California Boiler, Inc.

California Boiler, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Santa Ana, California, provides boiler repair, maintenance, tuning, and emergency services to federal healthcare, correctional, and research facilities as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) competing in full-and-open federal procurement without set-aside designations. The vendor has served twenty distinct federal agencies with ninety-four awards spanning 1990 to July 2026, with a combined potential value of $3 million and combined obligated dollars of $3.9 million, and remains active on federal boiler service contracts across the western United States and at facilities nationwide.

California Boiler's customer concentration clusters around VA medical centers and federal correctional facilities. The top five customer entities by award count account for 46% of awards, with Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 21 (VISN 21) leading both volume and dollar value at eight awards and $1.4 million combined potential value, followed by Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Complex Victorville at eight awards ($317 thousand potential value) and VA VISN 22 at thirteen awards ($250 thousand potential value). The rankings show VISN 21's dollar-to-award ratio substantially exceeds its peers — that agency anchors the vendor's largest contract, a $498.8 thousand boiler retrofit purchase order awarded June 1, 2025, with performance extending through December 31, 2026. Other representative prime work includes a $393.4 thousand boiler burner management and testing service purchase order from VISN 21 (June 3, 2025), a $2.27 million emergency temporary boiler rental service from VA VISN 22 (September 26, 2023), and a $169.1 thousand hydronic boiler inspection and overhaul for the Pacific West Area (June 9, 2023). Work spans boiler tuning, combustion control system rebuilds, emergency repairs, emissions testing, equipment rentals, and burner management services at VA medical facilities in Palo Alto, Livermore, Menlo Park, and San Diego; federal correctional complexes at Lompoc, Victorville, and Herlong; and research installations at the Department of Agriculture Albany facility.

The vendor's activity trajectory shows a decline from four awards in 2022 through two awards year-to-date in 2026, with three awards (combined potential value $991 thousand) facing ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore exposing the vendor to recompete risk. California Boiler's federal contracting footprint is concentrated in NAICS 432410 (Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors) with forty-six awards, and in PSC codes for maintenance and repair of plumbing and heating equipment (twenty-two awards) and industrial boiler services (twelve awards). The vendor places minimal activity on federal IDVs — a single task order appears under Indefinite Delivery Contract N6247323D2217 — indicating California Boiler competes predominantly through direct purchase orders rather than through government-wide or agency-wide vehicles. Service Contract Inventory reporting for FY2023–FY2024 shows negligible federal service-contract revenue above the $150,000 reporting threshold on prime records (zero invoiced), with minimal FTE trajectory (0.1 FTEs in FY2024), signaling that California Boiler's federal work is dominated by equipment repair, temporary equipment rental, and goods procurement rather than labor-intensive service contracts. The vendor operates as a solo prime on federal boiler work, with one identified sub-award to Trevet-Noreas JV LLC on an equipment rental task (September 25, 2024); 99% of awards are prime contracts, reflecting California Boiler's business model as a direct service provider to federal facilities rather than as a feeder subcontractor to larger primes.