Pacific Helicopters LTD.

Pacific Helicopters LTD., a minority-owned for-profit business based in Goroka, Papua New Guinea, provides helicopter transportation, aviation asset deployment, and logistical support services exclusively to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor competing under full-and-open procurements without set-aside designation. The vendor operates under a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract valued at $7.22 million with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) awarded January 1, 2022, with an ultimate completion date of June 30, 2026, and serves no other parent vehicles or government-wide acquisition mechanisms.

Pacific Helicopters' federal footprint is highly concentrated by customer and mission. The DPAA accounts for 36 of 78 total prime awards and $48.9 million of the vendor's combined potential value of $65.6 million. The Department of the Navy Joint POW MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) accounts for 27 awards and $11 million, together representing 94% of recent award count and 92% of combined potential value. Three Army awards and one Navy Pacific Fleet Forces award complete the active customer base. All five customer agencies share a common operational mission: recovery and accounting of missing American military personnel from past conflicts, primarily across Papua New Guinea and related Pacific locations where conventional transportation is infeasible.

Work under the DPAA IDC dominates recent activity. Since contract inception in 2022, DPAA has issued at least 14 documented delivery orders ranging from $34,781 to $1.12 million, all structured as firm fixed-price awards without set-aside designation and all focused on helicopter support for remote-access recovery operations. Representative recent delivery orders include a $1.12 million firm fixed-price order issued July 18, 2025 (completion September 15, 2025), a $642,687 order issued January 23, 2026 for DPAA Mission 26-1PG (completion March 26, 2026), and a $535,781 order issued March 3, 2026 for Mission 26-1PG Part B (completion May 26, 2026). Across the Navy's multiple JPAC-related IDCs (N4034511D0014, N4034507D1002, N4034518D0012, N4034522D0002, and N4034517D0001), Pacific Helicopters holds positions generating additional delivery orders for similar rotary-wing asset and logistics support.

Activity has contracted sharply in recent years. The vendor delivered eight awards in 2022, declining to two in 2023, one in 2024, one in 2025, and two in 2026 year-to-date. Over 18% of combined potential value ($11.7 million of $65.6 million) has been obligated to date. The vendor's primary NAICS classification is Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation (59 of 78 awards), with secondary work classified under Process, Physical Distribution, and Logistics Consulting Services and All Other Support Services. Place of performance for all work is Papua New Guinea; the vendor maintains no domestic operational footprint in the continental United States.