Bradsher, James E

Bradsher, James E, doing business as Priority Care Transit EMS Central, is a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) sole proprietorship providing non-emergency wheelchair and ambulance transportation services to the Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Integrated Service Network 17 as a prime contractor exclusively, with no subcontractor engagement and 100% self-performance across all awarded work.

The vendor operates exclusively within a single federal customer — VISN 17, a civilian component of the Department of Veterans Affairs serving the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area and North Texas region. All 59 awards in the source (100% of portfolio) fund VISN 17 transportation requirements, representing a concentration that reflects both deep customer reliance and single-agency risk. The combined potential value across all awards stands at $163.2 million, with $83.8 million obligated to date (51% of combined potential value).

Priority Care Transit EMS Central holds five single-award indefinite delivery contracts with VISN 17, each set aside for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses at award, with ceiling values of $4.939 million (wheelchair transportation, awarded September 2026), $6 million (North Texas A2 wheelchair services, April 2022), $10 million (North Texas B2 wheelchair services, April 2022), $24 million (North Texas C2 wheelchair services, April 2022), and $7 million (North Texas D2 wheelchair services, April 2022). The IDVs run through March 31, 2027, with the A2, B2, C2, and D2 designations dividing geographic zones within the North Texas region. Under these vehicles, VISN 17 has issued delivery orders across multiple ordering periods — for example, the $24 million C2 IDIQ has supported a $15.56 million delivery order for Ordering Period 2 (December 1, 2024 through March 31, 2027), a $6.82 million ceiling-increase order (April 1, 2025), and a $2.75 million order (April 1, 2026). Similar multi-ordering-period activity runs across the A2, B2, and D2 vehicles. In addition to the wheelchair-transportation IDIQs, the vendor holds indefinite delivery contracts for ambulance transportation services under VISN 17, with delivery orders covering A1, B1, C1, and D1 ambulance service zones. Representative recent ambulance awards include a $4.939 million delivery order (September 2026, Executive Order 14398 wheelchair services, completion December 31, 2026), a $2.384 million Competitive 8(a) delivery order for C1 ambulance services (June 2024, completion May 31, 2025), and a $2.514 million SDVOSB set-aside order for C1 ambulance services (June 2023, completion May 31, 2024).

Service Contract Inventory data shows highly volatile FTE and invoicing patterns tied to task-order timing. In fiscal year 2023, the vendor reported $28.1 million in invoiced federal services revenue across 1,444 full-time equivalents, reflecting labor-intensive on-demand transportation dispatch. Government-paid hourly rates across the portfolio ranged from $1.32 to $18.56 per hour (median $3.72/hr), consistent with a ground-transportation labor model. In fiscal year 2025, reported invoicing rose to $45.6 million, but FTE count dropped to 8.2, suggesting a shift in reporting or contract structure rather than stable workforce capacity — the SCI figures represent a partial and temporally compressed view of actual delivery operations. The vendor self-performs 100% of contractor hours with zero subcontractor engagement across all SCI-reportable prime contracts.

Activity has remained steady over the past five years — twelve awards in 2022, eight in 2023, twelve in 2024, eight in 2025, and ten in 2026 — reflecting consistent task-order issuance under the standing IDV framework. Ten awards with combined potential value $26.1 million reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and face recompete risk; these represent renewal/reordering cycles on the existing VISN 17 vehicles rather than new procurement streams. The vendor competes entirely under SDVOSB set-asides at the IDV level, though individual delivery orders often carry no individual set-aside designation when issued under the pre-reserved vehicle framework. The vendor holds SDVOSB and veteran-owned small business certifications valid through June 11, 2029.