Carolina Chillers, LLC

Carolina Chillers, LLC (Division: Carolina Chillers, Inc.), a small-business HVAC contractor based in Ladson, South Carolina, delivers chiller maintenance, repair, and rental services to federal agencies as a prime contractor on 93% of recent awards, with the remaining 7% of work performed as a subcontractor on facilities-operations support programs. The company competes primarily in the full-and-open market, with small-business set-asides recurring across roughly one-third of its prime footprint; the vendor holds active GSA Schedule registration with five labor categories spanning apprentice through senior technician and controls-specialist roles priced from $106 to $168 per hour.

Carolina Chillers serves a dispersed customer base across thirteen federal agencies, with customer concentration driven by volume and dollar value working in opposite directions. By award count, the United States Marine Corps leads with fourteen awards worth $401 thousand combined, followed by the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Law Enforcement Training Center with thirteen awards worth $609 thousand, and the Coast Guard with twelve awards worth $183 thousand — these three account for roughly 58% of recent awards. By combined potential value, the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service dominates at $1.1 million across six awards, followed by FLETC at $609 thousand, a single GSA Federal Acquisition Service award worth $500 thousand, the Marine Corps at $401 thousand, and the Department of Justice's Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Institution Bennettsville at $261 thousand. These five customers represent 81% of combined potential value across the vendor's portfolio. The portfolio spans 88 total awards with combined potential value of $3.5 million, of which $3 million has been obligated.

Carolina Chillers' capability footprint anchors to NAICS 238220 (Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors), which represents 52 of its awards, with secondary work in facilities support services and HVAC equipment manufacturing. Representative prime contracts include a $697.8 thousand purchase order from the Southeast Area for temporary chiller rental (August 2024), a $283.7 thousand delivery order from the Southeast Area for chiller water-coil replacement and temporary cooling modifications at a Charleston, South Carolina federal facility (March 2026), a $156.1 thousand delivery order from FLETC for center-wide chiller service and maintenance at Ladson under GSA Multiple Award Schedule as a total small-business set-aside (September 2026), and a $118.1 thousand delivery order from FLETC for chiller preventative maintenance and repairs at Brunswick, Georgia under GSA MAS (September 2024). The vendor also performs HVAC unit installation and emergency repair work at Defense Department installations, including a $39 thousand purchase order from the Marine Corps for HVAC preventive maintenance at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island (December 2022) and multiple Coast Guard repair contracts for emergency HVAC restoration and split-unit installation at southeastern U.S. stations, ranging from $7.7 thousand to $19.6 thousand. Carolina Chillers places task orders under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (six task orders, $792 thousand combined potential value) and an indefinite delivery contract (HSFLCS17D00001).

As a subcontractor, Carolina Chillers performs facilities-operations support services under ASRC Federal Field Services, LLC, providing HVAC ductwork replacement and building maintenance tasks at FLETC Charleston. Recent sub-awards span January 2025 and carry descriptions aligned with facilities-operations scope statements; the subcontracting footprint is limited to a single named prime relationship.

Activity has been uneven — five awards in 2022, two in 2023, nine in 2024, three in 2025, and three in 2026 — with only two awards (combined potential value $195 thousand) reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure. Service Contract Inventory data covers only three SCI-reportable records (two prime, one sub) spanning FY2024–FY2025, with zero invoiced revenue and 0.1 FTEs reported across the SCI dataset; SCI is a subset of the vendor's federal services activity above the $150 thousand reporting threshold and does not capture the smaller transactional awards that dominate this vendor's portfolio. Carolina Chillers has maintained active SAM.gov registration since 2003 and operates exclusively in the southeastern United States, with performance locations concentrated in South Carolina, Georgia, and adjacent coastal installations.