Taylor & Francis Group LLC

Taylor & Francis Group LLC, a foreign-owned for-profit publisher headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, supplies scholarly journals, ebooks, electronic databases, and specialized research content to federal agencies as a prime contractor across 437 awards, competing on a full-and-open basis with no set-aside designations. The vendor does not hold SBA certifications.

Taylor & Francis operates primarily through small purchase orders and delivery orders for library subscriptions, electronic journal collections, and academic databases that support research, training, and educational missions at military and civilian agencies. Recent capability work includes a $2.288 million subscription providing electronic access to Taylor & Francis journals and ebooks for all USDA users through September 2028, a $501 thousand electronic journal subscription with the Air Force Research Laboratory running through January 2026, and a $390 thousand renewal of electronic access services for the Central Program Planning Coordination and Support office through February 2027. The vendor also supplies hardcopy academic publications—a $51 thousand sole-source procurement from Naval Education and Training Command for "Operational Art: Theory and Practice" books exemplifies this mix of print and digital offerings.

Customer concentration is diffuse across 72 distinct federal agencies, but Navy-led buyers anchor the portfolio. The Department of the Navy Naval Education and Training Command alone accounts for 75 awards (34% of award count) with $2 million combined potential value, while the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service Central Program Planning Coordination and Support office leads by dollars ($6.7 million combined potential value across 16 awards). The Air Force (via Air Education and Training Command and Air Force Research Laboratory) and the Office of Naval Research round out the top tier. Awards skew toward smaller transaction sizes; the median appears to reflect library renewal subscriptions in the $20,000 to $170,000 range, though the $2.3 million USDA order is a notable outlier.

Taylor & Francis holds a $30 million indefinite delivery contract with the Library of Congress under the FEDLINK program (October 2023 through September 2027) that anchors most of its federal work. The FEDLINK IDC covers electronic resources and databases, document delivery services, associated publications, and specialized access integration. Task orders under that vehicle have been placed by Naval Education and Training Command, the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, the Office of Naval Research, the USDA, and the Federal Highway Administration. The vendor also holds a $249,999 single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Army War College (June 2024 through June 2029) for serials and periodicals, with three BPA calls executed through August 2025 totaling approximately $186,595. Additional parent vehicles include basic ordering agreements and older indefinite delivery contracts from the Library of Congress, generating 12 task orders and $708 thousand combined value under one vehicle.

Activity has moderated slightly in recent years—ten awards in 2022, rising to fifteen in 2024, then declining to ten in 2025 and six in 2026 year-to-date. The combined potential value across all 439 awards totals $58.5 million, with $13.7 million obligated (23% execution rate). Nine awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry $3.2 million in combined potential value and will face recompete opportunity. Subcontract exposure is minimal; the source names only two sub-awards from Fluor Marine Propulsion, LLC for Naval Nuclear Laboratory support in 2024 and 2026.

The vendor's award portfolio concentrates in periodicals and book publishing NAICS categories (133 and 93 awards, respectively), with secondary exposure to internet publishing and web search portals (48 awards). Federal procurements predominantly purchase books and pamphlets (145 PSC awards) and newspapers and periodicals (128 PSC awards), with smaller exposure to web-based IT subscriptions (29 awards). Taylor & Francis competes across defense and civilian research, education, and training customers on a transactional basis, with no teaming arrangements or subcontractor tier noted in the source.