Taylor & Francis Group LLC

Taylor & Francis Group LLC, a foreign-owned for-profit limited liability company headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, supplies scholarly journals, ebooks, electronic databases, and specialized research subscriptions to federal agencies as a prime contractor competing on an open, full-and-open basis with no set-aside designations across its entire federal footprint. The vendor operates primarily as a publisher and information-resource supplier, with 435 prime awards and only 2 subcontract awards in the source data, positioning it as a direct supplier rather than a subcontractor.

Taylor & Francis's federal customer base spans 73 distinct agencies, with concentration in defense and civilian research and training institutions. The Department of the Navy Naval Education and Training Command dominates by award count (73 awards, $1.9 million combined potential value), reflecting sustained demand for scholarly content at Naval Postgraduate School, Naval War College, and other naval training commands. The top five customers by count account for 33% of awards. When ranked by potential value, the concentration shifts: the Department of Agriculture's Central Program Planning Coordination and Support anchors the portfolio at $6.7 million across 16 awards, followed by Naval Education and Training Command at $1.9 million, the Air Force's Air Education and Training Command at $1.1 million, and the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory at $1.1 million. These five customers represent 20% of combined potential value across the entire portfolio.

Taylor & Francis holds two primary indefinite delivery vehicles. The Library of Congress awarded a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract valued at $30 million running through September 30, 2028, covering commercial electronic information resources and associated services through the FEDLINK program; this vehicle has generated multiple task orders across fiscal years 2024–2026, including a $2.288 million subscription for electronic access to Taylor & Francis journals and ebooks for all USDA users through September 29, 2028, and a $390,814.28 renewal of electronic access services from the Department of Agriculture through February 11, 2027. The U.S. Army War College awarded a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement valued at $249,999 through June 20, 2029, for serials and periodicals supporting strategic studies curriculum; three BPA calls totaling approximately $186,595 have been executed against this vehicle. Beyond these primary vehicles, Taylor & Francis operates under multiple smaller IDIQs with the Library of Congress (Basic Ordering Agreement LC10G7115 with 12 task orders, $708 thousand combined value; IDC 03310323D0092 with 8 task orders, $2.9 million combined value; IDC 03310319D0070 with 5 task orders, $2.3 million combined value) and holds positions on GSA and other government vehicles.

Representative recent work demonstrates the breadth of Taylor & Francis's customer base and order values. A $501,193 Air Force Research Laboratory purchase order placed January 24, 2022, for electronic journal subscriptions and licensing extends through January 1, 2026. A $203,502.88 Naval Education and Training Command purchase order issued October 6, 2022, for the Taylor & Francis eBook Collection supports the Naval Postgraduate School. A $865,663.07 Department of Agriculture delivery order from September 20, 2022, provided renewal of electronic access via IP authentication to specified Taylor & Francis journals for all USDA users through September 29, 2024. Smaller awards—ranging from $10,000 to $100,000—flow continuously from the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, the Coast Guard Academy, the Office of Naval Research, the Justice Management Division, and various Air Force training commands, typically for journal subscriptions, ebook collections, and specialized research databases.

Activity has remained relatively stable across the past five years—10 to 15 awards annually from 2022–2025—with only 4 awards recorded in 2026 year-to-date (through February 12, 2026) reflecting incomplete-year data. The combined potential value across all 437 awards in the source data is $58.4 million, with $13.5 million obligated (23% of potential value), indicating substantial option-year activity and multi-year subscription commitments. The recompete cliff shows 5 awards with ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $750 thousand—a modest near-term exposure relative to the overall portfolio. Taylor & Francis maintains minimal subcontract exposure: only 2 sub-awards appear in the source data, both from Fluor Marine Propulsion LLC for Naval Nuclear Laboratory support in 2024 and 2026, indicating that the vendor's federal footprint is almost entirely direct prime activity.

The vendor's work is classified under Periodical Publishers (133 awards), Book Publishers (93 awards), and Internet Publishing and Broadcasting (48 awards) at the NAICS level, with PSC codes dominated by Books and Pamphlets (145 awards) and Newspapers and Periodicals (127 awards). This category concentration reflects Taylor & Francis's core business as a scholarly publisher supplying libraries and research institutions with subscription-based access to academic content, rather than custom development or services work.