Mercury Air Center- Charleston, LLC

Mercury Air Center- Charleston, LLC, doing business as Atlantic Aviation, supplies aviation turbine fuel and related petroleum products to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor operating exclusively under full-and-open competition (no set-aside designations across the award footprint). The vendor is a for-profit corporate entity headquartered in North Charleston, South Carolina, operating primarily under NAICS 324110 (Petroleum Refineries) and PSC code 4010 (Liquid Propellants and Fuels, Petroleum Base), with a hyper-concentrated customer base centered on Defense Logistics Agency Energy.

The vendor's customer concentration is extreme and singular. Defense Logistics Agency Energy accounts for 5,174 of 5,184 total awards (100% of combined potential value) worth $85.2 million in combined potential value; the Department of the Air Force Air Mobility Command represents the only other material customer, with six awards totaling $145 thousand. This concentration reflects the vendor's role as a fuel supplier within DLA Energy's petroleum distribution network rather than a diversified contractor. The two customer rankings are identical — DLA Energy dominates both volume and dollars — with no tension between them.

Recent representative work includes a $23,375 firm-fixed-price purchase order from Air Mobility Command for FY26 air show fuel (awarded April 30, 2026, ultimate completion May 3, 2026), a $43,191.40 purchase order for FY24 Joint Base Charleston Air Show fuel (April 18, 2024), and a $24,720 order for FY22 Joint Base Charleston Air Expo fuel (March 11, 2022). All three orders were competed full-and-open, with place of performance at Joint Base Charleston, North Charleston, South Carolina.

The vendor sits on multiple DLA Energy IDIQs: the SPE60017D0101 contract carries 3,236 task orders and $7.3 million combined potential value; the SP060013D0117 contract holds 1,875 task orders and $2.7 million; and the SP060013D0020 contract carries 57 task orders and $13.4 million. Award volume contracted sharply after 2021 (852 awards that year; 103 in 2021; 1 each in 2022, 2024, and 2026), reflecting a shift in how DLA Energy structures fuel-distribution task orders. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint.