EWA Direction Inc.

EWA Direction Inc., a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business and Veteran-Owned Small Business headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii, operates as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) delivering facilities maintenance, regulated medical waste management, HVAC systems support, and vehicle repair services to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of the Navy. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation, self-certified as a small disadvantaged business, and carries HUBZone joint-venture participation; EWA Direction competes predominantly under set-aside vehicles — SDVOSB sole source, SDVOSB competitive, and Total Small Business designations dominate the contract mix.

EWA Direction's customer concentration sits with two federal health-system customers and the Navy. By award count, the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 (VA VISN 22) leads with 71 awards valued at $9.8 million combined potential value, followed by Naval Facilities Engineering Command with 28 awards at $19.3 million, and VA VISN 21 with 24 awards at $15.4 million — these three customers account for 80% of recent awards. By potential-value ranking, the order shifts: Naval Facilities Engineering Command ranks first at $19.3 million (28 awards), VA VISN 21 second at $15.4 million (24 awards), and VA VISN 22 third at $9.8 million (71 awards). The concentration reflects a deep, recurring relationship with VA networks and Navy medical facility operations across California, Colorado, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia, and Hawaii.

Capability work is rooted in three service lines. Medical waste services include collection, transportation, treatment, and disposal of regulated medical waste, chemotherapy waste, pathological waste, and sharps at VA facilities across multiple VISN regions and Naval Medical Center San Diego; recent representative work includes a $1.94 million purchase order from VA VISN 21 for medical waste collection and disposal at Palo Alto (awarded May 31, 2023, running through May 30, 2028) and a $1.14 million delivery order from VA VISN 19 for regulated medical waste at Greenwood Village, Colorado (awarded July 1, 2026, running through June 30, 2027). HVAC and facilities maintenance services span chiller maintenance, cooling tower testing and chemical treatment, boiler plant water treatment, emergency generator and automatic transfer switch maintenance, and heating/cooling loop support; representative contracts include a $3.36 million purchase order from VA VISN 17 for boiler and chiller plant maintenance at the Garland VA Medical Center (awarded March 14, 2026, running through April 30, 2031) and a $1.69 million definitive contract from VA VISN 21 for chiller maintenance at Palo Alto (awarded September 22, 2025, running through September 21, 2030). Vehicle repair and procurement services include delivery of cargo trucks, flatbed trucks, and stake-bed trucks to Marine Corps units at Camp Pendleton and Miramar, and repair of HVAC components, trailers, and heavy equipment; recent work includes a $13.6 thousand delivery order from the Marine Corps for a 2021 Freightliner 10-ton cargo truck (awarded July 29, 2024, completed September 27, 2024).

EWA Direction holds five named indefinite delivery contracts anchoring recurring task-order flow. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command biomedical waste IDIQ (contract N6247318D5015, ceiling $4.94 million, SDVOSB set-aside, running through September 30, 2028) carries 15 task orders valued at $180 thousand combined potential value and supports Naval Medical Center San Diego and Miramar Dental Clinic. The VA VISN 19 regulated medical waste IDIQ (ceiling $5.36 million, Total Small Business set-aside, running through July 31, 2027) carries task orders from July 2024 onward and supports eight VA medical centers and approximately 76 additional sites across the Rocky Mountain region. The VA VISN 22 animal carcass removal and disposal IDIQ (ceiling $103.74 thousand, Total Small Business set-aside, running through June 30, 2027) supplies six delivery orders across Greater Los Angeles, Long Beach, and San Diego facilities. The VA VISN 22 waste removal and recycling IDIQ (ceiling $251.78 thousand, SDVOSB set-aside, running through September 30, 2026) issued four delivery orders through FY2025. The VA VISN 6 medical waste collection IDIQ (ceiling $3.03 million, SDVOSB set-aside, award date October 2, 2023, ultimate completion October 2, 2023) is complete. Task-order activity data shows VISN 22 (9 task orders, $58 thousand combined potential value) and VA vehicle maintenance vehicles generating consistent annual flow.

Activity has grown substantially year over year. Awards totaled 15 in 2022, 23 in 2023, 19 in 2024, 9 in 2025, and 10 in 2026 (partial year). Combined potential value across all 178 awards reaches $66.3 million, with $31.2 million (47%) already obligated. Eighteen awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $14.7 million and therefore face recompete in that window. SCI-reported invoiced revenue grew from zero in FY2022 to $1.2 million across 0.3 FTEs in FY2023, $2 million across 1.2 FTEs in FY2024, and $3.7 million across 7.1 FTEs in FY2025 — this represents only SCI-reportable service contracts above the $150,000 threshold and excludes goods, vehicle sales, and smaller purchases, which dominate EWA Direction's award portfolio by count. On SCI-reportable prime contracts, government-paid rates ranged from a 10th percentile of $425.45 per hour to a median of $906.49 per hour and a 90th percentile of $2,164.21 per hour; EWA Direction self-performed all SCI-reported labor with zero subcontractor engagement.

EWA Direction operates as a 100% prime contractor with no subcontractor exposure across recent federal awards. The vendor's contract portfolio clusters heavily into four NAICS codes: Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal (57 awards), General Automotive Repair (31 awards), Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors (27 awards), and Hazardous Waste Collection (19 awards). PSC coding reflects the same service mix: Housekeeping — Waste Treatment/Storage leads at 54 awards, followed by Vehicle Equipment Maintenance/Repair (27 awards), Environmental Systems Protection (15 awards), and HVAC Equipment Maintenance/Repair (12 awards). EWA Direction's set-aside posture is exclusively within SDVOSB and Total Small Business reserved vehicles; no full-and-open competition awards appear in the recent footprint, indicating a strategic focus on veteran-owned set-asides where the company's SDVOSB and VOSB certifications (both expiring April 19, 2027) provide competitive advantage.

EWA Direction specializes in Environmental Maintenance, Mechanical Maintenance and Equipment Rentals.

* Equipment and Vehicle Rentals (BSVE) - vehicle, bus, truck and equipment short-term and mid-term rentals.

* Environmental Maintenance - Hazardous Waste Management and Collection, Biohazard, BioMed Waste, laboratory waste...

* Mechanical Maintenance - Interstitial space surveys, Facility Condition Assessments, Facilities Management Support Services (O&M)

Additionally, Construction Management Personnel (Safety, Quality Control, Inspectors & Document Control)