Pollux Aviation, LTD.

Pollux Aviation, LTD., a Wasilla, Alaska-based for-profit Subchapter S corporation, provides on-call helicopter flight services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (100% of awards), operating exclusively under its own organic aviation capability with no material subcontracting footprint. The vendor competes predominantly under total small business set-asides on a multi-award indefinite delivery contract with the Department of the Interior, supplemented by task orders and purchase orders from Interior sub-agencies and USDA on smaller non-set-aside delivery orders. Pollux Aviation has registered with SAM since 2002 and operates across Alaska supporting remote federal missions.

The vendor's customer base concentrates heavily on the Department of the Interior. Five Interior customer offices account for 67% of the award count by volume: Fish and Wildlife Service Region 7 (57 awards, $968 thousand combined potential value), National Park Service Alaska Region (45 awards, $479 thousand), USGS Alaska Science Center (40 awards, $967 thousand), Bureau of Land Management Alaska Region (23 awards, $668 thousand), and USGS Office of Acquisitions and Grants (20 awards, $539 thousand). However, the potential-value distribution diverges significantly: the Interior Business Center anchors most dollar exposure at $22.2 million across 16 awards, with the broader Interior departmental structure (Office of Policy Management and Budget) carrying a single award valued at $38.2 million. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the U.S. Coast Guard round out secondary customers.

Pollux Aviation's primary vehicle is the multi-award Indefinite Delivery Contract 140D0423D0079 (Interior Business Center), a total small business set-aside with a ceiling of $10.3 million running through February 28, 2027, which the vendor holds as a multiple-award contestant. This IDV procures on-call helicopter flight services across Alaska under NAICS 491200 (Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation) and PSC H202 (Passenger Air Charter). Representative delivery orders under this vehicle include a $47,357 order (July 1, 2026) from USGS Alaska Science Center for North Slope goose research near Prudhoe Bay; a $40,657 order (July 8, 2026) from the Alaska Region for allotment reconciliation operations in Kaktovik through February 2027; and a $49,695 order (March 28, 2025) from National Park Service Alaska Region for fire effects research on lake chemistry in Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. The vendor also placed work against legacy Interior vehicles: the DOI Alaska On Call Helicopter Flight Services 2017–2021 contract (72 task orders, $1.6 million combined potential value) and the Blanket Purchase Agreement IND12PA00151 (69 task orders, $552 thousand). Beyond the IDV, Pollux received purchase orders from USDA NRCS including a $92,897 total small business set-aside for helicopter services supporting soil survey work in the Northern Nulato Hills (June–July 2023) and a $27,573 set-aside for soil characterization near Inigok Field Station in the Willow NPR-A (July 2023).

Activity shows volatility: 18 awards in 2021 declined to 7 in 2023, then recovered to 11 in 2024, with only 3 awards in 2025 and 3 in 2026 year-to-date (through July 29, 2026). Recompete exposure is minimal: only one award (combined potential value $41 thousand) completes within the next twenty-four months, reflecting the IDV's extended runway through February 2027. The vendor's work footprint is geographically concentrated across Alaska, with place of performance spanning Prudhoe Bay, Kaktovik, Wasilla, Fairbanks, and other remote locations in Interior agency operational zones. Capability breadth is narrow — the portfolio is dominated by NAICS 491200 (nonscheduled chartered passenger air transportation) at 250 awards, supplemented by nonscheduled chartered freight air transportation (24 awards), with negligible work in other categories. The vendor operates almost exclusively as a prime, with SCI records showing minimal named-subcontractor engagement (1 sub record each in FY2022 and FY2024 with negligible FTE contribution) and no visible prime service-contract work above the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold, indicating that Pollux Aviation's federal revenue is largely routed through small task orders and purchase orders below SCI capture levels.

Helicopter air charter operator, non-scheduled freight and passengers, Alaska wide.