Ashland Industrial Services, LLC

Ashland Industrial Services, LLC, doing business as AIS, is a Pennsylvania-based woman-owned small business (WOSB) that provides vertical transportation equipment (VTE) maintenance, repair, installation, and escalator replacement services to federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor — 100% of its 46 recent awards are prime contracts and IDIQs, with no subcontractor activity. The company is SBA-certified as a Women-Owned Small Business and operates across 15 federal customer agencies, with a combined prime-contract portfolio of $90.9 million in potential value.

AIS's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the Department of State's Bureau of Overseas Building Operations (OBO), which accounts for 13 awards worth $70.2 million combined potential value — 77% of the company's total dollar base. The Social Security Administration is the second-largest customer at 11 awards and $13.1 million, driven primarily by a single-award IDC (awarded February 1, 2024) valued at $6.35 million for elevator and escalator maintenance at SSA headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland through January 2027. The Department of Veterans Affairs VISN 4, the Department of the Air Force, and the Coast Guard round out the active base, representing smaller dollar volumes. OBO's dominance reflects AIS's role maintaining vertical transportation equipment at U.S. diplomatic facilities worldwide — elevators and escalator work in Russia, Belize, China, and other posts — as well as domestic federal buildings.

AIS's capability footprint is concrete and narrow: the company installs, maintains, repairs, and refurbishes elevators and escalators at federal facilities and executes specialized vertical transportation tasks including motor refurbishment, control-board replacement, hoist-cable removal and replacement, and escalator component replacement. Representative recent awards include a $6.51 million definitive contract from the Social Security Administration (June 2026) to replace 15 escalators across SSA's main campus buildings in Baltimore through June 2027; a $2.25 million delivery order from the Department of Defense District Washington (August 2025) for maintenance and repair of elevators, lifts, and dumbwaiters at Joint Base Andrews through January 2031 under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule; a $16.1 million MAS delivery order from OBO (September 2022) for elevator service at diplomatic facilities through September 2027 on incremental funding; a $1.36 million definitive contract from the Air Force (September 2022) for VTE maintenance services at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling through July 2027 under a total small business set-aside; and a $774,651 delivery order under the National Office MAS contract (September 2025) for elevator maintenance through March 2029. The company also holds multiple IDICs with OBO valued at approximately $194,010 (for domestic and international elevator work through May 2026) and $500,000 (partial small business set-aside through April 2027), a $360,816 VA VISN 4 single-award IDC for Coatesville VA Medical Center elevator maintenance through December 2027, and a $150,000 BPA with the Defense Northeast Region under the MAS for elevator inspection and testing through June 2029.

Vehicle positioning is concentrated on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule — 8 task orders placed against the MAS vehicle carry $19.9 million combined potential value — plus five named single- and multiple-award IDICs held directly with OBO, SSA, VA VISN 4, and the Defense Northeast Region. Activity has grown substantially from four awards in 2022 to 13 in 2025; six awards are recorded for 2026 so far. Nine awards with combined potential value of $27.1 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure across SSA maintenance work, OBO diplomatic-facility contracts, and VA facility services.

On set-aside posture, AIS competes across both set-aside and full-and-open categories. The source awards reflect woman-owned small business set-asides on roughly 40% of contracts (including the SSA IDC and Joint Base Andrews work), partial small business set-asides on OBO IDICs, and total small business set-asides on VA and Air Force work; the remaining awards carry no set-aside designation. AIS's GSA Schedule labor portfolio — eight active categories spanning Hydraulic Unit Inspector through Elevator/Escalator Executive Project Manager Consultant — runs $126.30 to $278.10 per hour with education requirements of high school or equivalent and no security-clearance requirements; the spectrum reflects field technicians and supervisory roles typical of VTE operations.

The company operates primarily through its own delivery teams; SCI-reported data show 11% average subcontractor hour-share across prime contracts in FY2022–2024, with only one named subcontractor recorded. SCI invoiced revenue totaled $505 thousand in FY2022 (the sole fiscal year showing reportable service-contract billings in the SCI dataset); government-paid hourly rates on SCI prime contracts ranged from $176.26 to $288.32 per hour with a median of $232.29. AIS operates a named subsidiary, A&E Elevator, LLC, certified as a small disadvantaged business joint venture and woman-owned small business.

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