International Promotional Ideas, Inc.

International Promotional Ideas, Inc., doing business as IPI, manufactures and supplies customized promotional merchandise and branded items to the federal government as a small-business prime contractor, competing predominantly under total small-business set-asides and full-and-open procurements. Based in Skokie, Illinois, IPI holds a corporate structure as a for-profit business entity and has operated in the federal market continuously since 1998, with recent activity concentrated in purchase orders and blanket purchase agreements for military recruiting, retention, and commemorative items.

IPI's capability portfolio centers on promotional products including t-shirts, hats, lanyards, backpacks, water bottles, pens, bracelets, cups, cuff links, and branded merchandise tailored to military specifications. Representative prime work includes a $219,225 firm-fixed-price purchase order from West Point Military Academy awarded July 2023 for promotional supply items including t-shirts, water bottles, bracelets, and laptop stickers; a $89,324 purchase order from West Point (November 2024) for t-shirts, hats, pop sockets, lanyards, and cups supporting the Academy's Directorate of Admissions; an $85,266 BPA call from the Utah National Guard (July 2026, set-aside total small business) for promotional items including lanyards, backpacks, chargers, shirts, and sporting goods supporting recruiting and retention; and a $57,700 purchase order from the Department of the Army for customized promotional backpacks supplied to the Nevada Army National Guard (September 2022). IPI also holds delivery orders with the Treasury Department's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for length-of-service and retirement mementos, valued at approximately $10,541 and $10,385 respectively (both July 2022, no set-aside used).

Customer concentration skews heavily toward the Department of the Army and its sub-commands. The top five customers by award count account for 58% of recent awards, led by the Department of the Army (1,518 awards, $1.1 million combined potential value), followed by the Army Materiel Command TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (876 awards, $101 thousand), Army Central Command (499 awards, $96 thousand), Army Forces Command (340 awards, $259 thousand), and the United States Marine Corps (248 awards, $255 thousand). When ranked by potential value, the split diverges: the Army Recruiting Command's Deputy Chief of Staff Personnel office anchors the highest dollar value at $1.8 million across 39 awards, followed by Naval Sea Systems Command ($1.6 million on 84 awards) and the Army Corps of Engineers Huntington District ($1.3 million on 81 awards). Treasury's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency carries $991 thousand across 23 awards, primarily for retirement mementos.

IPI's primary vehicle position sits on the General Services Administration Federal Supply Schedule GS07F9949H, under which 2,392 task orders carry $5.1 million in combined potential value, and a GSA Blanket Purchase Agreement GS02F145SQ hosting 1,441 task orders. IPI also operates under Army-specific IDIQs including an Indefinite Delivery Contract (V797P9177) with 695 task orders ($191 thousand combined value) and a second IDC (W9123709A0014) with 79 task orders ($556 thousand combined value). Most recently, IPI secured a non-set-aside single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement from the Utah National Guard (September 22, 2025, ceiling $750,000, performance through September 21, 2029) as a streamlined procurement vehicle for promotional merchandise supporting recruiting and retention across a four-year performance window.

Activity has declined over recent years — eight awards in 2022 declining to one award in each of 2025 and 2026 — though the vendor maintains a substantial total-award count (5,963 awards since 1998) with $25.6 million in combined potential value. Only two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying $134 thousand in combined potential value. IPI operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards); no sub-award activity appears in the source. Across its footprint, IPI competes under both small-business set-asides and unrestricted procurements, with the majority of recent Army and National Guard awards designated as total small-business set-asides and the GSA schedule and OCC work carried under full-and-open competition.

We are a promotional products company that includes but is not limited to: wearables such as hats, shirts, jackets, lapel pins and coins, ceramic and metal cups, pens and pencils, paper pads and portfolios, bags plastic or nylon, watches,clocks