Carolina Chillers, LLC

Carolina Chillers, LLC (operating as Carolina Chillers, Inc. Division), a for-profit limited liability company headquartered in Ladson, South Carolina, provides heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) services—chiller maintenance, repair, rental, and installation—to federal agencies as a prime contractor on 93% of its recent awards and as a subcontractor on facilities operations support services. The company competes full-and-open across its federal portfolio, with a small number of total small business set-asides on low-value awards; most work flows through GSA Multiple Award Schedule delivery orders and direct-purchase orders from individual agencies without set-aside designation.

Carolina Chillers' capability footprint is concrete and narrow: chiller system repairs and preventive maintenance, temporary chiller rental, HVAC component replacement (compressors, condensers, coils, purge units), split-unit installation, and controls technician support. Primary NAICS 238220 (Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors) accounts for 50 of 86 total awards; top PSC codes are maintenance and repair of refrigeration and air-conditioning equipment (34 awards) and refrigeration components (6 awards). GSA Schedule labor offerings span apprentice through senior HVAC technician roles ($106–$124/hr) and controls technician positions ($149–$168/hr), all at high school equivalent education, reflecting a pure field-service posture with no security-cleared engineering or management labor.

Recent representative prime work includes a $697,861 temporary chiller rental to Southeast Area (August 2024), a $283,714 delivery order under GSA MAS for chiller water coil replacement and temporary cooling modifications at a Southeast Area facility (March 2026, completion June 2026), a $126,215 delivery order under GSA MAS for chiller service and maintenance at Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia (September 2025), and a $79,180 purchase order from FLETC for an air-cooled chiller rental (July 2024, completion November 2024). Earlier work includes a $19,897 total small business set-aside from USDA Agricultural Research Service for repair of a 544-ton Carrier chiller at the Charleston, South Carolina facility (May 2024) and multiple $9,000–$20,000 awards from the Coast Guard for HVAC system repairs and split-unit installation at Georgetown and Charleston stations.

Customer concentration is fragmented across 13 federal agencies with no dominant single customer. The top five by award count account for 57% of awards: United States Marine Corps (14 awards, $401 thousand), Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (12 awards, $453 thousand), Coast Guard (12 awards, $183 thousand), NOAA (6 awards, $161 thousand), and USDA Agricultural Research Service (5 awards, $1 million). By potential value, USDA leads at $1 million (on five awards), followed by FLETC at $453 thousand (on 12 awards) and Marine Corps at $401 thousand (on 14 awards), indicating that USDA concentrates more dollars across fewer orders while FLETC and Marine Corps drive volume. GSA Federal Acquisition Service contributes a single $500 thousand award, likely the MAS vehicle itself. Combined potential value across all awards stands at $3.3 million with 83% obligated ($2.7 million).

Carolina Chillers sits on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule as its primary vehicle, with four task orders generating $573 thousand in combined potential value. Activity has been volatile: five awards in 2022, two in 2023, nine in 2024, three in 2025, and one in early 2026, with 2024 representing a spike. Recompete exposure is minimal—only two awards (combined potential value $165 thousand) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. In its subcontractor role, Carolina Chillers delivers facilities operations support services under Asrc Federal Field Services on a Federal Law Enforcement Training Center facilities operations support services contract, performing equipment replacement and ductwork replacement under task-order modifications in 2024–2025.