API Group Life Safety USA LLC

API Group Life Safety USA LLC, doing business as Western States Fire Protection, operates as a life safety systems contractor delivering fire detection, suppression, installation, inspection, and emergency repair services to federal agencies, competing almost entirely in full-and-open procurements with no set-aside designations. The company is a for-profit limited liability company headquartered in Centennial, Colorado, and pursues prime contracts (77% of recent awards) and subcontract work across western U.S. facilities, with particular concentration in emergency fire suppression repairs and life safety compliance services.

Western States Fire Protection's federal customer base spans 25 agencies, but customer concentration is fragmented and liquid. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 21 leads by award count with eight prime awards valued at $443 thousand combined potential value—primarily emergency repairs to fire suppression lines and sprinkler systems at VA medical centers in Reno and elsewhere. Immigration and Customs Enforcement anchors the highest single-award value at $496 thousand combined potential value across two contracts, including a $328.5 thousand definitive contract for fire alarm and suppression systems administration and central control at a Los Fresnos, Texas facility and a $167.7 thousand installation of fire alarm and detection systems award. The Drug Enforcement Administration follows with seven awards valued at $39 thousand potential value, concentrated in maintenance and fire system repairs at the Greenwood Village, Colorado facility. General Services Administration Region 10 and the Department of Interior National Park Service place smaller but material awards in the $30–114 thousand range for emergency fire suppression system repairs and fire suppression testing. Across the top five customer agencies by potential value, 84% of combined potential value concentrates in four agencies (ICE, VA VISN 21, GSA Region 10, and GSA Region 7), with the remainder distributed across National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, Indian Health Service, Bureau of Prisons, and other civilian agencies.

Activity has grown sharply year over year—one award in 2022, seven in 2023, twenty-nine in 2024, twelve in 2025, and four in 2026 through mid-June—reflecting increased federal demand for life safety services across the western region. However, the portfolio carries a compressed recompete cliff: only three awards with combined potential value of $15 thousand face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating most recent awards are multi-year engagements with extended performance periods. The combined potential value of $1.5 million across all fifty-three awards masks a reporting artifact—combined dollars obligated stand at $4.9 million (332% of potential value), a signal that definitional or baseline ceiling adjustments in the source data may reflect contract modifications or periodic re-obligations rather than unexecuted ceiling growth.

Western States Fire Protection subcontracts to larger federal integrators. Named prime contractors include Leidos (science operations and maintenance for the U.S. Antarctic Program), Absher Construction (NAVFAC Northwest MACC Seed Task Order fire suppression services), Management & Training Corporation (fire alarm monitoring and inspection at the Sierra Nevada Job Corps Center), Koman Sustainable Solutions (fire sprinkler and fire protection work on multiple rehabilitation and beddown projects at Luke Air Force Base and Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park), Kaiyuh Services (fire protection construction services), BL Harbert International (fire protection work on weapons generation facilities), and D7 LLC (automatic fire sprinkler system installation). Across the Service Contract Inventory dataset—a federal service-contract reporting regime covering contracts above $150 thousand—Western States Fire Protection appears only as a named subcontractor with 1.1 FTEs reported in FY2024 across three sub records, indicating minimal footprint in the SCI-reportable federal services market and no reported prime service-contract activity above the SCI threshold during that period.

Capability work across the prime portfolio centers on emergency fire suppression repairs (water leaks, pump repairs, line replacements), fire alarm panel configuration and installation, sprinkler system inspections and head testing, backflow inspections, fire detection and suppression system testing and compliance, and life safety system deficiency repairs. Representative contracts include a $413.4 thousand purchase order from VA VISN 21 for an Orion rotary chair buy and install at a San Francisco facility (September 2025), a $328.5 thousand ICE definitive contract for fire alarm and suppression systems administration and central control at Los Fresnos (September 2024, extended through October 2025), a $167.7 thousand ICE installation of fire alarm and detection systems contract at Los Fresnos (September 2023, extended through May 2024), a $113.9 thousand VA Region 10 emergency fire suppression system repair at the FCS Building in Seattle (August 2024), a $71.3 thousand GSA Region 7 fire pump controller upgrade at the Brownsville Courthouse in Texas (February 2023), and numerous smaller emergency repairs and inspections ranging from $3 thousand to $49 thousand. Most awards carry firm fixed-price terms; a small minority use time-and-materials pricing.

Western States Fire Protection operates across commercial and institutional building construction (eleven awards), plumbing, heating, and air-conditioning contracting (ten awards), and security systems services (nine awards), with secondary concentration in fire protection (six awards) and equipment repair and maintenance (five awards). PSC framing aligns closely with capability: maintenance and repair of fire control equipment (four awards), inspection of fire control equipment (three awards), and miscellaneous alarm, signal, and security detection systems (three awards) form the core, supplemented by plumbing and heating equipment repair and general building construction work.

The vendor maintains active SAM.gov registration and competes on full-and-open federal procurement vehicles without reliance on set-aside categories. No parent contract vehicles (GWACs, agency-wide IDIQs, BPAs) appear in the named award portfolio; nearly all work flows through direct task orders and purchase orders from customer agencies. One exception is a single task order on the NAVFAC MACC Construction vehicle. This posture—small, geographically distributed awards issued directly by customer procurement offices—reflects Western States Fire Protection's positioning as a responsive regional life safety contractor rather than a national GSA Schedule or GWAC strategist.