Imperial Flying Service Inc.

Imperial Flying Service Inc., a woman-owned small disadvantaged business headquartered in Imperial, California, is a prime contractor that supplies aviation turbine fuel (Jet A, Jet A-1, and JP-8) to the Defense Logistics Agency Energy under a series of single-award indefinite-delivery contracts. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontractors and has delivered over 39,500 orders to DLA Energy since 1994.

Imperial Flying Service holds a current single-award IDIQ with DLA Energy (SPE607-25-R-0204, awarded April 1, 2026) carrying a $34.06 million ceiling through March 31, 2029. The solicitation was originally posted with EDWOSB set-aside provisions but the resulting award carries no set-aside designation and was evaluated using Lowest Price Technically Acceptable methodology. Since award, the vendor has received over 150 delivery orders, each priced fixed with economic price adjustment using Platt's 5-day average price escalator with allowances for weekly market-based adjustments up to 350-550 percent of award price. Representative recent delivery orders range from under $200 to over $9,700 individually. Fuel meets MIL-STD-1548H standards and is delivered to seventy-four airport locations across eleven western U.S. states and territories: Alaska, American Samoa, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Performance is concentrated at the contractor's Imperial, California facility.

Customer concentration is absolute: Defense Logistics Agency Energy accounts for 40,281 of 40,287 total awards (100% of combined potential value of $285.5 million), with four additional awards to Defense Logistics Agency. Imperial Flying Service operates under a succession of single-award IDIQs rather than competing on multiple-award vehicles or across diverse customer bases. The top parent vehicles reflect the contractor's long-term incumbency on DLA Energy fuel supply contracts: the current SPE607-18D0037 IDIQ generated 15,520 task orders worth $35.3 million; SPE607-22D0097 generated 13,418 task orders worth $36.1 million; and SP060014D0050 generated 10,454 task orders worth $38.9 million. Award velocity has declined from 3,588 delivery orders in 2024 to 1,940 through mid-2026, suggesting concentration of monthly ordering patterns around fiscal cycles or fuel procurement milestones.

Work falls entirely under NAICS 324110 (Petroleum Refineries) with PSC coding for Liquid Propellants and Fuels, Petroleum Base. The vendor's portfolio is singular in scope: into-plane aviation fuel delivery to Defense Logistics Agency Energy, with no diversification into other agencies, customers, or product lines. All 40,287 awards are prime contracts with zero subcontractor activity. The business model is transactional and commodity-focused, with hundreds of small delivery orders per year priced on economic escalation formulas rather than firm-fixed pricing. This structure reflects DLA Energy's operationally driven fuel procurement posture across its regional distribution network rather than strategic partnering or bundled service integration.