Ashland Industrial Services, LLC

Ashland Industrial Services, LLC (doing business as AIS), a woman-owned small business headquartered in New Freedom, Pennsylvania, provides vertical transportation equipment maintenance, repair, and installation services to federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor, with 100% of its recent award footprint in prime positions and no subcontractor activity. SBA-certified as a Women-Owned Small Business, the vendor competes under both set-aside and full-and-open designations, with 56% of awards carrying small-business or woman-owned small-business set-asides.

Ashland's customer base is heavily concentrated in two civilian agencies that account for 78% of awards and 96% of combined potential value by dollars. The Department of State's Bureau of Overseas Building Operations leads with 14 awards valued at $70.3 million combined potential value, anchored by multiple indefinite delivery contracts for global elevator and escalator maintenance at diplomatic facilities; the Social Security Administration follows with 13 awards valued at $13.3 million, primarily for escalator and elevator maintenance, repair, and modernization at SSA headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 4 places 7 awards valued at $1.1 million for elevator maintenance at Coatesville and Lebanon VA Medical Centers. Smaller customers include the Department of the Air Force ($2.3 million in one large award), the General Services Administration, the National Park Service, the Defense Logistics Agency, the Coast Guard, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Naval Supply Systems Command.

Ashland's capability footprint is narrow and specialized: vertical transportation equipment (elevators, escalators, lifts, dumbwaiters) maintenance, repair, component replacement, inspection, testing, and installation at federal buildings and facilities. Representative prime work includes a $6.3 million single-award indefinite delivery contract with the Social Security Administration through January 2027 for elevator and escalator maintenance at SSA headquarters with recurring task orders for motor refurbishment, control board replacement, and hoist cable work; a $16.1 million delivery order with the Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule through September 2027 for elevator service and escalator brake repair at diplomatic facilities; a $2.3 million WOSB set-aside delivery order with the Department of Defense District Washington under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule through January 2031 for maintenance and repair of elevators, lifts, and dumbwaiters at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland; and a $1.4 million firm fixed-price definitive contract with the Air Force for vertical transportation equipment maintenance at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, DC through July 2027. Ashland also holds a $360,816 indefinite delivery contract with VA VISN 4 through December 2027 for Coatesville elevator maintenance, a $500,000 IDIQ with State OBO through April 2027 for elevator maintenance and repair, and a $150,000 BPA under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule through June 2029 for elevator inspection and testing services.

Activity has grown substantially — four awards in 2022 to ten in 2026 — with thirteen task orders placed in 2025. Ten awards with combined potential value of $25.3 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, exposing Ashland to recompete risk across its two largest customer relationships. Ashland places the majority of its work through the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (8 task orders, $20.1 million combined potential value) and the Social Security Administration single-award IDC (11 task orders, $308 thousand combined potential value), with additional work under State Department and VA indefinite delivery contracts.

On the GSA Schedule, Ashland offers eight labor categories spanning hydraulic unit inspector ($130.09/hr) through elevator/escalator executive project manager consultant ($286.44/hr), with no security-cleared positions and all roles requiring high school education and trade experience ranging from three to ten years. SCI reporting shows minimal federal service-contract invoicing — $505,000 in FY2022 at a median blended rate of $232.29/hr across 0.8 FTEs, with no reportable invoicing in FY2023–FY2025. This reflects Ashland's model of task-order work under indefinite delivery contracts and purchase orders rather than large labor-hour service contracts above the SCI $150,000 threshold. The vendor maintains a corporate subsidiary, A&E Elevator, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business joint venture with women-owned small business designation.

Ashland operates as a vertically integrated prime contractor with minimal subcontracting footprint — SCI data show 6% average sub-hours share across prime contracts with one named subcontractor — indicating the company builds and staffs its own delivery teams rather than serving as a sub to larger primes. The vendor's award portfolio concentrates in NAICS 238210 (Other Building Equipment Contractors, 28 awards) and 561210 (Facilities Support Services, 9 awards), with smaller pockets in elevator manufacturing and equipment repair. The narrow specialty — vertical transportation maintenance at federal facilities, both domestic and diplomatic — and the customer concentration in State OBO and SSA create high recompete exposure and limited product diversification in the next twenty-four months.

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