The Satellite Store, Inc.

The Satellite Store, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business and HUBZone joint venture based in South Bend, Indiana, operates as a prime contractor delivering cable television, satellite communications, and headend system upgrades to military installations, federal prisons, and civilian government facilities. The vendor competes under full-and-open awards without set-aside designation across most of its footprint, though it qualifies for and has received total small business set-asides.

The Satellite Store's capability portfolio centers on cable and satellite television service delivery, broadcast infrastructure, and telecommunications equipment integration. Representative recent work includes a $51,492 firm fixed-price purchase order from the Central Office (May 2026) for a DIRECTV COM3000 headend system upgrade with Clear QAM delivery of unencrypted HDTV to television sets without set-top boxes in South Bend, Indiana, completing August 30, 2026; a $129,424 cable television service contract from Army Medical Command in Colorado Springs, Colorado (August 2022), running through September 2027; and a $79,761 total-small-business set-aside purchase order from Army Medical Command for Fort Carson cable television service (June 2022), also completing September 2027.

Customer concentration reflects military and corrections focus. The top five customer agencies account for 93% of awards by count and 98% of combined potential value. Army Medical Command leads both rankings (4 awards, $555 thousand combined potential value), followed by Air Force Air National Guard (2 awards, $518 thousand), Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Central Office (2 awards, $86 thousand), Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (3 awards, $67 thousand), and Army Installation Management Command Headquarters (1 award, $58 thousand). The vendor has served six distinct federal agencies across a fourteen-award footprint totaling $1.3 million in combined potential value, with $819 thousand obligated as of the source date.

Activity has been episodic — two awards in 2018 and 2020, one in 2021, two in 2022, and one recent award in May 2026 — with no parent vehicles, GWACs, or IDIQs supporting the portfolio. Two awards carrying $209 thousand in combined potential value complete in the next twenty-four months. The Satellite Store operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint in the source data.

Certified Dish Network and DIrecTV Small Satellite design/install within FCC Guidelines. Distribution system designs and installations for L-Banc and IP or QAM. Crestron Certified.