Marathon Petroleum Company LP

Marathon Petroleum Company LP, a for-profit petroleum refiner headquartered in Findlay, Ohio, supplies aviation turbine fuel and naval distillate fuel to the Department of Defense through the Defense Logistics Agency Energy as a prime contractor on a full-and-open-competition, non-set-aside basis. The company is a child entity of Tesoro Refining & Marketing Company LLC and operates exclusively within the federal fuel procurement market, with 747 awards (100% prime) across a four-billion-dollar-plus portfolio concentrated almost entirely in military fuel delivery.

Marathon Petroleum's customer concentration is extreme: 740 of 747 awards (99% of combined potential value at $4.39 billion) flow through the Defense Logistics Agency Energy, the Department of Defense's centralized fuel procurement organization. The five remaining awards include two FEMA Port Security Grant Program grants (one in September 2022 for $2 million to enhance security infrastructure at Marathon's Findlay port facility), one Naval Air Warfare Center order, one Air Force award, and one general DLA order. This single-customer dynamic reflects Marathon Petroleum's specialization: the vendor has no commercial federal business outside military fuel supply.

Marathon Petroleum's work is consistently transactional. The vendor holds five active Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Energy valued collectively at $1.27 billion—SPE60224D0477 ($463.1 million, 118 task orders), SPE60225D0480 ($488.5 million, 89 task orders), SPE60222D0497 ($359.6 million, 131 task orders), SPE60225D0469 ($132.5 million, 104 task orders), and SPE60223D0460 ($96.2 million, 94 task orders)—plus a newly awarded single-award IDC SPE60225R0711 ($113.9 million ceiling, awarded April 1, 2026) and another regional single-award vehicle ($512 million, Rocky Mountain West Coast region, awarded September 26, 2025). The largest active contract, SPE60224D0477 (Inland/East/Gulf Coast/Offshore), carries a March 31, 2026 ultimate completion date and has generated approximately 45 delivery orders valued at $60.6 million collectively. Individual delivery orders range from under $100,000 to over $44 million, with completion timelines of 5 to 60 days reflecting urgent military logistics requirements. All work is fixed-price with economic price adjustment tied to published petroleum market indices (Platts Jet Kero, ULSD, Argus).

Award volume has grown consistently: 56 awards in 2022, 188 in 2023, 166 in 2024, 206 in 2025, and 112 year-to-date in 2026 (through July 16). The source documents over 160 distinct delivery orders issued between June 2024 and October 2025 alone, with individual task values ranging from $22,000 to $31 million. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $1.9 billion (43% of combined potential value).

Marathon Petroleum performs all refining, quality control, and distribution functions directly from its Findlay, Ohio facility—the company's sole performance location—with no subcontractors noted across the award record. The vendor specializes exclusively in military-grade aviation turbine fuels (JP5, Jet A, JA1, JP8) and naval distillate fuel (F76) under NAICS 324110 (Petroleum Refineries) and PSC 9130 (Liquid Propellants and Fuels, Petroleum Base). Estimated annual fuel quantities under the IDCs range from 89 million to 626 million gallons, with delivery methods spanning tanker, barge, truck, railcar, and pipeline to over 40 Defense Fuel Supply Points nationwide (Craney Island, Virginia; Houston, Texas; Jacksonville, Florida; Charleston, South Carolina; Baltimore, Maryland, and others).

Marathon Petroleum's federal footprint began in 1997; the source records awards dating back to February 4, 1997. The vendor registered in SAM.gov in 2002 and has maintained an exclusive focus on DLA Energy procurement since that point. The company is not set-aside certified and does not compete under small business or socioeconomic preferences; all awards are full-and-open. The recompete cliff is substantial: the March 31, 2026 ultimate completion date on one major regional IDC ($129.9 million) represents imminent recompete exposure, and the September 2025-awarded Rocky Mountain West Coast vehicle ($512 million, completing October 30, 2026) will enter the competitive window in the next 12 months.