Criterion Corporation

Criterion Corporation, doing business as New York Criterion, is a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) and women-owned small business (WOSB) headquartered in Marquette, Michigan, that delivers base operations support (BOS), facilities maintenance, and ground transportation services to the Air Force Reserve Command and other Department of Defense components exclusively as a prime contractor. The company operates entirely on the prime side—all 82 awards in the source are prime contracts and IDVs—and competes under SDVOSB and WOSB set-asides, which dominate its Air Force Reserve Command work.

Criterion's customer concentration is extremely narrow and creates both competitive dominance and recompete exposure. The Air Force Reserve Command accounts for $273.1 million of the $296.7 million combined potential value across all awards (92% of total dollars), spread across fourteen awards. The Department of the Army follows with 33 awards but only $5 million combined potential value—a clear contrast between volume and dollars, driven by the reserve component's larger single-award IDVs. The top five customer agencies account for 87% of award count but the Reserve Command's 92% share of potential value reflects two anchor indefinite delivery contracts: a $39.7 million single-award IDC for Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia (set-aside for SDVOSB, awarded April 2, 2024, running through June 30, 2030) and a $37 million single-award IDC for Youngstown Air Reserve Station in Ohio (set-aside for SDVOSB, awarded March 1, 2024, running through August 31, 2029). These two vehicles alone carry a combined $76.7 million ceiling and have generated multiple delivery orders—Criterion has received six documented task orders under the Dobbins IDC alone, ranging from $458 thousand to $5.14 million, with four carrying SDVOSB set-asides and one open competition award.

Criterion's capability footprint centers on preventive and corrective facility maintenance, material management, ground transportation, traffic management, and fuels management at military installations, with secondary work in general aviation operations support and landscaping services. Representative awards include a $6.015 million delivery order for BOS services at Youngstown Air Reserve Station for contract year three (awarded March 1, 2026, completion February 28, 2027, SDVOSB set-aside), a $22.1 million definitive contract for base operations support at Pittsburgh Air Reserve Station (awarded March 1, 2023, completion June 30, 2026, firm fixed-price, no set-aside), and a $16.8 million delivery order for BOS services at Youngstown (awarded March 1, 2024, covering March 1, 2024 through February 28, 2025, no set-aside). The top PSC categories across the portfolio are housekeeping and landscaping/groundskeeping (40 awards), logistics support (14 awards), and aircraft and airframe maintenance (12 awards), reflecting facility and flight-line operations work.

Activity has concentrated sharply in recent years—only one award per year in 2022 and 2023, then seven in 2024 and one in 2025—as the two large Air Force Reserve Command IDCs began issuing task orders. The recompete cliff is minimal: only one award ($6 million combined potential value) reaches completion inside the next twenty-four months. On service contract inventory data, Criterion reported $41.5 million in SCI-reportable invoiced revenue across FY2022–FY2024, with FY2023 peaking at $17.3 million across 93.8 FTEs. Government-paid hourly rates on prime contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $58.71/hr to a median of $81.82/hr to a 90th percentile of $101.59/hr, consistent with facility and transportation labor bands. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed 40% of total contractor hours, with five named subcontractors supporting the work. The vendor holds no other parent contract vehicles beyond the Air Force Reserve Command IDCs, meaning virtually all federal work flows through two single-award IDCs and their subordinate delivery orders.

GOVERNMENT SERVICE CONTRACTOR SPECIALIZING IN GROUNDS MAINTENANCE, VEHICLE OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE, TRANSIENT ALERT, AND BASE OPERATIONS.