United Parcel Service Inc.

United Parcel Service Inc., doing business as UPS, a for-profit corporation headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, operates as a prime contractor (99% of awards) providing package delivery, mail invoicing, and logistics support services to federal civilian agencies on a full-and-open basis, with no set-aside designations across its federal footprint.

UPS delivers concrete logistics and shipping capabilities across three primary service lines grounded in its federal award history. First, mail invoicing and payment processing for the Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs dominates the portfolio—347 awards over the past several years for handling passport-related invoices and payment documents at facilities in Atlanta, Tucson, Washington D.C., New Orleans, and other locations, with individual purchase orders ranging from $10,000 to $72,763. Second, general package delivery and shipping support spans the Department of Agriculture, Department of Veterans Affairs, Environmental Protection Agency, and Department of Justice, including emergency response shipping for the Maui disaster (EPA Region 9, seven orders totaling $145 thousand for incremental shipment support in 2024). Third, administrative and logistics support—a $42,146.89 mail contract with Veterans Integrated Service Network 9 (VISN 9) in early 2023, plus a $4,821.99 wildfire equipment shipment order with the Department of Agriculture in August 2024—rounds out the portfolio. Individual award values cluster in the $10,000 to $65,000 range, reflecting routine transactional purchasing rather than large system integrations.

Customer concentration is extreme and narrow. The Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs alone accounts for 347 of 1,050 total awards (33% of volume) and $7.2 million of $36.9 million combined potential value (20% of dollars)—a structural dependency on a single bureau's invoice-mailing operations. The top five funding agencies by award count capture 61% of all awards; by dollar value, the top five represent only 23% of combined potential value, signaling that UPS holds many small orders with a few larger outliers. The Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration (15 awards, $1.2 million) and EPA Region 9 (7 awards, $145 thousand) are secondary customers, but the Bureau of Consular Affairs anchor drives the business.

UPS places work under five named parent vehicles, all blanket purchase agreements or standing indefinite delivery contracts. The Blanket Purchase Agreement AG67T005V4167 carries 172 task orders; Indefinite Delivery Contract DACW2186A0111 (Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District, $11 thousand combined value) holds 167 task orders; Blanket Purchase Agreement AG67T0V084245 (164 task orders, $6 thousand combined value); and two smaller vehicles round out the set. These are internal government ordering mechanisms rather than government-wide acquisition contracts; UPS competes for individual task orders against other delivery providers on these standing agreements.

Activity has remained volatile and modest. Awards per year averaged 47 across 2022–2026, with a peak of 73 in 2023 and a decline to 14 through mid-2026. Only two awards face completion in the next twenty-four months ($28 thousand combined potential value), indicating minimal recompete exposure in the near term. The broader portfolio consists almost entirely of recurring, low-dollar purchase orders—615 awards fall under the PSC "Support-Administrative: Mailing/Distribution" and 137 under "Support-Administrative: Courier/Messenger"—suggesting structural stability but little upside.

UPS subcontracts to aerospace primes under four named sub-awards: Bell Boeing Joint Project Office (V-22 Phase 2 consumable market basket and phase-1 pre-contract work, January 2025 and January 2026) and Bell Textron Inc. (H-1 performance-based logistics delivery orders and phase-1 work, October 2025 and January 2025). These represent outlier exposure to defense helicopter logistics rather than core federal contracting.

Federal grant work appears in UPS's sub-recipient capacity supporting vehicle fleet electrification. The New Mexico Environment Department (prime recipient) has awarded four sub-grants to UPS between September and November 2025 for decommissioning and replacing 20 total diesel Class 4, Class 5, and Class 6 package cars with compressed natural gas or battery-electric vehicles (CNG/BEV). A Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection sub-award (October 2024) and Coalition for Sustainable Initiatives sub-award (September 2024) for 57-tractor CNG replacement round out the sustainability grant profile. These sub-awards represent UPS's participation in federally funded fleet modernization rather than delivery-contract work.

UPS operates through a corporate structure comprising 12 named subsidiaries, including Tforce Freight Inc. (freight forwarding), UPS Expedited Mail Services Inc. (expedited mail), Marken LLP (specialized logistics for life sciences), UPS Supply Chain Solutions Inc. (supply chain optimization), and United Parcel Service CO. (subsidiary entity). The subsidiary footprint signals vertical integration of freight, mail, and supply-chain capabilities, though the prime federal awards flow almost entirely through the parent United Parcel Service Inc. entity.

The vendor competes exclusively in full-and-open federal procurement with no set-aside activity. Its federal posture is that of a large, mature vendor capturing routine government shipping and mail-handling work through standing BPAs and IDIQ vehicles rather than pursuing large task orders or strategic partnerships. The extreme concentration on a single customer (Bureau of Consular Affairs, 33% of awards) and the small-transaction nature of the portfolio (median order under $30,000) indicate a stable but non-growth federal presence, with limited relevance to large federal system integrators or prime competitors in defense logistics.