Space Age Engineering, Inc.

Space Age Engineering, Inc., a veteran-owned small business headquartered in Chatsworth, California, is a prime contractor specializing in boxed meal services and food catering to federal military and civilian agencies, operating predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides and full-and-open procurements. The vendor competes across perishable prepared food manufacturing, food service contracting, and catering (primary NAICS codes 311991, 722210, and 722320; PSC Composite Food Packages 8970), with all 565 recent awards as prime contracts carrying a combined potential value of $280.2 million.

Space Age Engineering's customer concentration is dominated by Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which accounts for 29 awards valued at $209.2 million combined potential value—primarily a single large blanket purchase agreement for Southwest Border detainee meals. The Department of the Army Headquarters Office of the Secretary represents the second major customer by both award count (252 awards) and potential value ($51.3 million), anchored in Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) meal service contracts across dozens of domestic locations. The United States Special Operations Command (17 awards, $7.8 million potential value) rounds out the top tier, followed by the broader Department of the Army and Department of the Navy. Together, these five customers account for 97 percent of combined potential value across the footprint.

Space Age Engineering's capability portfolio centers on firm fixed-price boxed meal delivery to MEPS facilities nationwide—sub sandwiches, snacks, beverages, and related catering—and detainee meal services along the Southwest border. Representative MEPS contracts include a $645,965.33 single-award IDC for San Antonio MEPS through December 2025; a $918,426.60 single-award IDC for Jacksonville MEPS through September 2026 (with four successive annual task orders issued from October 2021 onward); a $289,054.08 Portland, Oregon MEPS definitive contract awarded September 2022 with performance through August 2025; and a $250,076.97 Seattle MEPS definitive contract (August 2022 through July 2025). On the CBP side, the vendor holds a $208 million-plus blanket purchase agreement (Southwest Border Detainee Meals BPA) issued by DHS CBP, generating task order calls for meal provision at border detention facilities. Non-MEPS work includes catering for U.S. Special Operations Command training exercises (e.g., $297,760.30 La Posta catering delivery order, August 2021) and Naval Sea Systems Command events.

The vendor's prime vehicle portfolio reflects the character of its customer set: fourteen active single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the Department of the Army's Office of the Secretary for various MEPS locations (ceiling values ranging from $93,252 to $918,426), plus a large standing BPA with DHS CBP for detainee meals. Individual MEPS IDCs typically support annual task order issuance of $20,000 to $250,000 per year per location. The top parent vehicles by task order count are two older Army IDCs (W9124D09D0036 with 42 task orders; W9124D14D0013 with 28 task orders), the CBP Southwest Border Detainee Meals BPA (25 task orders), and a DHS vehicle (H9224016D0016 with 15 task orders). The recompete cliff is modest: 22 awards totaling $4.1 million in potential value expire within the next twenty-four months, mostly smaller MEPS delivery orders and a few supporting contracts.

Activity has declined year over year from 57 awards in 2022 to 8 awards in 2026 (through mid-July). This decline reflects the shift from task order–heavy ordering patterns in 2022–2023 to consolidation and multi-year option exercises in 2024–2026. The vendor is not identified as a subcontractor in the source data; all work is prime.

Space Age Engineering's set-aside posture is mixed: the majority of MEPS IDCs carry Total Small Business designations, enabling task order issuance under set-aside, but many individual task orders drawn from those IDCs are issued without set-aside designation at order level. The CBP BPA and Special Operations work similarly vary in set-aside application. The vendor's veteran-owned status is the primary lever for set-aside eligibility.