Blue Cord Design And Construction, LLC

Blue Cord Design and Construction, LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business headquartered in Orlando, Florida, delivers healthcare facility construction, renovation, repair, and design-build services to the Department of Veterans Affairs across multiple regional networks and to the Department of the Army and Navy as a prime contractor operating predominantly under SDVOSB set-asides. The company holds a single-award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity Job Order Contract with Veterans Integrated Service Network 8 (VISN 8) awarded in December 2022 and running through December 2027, which anchors the majority of its federal work and serves as the contracting vehicle through which Blue Cord executes facility support solutions at VA healthcare facilities throughout Florida and the surrounding region.

Blue Cord's footprint is heavily concentrated within Veterans Affairs. VISN 8 dominates both award count and dollar value, accounting for 235 of the company's 277 prime awards (85% of the portfolio) with $646 million in combined potential value. The second-ranking customer, VISN 7 (Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration), holds eight awards valued at $578.9 million in potential value, followed by the Army Medical Command (four awards, $279.5 million potential value) and the Office of the Secretary of Defense (one award, $249 million potential value). Together, the top five customer entities account for 89% of the combined potential value across all awards. This concentration reflects Blue Cord's positioning as a preferred SDVOSB contractor within the VA healthcare infrastructure modernization mission, with secondary exposure to Army medical facility projects.

Capability work spans the full spectrum of VA facility lifecycle services. Representative prime awards under VISN 8 include a $19.85 million definitive contract awarded July 2026 for site preparation, demolition, and construction of radiology and oncology expansions at Orlando VA Medical Center (ultimate completion October 2027), a $18.66 million contract awarded September 2025 for site preparation and construction of a Cardiovascular Center at Orlando VA Medical Center (ultimate completion March 2027), and a $17.4 million contract awarded June 2025 for renovation of the 5 West inpatient wing at James A. Haley VA Medical Center in Tampa (ultimate completion November 2026). Work across other VISNs includes a $33.5 million SDVOSB sole-source contract from VISN 16 awarded June 2026 for comprehensive renovation of the Sterile Processing Service facility at Fayetteville, Arkansas (ultimate completion June 2028), and a $13.5 million contract from VISN 6 awarded August 2021 for renovation and expansion of the Charles George VA Medical Center operating rooms in Asheville, North Carolina (ultimate completion May 2026). Work is typically firm fixed-price with scopes including demolition, general construction, civil and structural work, fire protection, plumbing, mechanical, electrical, security, and electronics, along with design-build and emergency response capabilities demonstrated through hurricane damage repair contracts.

The company competes predominantly under SDVOSB set-aside designations (competitive, sole source, and total small business), with occasional non-set-aside delivery orders on the VISN 8 IDIQ. Blue Cord also holds a position on a $230 million multiple-award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract with the Army Medical Command for healthcare facility design, repair, and construction services nationwide, visible in SCI records but not yet heavily drawn in recent prime contract awards. Activity across the past five years shows modest volatility: 9 awards in 2022, 8 in 2023, 12 in 2024, 11 in 2025, and 6 in 2026 (through mid-July), with a combined potential value of $2.09 billion and $470.2 million in obligated funds (22% of potential value). The recompete cliff is material: 13 awards with ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months carry $150.8 million in combined potential value, representing significant renewal opportunity for Blue Cord and competitive exposure for rivals seeking entry into VISN 8 and VISN 7 facility maintenance and renovation work.

SCI-reported invoicing on federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $123.5 million across FY2022–FY2024, spanning 79 records (78 as prime). The company invoiced $35.4 million in FY2022, $46.7 million in FY2023, and $41.4 million in FY2024. The FTE trajectory shows modest growth: 23.2 FTEs in FY2022, 24.4 FTEs in FY2023, and 25.5 FTEs in FY2024 on SCI-reportable prime contracts. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, median government-paid rates ran around $424/hr, with pricing ranging from a 10th percentile of roughly $106/hr to a 90th percentile around $1,561/hr, reflecting a blended portfolio of field labor, project management, and specialized technical roles. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for 33% of total contractor hours on average, with 148 named subcontractors reported across the prime portfolio. This signals that Blue Cord builds substantial in-house labor capacity while routinely engaging specialty trades and subcontractors — a posture consistent with construction project delivery models where the prime manages integrated delivery and brings subs for specialized mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and design-build work. The company operates as a prime contractor across its entire federal footprint with no sub awards recorded; it does not bid as a subcontractor to other primes in the source data.

Blue Cord's focus encompasses design-build, general construction and construction management, for government/healthcare/education in Florida. Our capability includes efforts from $500,000-$10,000,000. We are experienced in after-hours work to minimize disruption; construction area containment; federal prevailing wages; communication with project management staff; zero accidents/work loss; reporting/payment in various systems; OSHA requirements; infection control; air quality, and various security requirements. Blue Cord's Principal Owner is a Service Disabled Veteran, Florida-licensed Commercial General Contractor, and LEED AP. Our construction staff is certified in QA/QC by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Our clients include NASA, Dept. of Veterans Affairs, and Orange County (FL) government. We are located in Central Florida and are a verified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) by the Center for Veterans Enterprise and the U.S. Small Business Administration.