Progressive Communications LLC

Progressive Communications LLC, a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business and certified Asian-Pacific American-owned LLC based in Honolulu, Hawaii, supplies telecommunications equipment, communications system installation services, and related IT infrastructure to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor (95% of recent awards) and occasionally as a subcontractor. The vendor competes primarily in full-and-open categories — no set-aside designations appear on its recent GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) delivery orders — though earlier small-business set-aside purchase orders from the Navy and Air Mobility Command remain in the active portfolio.

Progressive Communications operates almost exclusively within the Defense Industrial Base, with 52% of its recent award count concentrated among Navy entities. The top customer, US Pacific Fleet Forces, anchors the footprint with 18 awards and $1.4 million in combined potential value; Naval Facilities Engineering Command accounts for 15 awards at $210 thousand; and the United States Marine Corps holds 9 awards at $1 million combined potential value. Together, these three customers account for just over half of all recent awards, though the top five customers (adding Information Warfare Systems Command and Bureau of Medicine and Surgery) represent 69% of combined potential value. The concentration is geographically tight — most work centers on Honolulu and reflects the vendor's proximity to Pacific Fleet command infrastructure.

Progressive Communications' capability portfolio centers on Avaya telephone system procurement and installation (wired phones, shore-based phone systems, 9408 telephone sets), communications equipment supply and maintenance (MOC recorded-line equipment, voice-network hardware), and base telecommunications infrastructure services. Representative recent prime work includes a $380,480 purchase order from Pacific Fleet Forces for wired phones and installation for submarines (set-aside for small business, awarded September 2022), a $96,551 purchase order from Air Mobility Command for MOC recorded-line equipment (small-business set-aside, June 2023), and a $91,800 delivery order from Pacific Fleet Forces for annual Avaya licensing under the GSA MAS (March 2026). A $13,178 Treasury Internal Revenue Service purchase order for wire installation at the Honolulu facility (January 2024) represents rare non-DoD work.

The vendor's award trajectory is declining — three awards in 2024, two in 2025, and one in 2026 — after a higher baseline in 2022–2023. Only one award faces ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, representing minimal near-term recompete exposure. In its subcontractor role, Progressive Communications provides voice-network hardware, software support, and base telecommunications services to Serco Inc. (Physical Security System-Enterprise Architecture services, March 2025), Bowhead Base Operations LLC (base telecommunications system services at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, January 2025), and Atlantic Diving Supply Inc. (voice-network hardware and software support, 2024). The vendor has also subcontracted infrastructure services to General Dynamics Information Technology. Work spans NAICS codes centered on computer-related services (28 awards), telephone apparatus manufacturing (13 awards), and communications equipment repair and maintenance (12 awards), with primary PSC codes covering maintenance and repair of communications and detection equipment and telephone and telegraph equipment supply and installation.

DIVERSIFIED TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FIRM. AUTHORIZED GSA SCHEDULE PROVIDER FOR AVAYA, Nortel, Cisco, Scopia, Radvision