Sicpa Securink Corp

Sicpa Securink Corp, a foreign-owned manufacturer based in Springfield, Virginia, manufactures proprietary security inks for U.S. currency production and serves the Bureau of Engraving and Printing exclusively as a prime contractor on sole-source, full-and-open delivery orders and indefinite delivery contracts. The company holds over 1,500 federal awards totaling $3.98 billion in combined potential value, with 99.7% concentrated in BEP work.

Sicpa Securink produces specialized security inks—intaglio, offset, letterpress, optically variable, infrared-opaque and infrared-transparent, color-shifting magnetic, and metallic formulations—essential to Federal Reserve note production and anti-counterfeiting operations. Recent prime work includes a $657,477 delivery order awarded October 1, 2026, for Type II color-shifting security ink production under the $70.29 million Color Shifting Ink Type II indefinite delivery contract (completion October 29, 2026); a $2,022,834.60 delivery order awarded September 18, 2026, for currency ink production under the $591.83 million MIRROR II currency and security inks IDC (completion October 23, 2026); and a $855,815 delivery order awarded October 31, 2025, for press consumables supporting Phases 3 and 4 of the Technology Development Program and Catalyst currency testing (completion October 30, 2026).

Customer concentration is absolute: the Bureau of Engraving and Printing accounts for 1,531 of 1,535 awards and $3.99 billion of $3.99 billion combined potential value. Three awards to the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services total $944 thousand. Sicpa Securink competes exclusively on sole-source, full-and-open basis without set-aside designation, justified under FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(ii)(A) and (B) based on proprietary technology, exclusive manufacturing capability, and intellectual property in security ink formulations.

The vendor holds five primary indefinite delivery contracts with BEP: a $591.83 million currency and security inks IDC (ultimate completion July 2027, 207 task orders valued at $133.9 million to date); a $70.29 million Color Shifting Ink Type II IDC (ultimate completion October 2030, 1 task order per the recent January 20, 2026 award); a $65.9 million G2 Offset Inks IDC (ultimate completion September 30, 2030, awarded December 19, 2025); a $61.719 million color-shifting magnetic inks IDC (ultimate completion September 30, 2030, awarded September 30, 2025); and a $38.013 million QuickSilver III contract for color-shifting magnetic inks and R&D services (ultimate completion August 2030). Additional smaller vehicles include a $2.68 million typographic letterpress inks IDC and a $24,263 alternative offset inks IDC.

Activity has remained steady across recent years—118 awards in 2023, 98 in 2024, 95 in 2025, and 66 year-to-date through October 2026—with 46 awards (combined potential value $17.4 million) reaching ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete. The vendor's award portfolio is heavily concentrated in Printing Ink Manufacturing (1,379 awards), with secondary work in synthetic dye and pigment manufacturing and research and development. PSC codes align predominantly to Chemicals (1,411 awards). Sicpa Securink carries no named subcontractors on BEP delivery orders; all work is performed directly by the prime at its Springfield, Virginia facility and subordinate BEP locations in Washington, DC and Springfield as directed.

Sicpa Securink's corporate structure includes Sicpa Product Security LLC, a foreign-owned subsidiary engaged in manufacturing. The parent company's sole-source position reflects BEP's determination that it holds the only proprietary technology, manufacturing processes, and intellectual property required for the specialized security ink formulations and anti-counterfeiting technologies essential to Federal Reserve note production. The vendor performs no work outside currency and security ink supply to the federal government.