Talley Petroleum Enterprises, Inc.

Talley Petroleum Enterprises, Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Grantville, Pennsylvania, supplies bulk petroleum products to the Department of Defense and federal agencies as a prime contractor on a single-award indefinite-delivery contract (IDC) with the Defense Logistics Agency Energy valued at approximately $5.1 billion through May 2026. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation with over 50 years of experience delivering gasoline, diesel, fuel oil, jet fuel, and biofuels to military installations and civilian government facilities across nine Northeastern states (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont). All recent awards carry no set-aside designation and compete under unrestricted competition, though the underlying parent IDC includes 512 small-business line items, 97 Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business line items, and 110 unrestricted line items across its 719 total line-item structure.

Customer concentration is extreme and single-source-dependent. The Defense Logistics Agency Energy accounts for 895 awards (96% of Talley's recent portfolio) valued at $131.3 million of the combined $147.3 million potential value across all awards. The next four customer agencies (Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 4, Department of the Army, the Pennsylvania Army National Guard, and the National Cemetery Administration) collectively represent only 4% of awards and less than 2% of potential value. All recent activity flows through DLA Energy delivery orders placed under the master $5.1 billion IDC awarded October 1, 2021.

Activity has been volatile but sustained. Talley received 10 awards in 2022, 49 in 2023, 34 in 2024, 30 in 2025, and 16 through early April 2026. Awards span 929 total contracts since at least 1999, with 929 prime awards (100% of the footprint) and zero sub-awards; Talley operates as a direct-to-customer supplier with no subcontractor engagement. The combined potential value across all historical awards is $147.3 million, with $69.7 million obligated to date (47% of potential). Recent delivery orders under the parent IDC range from under $1,000 to approximately $35,600 per order and target fixed-price fuel delivery with economic price adjustment terms. All orders specify Grantville, Pennsylvania as the place of performance.

Talley's capability footprint is narrow and commodity-driven. Awards align entirely to petroleum distribution: 786 awards fall under NAICS 324110 (Petroleum Refineries), 134 under NAICS 424720 (Petroleum and Petroleum Products Merchant Wholesalers), and a handful under related pipeline and equipment categories. Product Service Codes (PSC) reflect the same concentration — 748 awards for Fuel Oils (PSC 9160-01), 177 for Liquid Propellants and Fuels (PSC 9160-06), and 4 for Petroleum Production and Distribution Equipment. Representative recent delivery orders include $35.6 thousand for burner fuel oil (January 26, 2026), $21.2 thousand for diesel fuel (September 7, 2023), and $110.2 thousand for diesel fuel (January 30, 2023), all under the master DLA Energy IDC. The company has also served the VA and Army with smaller fuel orders, receiving $930 thousand combined across 11 VA awards and $121 thousand across 10 Army awards.

The recompete cliff is material. The parent IDC ceiling of $5.1 billion with an ultimate completion date of May 31, 2026 represents a looming recompete window — the vehicle itself completes less than fourteen months from the current date (July 2026), and all hundreds of active delivery orders are drawing down the ceiling against that deadline. Talley's pipeline beyond the current IDC is not visible in the source material. Top parent vehicles reflect subsidiary IDC structures: Indefinite Delivery Contract SP060014D8527 carries 324 task orders with $6 million potential value; SPE60017D8518 carries 247 task orders with $4.6 million potential value; and SPE60521D8522 carries 139 task orders with $1.3 million potential value — these represent sub-vehicles or line-item groupings within the master DLA Energy relationship. Talley operates as a pure fuel commodity supplier with no visible capability in logistics, maintenance, distribution infrastructure, or adjacent energy services; its entire federal footprint is transactional delivery-order fulfillment under a single prime vehicle.