Lake & Peninsula Airlines Inc.

Lake & Peninsula Airlines Inc., a woman-owned small disadvantaged business based in Port Alsworth, Alaska, provides fixed-wing on-call air transportation services to the Department of the Interior as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards), with a current $18.6 million Total Small Business set-aside Indefinite Delivery Contract running through March 31, 2031. The vendor competes predominantly under small-business set-asides across its prime footprint and specializes in personnel transport, logistics, and mission-critical support for federal land management and research activities across Alaska's remote public lands where ground-based transportation is impractical.

Customer concentration is deeply skewed toward Interior's administrative and operational structures. The Department of the Interior accounts for substantially all recent awards: the Interior Business Center (via Departmental Offices) holds eight awards worth $58.6 million in combined potential value, while the National Park Service Alaska Region places 15 awards totaling $129 thousand, the Bureau of Land Management Alaska Region places eight awards for $15 thousand, and Fish and Wildlife Service Region 7 places four awards for $16 thousand. This portfolio pattern reflects a vehicle-anchored relationship — the Interior Business Center's $58.6 million figure represents the current $18.6 million IDC ceiling issued in April 2026, which subsumes most dollar potential, while the NPS Alaska Region's higher award count reflects recurring small-dollar delivery orders against that same parent contract and legacy vehicles.

Lake & Peninsula Airlines holds two principal parent vehicles. The current $18.6 million Total Small Business multiple-award IDC issued April 1, 2026 through the Interior Business Center provides the overwhelming majority of reachable value, with task orders issued to support National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and U.S. Geological Survey operations. A prior vehicle designated "DOI Fixed Wing Flight Services - AK/HI 2017-2018" generated 17 task orders totaling $39 thousand in combined potential value and established the vendor's initial footprint with Interior agencies. Legacy blanket purchase agreements — IND81ARA6326, IND14060880ARA3076, and IND12PA00197 — collectively span 20 task orders but carry minimal remaining value. Representative recent work includes a $12,587 delivery order awarded April 22, 2026 for fixed-wing services supporting the National Park Service Spring Subsistence Resource Commission meeting, a $20,610 delivery order from December 2024 for Lake Clark National Park food security project support, and a $12,516 award from April 2022 for on-call fixed-wing transportation supporting NPS Alaska Region operations. The vendor's task order values range from $583 to $44,788 for individual missions.

Award activity has remained modest and episodic — two awards in 2022, two in 2023, four in 2024, one in 2025, and two in 2026 — with only $746 thousand in combined dollars obligated against $59.1 million in combined potential value across the entire portfolio, indicating task-order issuance lags significantly behind contract ceilings. Only one award faces completion within the next twenty-four months ($13 thousand potential value). The vendor operates one subcontract relationship, subbing fixed-wing flight services to Battelle Memorial Institute on an Arctic Research Support and Logistics Services contract as of May 2026. The vendor's capability footprint is narrow but specialized: fixed-wing air charter services (NAICS 481211, Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation; PSC Transportation/Travel/Relocation — Passenger Air Charter) exclusively for federal land management missions in Alaska, with demonstrated contract history dating to 2017 and operational bases in Anchorage, Port Alsworth, and Iliamna.