Icom America, Incorporated

Icom America, Incorporated, a foreign-owned for-profit corporation based in Kirkland, Washington, supplies handheld radios, receiver-transmitter equipment, batteries, and related communication accessories to federal agencies as a prime contractor under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and several single-award indefinite delivery contracts, operating in full-and-open competition with no small business set-aside posture at the prime level despite holding two small-business-set-aside IDCs with the Defense Logistics Agency.

Icom America is a subsidiary of Japanese communications technology company Icom Incorporated and operates primarily as a supplier of specialized radio communication equipment — handheld marine radios, aviation two-way radios, emergency-response radios, receiver-transmitters, and accessories — with no grant recipients or meaningful subcontract footprint in the source data. The vendor's federal footprint spans 1,052 awards with a combined potential value of $5.29 billion, though only $78.8 million has been obligated (1% of potential value), reflecting the company's heavy reliance on vehicles with large ceilings and modest order takedown. Activity has been flat to declining over the past five years (13 awards in 2022, 11 in 2025, 2 in 2026 year-to-date), and no recompete cliff is evident from the award dates provided.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the Department of the Army, which accounts for 274 awards (26% of the total prime footprint) and $33.6 million combined potential value, followed distantly by the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command, GSA Federal Acquisition Service, U.S. Coast Guard, and National Park Service. The Army's concentration represents roughly 64% of the dollars across the top five customers named in the source, signaling acute dependence on a single customer and high recompete risk if Army demand shifts. The vendor serves 179 distinct customer agencies, but the long tail is sparse — the top five customers account for only 36% of awards by count, and potential-value rankings differ from award-count rankings due to vehicle-ceiling effects rather than order magnitude differences.

Icom America's primary parent vehicle is the GSA Information Technology Schedule 70 (IT-70), which accounts for 864 task orders valued at $547.9 million combined potential value — a placeholder vehicle carrying minimal real execution. The vendor also holds a $1 million Multiple Award Schedule contract with GSA Federal Acquisition Service (running through June 2026), a $250,000 single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation for receiver-transmitter equipment (through February 2028), a $149,900 single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration Franchise Acquisition Services (through June 2026), and a $350,000 single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime for handsets (through January 2027, awarded January 2026 under Total Small Business set-aside). Recent representative awards include a $92,169.20 Multiple Award Schedule delivery order for radio communication equipment supporting USDA Wildlife Services operations (May 2025), a $59,580 delivery order for swimmer radios to the Coast Guard (December 2024), a $54,144.05 purchase order for emergency-response radios to VA Veterans Integrated Service Network 20 (July 2023, Total Small Business set-aside), and an $34,986 delivery order for communication receivers to the Federal Communications Commission (March 2024). The vendor also supplies batteries, antenna elements, microphone assemblies, and radio cases across multiple agencies.

Icom America's capability portfolio centers on radio communication equipment manufacturing and field support, reflected in the top NAICS codes (Telephone Apparatus Manufacturing — 848 awards; Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing — 104 awards) and PSC codes (Radio And Television Communication Equipment, Except Airborne — 385 awards; Maintenance/Repair/Rebuild of ADP Equipment — 274 awards). The GSA labor portfolio offers two technical support and engineering-support categories ranging from $176.32 to $201.50 per hour, both requiring associate degrees and 2 years of experience with no security-clearance requirement, positioning the vendor for onsite technical troubleshooting and field engineering rather than program management or systems-integration work.

The vendor maintains a single named subcontract footprint in the source: a sub-award to Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc. for an ESS Profile Pivot Two-Way Radio product (November 2024). This sparse subcontract activity is consistent with Icom America's role as a product manufacturer and direct equipment supplier rather than an integrator or prime systems contractor. The company competes in full-and-open vehicles except where it has explicitly won small-business-set-aside IDCs (DLA Land and Maritime, DLA Aviation, and FAA BPA), indicating no broader 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB designation, despite foreign ownership and potential qualification as a small business under SBA size standards for some NAICS codes.