Chimes District Of Columbia Inc.

Chimes District of Columbia Inc., doing business as Chimes DC, an AbilityOne-certified nonprofit subsidiary of Chimes International, Ltd., operates as a prime contractor across the federal government, delivering custodial, facility maintenance, grounds management, and logistics support services to over 60 federal agencies. The vendor competes exclusively full-and-open, without set-aside designation, leveraging its AbilityOne status to secure federal work while creating employment for individuals who are blind or have significant disabilities.

Chimes DC's federal footprint centers on large-scale facility operations and emergency maintenance. The vendor's concrete capability portfolio spans custodial and janitorial services (705 awards), facilities support operations (327 awards), grounds and landscaping maintenance (63 awards), and specialized mechanical and infrastructure work including HVAC repairs, electrical systems, plumbing, fire alarm installation and testing, chiller and cooling-tower repairs, and emergency power restoration. Representative work includes a $23.7 million five-year definitive contract with the Air Force for basewide custodial services at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland (awarded November 2024); a $21.4 million five-year definitive contract with the Department of Interior for custodial services and monthly power washing at the Main Interior Building, Washington, DC (awarded September 2024); a $41.6 million indefinite-delivery contract with the Army for custodial services at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland (awarded August 2024, ultimate completion May 31, 2029); and a $39.8 million indefinite-delivery contract with GSA's National Capital Region for custodial and related services at the William J. Clinton Federal Building, Ronald Reagan Building, and U.S. Tax Court, Washington, DC (awarded September 2023, ultimate completion May 31, 2027). SCI-reportable invoicing reached $34.2 million across FY2022–FY2025, with FY2025 showing $10.6 million against 1,326 FTEs; the vendor self-performs all work with no subcontractor engagement reported in SCI data.

Customer concentration is pronounced and regional. The top five customer agencies account for 65% of recent awards and 63% of combined potential value. The Department of the Army Installation Management Command Northeast Region (Aberdeen Proving Ground) anchors the portfolio at 87 awards valued at $356.4 million combined potential value; the Department of the Army Installation Management Command Southeast Region (Fort Liberty, North Carolina) follows with 198 awards at $324.1 million; GSA's National Capital Region contributes 382 awards at $275.8 million; the Department of the Navy's Naval Facilities Engineering Command brings 25 awards at $112 million; and GSA Region 3 (Maryland, Baltimore-area facilities) holds 148 awards at $70.4 million. The concentration by customer agency and geography reflects Chimes DC's establishment as a dominant facility-services contractor for military installations in the Mid-Atlantic corridor and federal buildings across Washington, DC.

Chimes DC holds multiple large indefinite-delivery contract vehicles as prime. The Aberdeen Proving Ground IDC ($41.6 million) with the Army Northeast Region (ultimate completion May 31, 2029) drives recurring grounds maintenance and custodial task orders; the Fort Liberty, North Carolina IDC ($50 million) with the Army Southeast Region (ultimate completion March 31, 2030) supports post-wide custodial operations; the GSA National Capital Region IDC ($39.8 million, ultimate completion May 31, 2027) covers facility maintenance across three major federal buildings in Washington, DC; the EPA facility-management IDC ($14.4 million, ultimate completion April 30, 2027) addresses EPA East, West, and Connecting Wing buildings; and the Bureau of Prisons IDC ($8.9 million, ultimate completion March 31, 2029) supports janitorial services at the HOLC Building in Arlington, Maryland. Recent task-order activity under these vehicles shows 74 to 67 orders per vehicle, with order values ranging from a few thousand dollars for emergency repairs to over $7.6 million for annual custodial operations at Aberdeen Proving Ground. The top five parent vehicles by task-order count are non-interface IDCs with ceiling values spanning $2.7 million to $44.5 million.

Activity trajectory has remained stable year over year: 65 awards in 2022, 76 in 2023, 68 in 2024, 71 in 2025, and 60 year-to-date in 2026, reflecting steady engagement across a diversified customer base. A recompete cliff of $104 million in combined potential value arrives within the next twenty-four months, representing completion of 39 awards and signaling exposure to competitive recompete and follow-on procurement cycles at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Fort Liberty, GSA National Capital Region facilities, and other key customers.

GSA Schedule labor offerings span 50 unique categories ranging from janitor ($40.45/hr, high school education, one year experience) through project manager ($158.09/hr, bachelor's degree, seven years experience), with median government-paid rates around $56.85/hr on SCI contracts. Specialized trades such as fire alarm system mechanics ($99.47/hr) and pneudraulic systems mechanics ($77.31/hr) support the vendor's infrastructure and maintenance delivery. No security-cleared labor categories are offered on the current GSA Schedule.

Chimes DC operates exclusively as a prime contractor; the award portfolio contains no sub-awards, and SCI data report zero subcontractor hour engagement. The vendor builds all delivery capacity in-house, reflecting a vertically integrated operational model. Frontline Enterprises LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, performed fire alarm assessment and booster panel replacement work as a subcontractor on at least one emergency EPA electrical restoration delivery order in June 2026, and Lorton Stone LLC (a woman-owned and minority-owned small business) performed water stain removal at the U.S. Tax Court in 2025, but these represent occasional mission-critical specialty subs rather than a recurring teaming pattern.

The vendor's federal presence is highly concentrated in facility operations and maintenance, with minimal diversification into other service categories. All awards carry no set-aside designation, and the AbilityOne status—which enables the vendor to compete without set-asides under the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act—is central to its competitive posture. With over $1.8 billion in combined potential value across 1,302 awards since 1996, Chimes DC ranks among the largest federal facility-services contractors, particularly in custodial and grounds maintenance work at Army installations and GSA federal buildings in the National Capital Region.