expiration.