Chinook Systems Inc.

Chinook Systems Inc., a women-owned small business headquartered in Cocoa Beach, Florida, delivers facilities engineering, building commissioning, HVAC systems, utility monitoring and control systems, and infrastructure optimization services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards), operating across defense and civilian sectors primarily full-and-open rather than under small-business set-asides. The company is SBA-certified as a woman-owned small business and disadvantaged business enterprise.

Chinook's customer base is heavily concentrated in defense infrastructure work. The top five funding agencies account for 97% of combined potential value: the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Support Center Huntsville anchors the portfolio with 12 awards carrying $2.65 billion in potential value, reflecting the company's dominant position on the Utility Monitoring and Control Systems Fifth Generation (UMCS-V) IDIQ, a $2.1 billion vehicle for facility engineering across military installations. The National Institutes of Health Construction follows with four awards worth $400.4 million under a newly awarded FY26 Construction Quality Management and Commissioning Services multiple-award MATOC (June 2026). The Department of Defense Washington Headquarters Service contributes 39 awards totaling $204.9 million, primarily through GSA Multiple Award Schedule task orders for commissioning and code enforcement services. The Army Corps of Engineers Engineering and Support Center adds seven awards ($61 million), and Pacific Air Forces contributes five awards ($43.8 million) for retro-commissioning and HVAC work at Alaska radar sites and overseas installations.

Chinook's vehicle position spans both indefinite delivery and schedule-based procurement pathways. The company places 20 task orders under UMCS-V ($103.1 million combined value) for HVAC system procurement and installation, boiler upgrades, utility control system deployments, and preventive maintenance across Army, Navy, and defense agency installations nationwide. The GSA Multiple Award Schedule generates the highest task-order volume (35 orders, $160.3 million) through Washington Headquarters Service BPA calls for commissioning and code enforcement work, with recent orders valued at $4.7 million (July 2025) and $2.4 million (February 2025) for building automation commissioning. Chinook holds the newly awarded OASIS+ Total Small Business Set-Aside IDIQ (GSA Federal Acquisition Service, December 2024), a multi-agency vehicle enabling pursuit across seven functional domains including Management, Technical and Engineering, and Facilities. The company also maintains the EPA Commissioning Authority (CXA) Services $10 million IDIQ (March 2022, Total Small Business set-aside) for retro-commissioning and building enclosure assessments at EPA research centers and laboratories. Basic ordering agreements with Naval Sea Systems Command for mechanical/controls and electrical services (awarded December 2024, through November 2029) provide vehicles for infrastructure support across naval facilities. Representative recent delivery orders include a $8.2 million UMCS-V order from the Army Corps of Engineers for Base Automated System (BAS) replacement at Warsaw, Poland (June 2024), a $26.3 million order for high-temperature hot water boiler furnish and installation at the Adelphi Laboratory Center (September 2025, completion March 2028), a $7.1 million order for BAS replacement in Warsaw (June 2024), a $5.9 million order for HVAC system upgrade and mold remediation at Fort Meade (September 2024), and a $3.9 million Army National Guard cybersecurity inventory extension (September 2024, completion December 2026).

Activity has remained stable year over year across the past five years: 12 awards in 2022, 11 in 2023, 15 in 2024, declining to 7 in 2025, and recovering to 12 in 2026. Over the next twenty-four months, 22 awards (combined potential value $65.1 million) face ultimate completion and recompete exposure, including several major UMCS-V orders and Washington Headquarters Service BPA calls. GSA Multiple Award Schedule labor pricing spans 35 active categories from CAD Drafter I at $43.32 per hour (high school, entry level, security clearance required) through Principal III roles at $293.22 per hour (bachelor's degree, 25 years experience). Commissioning specialist positions price between $115 and $198 per hour, reflecting the company's core capability domain. Chinook offers security-cleared labor across multiple categories on the Schedule but does not advertise cleared rates in the portfolio.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue on service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totals $3.6 million across FY2022–FY2024: $930 thousand in FY2022 (2.2 FTEs, one contract), $2.7 million in FY2023 (19.1 FTEs, two contracts), and zero recorded in FY2024. Median government-paid rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ran $206.86 per hour, with rates ranging from $68.22 at the 10th percentile to $216.80 at the 90th percentile. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Chinook self-performed all reported labor (0% subcontractor hours share). The company operates as a prime contractor on nearly all awards; two recent sub awards represent de minimis exposure: a Commissioning services sub under Summer Consultants (May 2026) and a Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Facility operations sub under Asrc Federal Cyber (July 2025).

Chinook's $3.46 billion combined potential value and $168.7 million obligated to date across 114 awards positions it as a mid-market facilities engineering provider with deep consolidation in Army infrastructure modernization work and emerging exposure in civilian research facility commissioning through the NIH award. The concentration in UMCS-V and Washington Headquarters Service work, combined with the recompete cliff of $65.1 million in the next twenty-four months, signals a business model anchored by renewal competition on two large vehicles rather than diversified new-business development.

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